31 December 2009
Signs of the times (1)
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Recession drives adult children back live with parents Newspapers continue to be filled with news of the development of the oppressive state...
Signs of the times (2)
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'Tough love' There are often articles in the press about the increasing problems of both pensioners (poverty-struck and surrounded b...
16 December 2009
King George VI’s Christmas speech, 1939
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When war had been declared on Germany and hence the British Empire faced another world war, King George VI made a Christmas broadcast which ...
09 December 2009
Some comments on coronation
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One supposes that it was the purpose of the old-fashioned coronation ceremony to impress upon the recipient his importance in a certain cont...
13 November 2009
Comments on modern psychology – comparison of Princess Diana with the Queen Mother (continued)
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To make the obvious explicit in the case of Princess Diana contrasted with the Queen Mother, the reason I say I find modern psychology incom...
09 November 2009
Princess Diana and the Queen Mother
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When I say that I find people's psychologies incomprehensible this is because I find nothing in them that corresponds to basic principle...
04 November 2009
Intellectuals sorting rubbish
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copy of a letter to an academic Please let all potential financial supporters (such as salaried and statusful academics who have never suffe...
30 October 2009
Obese mothers and the loss of a principle
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A newborn girl was taken into care because of fears her weight would balloon in the care of her obese parents. The child was removed from h...
28 October 2009
Bertrand Russell on Nietzsche
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He [Nietzsche] condemns Christian love because he thinks it is an outcome of fear: I am afraid my neighbour may injure me, and so I assure h...
22 October 2009
The Alien Life
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The concept of the “alien God” is an important element of Gnostic Christianity. The following extract from Hans Jonas provides an introduct...
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