David Ilsley's Site
(davidilsley.com)
This page is a portal to David Ilsley's stuff. There are a number of sections.
Scroll down or use the menu button below to jump to a section. Then click the pictures or buttons.
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Three Score Years and Ten
The buttons below link to articles which make a bit of a brief autobiography. Life Teaching Travels Winter Twenty PhD Some of the items contain first names and pictures (taken when I knew them) of people who have been important to me in the past. If you happen to read this and find your name or picture here but would prefer it wasn't, please let me know via the Contact button below and I will remove it. It would actually be great to hear from you. |
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Videos These pictures are links to six of the videos that I've put onto YouTube. They're not terribly professional or informative, but they do seem to get a few views, mostly, I think, by people who know me and people who are interested in stroking boobies. For the rest of the videos, click here or the button below the pictures. |
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Stroking a Booby
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Dancing with the Stars
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Hail
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Australia
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Antarctica
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Earth
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Maths and Astronomy The pictures below are links to my maths website that offers materials for learning and teaching secondary maths, and my astronomy site which could be useful in learning and teaching astronomy or running an astronomy club. |
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Facebook Groups: M1Maths M1Astronomy YouTube Channels: M1Maths Listen Maths M1Astronomy |
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The following pictures are links to two of the slideshows from the astronomy site.
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The Meaning of Life - According to Me (The Thoughts of armChairman Dave) Most people are happy just to live life. Some feel the need to analyse it. I'm one of them. The buttons below link to some of my musings, just in case anyone's interested. Existence Consciousness Identity Free Will The Purpose of Life The Paranormal The majority of humans believe that most of existence occurs after death and that the life after death can be very pleasant or extremely awful depending on what we believe and/or do in this life. If this is true, then living our earthly life the right way is of supreme importance. With a rationale along the lines of Pascal's Wager, I committed to being a Christian and have since spent many years learning the ins and outs of the religion and doing things that might help me develop the required faith. However, that faith has eluded me, maybe because the bible says that faith is a gift from God, not something we can conjure up ourselves, or maybe because I just think too much. M1Religion.com includes the articles above plus further thoughts on Life, God and the Eternal. These pictures are links to three more items. |
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A Fairer World
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Novel
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Simplified English
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The Meaning of Life - According to Other People The buttons below link to brief summaries of the thoughts of some of the more prominent past philosophers. I researched and wrote these for my own education and to see if there was anything there that would change my own thinking. There wasn't. But, having made the summaries, I thought that they could be useful to other people, so I've included them here. Much of the information is taken from The Philosophy Book by DK (www.dk.com), Wikipedia and Google's AI overviews. I confess that, in general, I haven't read the philosophers' original works. I think there are better things I could do with the few years it would take me. Ancient
* * * * * The 'Home' button below is a link to a site about our home. The site is password-protected. The user name is 'me'; the password is my mother's middle name followed by 'bulldog' - all lower case, no spaces or punctuation. If you know her middle name, feel free to go ahead. The other buttons will be of no interest, except maybe to people in the QAMT or Probus. And finally, a traditional Irish blessing: May the sun shine warmly on your potatoes, and may the rain dribble gently down your neck, until we meet again. |
