Bruce Charlton's Notions

Well; I have now watched all eight looong episodes of Season One, Amazon's Ring's of Power ; watched it with the kind of salacious a...

In this mortal life it seems that God wants us to work things out each for himself; rather than passively following guidance. But further, i...

Looking back across the gulf between now and 2020, we can see how carefully the birdemic scam was planned so that its fundamental dishonesty...

I regard the teaching and work of Jesus Christ as having been encapsulated by the Fourth Gospel (of 'John') and confirmed by reflec...

All The News is currently concerned with the bitter internal struggles of The Establishment about how best to destroy civilization and caus...

This may seem the least ' romantic ' of times - and certainly it is the intention of those with power and wealth to make it so. They...

In Tolkien's legendarium, Men and Elves are the same 'species', but the fate of their spirits are very different .  Men die and ...

A true materialist is one who takes the features of material objects -- impermanence, determinism, ontological complexity, lack of inherent ...

In the post-1945 'Western' world; there is a sense in which to desire ' peace ' has always been regarded as an acceptable - ...

In His work of creation, God had a problem with evil Beings*; because Beings cannot be destroyed, therefore evil cannot be destroyed. Nor ca...

This is a reggae arrangement, from 1969, of Elizabethan Serenade , perhaps my favourite piece of British Light Music; which I have liked sin...

There are no 'objects' (in the usually understood sense) but only Beings (and parts of Beings) on the one hand -- and primordial, un...

What now strikes me about utopian idealists is how pitifully little they want!  Consider some of the early socialists and communists. Suppos...

However differently it may have been in the past; nowadays, new building signifies neither prosperity nor progress - indeed, it is a sign of...

What's wrong with believing liars?  This is a question that a lot more people - especially Christians, for whom lying is a sin and a mar...

The clickbait title asks a question that - in a literal sense - is unanswerable; but the presumption must be: Yes.  Leaving spiritual aspect...

  Photo by David Dixon - at https://www.geograph.org.uk A rather stylish and pleasing Art Nouveau style statue, in Old Eldon Square. The bir...

Almost everybody (in the West especially) has painted himself into a corner by accepting a raft of basic assumptions about the world that ar...

Since the advent of 'modernity; people have been - quite reasonably - concerned about the possibilities of subjective self-deception .  ...

I have often commented on the deep problems with the double-negative theology in mainstream Christianity.  It is double-negative because it...

Primary Thinking  (PT) is a reality difficult to grasp and recognize; so here is another aspect that may be of help in knowing when it is ha...