Bruce Charlton's Notions

* The paradox of Christian reactionary blogging is that the basic ethos of blogging is hostile to the Christian reactionary life. We blo...

* One aspect of 'things coming to a point' is that everything is becoming connected: beliefs are much more connected and inter-cor...

* Re-reading Pascal's Pensees on the 'hidden God' (surely one of the profound Christian insights ever put to paper) makes me r...

* From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dawson_-_Australian_aborigines_%281900%29.djvu/91 Among the associated tribes a public exec...

* I am sick and tired of people who do very well thank you - gain power and usually wealth - from 'good works' - especially those ...

* At root - yes. Simple explanations will not suffice. PC cannot just be explained as expedient careerism - because PC is something new....

* From An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines , by Edward John Eyre, 1845. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/e/eyre/edwar...

* I read two books on Australian Aborigines written in the 19th century, hoping to find contemporary accounts of the 'songlines' -...

* This is a correction to a previous posting, in which I stated that past hunter gatherers would allow new born babies to die of exposure ...

* It is striking that nearly all (but not all) of the mass media output - and also what passes for serious narrative High Art in recent li...

* Childhood (youth is a modern invention), Maturity, Middle age, Elderhood - then death... The stages of life make it possible for huma...

* Hieromonk Damascene Walter Hooper Verlyn Flieger Peter Kreeft Rupert Sheldrake Tom Shippey Christopher Tolkien To them al...

* I started thinking-out a Watership Down type of fable, about a strain of mutant rabbit which limited its own  reproduction in favour of...

* A paradigm is a metaphysical system - it is what frames experience and observation, makes sense of experience and observation. Therefo...

* If ever a real, effective and (on the whole) Good leader emerges in the West, I think they will break all the taboos which shackle the m...

* I got from Ernest Gellner the division of human societies into these three categories. And it seems that Christianity, and indeed most...

* If you get Christianity from an authoritative source, it will quite likely be a simple account - a linear narrative, suitable for simple...

* Reading an essay by Richard Cocks on teaching Plato at college, made me think about my enthusiasm for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Main...

* John C Wright explains in a mini essay too good to be lost in the comments section of his posting. http://www.scifiwright.com/2011/11/...

* All actual Christian denominations are significantly deficient; because schism is an evil. (Although of course not necessarily the wor...

* Much of the insanity in modern politics is sustained because the alternatives seems impossible: which are essentially two-fold. When p...