Dr. Norman Doidge, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, has identified among the telltale symptoms of fanatics: an intolerance of dissent, a doctrine that is riddled with contradictions, the belief that one’s cause has been blessed or even commanded by God, and the use of reinforcement techniques such as repetition to spread...
Read more →How is that? My fourth posting in one day. My friend Lucinda asked me to do a bit of promotion for this. Pascal designed the website. So, let me ask you this: if you were looking — just hypothetically of course — for a reasonably priced place to stay in London and you’d prefer...
Read more →An interesting letter came in this morning. From the Greek Embassy in Brussels. I had written them asking for a document which would allow me to register my car duty-free in Greece, as I can do in any other European country. Greece is notorious for ignoring European regulations in that respect. Anyway, I don’t...
Read more →Héhé, quite a few of you must be wondering what the heck is going on. To tell you the truth, not much these days. That’s the problem: not much interesting happening to tell a story. Routine is creeping in, I suppose. We can still sit silently on our balcony, admiring the Psiloritis top, but...
Read more →Mattie Hermans of the Open University in Heerlen is the second to visit Crete since we got here. I promised him I would hold for him the nice weather we’ve been enjoying for the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I have been found not powerful enough for that task. This morning the weather completely...
Read more →Okay, here we go. The fourth chapter in the biography is up now. I don’t know if I should admire Tom for the elegant simplicity or curse him for the lazy approach. Enjoy! Oh, and by the way, I’m still not smoking… almost 5 days now.
Read more →My buddy Tom has found it necessary to review ALL of the chapters, including the preface to the biography, and he added a fourth chapter, again, as usual, filled with lies about my personal life. It’s good reading though, I guess, if you’re into that kind of thing. Go judge for yourself here. Whoops,...
Read more →For all those who wondered what was going on, and for all those who stopped wondering and started yelling at me, here I am again. Physically and spiritually in excellent shape, mentally slowly going nuts. As my pal Tom said: “I hope you didn’t go out and get a job or something crazy like...
Read more →Albeit a little late, I’m glad I can report to you that we had a wonderful Easter. On Friday 25th in the morning we did a round of the consulates to promote Yvonne’s activities. We were most welcomed in most cases by the honorary consuls themselves. In most cases, because only 3 of the...
Read more →We finally made it. Everything is unpacked, bar those items that we need to store elsewhere for lack of space. You can’t believe how hard it is to move from a place with 420 square meters of floor space (including various storage areas) to 90 square meters of floor space, not counting the balcony....
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