Bruce Charlton's Notions

Tuesday, 9 February 2021

Ahrimanic slavery or Sorathic 'freedom'? (The crux of Amazon)

›
This world is ruled - whether literally or symbolically - by  Ahrimanic demons, those they possess , and their obedient servants. These hav...
8 comments:
Monday, 8 February 2021

What is the meaning of life for those who reject Jesus Christ's offer of resurrection?

›
This is a simple question with a simple answer.  Life has no necessary meaning at all , for those who reject Jesus Christ's offer of res...
9 comments:
Sunday, 7 February 2021

This world of liars

›
It is the lying that I am so strongly aware of - and which so many people (most people) nowadays take completely for granted, and do not eve...
5 comments:

But do Christians *really* need to discern evil? (Surely a Christian ought to give people the benefit of the doubt?)

›
Do Christians really need to discern evil? Yes!  Christians really do need to discern evil, in the sense that evil is those who have taken ...
Saturday, 6 February 2021

What survives death? An intuitive account

›
What of us survives death? The same 'self' that survives through all the transformations of our mortal life; and that same self whic...
9 comments:

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson - a notice

›
Brandon Sanderson has been one of the the best of modern fantasy fiction writers. I have a particular affection for The Rithmatist  which ha...
3 comments:
Friday, 5 February 2021

Bad endings in books (and movies) - what do they mean?

›
I can never really endorse a book (or movie) that ends badly - and there are a lot of them. I mean works that begin well and fall to pieces ...
9 comments:

Endless tinkering...

›
This business of putting up an image on the blog (for which I blame William Wildblood ) has led to continual dissatisfaction about 'the ...
8 comments:
Thursday, 4 February 2021

Romanticism and the twin snares of CG Jung

›
Plenty of Romantics have got caught-up and lost in the toils of one or another of the snares left by CG Jung .  My impression is that there ...
4 comments:
Wednesday, 3 February 2021

The world is getting the reality it has chosen

›
As I said earlier today ; we participate in the creation of reality - and we choose (each of us) the basis of that participation - therefore...
8 comments:

Because we participate in creating reality - we have an awesome responsibility

›
If you do not yet recognize that we all participate (by our consciousness, by our thinking) in creating reality - and that without participa...
10 comments:

In what ways is Heavenly-eternal life the opposite of earthly-mortal life?

›
In this earthly mortal life; the deep problem is not change but loss; not that things are always changing, but that this change is so often ...
1 comment:
Monday, 1 February 2021

Explaining the leering mug over there... and on being a Tolkien 'fan' in the 1970s

›
The group of bloggers with whom I am associated have been ( slavishly , I would call it) following the lead of our eldest and wisest member ...
13 comments:
Sunday, 31 January 2021

The reductio ad absurdum is our last ditch defence against evil

›
We inhabit a world where - on the one hand - Men have, en masse , rejected god/s and eliminated the divine from core consideration and thus ...
7 comments:
Saturday, 30 January 2021

Self-mistrust is a root of modern Man's evil-subservient gullibility - Christianity the indispensable way-out from it

›
We are at a profoundly maladaptive stage in the degenerative pathology of modern consciousness; that is to say the Consciousness Soul - in ...
3 comments:
Friday, 29 January 2021

Good and bad reasons for Christians to 'ignore' politics.

›
The good reason is that all politics is corrupt, and that thinking about politics is a deceptive distraction from what Christians ought to b...
1 comment:
Thursday, 28 January 2021

What to do? Magic! (i.e. adding my individual creativity to the divine creative work)

›
Kevin McCall has taken a recent post from this blog, and extended the argument to conclude " Magic, or Bust! " (You need to read t...
2 comments:
Wednesday, 27 January 2021

The Answer (whatever it is) is neither simple nor straightforward; but to be effective, would need to be massively disruptive

›
Everyone is pointing-at this broken world - Everyone is doing it including the Global Establishment who actually broke it and who make sure ...
4 comments:
Tuesday, 26 January 2021

WmJas Tychonievich has a new Fourth Gospel blog

›
Readers may know of my special regard for the Fourth Gospel (called 'John' in the Bible) - which I regard as an eyewitness account ...
2 comments:

How Bad Politics kills Christianity

›
Supposing you believe you are a Christian, but just fail just one of the 2020 Litmus Tests - for example the commonest failure, which is th...
11 comments:
Monday, 25 January 2021

The definition of virtuosic - Cillian King doing something that ought to be impossible on an Anglo-Concertina

›
As a sometime squeezebox man (piano accordion and melodeon) - I have been on the lookout for good players over a span of several decades.  I...
3 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

Bruce Charlton
Bruce G Charlton. Anonymous comments are deleted without being read. Comments are moderated (pretty severely). Established commenters are privileged, but in general I only publish comments that I judge to contribute to the intended effect of the blog post.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.