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ebook Download
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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Hospital Blues
If you are feeling bad and want to feel a lot worse, I recommend a trip to your local government hospital.
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Philosophy – Would we need it if we were happy?
Would we spend so much time in hand wringing existential anxiety if we discovered the genetic code of the pain pleasure axis? I rather doubt it. Or if we did, the questions which philosophy has traditionally sought to address would become much less important to us. I was enjoying a discussion on “materialism” on Steven…
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Gillette Advertisement Controversy
Good on Gillette: it would be hard to deny that male aggression has played a vast and malignant role in our history.
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The Internet Ain’t All Bad
While there are indeed vast swathes of Kardashians, footballers wives and people who live in Chigwell you should avoid like the plague on the internet, I would argue that the technology has immeasurably enriched our lives rather than debased it.
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More From the Christian Cultist
Without comment in any shape or form (lest I deviate from my new found resolve) I report the unhappy fall out from my mistaken attempt yesterday to engage with a religious extremist. Mea Culpa. May peace be with the poor fellow. How to Answer Fools I’m getting some minor harassment from someone who calls himself…
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How to be a Happy Human
Given the basic needs of life and in the absence of physiological abnormality, the solution is fairly simple. The trick is to keep applying it. Would that I were, or ever had been capable of taking and applying my own advice – but hey! We all have our blind spots. I will leave aside the…
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Dangerous Religious Cults
Religion becomes a dark and dangerous tool in the wrong hands. I visited a website called Do What’s Right today and was saddened by the reception to some comments I made. I believe, very strongly, in the better aspects of religion. I am interested in other points of view and although I am an atheist (or perhaps…
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What is the Purpose of Poetry?
Does poetry have a purpose? If so, then what? I noticed today that by far the majority of WordPresss bloggers who have been kind enough to like or follow my blog are poets. It set me thinking. Why on earth would a poet want to read anything I write? Then I realized that perhaps my…
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Crossing the Bar – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea,
