Bruce Charlton's Notions

Those who urge modern people to look behind the deceptions and manipulated of the totalitarian system we inhabit, usually make the process o...

  As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.  Proverbs 26:11.  Every day our speech and writing, our conversations a...

Looked at retrospectively; it seems extraordinary that all the major Christian churches went down the path of claiming to be the gatekeepers...

As William James Tychonievich notes ; these four countries (but, for me, especially Vietnam) have been the sources of millions of fake ...

If somebody asks: Do you believe in God?  Then the true answer depends on what is meant by "God" - and there are very wide diverge...

Metaphysics is discourse concerning our fundamental assumptions regarding the nature of ultimate reality.  It was the case through much of C...

This is the first year I have been aware of the Hawkbit as a dominating flower on areas of grass - city and countryside alike in July and in...

I think the answer to my current metaphysical problem how to picture a consciousness that is group-originating and personal - but neither i...

Blogging has been light because thinking has been heavy.  I've realized I don't have a clear understanding of intuition, inspiration...

We can choose what we want to be, but we cannot choose to be it.  This is a fundamental basis of what Jesus taught and made possible. That w...

The role of IV Gospel in my understanding of Christianity is of a means to the end of understanding.  Once I had grasped that understanding,...

I was and am amazed at the remarkable degree of re-normalization within Western societies; that followed after the successful early-2020 glo...

For the past decade or so, I have been trying (in multiple ways) to understand the implications of Owen Barfield's concept of Final Part...

CS Lewis's conversion, as is pretty well known, had much to do with an idea he got (mostly) from JRR Tolkien that in Christianity Myth b...

The UK mass media are censored and controlled - both openly and explicitly (eg. wrt the birdemic dissent, or Fire Nation news sites); and by...

Continuing from yesterday's post : The idea that Primary Thinking will only happen if it entails contact with another mind, another bein...

A serious problem that besets (what might be called) Pure Protestants, is the minimalist desire for Salvation-only - a life dedicated to Bar...

For some years I have been trying to understand the distinction between what might be termed primary thinking and mundane thinking... In wh...

So much false, distorted, and misleading information in and around Christianity, and human attention and abilities are so limited, that we n...

Over at The Notion Club Papers blog ; I discuss how a genuine participation in the process of reading imaginative fictions - including many...

As Jesus apparently tried to make clear; following Him to resurrection ought to be about repentance of all sin; not the literal impossibilit...