Bruce Charlton's Notions

For a very long time, in most of the world, Obedience has been prized as a Christian virtue.  Indeed, in practice, obedience is often the pr...

I keep seeing people online making invalid but would-be reassuring demographic predictions concerning the future of human populations on th...

I have mentioned before my personal aversion to the RIP "Rest in Peace" trope; or, more exactly, that I think the wished desire f...

Real relationships are between Beings; and Beings are eternally existent.  Beings are described in terms of attributes such as life, consci...

I have written before of my practice of "journaling", which goes back more than forty years. For a long time now, this has consist...

Ideal light entertainment - but excellence is always rare It is a pleasant thing to spend an hour or two in consuming TV mass media with rel...

Another huge Herriot success, indeed his best-selling book; which led to scores of copycat volumes of  Fill in the celebrity name 's som...

This is something that puzzles me: By my best understanding, I regard almost-everybody as literally insane, delusional, psychotic; with resp...

From the overwhelmingly-dominant atheist-materialism of our time and place; it is perhaps natural that people who feel the alienation of liv...

Like many boys of my generation, I came across Sea Monkeys in the classified ads section of American comics - in my case, superhero comics -...

I have been informed by the host of this blog that, from December 16, almost everything I have ever written will be forbidden by the new con...

Our task in this mortal life includes that of understanding; meaning that we understand by working things out and think things through For O...

In considering Heaven, we need to consider what Heaven is, and whether we personally want it.  I have written before that I believe Heaven i...

I've often written positively about the category of explanations known by the PSYOP-manipulated slur-term of Conspiracy Theories (CTs)....

I have for some years been fascinated by The Fourth Gospel (called The Gospel of John ) - and re-reading it again I was struck by the sense...

Even as a kid I heard about the Heat Death of the Universe, and I later learned more during my studies of physics up to A-Level.  The cap wa...

Relatively tall, thin, pointed "lancet" windows are characteristic of the Early English style of gothic church architecture, built...

Hugh Fraser as the loyal and intrepid Hastings, David Suchet as Poirot in the TV adaptations I was almost completely uninterested in "...

One of the theses I have harped-upon here is that metaphysics is primary, and all "evidence" and reasoning happens within metaphy...

In my late teens and twenties, I was an advocate and practitioner of what could be termed Voluntary Simplicity (VS) - with "simplicity...

Based on an understanding of the benefits of incarnation (embodiment) in this mortal life; it is possible to discern what happens during th...