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Posted in Existential, Health, Humanity, Isolation, Morality on Jul 10th, 2009
I went to see Anne, a family member last week. She is now living in a Care Home. She has been there for just over 6 months and in many ways is reasonably happy. At times she was able to be philosophical about it, accepting that there were no other realistic alternatives. She seemed relaxed [...]
Posted in Existential, Health, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Productivity, Psychology, Therapy on Jun 4th, 2009
There was a pile of dog poo on the pavement.
As they walked to work, four men trod in it and messed up their shoes.
The first man felt very sad. He looked at the mess and smelled the smell and said to himself: “You know, this just about sums me up. This always happens [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Morality on Jun 2nd, 2009
As any Roman Catholic priest or nun will tell you, extra-marital sex is clearly a sin and should be punished, severely. I am grateful to the National Secular Society for the following:
Catholic school that unfairly dismissed an unmarried mother loses appeal
A Catholic school that sacked an unmarried teaching assistant after she became pregnant has lost [...]
Posted in Health, Mortality, Psychology, Therapy on May 28th, 2009
Sometimes (perhaps especially when on holiday) we often long for an anxiety-free existence. However, in my book, that would be a bad thing. Human beings have powerful emotional systems and anxiety is a natural feeling that arises in response to stress. It is part of the natural flight-or-fight response that have enabled the human race [...]
Posted in Existential, Health, Humanity, Isolation, Mortality, Relationships, Travel on May 16th, 2009
I remember the sinking feeling when a former colleague spotted me on the home station and decided to sit next to me for the whole of the two and a half hour journey. He had retired about 5 years previously and although I had worked closely with him in a professional capacity, to be honest, [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on May 7th, 2009
Are you a seagull?
Albert Ellis, a cognitive therapist, cited by the American Psychological Association in 2003 as the second most influential psychologist in the twentieth century, used to argue that most people had strong tendencies to be like seagulls. As a psychotherapist he was quite unusual in his methods and often did and said seemingly [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Language, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Apr 23rd, 2009
Children have just one job in life. Between birth and the age of 21 they have to concentrate mainly on just one thing - stroke collecting.
In this context a stroke is anything that is positive and life-affirming. It could be a smile, the fact that someone remembers their name, a trip to the seaside, a [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Health, Humanity, Religion on Feb 22nd, 2009
It has happened. My wife confirmed it. I have officially become a grumpy old man.
My defence is simply that I was listening to the local news on the television and wanted to exercise my right to challenge the officialdom that has thought it wise to spend £300,000 on a new multi-faith space at my local [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Relationships on Feb 5th, 2009
Community nurse Caroline Petrie, a Christian nurse from Weston-super-Mare, has been suspended for offering to pray for an elderly patient’s recovery. She asked the patient if she wanted prayer after she had dressed the patient’s wounds. The patient complained to the North Somerset Primary Care Trust. The nurse was suspended, without pay, on [...]
Posted in Education, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 16th, 2009
Teenagers who take the pledge to remain virgins until they are married generally fail to keep it. And they are less likely than those who haven’t taken the pledge to use contraception when they do break their vow.
Janet Rosenbaum, a post doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, used data from [...]
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