Bruce Charlton's Notions: Tolkien: Evil is not able to create anything new...
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Since the creator is a personal and good God who loves us; it seems to make sense that we would be born into this world with the kind of ass...| charltonteaching.blogspot.com
People writing (online) often claim to be disengaged from mass media (in which I include social media) - or having a "fast" from it. But in reality this (much lake fasting from food) this does not mean a total cessation of contact, but actually means being selective and cutting down the amount of what is consumed. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
Is it a contradiction that modern people are so aggressively moralistic; while rejecting purpose, meaning and personal significance in reality? | Bruce Charlton's Notions
Are you inspired?| Bruce Charlton's Notions
Saint Patrick magically duels a Druid| Bruce Charlton's Notions
To become a Christian is to climb a ladder; but after we have arrived at Christianity, we should kick away the ladder. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
This is the creativity of ecstatic engagement - | Bruce Charlton's Notions
My mother, who (in stark contrast to her eldest child) was a wonderful housekeeper; used often to say to me - in an extremity of exasperation - "You just go around the house... Creating!" | Bruce Charlton's Notions
Most Christian theologians through history have made the big mistake of conflating (in some theoretical/ mystical way) God the Creator with Jesus Christ. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
Each person's life has "meaning" - and that meaning is related to divine purpose. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
The title says it all, pretty much. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
Having seen it at the cinema on release; I re-watched DreamWorks The Boss Baby (2017) yesterday, and really enjoyed it - even more than first time. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
I suggest it is impossible not to enjoy this video of a young woman clog dancing in a barn, accompanied by virtuoso fiddle and shoe-taps. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
Religions, as we know them, emerged in the era of Medieval consciousness - which was a millennia-long transition between the immersive passive un-consciousness of Original Participation and the current alienated Modern consciousness. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
We all begin our lives in the state of immersive, spontaneous, initially un-conscious Original Participation - which was, pretty much, the consciousness of mature adults in the earliest (e.g. hunter gatherer) phase of human history - a state of mind when we are in direct contact with an animistic (living, purposive, aware) universe of beings/ spirits, gods. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
Meeting Jesus in a dream...| Bruce Charlton's Notions
Theoretically, there is no target so easy to hit as a plane approaching directly head on; in practice, it never worked out that way. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
I noticed this on the (interminable, clearly maliciously-motivated) roadworks on the Great North Road; and I thought: "Who the dickens decided that "pavement" or "footpath" - terms that everybody from the youngest child to oldest codger understands - should instead be called a Footway?" | Bruce Charlton's Notions
The latest global Litmus Test (aka the most recent Establishment agenda theme) is playing-out negatively and for evil - as any change must, when not motivated by positive good. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
This passage is quoted in 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould - and also Glenn Gould. Hereafter.| Bruce Charlton's Notions
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I often dip-into the writings of John Michell - who had a truly delightful ability to evoke an imaginative and romantic vision of the past; especially of past societies and places. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
Its a sad, but inevitable, fact that almost all of Christian theology - is merely defensive parroting. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
The sin of pride is especially insidious and perhaps ineradicable, and an absolute barrier to salvation: because it is the ultimate complacency that "I am good enough as I am".| Bruce Charlton's Notions
The most recent global Litmus Test from the totalitarian Establishment has been very successful. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
For me, there have always been only a few and specific "meaningful places" and I feel more-or-less out of it and adrift anywhere else. | Bruce Charlton's Notions
Metaphysics is discourse concerning our fundamental assumptions regarding the nature of ultimate reality. It was the case through much of C...| charltonteaching.blogspot.com
For the past decade or so, I have been trying (in multiple ways) to understand the implications of Owen Barfield's concept of Final Particip...| charltonteaching.blogspot.com
For some years I have been trying to understand the distinction between what might be termed primary thinking and mundane thinking... In wh...| charltonteaching.blogspot.com
As Jesus apparently tried to make clear; following Him to resurrection ought to be about repentance of all sin; not the literal impossibilit...| charltonteaching.blogspot.com
In response to Francis Berger's comment on Word Spells in Christian theology Maybe it's like this... If someone becomes convinced by the ...| charltonteaching.blogspot.com
One of the reasons that some people do not want salvation and post-mortal eternal life in Heaven; is that Heaven is imperfect and incomplete. | charltonteaching.blogspot.com
Gemeinschaft is a German word which indicates a type of social grouping which has been actively extinguished over the past century; indeed I saw into almost-total obliteration during my working life. Yet, Gemeinschaft used to form the basis of all human society. | charltonteaching.blogspot.com
