Bruce Charlton's Notions

I just stumbled across a post of mine from 2018 on the (now stale) subject of Jordan Peterson ; in which I described him as an Antichrist f...

A few years ago, I was looking at our local church - which has a tall campanile-style tower; and noticed the lightning rod on the highest po...

Red geraniums are my favourite flower to grow We have a largeish and somewhat feral garden, always an overgrown mess; that I greatly appreci...

If you have an Amazon Prime subscription, and live in the UK; there are a few days left in which to watch the 1978 movie Stevie - a biograph...

Stereotypes - I mean  valid ones, which spontaneously stereotypes tend to be - are useful; indeed they are essential to social functioning i...

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."  So said William Blake - and he did ; he created an idiosyncratic a...

There is a grand strategy for global totalitarianism than can be inferred or "reverse engineered" from linking-up the primary Litm...

It seems that the highest goal of divine creation according to Christianity is resurrection - which is eternal incarnation; in other words, ...

When I began doing theoretical evolutionary biology as my main thing (May 1994); I realized that there were two apparently opposed ways of ...

After having been well taught artistic discernment (not ability!) by my father - who had been an art teacher and was a decent landscape wate...

I have reworked my post on the "fuzziness" of myth, from a couple of days ago - and with reference to JRR Tolkien's work - ove...

Buttercups at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. I saw this glorious field a while ago, while my family had a picnic on its edge. We were all fas...

Good Fortune (2025) works pretty well as a mainstream Hollywood comedy; it is a fairly typical "3 Star" movie (i.e. 3/5 Stars; i....

Fuzziness - imprecision - seems to be a characteristic of a myth; such that the specific form in which a myth is expressed - e.g. its exact ...

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to lea...

The totalitarian ideology of "this world" works by establishing a cycle of soft-sell assumptions, that are "confirmed" b...

Christians say Jesus Christ is necessary .  The necessity of Jesus only makes sense if God, the creator of this world, is not- wholly respon...

Jesus Christ is our saviour.  What is he saving us from ? And don't say "our sins" because that doesn't make sense to me. ...

I am continuing to add to the new compilation blog "Bruce Charlton on Music" - most recently a post that might be useful to those ...

A problem that I experienced upon becoming a Christian, is that the standard model over the centuries is first to discover the true institut...

I have been reading magical fiction and fantasy since discovering Tolkien in 1972, and continued with a (partly academic) study of animism a...