Quantum Physics
What’s something most people don’t understand? Why? The mother of all questions, indeed ...
iPhone
How has technology changed your job? Significantly, indeed! And as I started my job in Brisbane as the last German Language Adviser of the Goethe - Institut in 1998, I designed my first website learning HTML. Now we have AI and Bots writing code. And this is only the beginning. Have a great Easter Vacations and a few days with your Families and Friends. You might detox as well. Kindly from the Gold Coast QLD Australia Linked Linked https://phbloecker.wordpress.com Peter and Maria Ines
Lying
This Essay is about White Lies and The Truth I read Sam Harris Lying and the Interview with his teacher. This Book and the Interview is about the Master and the Disciple and how they may interact. I understand Harris published this essay plus interview and what he learnt from his University Teacher Ron Howard as a kind chapeau id est simply Thank You. Education can succeed, but it needs two to tango. Passion Flower or teaching with passion l Credit phb First the English Version LyingSam Harris, Ronald Howard and the Art of Telling the TruthP.H. Bloecker · bloecker.wordpress.com · 2026 I. A Thin Book with Considerable WeightSam Harris’ essay Lying is not a long book. Barely a hundred pages, no academic apparatus, no mountain of footnotes. Those who pick it up because it is short will quickly discover: it is short the way a scalpel is short. It cuts deeply nonetheless.The argument is simply stated, and therefore provocative: lying is always wrong. Not almost always. Not in most cases. Always. Even the white lie. Even the protective lie. Even the polite silence that deliberately misleads. Harris acknowledges edge cases — the Nazis are at the door, Anne Frank is hiding in the attic — but he refuses to let the exception become the rule. Whoever makes habits out of exceptions has already dismantled their ethical architecture before realising they…
Elephants
Which animal would you compare yourself to and why? Why is the mother of all questions: Not because of the ivory, though ... When observing elephants in Namibia and Zimbabwe at the Chobe National Park for weeks, I came to the conclusion, I wished I was a mighty Elephant Bull in my next live. Not a monkey.
Learning
What is the last thing you learned? There is no last thing, as I learn about three new things per day. My definition of learning is very unique and only valid for myself: Observe and focus and reflect. Inspired by Atomic Habits and other authors. We all are standing on the shoulders of giants. Like Einstein. And many others. We are born to learn daily.
Namibia
Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to. When working at the DHPS in Windhoek, I was asked by the Principal and Board of the German Private High School to extend my contract of 6 years to another 2 years. Credit phb | Hartmann Valley However, a new Principal took over and came back from BVA / ZfA, my extension was not approved by the ZfA, though the Board of the DHPS had asked me and my family to stay until 1996. My two children were both students of the DHPS and had to leave their best friends behind in Namibia. I found this heart breaking, indeed … So my wife and myself took a serious decision to compensate their frustration and losses: We both took 6 months of unpaid long leave and travelled via Van and two tents 6 months through NZ instead of taking our two children back to their German High School in Lower Saxony. Later they both confirmed: The best decision we had ever made since leaving Germany for six full years in 1988. We arrived in WHK on 1st Jan 1988.
Panama
The most important invention in your lifetime is... For me the old style iPhone, as this device is with me all the time. Not wasting my time with Facebook or SM or Non Sense, rather use it for Navigation and my own reading plus research and more. Walking mostly without my iPhone. Why? The Mother of all questions, indeed ... Think and find your own answer, pls … How Beautiful Is Burleigh Beach? Once upon a time there lived an old swimmer in a little house in Burleigh Waters. Every morning he would go down to the beach and swim in the great ocean. The water was sometimes wild and sometimes gentle, but the old swimmer loved it dearly. "Oh, how beautiful is Burleigh Beach," he would say each day as he came out of the water. One day he found an empty coconut on the sand. Written on the coconut were the words: "Gold Coast Paradise - Queensland." "Aha," thought the old swimmer. "Gold Coast Paradise must be even more beautiful than Burleigh Beach. Everything there must be golden – the beaches, the waves, the fish, simply everything!" He went home and told his wife Maria Inés about the coconut. "We must travel to Gold Coast Paradise," he said. "I'm certain everything there is far more beautiful." "But we already live on the Gold Coast," said Maria Inés. "Yes, but…
Dream Job
What's your dream job? My dream job was High School Teaching German and English Literature. No regrets & loved it till I retired in 2015 in North Germany.
Road Trip
Think back on your most memorable road trip. Quite a few, actually, when living in Windhoek Namibia: The first three years from 1988 we travelled around 10 weeks into the Namib and National Parks annually and slept on our Landrover with a roof top tent, we had imported from Germany by container, awesome experiences, indeed! Credit phb
Paradise Lost
Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it? The True North of Germany in the hills of Holstein is the place I was born in Aug 1949. In fact the same day as Johann W von Goethe, who became my Star since I can think. Home is not where you decide to live, home means literally the place you were born. Why? The Mother of all good questions, indeed. Some people joke Home is where the Wine is, I cannot disagree more. Serious Jokers like myself rather state: Home is where your loved ones live, like wife and family. What happens then to expats like Thomas Mann, Bert Brecht and Walter Benjamin and Stephan Zweig? Good question, indeed .. It depends on the circumstances for sure. Are you forced to leave your home like many refugees? Jewish Germans left Germany after 1933. If they understood the political context and the writings on the walls. I am a fan of Banksy ... Some US citizens consider leaving the USA. Why? Another good questions. Many Germans have decided to live outside Germany and the EU? Why? For many reasons for sure. What worries me at present is the number of younger people considering to leave Europe for good ... Why? Another good question, indeed. Why do you live at the Gold Coast though born in Holstein north of Hamburg?…
Restart
What would you do if you lost all your possessions? Credit phb Like a computer, I would re - start my next life. I am living my third life now at the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. My first life was from 1 to 19. My second life from 19 to 65. My third life started, when I retired from the active school life in Germany. Once a teacher, always a teacher. As a kid I lived in a school, as my father was the only teacher in the village with 3 big farms. He received about 300 DM per month, and he had three children. This was in 1956. The farmers delivered a small pig (Ferkel) that was killed when grown up. Hanging on a ladder. The butcher came to the school house with an axe and bang … Then the blood was collected for Blood Pudding. Liver Sausage was kept in Glasses. The butcher tasted the liver half cooked only. Those were the days, my friend, when I was 7 years old, Credit phb
Lamington NP
A very special Day, indeed … Great day with Blanche & Sven at Binna Burra after a long rainy Sat Jul 2025. Tweed Gallery first: Dancing Spiders … Dancing Spiders } Screenshot phb Patterns of the Rain Forest | Credit phb With Sven O | Credit phb Binna Barra NP | Credit phb Final Stop Hinze Dam. Credit phb Credit phb Credit phb Credit phb Not my Jaguar | Credit phb