CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)

In 1981 Harold Kushner wrote a book called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. In this part of the programme I’ll provide the answer to the question Why?

Tag words: Harold Kushner; When Bad Things Happen to Good People; MD Anderson; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; Psalm 121; Lake Pend Oreille; Jackson Browne; For a Dancer; God; multiple myeloma; Dr Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Wagner-Jauregg; Dennis Prager; Alan Dershowitz; Holoca...

Chernobyl. That’s a name to send a chill up your spine. The worst nuclear disaster in history. It happened on 26 April 1968 in Ukraine. Let me tell you how an American oncologist got involved with a man whose life was taken away in the literal fallout from that disaster – and, more importantly the way in which it changed Dr Iacoboni’s life.

Tag words: Chernobyl; oncologist; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; leukemia; Soviet Union; pave...

In this part of the series I’m going to tell you the story of a man who fell off an abyss, while another man watched helplessly. There’s another story that I have to tell too, of third man who was in serious danger of falling off an abyss. That man was going to have to be able to save himself because no one else would.

Tag words: Auschwitz; Dr Frankl; The Meaning of Life; apathy; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul;oncologist; cancer; Dav...

Dr Frankl gave the most breathtaking observation on humankind. What we are like. What we are capable of. I promise you, read it and you’ll never forget it. Better still, let me read it to you.

Tag words: Dr Viktor Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; Telos; God; Catholic faith; Supertramp; Logical Song; MD Anderson Cancer Center; Nazis; Jews; Shema Yisrael; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Hear O Israel; Auschwitz; Lords Prayer; Haro...

I’m continuing with my series of programmes about how you can achieve what I think is the good goal spelled out by Jordan Peterson in Rule 5 of his book “12 Rules for Life” - don’t let your children do anything that will make you dislike them.

But some people think that a parent discipling their child is destroying their unique individuality, their creativity, that discipline represses them. But are they right?

And what does this hav...

Now here’s a saying that you might not have heard for a long time. “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. Maybe some of you have never heard it. The full version of it is in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible, 13:24 and it reads “Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.”

With people like John Lennon saying that we need child liberation after women’s liberation, man...

This series is about two men. Both had death at their side as a constant companion. But both somehow discovered the meaning, the purpose of life. One is Dr Viktor Frankl – a holocaust survivor. The other is Dr Stephen Iacoboni, a cancer specialist, an oncologist. Two amazing stories.

Tag words: Dr Viktor Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; oncologist; oncologist; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; fe...

Do you go to the left? Or do you go to the right? Disturbingly in Latin the word for left is sinister. Sinister‘s defined as suggesting or threatening harm or evil. Causing or intending harm or evil; wicked. Portending misfortune or disaster, ominous. The choice of whether you go left or right isn’t always in your hands. Viktor Frankl went to the right – where he was told to go by the kind SS man – I’m just kidding of course. Steph...

In my last programme I spoke about Holocaust survivor, Viktor Frankl, his book “The Meaning of Life”, and the Holocaust. Talking about the Holocaust, as if everyone knew what I was talking about, was a big call because a lot of people today don’t know what the Holocaust was. Who caused the Holocaust – was it the Jews like many younger people think? Let me briefly tell you about how the Holocaust came to be known to the world from t...

Happiness is … discipline. Limitations. The most important limitations are the ones that we know to put on ourselves because they’re going to make us fit into the world without unnecessary conflicts that are bad for us in lots of ways. And being disciplined in ourselves will actually make our lives better. But there are also limitations that are put on us from the outside. Most importantly from our parents and especially in the yea...

I’m doing programmes talking about how to achieve the result that Jordan Peterson, in Rule 5 of his book, “12 Rules for Life”, calls “Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything that Makes You Dislike Them.” I think that’s a great goal that all parents should all aim for.

Before we pass the buck to the children, saying it’s all their fault that they’re behaving so badly, we need to admit that the behaviour of our children begins and is ver...

During the flooding in northern New South Wales in early 2022, one victim interviewed on national television said how disgraceful it was that neighbours with small boats, had had to help other neighbours who were in difficulties, even danger, from the flood waters. He asked the rhetorical question, “where is the Army?”. He blamed Scott Morrison for this.

And I thought to myself, isn’t that what neighbours are supposed to do for each...

These programmes are all about children. How you as a parent, can give them the best possible whole of life. Because what you give them, or don’t give them, is the foundations for their whole life, giving them the chance at having the happiest life possible – or the opposite.

They’re definitely going to be more than capable of mucking up their lives for themselves, especially when they get older, but the chances of that happening ca...

Youth crime. It’s a big issue today. Why is there so much? Up here in Cairns, people have talked about punishing the parents for the crimes committed by their children. There’s something in that. Some fairness. But it’s not really a good idea. Because the real culprit is our society and the way we’ve let it develop. The model that we’ve brought in over the last 60 odd years from the Swinging Sixties, well, it’s slowly but surely ru...

There’s a great title to one of the rules in Jordan Peterson’s book “12 Rules for Life” - “Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything that Makes You Dislike Them”.

The chapter’s about discipline, training and encouragement of our children, especially by parents, to eventually make better adults of them. In a lot of ways discipline is a topic that’s unpopular today. Marriage, and the children of that marriage, and how they turn out are the...

It’s a public holiday. Last night you went to bed relaxed, looking forward to another quiet day of the Passover holiday. But did that ever turn into a train wreck. Tomorrow was going to be the most extraordinary day of your life. The kind of day that made you wish you’d never been born. And it began at an indecent time – the absolute crack of dawn. This was the day that a Roman soldier and public servant of no great importance, Pon...

Why shouldn’t a person born male have transgender surgery before the age of 18? Ask Dr Hilary Cass – or better still stay listening.

Tag words: puberty blockers; cross-sex hormones; gender dysphoria; gender confusion; Cass Review; Dr Cass; transgender; suicides; Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act; left wing ideology; neurocognitive development; psychosexual development; longer-term bone health; artificial ...