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King Solomon wrote "there is a time for everything under heaven".. and this has often seemed to be the case for the really big ideas or movements in human history. From stone to copper, bronze, iron and eventually the accidental discovery of steel, mark material technology advancements along the human journey. These new materials enabled us to create new machines from better ploughs to printing presses, the internal combustion engine, road and rail transport and the aeroplane. Two things stand out to me.. the first is that it is a journey through ever increasing knowledge and technology.. and the second it didn't take long. All of human history occurred within 6 thousand years. It took a mere 66 years to go from the Wright Brothers first powered flight in 1903 to the moon in 1969!



We are each dealt a set of cards when we are born.. where, when, to which family, with what resources.. wealth, property, education, personal traits, intelligences, strengths and weaknesses. Some of us also get to live long enough to play some of those cards.. some don't.. we are governed by the circumstances in which we find ourselves. Whoever we are those circumstances were not of our choosing. My father survived the second world war as a tank driver from 1939.. through Dunkirk, D-Day to 1945.. his two brothers did not. One shot in Burma fighting the Japanese and one blown out of his Lancaster on just his fourth raid as a navigator, fighting the Germans. To date I have had both German and Japanese friends, I am positive about them, their countries, including their history and their technology. My war hero would be Captain Lansdorf of the German pocket battleship Graff Spee.. he sunk 50,000 tons of allied shipping without killing a single allied merchant sailor. All the allied merchant captains he took from their ships before sinking them went to his funeral in Montevideo after his suicide. He played his cards honourably, his way in spite of a rough deal.


This blog goes backwards for a simple reason.. its a journey with a beginning and an end and you must start at the beginning. Its my journey but it has some painfully relevant truths for others who may be tempted to ask the same questions. Its not for the faint of heart.. for if you choose to follow my lead here you may also take a parallel journey.. which could cost you heaps.. we all have truth we don't want to know.. my advice.. try to keep that list as small as possible. If I fail to deeply offend both religious and secular readers I will have done a bad job.

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