Bruce Charlton's Notions

My according the Fourth Gospel primary authority is indeed a matter of my personal preference, since even before I was a Christian it alwa...

A few observations...  Lack of Christianity is killing people, and the world.  In that sense any kind of Christianity - of desiring salvatio...

I'm a bit obsessed with this business of "understanding" as a pre-requisite! As a spontaneous "philosopher"; I am na...

Lots of ( very belated ) media-chat at present about the strategically engineered conditions for within-nations Civil War/ Genocide in Weste...

Possible future expectations need to be confident in order to be effective in shaping present life.  At least, "confident" to the ...

Back in the middle noughties I was a New Agey atheist; keen on modernity, globalization, economic growth, democracy - a sort of libertarian;...

Metaphysical Dissonance is what we experience when our superficial and everyday motivations are contradicted by our metaphysical conviction...

For all you Hawkbit fans, I have an important update... I took a slight diversion to walk through the 30-40 acre urban field (Little Moor) ...

We posit one God because we need to explain the cohesion of reality - why things hang-together and don't fly apart; why there are values...

Booly end is at the top, clappy at the bottom From my childhood (by oral transmission, with no spelling); a Northumbrian dialect (" Pit...

It has been... interesting to observe how the word disinterested, which means impartial; has become co-opted as a synonym of uninterested - ...

By my understanding; it was once (almost) inevitable that Christianity would be conflated with "Church" (although exactly which C ...

A spirit; naturally seen by the shaman, invisible to Westerners... Consider, as a thought experiment, a situation that happened for many Wes...

Much of the movie takes place inside or near a Volvo Estate car, parked in a wood, after midnight - the car sardine-packed with three astron...

It is an interesting aspect of the most recent giga-dollar projects, schemes, and strategies (characteristic, especially, of Western civiliz...

Over at my Notion Club Papers blog ; with reference to the Numenor story by Tolkien, I discuss the implications of the tragic fact that an ...

Lawful evil is totalitarian and systemic evil - its core aim is to create a machine for the corruption and eventual damnation of mankind.  ...

I am pessimistically convinced that the " chaotic evil *" of the self-imploding Western totalitarian system is going to prevail; a...

Those who urge modern people to look behind the deceptions and manipulated of the totalitarian system we inhabit, usually make the process o...

  As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.  Proverbs 26:11.  Every day our speech and writing, our conversations a...

Looked at retrospectively; it seems extraordinary that all the major Christian churches went down the path of claiming to be the gatekeepers...