Bruce Charlton's Notions

* I took CS Lewis's The Four Loves on holiday to re-read for (I think) the third time - but this time I got stuck on it, it seemed wr...

* My internet 'fast' did not seem to produce any striking benefits in my spiritual status - but one thing that came to the fore wa...

* I have noticed that Christian apostates and anti-Christians in general, often focus their attacks on The Book of Job - above and beyond ...

* I have come across a better phrase than 'litmus test' or 'hot button' to describe key issues which divide the sheep from...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-natural-selection-of-european.html *

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-strange-opening-scene-of-lord-of.html *

* A dirty pig. Does she look miserable? Actually pigs delight in digging and wallowing in mud and muck, and will bury themselves up ...

* Why is living in the past so popular a pastime? I have done this for extended periods - different periods. In my teens it was somethin...

* Micro = a-millionth-of I think that is pretty accurate - if someone performed a million "microaggressive" acts - like looki...

* Cancer research has - like medical research generally - two basic categories: irrelevant pseudo-medical science, and pseudo-clinical ran...

* http://www.billarkle.co.uk/greatgift/text/thenatureofgod.html From The Great Gift - 1976 . * My own understanding is that the ...

* Circles and dotted lines are actually observed reaction times in three longitudinal cohorts aged 16-12, 36-44 and 56-63. Crosses a...

* Of course you have to like baseball - actually you have to love baseball (even if you are not an expert on it) - but given that qualific...

* For CG Jung individuation was the purpose of life. It is hard to be exact about what he meant by this - it was a lifelong process of s...

* The Platonists have it that on Earth we have glimpses of the ideal Heavely realm of perfection, but we see it only through a glass, dark...

* Some modern Leftist lunacy is noted, described and analyzed in terms of causation - there is an implicit and unspecific appeal - demand ...

* Christians have several kinds of explanation for why things-in-general set-up the way they are: 1. They could not be otherwise. 2. T...

* Alastair Roberts valuably clarifies the consequences: http://alastairadversaria.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/on-the-legalization-of-same-s...

* 1. Animism - reincarnation is the unending circulation and transformation of a finite number of immortal souls through multiple sentient...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/my-attempt-at-group-portrait-of-inklings.html *

*   Matthew 18:3 . And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kin...