Bruce Charlton's Notions

Friday, 16 December 2022

The developmental-evolution of consciousness, and the function of the Mass

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From Philip K Dick :  The cyclic repetition which takes place in  the Mass governs also the concept of why the Mass is spoken and what it is...
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Is resurrected life *after* death really the best that can be done?

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If we think back and recall the early dawning of self-awareness as young children, then perhaps we may remember the catastrophic dawn of con...
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Thursday, 15 December 2022

Is there a place where the Establishment speak truthfully to each other?

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Many people realize that They lie to Us; but there is a residual belief that there are places, times or situations in which They tell the tr...
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The choice of creation versus chaos is Not about an "hypothesis"

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When I was quite a young kid, long before age 11; I can remember Christians trying to convince me of the reality of God by arguing that we ...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Half a century decline of leadership in Universities: from expert professionals to (over-promoted) bureaucrats

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During the fortysomething years I was in the UK university system, I saw a massive change in the nature of people in senior leadership roles...
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How do you know when your metaphysical assumptions are wrong?

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 An example came to mind from the ancient Greek ( pre-Socratic ) philosophers; among whom there seem to have been two recognized possibiliti...
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Tuesday, 13 December 2022

The metaphysical role of men and women in this world, and the next

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Most versions of Christianity - and indeed of world religions - do not have any metaphysical role - that is any ultimate, fundamental, essen...
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Bristol Beaufighter - Favourite aircraft of the week

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  The "Beau" was the first effective British Night-Fighter - illustrated above as flown by the first and highest-scoring night ace...

The Romantic epiphany in Christianity

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It is a striking insight when one reflects upon how Christianity (those who followed Jesus Christ) so rapidly and completely evolved from w...
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Monday, 12 December 2022

Are the demon-serving (or demon-hosting) Establishment afraid of dying? Not necessarily, but increasingly

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It is often said on Christian blogs that the demon-serving high-level globalist Establishment ( Them ) live in fear of death; because They k...
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Sunday, 11 December 2022

Deutekom as Queen of the Night - Zittre Nicht: simply the most thrilling aria ever recorded

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I have listened often to Cristina Deutekom's recording of the Queen of the Night's first aria from the Magic Flute, conducted by Geo...
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"Tolkien's" The Rings of Power encapsulated in seven glorious minutes

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This is, hands-down, the best commentary I have yet seen regarding the major cultural inflexion point that was Amazon's Rings of Power ...
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How culpable is ignorance (aka accepting mainstream misinformation) on Litmus Test issues?

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It is normal for most people to have strong convictions concerning issues about which they have passively absorbed these convictions entirel...
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Saturday, 10 December 2022

The Eastside Torpedoes: the band I watched live more than any other

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Back in the early 1980s, an infatuation with Dexy's Midnight Runners led on to becoming extremely keen on 1960s Soul/ R&B (Stax/ At...
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Barfield misunderstanding Barfield...

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One of the difficulties about understanding Owen Barfield, is that he did not really understand himself!  I mean that Barfield did not reall...
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Friday, 9 December 2022

Four signs of Not a real-leader

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1. An important tool for discrimination is that real leaders are anti-entropic (i.e. creative), and usually best discerned by their ability...
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Thursday, 8 December 2022

Explaining-away Leadership (the bureaucratic mind at work...)

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It has been interesting to sample the journalistic and professional commentary about Ben Stokes's captaincy leadership of the England Te...
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Planet Narnia by Michael Ward (2010) - and my reflections on CS Lewis's medieval Christianity

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I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in primary school - perhaps after watching a dramatized version on television; then The Silver...
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