Bruce Charlton's Notions

* In The Doctor's Dilemma , Bernard Shaw describes the world of medicine as it was in England until (ironically) not long after the ti...

* Without any doubt, the most important book of the year for me has been William Arkle's The Great Gift - and also the other works...

* I really love some of the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). He often did near identical pieces - as above. But w...

* On the basis that Christ's work did two things: enabled resurrection and atoned for our sins: 1. We accept both resurrection and t...

* The publisher tells me that Addicted to Distraction: psychological consequences of the mass media  - my most recent book - has started to...

* One of the main ways that purposive evil has created the prevalent mood of nihilistic despair is by subversion of metaphysics - this has ...

* The great lie which we tell ourselves, which we allow ourselves to believe; which we convince ourselves it is necessary to believe - is ...

* Actually, it is a loathing underpinned by fear - the combination producing the kind of venom most eloquently and savagely expressed by HL...

* I have watched all the new series of Doctor Who featuring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth incarnation of The Doctor. I am very pleased to ...

* I used to read great swathes of stuff about comparative religions and mythology; and they all assumed that the sacrificing of animals was...

* The Law in modern secular Western democracies is a good example of 'not even trying'. It used be be assumed that 1. Laws should...

* Christianity should not be presented as a matter of God doing things to Men ... But, instead, as a personal relationship between God...

* This is an invitation to any Mormon who reads this and lives by the Word of Wisdom to summarise - in their own words - their understandin...

* I have read a couple of books about Rudlof Steiner (1861-1925) the Austrian philosopher and founder of Anthroposophy, and made some effor...

* From Christopher Tolkien's glossary to Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale:  Medieval English possessed special negative form...

* While almost the whole of the World is quietly sleepwalking into Hell (and wholly by their own choice - not because they are forced to go...

* This plays out daily in the sham debates of the mass media. Those in power - i.e. the mass media and their Leftist servants (in other w...

* These Ladybird Books published from 1959 onwards made a big impact on my childhood - both capturing country landscape as ...

* This is no joke. At every level and in every way, the strong trend has been to encourage and praise people for putting-off the real thin...

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