Bruce Charlton's Notions

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

A note on the viability (and desirability) of cousin marriage under historical conditions

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* The modern consensus is that cousin marriage is 'a bad thing' because of the higher probability of genetic disease among close-i...
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More on the lop-sided genius

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* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-lop-sided-genius-summarized.html *
Tuesday, 15 July 2014

How intelligent does a creative genius need to be?

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* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/how-intelligent-does-genius-need-to-be.html *

The moribund Orthosphere

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* It looks as if The Orthosphere group blog http://orthosphere.org/ has pretty much died, with no original posts for more than a lunar ...
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Theological limitations of CS Lewis (my revered mentor)

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* I cannot be too grateful to CS Lewis for his role in my conversion to Christianity - which was substantial and decisive. Indeed, my own ...
Monday, 14 July 2014

Were William the Conquerer's Norman invaders *much* more intelligent than the Anglo Saxons?

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* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-highly-intelligent-normans.html *

The magic of Keswick

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* One of the best places I know is Keswick, in the Lake District; which is the main place I have taken my holidays over the past thir...
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Sunday, 13 July 2014

Christians don't *really* believe that God is omnipotent (or, if He is, then He has a funny way of doing things)

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* The evidence is simple: the incarnation, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. This implies that God the Father cou...
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Saturday, 12 July 2014

The nature of dialectic - the necessity of the viva voce in evaluating real understanding

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* Following from http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/what-kind-of-man-was-socrates-prophet.html The method of enquiry depic...
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Friday, 11 July 2014

The superiority of bodily incarnation in Tolkien and Mormonisn

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* One of the most striking aspects of Mormon theology is that incarnation, to have a body, is regarded as superior to a spiritual existenc...
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Thursday, 10 July 2014

Addicted to Distraction (my new book) is now available in the Kindle format

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* My new book - Addicted to Distraction: psychological consequences of the modern Mass Media , http://addictedtodistraction.blogspot.co...
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Population replacement in Britain - understanding its origins, following through its implications

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* The population of Britain is rapidly being replaced; from a combination of severe sub-fertility among the native population combined wit...
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Wednesday, 9 July 2014

William Arkle on the proper attitude to God

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* http://www.billarkle.co.uk/prose/equations/chap09.html For those who do not respond to the Personal reality of the Creator, the system...
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The modern West is *not* recapitulating the decline of the Western Roman Empire

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* While there are some parallels, the differences between the decline of the modern West and the decline of the Roman Empire are qualitati...
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Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Christian aspirations - micro-living

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* The previous posting about Christian theocracy highlights how vanishingly-unlikely such a thing is - which means that therefore Christia...
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Monday, 7 July 2014

The absolute need for theocracy (or, what will get called "theocracy" by modern mainstream secular discourse)

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* What is needed, the only thing that is needed - what is necessary - and without which there is zero possibility of effective action... i...
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Some visionary paintings by William Arkle

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* From: http://shepton.org/page/the-paintings-of-william-arkle * * The first picture is (I think) ...

The pentangle - a spiritual symbol

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* (In Middle English) THEN þay schewed hym þe schelde, þat was of schyr goulez Wyth þe pentangel depaynt of pure golde hwez....
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Sunday, 6 July 2014

On being in a minority (of one, or a few)

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* I suppose my usual experience of 'intellectual life' - whether in medicine, science or beyond - is being in a minority of just m...
Saturday, 5 July 2014

Intellectuals: analysis versus grandiose schemes (with reference to 'climate change')

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* On this blog I do a lot of analysis - which involves summarising some situation, describing it in terms of a few factors, and then extra...
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Friday, 4 July 2014

Some thoughts on brain size and intelligence

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* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/conceptual-notes-on-brain-size-and.html *
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