Bruce Charlton's Notions

* I think I first became fully aware of alienation - the meaninglessness, purposelessness, disconnectedness of mainstream modern life - in...

* When the leadership are the problem, the priesthood; then for the laity under corrupt authorities who are leading them astray as fast as...

* If God made every particle of stuff and all the rules and laws and forces by which they interact; then God would be responsible for abso...

* Most secular Right blogs make frequent use of graphic sexual slang and analogies - and often they take this to considerable extremes of ...

* In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life. The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is spotted with...

* Well isn't it sophomoric? I gather that in a movie called The Matrix , the protagonist was offered a Red Pill which allowed the pe...

* My current understanding is that each person has existed eternally as an autonomous (but not, initially, personal) essence - and that at...

* This morning I seem to have experienced a breakthrough in my understanding of creativity, and its links to the mode of thinking associat...

* I can think of two uses: 1. Statistical summary of complex phenomena - so they may be comprehended 'at a glance' - or patterns...

* I was thinking about the 2008 economic crisis, which I now regard as less of a profound international crisis and more of a warning. It...

* The patrons of the pressure group Dignity in Dying include some people I know (or have known) personally, plus many others I have consid...

* It is interesting to notice how pervasive is the Leftist anti-family social conditioning which trains children that they should not be ...

* As a good kid (or, at least, one who tried to be good ) I thoroughly disliked the way some authors would portray bad kids in an approvin...

* When someone asks the purpose of life, the answer can become a bit convoluted - but the simple and universal answer is to be happy. On...

* From the middle 1990s for a decade, I was reading and re-reading Emerson with tremendous avidity - not only in a literary way, but as a ...

* Or rather, to be for- or against-"war" is senseless - it all depends on what type of war . * War includes several objectiv...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/review-of-fall-of-arthur-by-jrr-tolkien.html *

* I feel that what is coming is a Great Simplification in which all sub-issues that concern us (economics, populations-ethnicities-perso...

* It is interesting to compare this blog with my other main one http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/ This one takes much more time ...

* As yet another of my friends and colleagues (this is now happening annually, or more often, in my circle) gets into a vicious media fire...

* Sexy/Hot means that a person is deliberately and by contrivance (it cannot occur by accident) projecting or radiating a sexual signal - ...