Bruce Charlton's Notions

Friday, 13 March 2026

The "AI" propagandists payroll: You can't possibly persuade people whose pay depends on Not being persuaded

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The vast and endless stream of drivel on the subject of the supernatural superpowers of "AI" continues - and it will continue unti...
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When people keep on making the same Big Mistakes, over-and-over - we should at least consider that it is being done On Purpose

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All over the media (mass and "alternative") are explanations of how the such-and-such Big Nation has made a Big Bistake, because b...
Thursday, 12 March 2026

Celebrating "Aunt Grace Day" on 3rd March - a new JRR Tolkien anniversary for Newcastle

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Last week my wife and I were the first to celebrate a new festival that we originated: " Aunt Grace Day "... JRR Tolkien's Aun...
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Can we know from direct personal experience that "the immortality of our soul" is real?

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Assuming that we acknowledge it as a real possibility, and have not pre-decided that it cannot be true; we can know that our soul is is not...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2026

The biggest problems in the world are invisible

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The spiritual is primary, and includes the material.  Therefore every material problem necessarily has a spiritual dimension.  But mainstrea...

Some maxims for current geopolitics

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Not so much preferring "the lesser of evils" - because how could we really know which was lesser? More like recognizing that one s...

"Unfinished business" in dreams

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I often have unpleasant dreams just before waking; and if I try to go back to sleep after one such, I simply return to the dream.  At one le...
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Tuesday, 10 March 2026

Sergeant Pilots of Bomber Command in World War II (and other NCO aircrew): a cull of the elite among British working class men

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The crew of a Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber - some Sergeant's stripes evident The extremely high casualties in RAF Bomber Command, t...
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Monday, 9 March 2026

Subfertility is willed biological extinction - an intractable fact. What then?

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People are apparently unable to grasp the very simple fact that the "subfertility*" of all the populations of all the developed na...
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Sunday, 8 March 2026

Escapism is a good thing - so long as we follow-through...

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Escapism is a good, and perhaps spiritually-necessary, basis for Life.  The desire to escape, the evaluation that escape from this actual-Li...
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Friday, 6 March 2026

What are the most evil sentences in The Lord of the Rings?

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Tolkien depicted the nature of evil with a depth and power only possible to a good Man. But what is the extremity of evil as depicted in The...

Auriga - the unjustly-neglected pentangle constellation

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To my eye, drawing lines between the five brightest stars; Auriga ( the charioteer ) is a great pentangle in the night sky; and one that in...
Thursday, 5 March 2026

Are we seeing the beginning of the end for world civilization? A massive collapse in functionality?

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I have begun to think so.  It is impossible to be sure, because the whole world of communication is full of lies and fakes; as well as sheer...

A future for pagan religion? Laeth insights

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 As a complement to William Wildblood's reflections on the potential value for Christians in what might be termed pagan- ism ; Laeth ma...
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Just because someone opposes sadistic destructiveness, does not mean they are actually good!

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In a geopolitical world where treachery and gratuitous murder are openly and officially celebrated ; it's become pretty easy to appear ...
Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Distinguishing Etheric and Astral

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In my reading of Rudolf Steiner I came across a fourfold division of Beings into what he called "bodies" but which might better b...
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Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Christian polytheism - from William Wildblood

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William Wildblood's latest post analyses and expresses well something I have felt for as long as I have been a Christian.  Edited excer...
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Monday, 2 March 2026

Dark chocolate is the modernist classical music of foods

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This is just so wrong I have written before about the scam that is dark chocolate - how everyone really wants milk (and/or white) chocolate...
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Further confirmation of the ascendancy of the Agents of Chaos

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It has been my contention since the second half of 2020 that the nature of dominant "establishment" evil has evolved and transform...
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Sunday, 1 March 2026

Merely religious-themed fandom: the Christian churches here-and-now

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I was reflecting on the fate of the New Age spirituality, which began in the late seventies but hit public consciousness from the middling 1...
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Friday, 27 February 2026

People don't want, and anyway can't do, the past - so it's not an option (despite that the present really is worse)

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It is a Big problem - that has been ongoing and increasing for something like 250 years - that more and more people have stopped wanting ...
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