Series: The What is … ? Essays
This page links to the “What is….?!” series of essays stored on the truehope,info website .
Each essay discusses the unique universe(s) that we can experience in a word or phrase. However the essays are all linked by a common psychology~physics and use of etymology. All discuss and employ the principles of energy as their prime means of evaluating how sustainable the meaning of the word or phrase has been over millennia i.e. what sort of universe the word or phrase use generates.
You are invited to read the essays at https://truehope.info/wordpress/articles-2/ and https://medium.com/@davemcarthur
Medium series Part 13
What is Science?
Why no man (human being) can truly call themself a scientist and how we are all born into a significant state of science
Medium series Part 12
5 August 2023
What is Physics?
Why our prevailing notion of physics is poison and how compassion is the remedy.
Medium series Part 11
22 May 2023
What and Who is a Conservative?
Compassion reminds us that a true conservative is a man (human being) whose actions conserve the global flows and balances of energy that sustain Mankind.
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Medium series Part 10
23 April 2023
What is The Environment?
The ego would have us say “Me and The Environment” whereas compasssion reminds us we are our environment.
Medium series Part 9
26 February 2023
What’s with The Ego~Compassion
Medium Series Part 8
31 January 2023
What is A Resource?
Once a “resource” describes something that arises again and again i.e. it re-sources. Modern English defines a resource as any activity that adds wealth to The Crown.
Medium Series Part 7
December 2022
What is a Fossil Fuel
The ingenious ego can have any of us become our own worst enemy. Indeed, without compassion, the ego can have us believe it is our divine right to define mineral biomass as a fuel and burn it at our will.
Medium Series Part 6
November 2022
What is Warming-up?
We all exist as a dynamic balance of warming and cooling. If we fail to conserve that balance
(37C) , then our we either warm-up or cool down and a change of state occurs. We perish.
Medium Series part 5
4 October 2022
What is Economy
“If you want the truth, ask a child“
It is said this is a French proverb. Surely mankind has many variations on this truth. However, how many cultures around the planet actually embrace its essential message?
Medium Series part 4
8 September 2022
What is Power?
Power is our measure of the rate the universal potential is manifest i.e Power = Energy/Time i.e. P =E/T
What is “power”?
Ask this question and some people raise a clenched fist.
Some embrace a long car bonnet. Others wave a fist full of money. Some pat their assault rifle or rocket launcher. Others hold up a cross or crescent.
Some gesture to the sun in the sky and speak of energy. Others motion to the heavens and speak of God…
Medium Series part 3
7 August 2022
What is Energy?
Hmmm, “energy” or “god”? Which of these is the most potent word in the English language nowadays? Everyone is vitally intimate with energy, no one knows what it is and our flawed notion of energy can destroy us. This is our great human conundrum.
Medium Series part 2
1 June 2022
What’s in a Word?
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.”
It is said that Confucius warned us thus 2.5 millennia ago.
Medium Series part 1
4 March 2022
Tongue-tied by the English Language
(On untying the bonds of the mother tongue
Awakening to a Revelation
The question arises: how would you respond if one morning you woke up with the realization, “Woh, my mother tongue, the language that most expresses my being, is actually my own worst enemy and it now threatens the existence of mankind!”
