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The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026
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Could Adolf have chosen to behave differently?
Pavlov’s dog aside we do not expect, largely, to change the nature or behavior of an animal. Why should we expect to change our own?
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Norman Nembutal
For the ever mercurial Alfred the sun did not rise yesterday. After a splendid microdosed Sunday, he woke with a bump on Monday morning.
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The Iconoclast of Iconoclasts
Psychologically related to nihilism and anarchy, the Iconoclast of Iconoclasts (“IoI”) seeks, for reasons not entirely clear (even to himself) to deflate puffballs and strip vanity rather than destroy religious artifacts or political monuments. The object of the once-removed iconoclast seems little short of that of the subversive. Human society is so patently absurd, foolish…
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Discarding the Irrelevant
In recent years I have found it increasingly beneficial to narrow my focus.
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“I” do not exist
I have felt with increasing certainty recently that the Buddhists are right. We have no separate existence, no soul, no fixed place in the universe.
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Mindfulness vs. Physiology
Much is made these days of the concept of “mindfulness”. It is the cure-all of the new age. Depressed? Mindfulness of your moods, letting go, will cure you. Poverty, illness, famine, death, disease will all bow to the mindful modern man. To a large extent it is wishful thinking. Mind-less bollox, if you will pardon…
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Where are the songs of spring?
What exquisite bitter-sweetness, an English autumn in the countryside.
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God’s Bleak House
Said to be the second oldest parish church in the country, churches don’t come much bleaker than All Saints, West Stourmouth, Kent.
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In Defense of the Trinity
Are we living in the 21st Century? How do serious people honestly believe in such man made hogwash.
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Matins in a country church
In a lifelong search for meaning, I have found little to compare with matins in an English country church.