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Sunday, 17 December 2017

Some ideas for Christian evangelism

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If I am correct that alienation is the major problem in modern societies, the Christian evangelism will need a new strategy. What I am di...
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Bureaucracy is the main form of Positivism

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Bureaucracy is, along with the mass media, the most powerful form of intrinsic evil in the modern world (that is, bureaucracy - like the mas...

The most dismaying thing about the story of Abraham (nearly) sacrificing Isaac

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...Is to hear sincere Christians trying to explain (and justify) the story. To explain the story involves either the sacrifice of God'...
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Saturday, 16 December 2017

Jesus and the human 'gene pool'

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I was startled recently when a priest (Anglican, liberal) in a carol service said that Christmas celebrated Jesus entering the human ...
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Eddie Floyd's Knock on Wood - an un-replicable classic

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There is no better Soul-R&B recording that Eddie Floyd singing Knock on Wood - it has been covered many times, but all cover version...
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Friday, 15 December 2017

Wha is the specific meaning of a specific synchronicity? (And how do I find out?)

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I am fascinated by synchronicity - 'meaningful coincidences' - which have played an important role in my life, and indeed my late c...

The Innumerable Christ - a poem by Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)

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The Innumerable Christ    by Hugh MacDiarmid Other stars may have their Bethlehem and the Calvary too. Professor JY Simpson Wha kens...
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Matter and Spirit - polarity explained

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William Wildblood has a book coming-out, which I have had the great luck to read in manuscript - and one of the chapters is an excellent dis...
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Thursday, 14 December 2017

Three suggestions for Awakening Albion...

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Metaphysics, Motivation and Actions... over at Albion Awakening

Some vital definitions relating to Primary Thinking and Final Participation

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Imagination - mental 'pictures' - important but not-necessarily true Inspiration - true knowledge coming from external divine sou...
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My Xtmas wish for you: please, Please, PLEASE don't waste your time in pointing-out the inconsistencies of The Mainstream Left (i.e. our society), or trying to make sense of them...

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The Left, which is the mainstream modern official government, bureaucratic and media world - is Not coherent because it is primarily opposit...
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Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Apologies to commenters on the Owen Barfield Blog

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I didn't know about you! https://owenbarfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/apologies-to-commenters.html

Common error - 'regression to the mean' of intelligence

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People say that the offspring of high IQ individuals will regress to the mean (average) of their 'population' - and they calculate t...
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Who/ what is the Antichrist? Recognise by motivation, not doctrine

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The Antichrist is often wrongly assumed to be an anti-Christian - like the majority of modern political, business, and other leaders in The ...
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Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Schroedinger's Cat and the Anthropic Principle

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I will not try to explain the Schroedinger's Cat thought-experiment, or the Anthropic Principle, as associated with Fred Hoyle - ...
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John Michell on the meaning of coincidences (synchronicities)

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I once kept a coincidence diary... and I found that the more I noticed them, the more frequently they occurred.  If I thought about someon...
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Monday, 11 December 2017

An Introduction to Owen Barfield

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I am currently working on putting together a book on Owen Barfield: this is a draft of what might be the introduction: It seems clear from...

An imaginary future historian looks back on the 21st century

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A really insightful, clarifying and thought-provoking-thought-experiment from 'Bonald' in the blog section of Throne and Altar . ...
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Metaphysics comes before Epistemology - we need to assume the nature of reality before we speculate on how we know what is true

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For the past century and a half, metaphysics (the philosophy of ultimate assumptions concerning the nature of reality) has been ignored, rid...
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Sunday, 10 December 2017

Each birth is a death - and emergence of a new dyadic polarity

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( Polarity is a term from Coleridge via Barfield meaning a dyadic relationship between two distinguishable but inseparable complementary ele...
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It's Wassail time!

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See and hear more at Albion Awakening ...
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