Bruce Charlton's Notions

Although apparently designed in the 60s; at the time when I was in my teens during the 1970s the Trimphone still seemed the height of Space ...

Following up on a post of mine from a few days ago; William James Tychonievich challenged the coherence of my statement that I believe in ...

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,  Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file,  Bring diadems a...

For those of you who don't already know this interview from five years ago, I've just been re-watching it - and I found it pretty in...

In discussing whether or not Western Civilization/ Culture is worth defending, saving, rebuilding; there is often confusion regarding what i...

I don't know how unusual it is; but I find that I combine a firm belief in the reality of many supernatural/ paranormal/ occult phenomen...

There are two places in the Fourth Gospel (in the Authorized Version) where Jesus is quoted as saying "sin no more":  After heali...

If  the Fourth Gospel  is regarded as the primary and most authoritative source concerning Jesus Christ ; then it seems that Jesus hardly ev...

The UK election has been "won" by the Ahrimanic totalitarians who will try to push ahead more rapidly with Agenda 2030/ Davos/ WEF...

From Ludwig Wittgenstein a memoir, by Norman Malcolm Wittgenstein did once say that he thought that he could understand the conception of Go...

A Big Problem in philosophy, is picking (or rather assuming) the wrong starting point for enquiry, for analysis and reasoning; and there has...

Can God read minds, and if so - to what extent? It seems clear that God can read minds or else prayer, for instance, would be meaningless......

 I find very little awareness of the profundity of shift in our civilization. A civilization renews itself across generations, but ours seek...

 I'm currently rereading George Malcolm's memoir of Wittgenstein, and (first read) a short biography of Graves by Bruce King. Graves...

I have always, both before and after being a Christian, found it easy to know that I was doing the wrong thing (and, to a lesser extent know...

One lethal consequence of the mainstream modern assumption that death is annihilation, is that it renders this mortal life merely palliative...

Because emotions are partly physical, we cannot lead a spiritually satisfactory mortal life .  This statement sounds startling (or just plai...

Over at The Notion Club Papers blog; I discuss the life-transforming effect that reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings had upon me; such...

It is striking (when you think about it) how it is easy to recognize - and be confident of the identity of - evil actions; but not good ones...

Resurrection is not an end-point but the beginning of a new phase of our eternal beingness: it is a transformation of our being.  We remain ...

 A book recommendation for people who like this sort of thing.  I rediscovered this marvellous book that I originally bought in my mid-teens...