Bruce Charlton's Notions

* It is a Sonatina from JS Bach's Cantata 106 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5fRjrTtb0M For me this is sublime: perfection in a ...

* I came across the idea of 'analeptic' thinking in the prose writings of Robert Graves - it was the term he used to describe his ...

* I have noticed that on the secular Right/ Reactosphere/ Alt Right/ Manosphere blogs, immigration policy is used as the major Litmus tes...

* My original interest in Mormonism came from reading loads of social science statistics in the mid-2000s, including quant bloggers - espe...

* Many people say gradually, and that there is 'a lot of ruin in a nation' - they believe in 'graceful' degradation. But...

* Firstly, perhaps the greatest singer to have emerged from the British Isles (almost certainly the one with the rarest technical equipmen...

* The grand strategy of Christianity in relation to the world is something that I find myself speculating upon from time to time. Given ...

* Colin Wilson was an important writer in my (ahem) intellectual development. Essentially, he was an existentialist philosopher who worked...

* The answer is racism. The modern concept of racism has allowed slavery to be re-introduced into modern Britain. * Thanks to half a c...

* The mass media is a social system like no other; and the difference accounts for its intrinsic evil: that is to say its intrinsic tenden...

* ...was undoubtedly Captain Blue (Note: Captain Blue is on the Left.) I met him in the BBC Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham, 1990...

* I acknowledge that of course Easter is the main feast of the Christian year, but I still prefer Christmas. When I became a Christian I...

* Christians have become very mixed-up about poverty. The idea (which I have heard from the current leaders of the Roman Catholic and An...

* One of the most striking aspects of Mormonism is the very positive attitude towards children - this comes through in official teachings ...

* These are my particular favourites - over the years. 1. The description of the feast at Sir Ector's castle in The Sword in the Sto...

* My own conversion to Christianity resembled that of CS Lewis (and was indeed much influenced by his writing) - in that it was gradual an...

* The biggest difference between a secular critique of political correctness and a Christian critique is that the seculars see things in t...

* The measurable and obvious aspects of the modern mass media are things like newspaper and book sales, television and radio usage, the nu...

* The current mass drugging with antipsychotic/ neuroleptic drugs (now often re-named as 'mood stabilizers') is a phenomenon uniqu...

* We think we know that our minds are products of natural selection. If so, then our minds are merely evolved adaptations selected becau...

* When I look back on my life, I find that since being a Christian my memories have (mostly involuntarily) undergone considerable, radical...