Bruce Charlton's Notions

Over at The Notion Club Papers blog ; I address the problem of Frodo Baggins's dream at the house in Crickhollow - and why it seems like...

You didn't want to make things perfect . You just hated things the way they are . Rocket the Raccoon - from the 2023 movie Guardians of ...

If real-creation exists - i.e. not just re-arrangement of pre-existing stuff - then it must be a divine attribute.  If Men are capable of re...

Ever since early 2020; we have been living in epic times, with the world engaged in titanic struggles.  Yet; since such matters are neither ...

Among all the many Litmus Test agenda issues  - which are all very important strategies of evil - what is the most important issue for the m...

Starting when he was forty-five years old, and continuing from February 1974 for the last eight years of his life; Philip K Dick had many r...

Modern Man has the unavoidable freedom and capability - and, potentially, the curse! - of creating his own reality ; as we see all around us...

When we are thinking-about the nature of God (probably the single most important thing anybody needs to think-about), as with thinking about...

It seems to be that most people are negatively-motivated - for example by fear, loneliness, pain, boredom, resentments - from-which they see...

The development of human consciousness over the past several hundred years (the "modern" era, from c1500) has been towards great s...

As I understand it; Christianity entails that each Man has a significant contribution to make to divine creation. This is impossible if God ...

I suppose the first philosophical (basic metaphysical) ideas that I heard-about and understood, was the debate between Empiricism and Ideali...

Threats of Hell ("...if you carry on the way you are going") are useless at best, more often counter-productive, nowadays.  This s...

The term ' projection ' was originally given a false causal explanation in terms of nonsense psychodynamics; but the phenomenon is r...

We are stuck in habits of materialist, reductionist, abstract thinking that have been inculcated from all directions of our culture; and whi...

Francis Berger took a break from blogging - apparently he was building a greenhouse - and was much missed by me and others!  Well, he is ba...

This, for me, is a big and urgent question. I know (pretty much) what is wrong with the prevalent and socially-inculcated 'materialist...

In the early Chapters of the Fourth Gospel , Jesus repeatedly tries to explain the nature of his 'mission' - what he brings - using ...

'Conspiracy Theory' is correct , compared with the incoherent and non-explanatory nonsense that the world Just Happens to be driven ...

Just an observation. Light-irises - i.e. blue/ grey/ green eyes seem to work best on screen (movies and TV) when it comes to acting .  Here,...

'We will come', said Imrahil; and they parted with courteous words.  'That is a fair lord and a great captain of men,' said ...