Bruce Charlton's Notions

Thursday, 8 January 2026

Why do people still have faith in inverted institutions? (Such as churches?)

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Why do people still have faith in inverted institutions? Why, that is, do people still assume - and live on the basis that - institutions/ o...
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Wednesday, 7 January 2026

A Messiah could make no significant difference - leaves the problems of Life untouched

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There has usually been, and commonly, a yearning for a Messiah - a deliverer or saviour of a people or the world.  The deep problem is not ...
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Monday, 5 January 2026

Why "AI" is qualitatively worse than the internet/ social media/ smartphones

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People apparently have difficulty understanding (or explaining to themselves) just why post-November 2022 "AI" is qualitatively wo...
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Evil? Don't let it into the heart. If evil is already inside, then label it as evil

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The problem with the most prevalent forms of mainstream, normal evil - such as the Litmus Test issues - is that they are invited into the h...
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Sunday, 4 January 2026

Is there any positive value to debating "AI"?

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I have long been sceptical about the benefits of arguing ; because the result of any significant argument is settled in advance by fundament...
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Friday, 2 January 2026

High- and Low-level functionality; Totalitarian control versus Chaos

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If I am correct that the ruling class are divided between - on the one side - totalitarian bureaucrats with the aim of omni-surveillance and...
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Thursday, 1 January 2026

My traditional anti- "New Year" post!

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A message for all my loyal readers: Pinch Punch First of the Month!  (No returns.) It's really no big deal in the scheme of things, a sy...
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Monday, 29 December 2025

Natural psychism - what kind of a thing is it?

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A significant minority of people are, and more claim to be, naturally psychic - spontaneously in touch with the occult world of spirits.  Th...
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Sunday, 28 December 2025

"A chain of loving relationships" - How Christians may help those they love to get to Heaven

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I am impressed and convinced by the way that the Fourth Gospel always describes Jesus's love in terms of specific and inter-personal lo...
Saturday, 27 December 2025

"AI"-Christianity and other unfortunate predictions for 2026...

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My prediction for 2026 is that "AI" will continue to subvert self-identified Christians (as well as everybody else); in particular...
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"Cool" has replaced necessary functionality

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Because we live in a materialist and incoherent society; from the nihilistic despair of which we crave temporary alleviation - we are contin...
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Friday, 26 December 2025

Sauron-Saruman: Why did Tolkien make his two main villains have such similar-reading names?

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I often got confused during my very first reading of The Lord of the Rings, because I was mixing-up Sauron with Saruman.  So how was it that...
Thursday, 25 December 2025

Merry Christmas Day - Coventry Carol by Maddy Prior

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The Massacre of the Innocents , by Pieter Breughel the Elder; this is the subject matter of the Coventry Carol  Many people's favourite ...
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Wednesday, 24 December 2025

Funniest Christmas novelty song?

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Britain is plagued by Christmas Song anthologies that get replayed every year in places like supermarkets - most come from pop novelty recor...
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Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Nationalism 2025 is just another top-down (Leftist) ideology

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Real bottom-up nationalism was a phenomenon of the late 19th and early 20th century - it was, indeed, the first attempt by developing natio...
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Not just super-preppers. What are the covert assumptions of the high level globalist rulers?

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Anyone who has a (more-or-less) coherent religious basis; can observe that the high level global ruling class is pursuing some kind of cover...
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Monday, 22 December 2025

The Corpus Christi carol

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He bore him up, he bore him down,  He bore him into an orchard brown.  (Chorus)  Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!  The falcon has borne my make...
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Why not lie?

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We live in what must surely be the most calculatedly untruthful society and civilization in world history - where dishonesty is expected and...
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Sunday, 21 December 2025

Don't envy tribal-minded peoples! It is futile; but also they are being manipulated into spiritual (and material) oblivion

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Many of us are, or have been, nostaligic and indeed envious of the remnant tribalisms of this modern world; because we European-descended pe...
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Experiencing Winter Solstice in magical imagination

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I regard the Winter Solstice as a phase of the year lasting about a week, rather than today specifically. Because day length barely changes ...
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Readings to get you into the Christmas mood...

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FC Letters, JRRT For those of you who have only begun reading this blog within the last dozen years - here is a reprise of my particular fav...
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