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Author Archives: Ryan Buesnel
Kilkenny Trains
Dad used to walk me to the train line near Kilkenny station in suburban Adelaide when he felt like a bit of train-spotting. The station was a short walk from my Grandparent’s house, where my Dad spent his boyhood years. … Continue reading
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Tagged adelaide, childhood, memories, nostalgia, southaustralia, trains, trainspotting
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Grandpa’s House
As I opened the back door to the house, a rushing blast of pent-up air hit me squarely in the face like the onslaught of a summertime northerly. It was as if years of accumulated stuffiness had been expecting this … Continue reading
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Tagged adelaide, childhood, death, family, grandpa, memories, nostalgia, parents
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Small Moments in Love #3
The paths we walked became sacred to me, but like all things beautiful the memory is laced with pain. The moments we shared- nothing more than tiny windows in time really- was mostly spent walking together. These were occasions that … Continue reading
An Afternoon BMX Adventure
I. My BMX had white tires. It was a cheap knock-off brand from K-Mart, but I rode the life out of it. I had initially wanted something cooler like a Mongoose, but I knew I this was a pipe dream … Continue reading
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Tagged bikeriding, BMX, childhood, memories, memory, nostalgia, reflection, rokeby, shortstory, warragul
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Portrait of an Anxious Mind
I realised I had been on the same webpage just 1 hour before. It was 2am and my panic resulted in another bout of sleeplessness, so I had been indulging in a favourite pastime: googling my headache symptoms in a … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, existentialism, health, healthanxiety, mental illness, worry
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Small Moments in Love #2
The Church I attended throughout my childhood was small but vibrant. Each Sunday evening we would have a more informal service that was designed to ‘reach out’ to people from non-church backgrounds. I remember these services as a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, church, friends, love, memories, nostalgia, relationships
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Western Civilisation in the Twenty-First Century Conference
I will be speaking at the University of Adelaide History Department’s Western Civilisation in the Twenty-First Century conference on 20-21 February, 2020. My paper will deal with nationalism and racism as manifest in various extreme heavy metal subcultures. The event … Continue reading
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Nazi Show Trials and the Politics of Condemnation
Roland Freisler was one of the more unsavoury personalities of the Third Reich-era. This achievement was no small feat given his competition: Himmler, Bormann, Goebbels and Streicher were all strong contenders in the crappy personality department. Nevertheless, Freisler occupied a … Continue reading
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Tagged judgement, law, legal, michelfoucault, nazi, nazis, philosophy, rolandfreisler, thirdreich
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Writing Passionate History: The Example of Jules Isaac
Must the writing of history always be undertaken in a spirit of cold detachment, or is there a legitimate place for the use of passion as a guiding force in the pursuit of historical inquiry? Traditional wisdom would suggest that … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, history, holocaust, jewishhistory, judaism, julesisaac, religion, thirdreich
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Die Botschaft Gottes: A Translation of Introductory Material
In 1940, theologians from the Jena-based Institute for the Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life published an edited version of New Testament titled Die Botschaft Gottes(The Message of God). [1] The purpose of the translation was to offer German Christians … Continue reading
