Bruce Charlton's Notions

John 14: [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also....

People seem to think that becoming a Christian is an answer: the answer.  They think; if they can only become the right kind of Christian -...

It is possible some of my readers do not know that remarkably... memorable image of our Saviour " Buddy Christ " - which was a bri...

We know (ought, by now, to realize) that our leaders are puppets - but not all the same kind of puppet.  The point is distraction - to have...

[The aim of alchemy was] to hasten the ... processes of nature by precipitating matter through stages of decay and decomposition into a new ...

I have previously written about the strange way that things fall into sevens ; but it is also well known that seven is usually primary in a ...

From the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game I am re-reading Wizards: a history , by Peter G Maxwell-Stuart (2004); and reflecting on the use of ceremonial...

It was in the middle 1980s that I began to publish scientific papers and publish them in professional journals. And this activity naturally ...

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

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 ...

People apparently have difficulty understanding (or explaining to themselves) just why post-November 2022 "AI" is qualitatively wo...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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