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Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Genius, psychoticism and psychopaths

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* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/genius-and-eysencks-concept-of.html *
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The post-Apostolic Christological controversies in a picture

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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christology#Post-Apostolic_controversies I regard these early Christological disputes, and their reso...
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Death as an existential fact

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* Secular modernity has some limited awareness of death as a psychological fact - how we cope with death in terms of not allowing the fact ...
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Brief review of Harry Potter audiobooks read by Stephen Fry, and by Jim Dale

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* I have listened extensively to Harry Potter on audiobook over the past few years - and it goes very well indeed in this format. I have pr...
Monday, 12 January 2015

The best world to build gods - proper evaluation criteria for incarnate mortal life

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* In evaluating this world we live-in as mortal incarnate Men, the standard by which we should judge it is not in terms of whether it is a...
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No reason for optimism

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* The on-going mass-media-manipulated mass-hysteria (characterised by rampant self-advertisement and moral grandstanding) is not to be mist...
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Sunday, 11 January 2015

Parables of Salvation and Heaven

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* https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2014-01-028-laborers-in-the-vineyard?category=bible-videos-the-life-of-jesus-christ&lang=eng ...
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Saturday, 10 January 2015

CG Jung - the psychopathic genius

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* CG Jung is unusual among geniuses, in that he was dishonest about his own work and its implications. That he was a genius I think is co...
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It had a horrible... what? Smutty innuendo in the Lord of the Rings?

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* From The Two Towers; Chapter: The Palantir; Pippin speaking about his vision in the Palantir: The the stars went in and out - they were...
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Friday, 9 January 2015

How to read James Joyce's Ulysses

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* I have done this about five times, and had plenty of time to reflect on the experience - so here are some suggestions... Firstly, it i...
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Does precognition entail that the future has 'already happened'?

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* My answer is going to be no, this is not entailed - and further that the nature of the evidence/ experience of precognition is evidence...
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Who was the Prince/ King/ Queen of the Northumbrian Pipers?

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* The Northumbrian Small Pipes are a type of bagpipe which uses air blown from bellows under the left arm - they have a wonderfully sweet a...
Thursday, 8 January 2015

Sexual bulimia - pathology is normality for modern sexuality

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* Bulimia nervosa is a common disorder - endemic and 'normal' in some groups - in which a person gorges on food, then induces vomit...
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Art as a criticism of life - from Colin Wilson

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* From The Craft of the Novel , by Colin Wilson - 1986 - a superb work of literary criticism, almost completely neglected. I found this...
Wednesday, 7 January 2015

When will come the end of the world? An encouraging thought...

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* Since we are in the 'End Times' or 'Latter Days', then it is interesting to speculate when the end will come. The Bible...
Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Why should 'society' care about geniuses?

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* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/why-should-modern-society-why-should.html *

Tolkien's Silmarillion Audiobook Review

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* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/very-well-read-but-disgracefully-badly.html *
Monday, 5 January 2015

Suggested music for Lord of the Rings free peoples

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* Hobbits: South of England folk music, including Morris dances. Men of Rohan - The Border Ballads from the Scottish English border, bagp...
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What is good leadership?

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* Good leadership is: 1. Recognizing what most crucially needs to be done . 2. Discovering how to do it. 3. Doing it. * It is not...
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Sunday, 4 January 2015

Peak experiences - the Christian difference

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* Peak experience is a name for those times, perhaps moments, of highest and happiest consciousness. Opening Christmas presents with the ...
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Saturday, 3 January 2015

Very good TV biography of CS Lewis available online to UK residents for 1 month

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* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/notice-for-four-weeks-excellent-tv.html *
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