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Saturday, 6 December 2025

Sussex Carol plus: Saturday Christmas music from "Magpie Lane"

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A very nice version of the Sussex Carol follows an excellent syncopated instrumental version of Christmas Day in the Morning; from a folk b...

In Europe it's "whip the children" day!

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In parts of Europe such as Germany and France; today is "celebrated" as St Nicholas Day in which children who do not conform to ad...
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The unlife assumption: The spiritual trap of assuming an unalive universe

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Nearly everybody nowadays (except young children, and maybe some residual tribal people) believes that the universe was originally unalive, ...
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Friday, 5 December 2025

How can modern people becomes sure enough about their beliefs, for this to be strongly motivating? Example from my earlier life as a scientist

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We need to be sufficiently sure of our bottom-line convictions that they will serve strongly to fuel our personal motivation - so that we ha...
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Thursday, 4 December 2025

Why are modern people indifferent to eternal life?

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I remember the answer to this question from personal experience, from remembering my earlier self. Modern people are indifferent to eternal ...
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Word spells from theoretical models: How something is supposed to work, versus how it actually works

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Peoples' understanding of the world around them is substantially a matter of their explanatory models - to the point that experience and...
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Wednesday, 3 December 2025

"Owning" change - and "AI"

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Current attitudes to "AI" are an example of the way that hierarchical power elicits compliance, by psychological methods and the h...
Tuesday, 2 December 2025

Experience is more significant than knowledge - but what kind of experience?

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Experience  > Knowledge Reality > Truth Thinking > Feeling The above are notations or summaries of what may be chosen as ways of un...
Monday, 1 December 2025

"Possible in principle" - Some paranormal phenomena should be regarded as aspects of baseline reality

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I recently reviewed Andy Thomas's book about the "paranormal" experiences reported by ordinary people.  It is a common respon...
Sunday, 30 November 2025

"AI" is a "Magic 8-Ball" (i.e. obfuscated dice-roll or coin-flip)

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The current primary global strategy for replacing people with "AI" programs; amounts to the substitution of a "Magic 8 Ball...
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Commenting suspended

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The number of comments has recently declined to the point that it has become rather a waste of my time periodically checking e-mails in orde...
Saturday, 29 November 2025

Why monetizing corrupts

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Setting-aside arguments about economic necessity (which very seldom hold water*) it is surely a blazingly obvious fact that monetizing of bl...

"AI ethics" scaremongering is part of the totalitarian PSYOP

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The global Establishment "AI" project began almost exactly three years ago - with the multi-national, multi-pronged, coordinated ...
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Friday, 28 November 2025

"Being a Christian" is hierarchically-above practicing any specific religion

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It seems to me that Christianity - as I understand it , is qualitatively different from "religion". I regard Christianity as in es...
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Thursday, 27 November 2025

It's Christmas, and in England that means compulsory Rucking Futter

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Looking very pleased with himself - And No Wonder! There is an composer of church music, including some Christmas carols and songs, called J...

Keeping children safe? - Oh yeah, sure...

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I need not bother to provide evidence of how little the Establishment cares about the safety of children in the UK.  All their favourite str...
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Thoreau in Walden - emergence of modern consciousness

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Thoreau by Wyeth - depicting one of the earliest spiritual adolescents I have been re-reading HD Thoreau 's Walden  (1854) - starting at...
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Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Life Hacks and Bucket Lists are symptoms of profound spiritual degeneracy

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Get them while they're young... Sometimes the massive popularization of a term is symptomatic* of deep civilizational disorder: two inst...
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Monday, 24 November 2025

Just how important is Free Will (Agency)?

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William James Tychonievich has written a blog post about a fictional book that (as part of its story) attempts (albeit from a Jewish rather...
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Sunday, 23 November 2025

What is the IQ of "AI"? Answer: None at all

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I don't go looking for trouble, so I had not realized until now that people are confidently saying that such-and-such an "AI" ...
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