Bruce Charlton's Notions

I am a practitioner of the ancient craft of wet shaving with a safety-razer; and have often noticed that I make a "Mussolini face"...

Have you ever noticed that when a lot of people convert to Christianity, or convert to a different denomination or church within Christianit...

Whenever I interact with the mainstream of institutional life, I am aware that the totalitarian omni-surveillance agenda continues, and co...

1. To know and desire resurrected eternal life in Heaven , after death.  This, with pre-mortal spirit life, is the frame for purpose in mort...

I have often discussed God as a dyad - conceptualized as Father and Mother, or God and Goddess - which, for me, goes with my understanding ...

I have often been puzzled why it is that the mass media Always lies about the people it is witch-hunting .  If you know anything of the real...

We had a very enjoyable visit to Carlisle Cathedral recently, not my first, or second - but I still feel there is a great deal more to disco...

In the past it was natural and spontaneous for people to trust institutions more than themselves - including churches, and especially church...

How should we read The Bible?  All possible answers to that question are necessarily based upon non-Biblical (extra-Scriptural) assumptions ...

Is this the fundamental nature of inter-personal communication? It seems evident that people in the past knew, or at least all assumed, that...

It seems a clear lesson of the past century that it is possible, it may even become normal (and "official" to live a human lifespa...

Given that the modern West is evidently both collapsing and being actively destroyed; it is natural to seek for another political-social-cul...

I really don't know we should make of the silly paranormal events of everyday life.  I had an extreme, and extremely trivial, example a ...

News-watchers get terribly excited about reports of declining branches of the global totalitarian System.  For example, there is currently L...

 The accelerating national and global success of the ("Sorathic") Agents of Chaos is being misinterpreted as progress for the soci...

One of the spiritual tests of "AI" is that it offers un-personal pandering, like a "benign" bureaucracy. That is what mo...

From time to time, something relatively minor happens that nonetheless strikes me as indicating an inflexion point in the accelerating dysfu...

It is common to regard the suffering (and death) of "innocents" such as young children, babies, unborn babies; as especially diffi...

There is a very great deal of importuning God, or Jesus, to have mercy on us, or other people - I have done great deal of such importuning m...

Evil is specific, but Goodness is affiliation with God's creative purpose, a positive affiliation rooted in love.  When a group is good,...

The computer I use for blogging has suddenly been cut off from the internet by enforced wi-fi changes, and solving this may be a process tha...