Bruce Charlton's Notions

I personally am convinced that I am not reincarnated - that this is my first and only mortal life. At the same time, people whom I trust a...

I seem to spend much of my life thinking about matters that most other people never think about even once; and for more than a couple of dec...

This little-noticed but wonderful quartet opens the title sequence of Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy movie about Gilbert and Sullivan's w...

Evil is more prevalent now in The West than at any time or place, for the simple reason that it has become invisible - and this invisibility...

In the late 1960s, US scientist John B Calhoun created a ‘Mouse Utopia’ – an artificial environment which provided what he regarded as the ...

...The past nine months have been valuable in revealing the main reason why the rest of the EU wanted Britain to remain. It is what the Euro...

1. We live in a creation - that this world is created. 2. The creator is loving. 3. We are the creator's children. Unless you a...

The Gospels describe that Jesus refuses to say anything at various points in his 'trial' with Pilate, Herod and the Jewish elders; a...

Leftism is, pretty much, utilitarianism - I mean, the idea that the fundamental aim of all public policy ought to be (in some - vague - sens...

The consciousness of our real self is largely beyond the understanding of our more familiar 'personality self'.  At its most funda...

It is important to realize that much of what may appear unnecessary in a human being for outer life, nevertheless, plays ...

The Mormon Restoration, from 1830 onwards, can be seen as a move towards the state that Barfield terms Final Participation – which is one ...

Although all Christians 'believe' (in some sense) that after death, at some point, Men are resurrected- this fact has not permeated ...

If we are to account for true knowledge, we cannot be reliant upon some multi-stage and approximate process like 'communication'. ...

Alienation is the modern problem - lack of meaning, purpose, a sense of being isolated and detached from life, the world, reality... The l...

Just something I've noticed - whenever there is a thing which is suddenly everywhere or everybody (in the media) is talking about - mobi...

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Alienation is the modern curse - even if you are among the tiny minority of serious Christians; this applies to you . (Except for a few br...

How should we make big life decisions? - Given that the usual two methods - logic or gut-feelings - are each inadequate, yet they cannot be...

John (James Bond theme) Barry wrote the music - but the editor was a genius too. Needs to be watched more than once to appreciate everything...