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Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Psychology, Religion on Nov 4th, 2008
It is one thing to inflict unnecessary pain and suffering on yourself because of some unsubstantiated, fanciful belief system that you want to hold on to: it is something entirely different and more reprehensible to cause other people, especially dependent, innocent children, to suffer because of your beliefs.
If you want to self-flagilate because you think [...]
Posted in Government, Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Mortality, Politics, Religion, Society on Oct 30th, 2008
If she were a horse and not a human being, someone would show compassion. However, because Debbie Purdy is a human being, she is being made to suffer unnecessarily. A minority of people (largely informed by religious belief) are imposing their views on the majority in preventing a change in UK law. But the case [...]
Just suppose that somebody noticed a slight (but statistically significant) increase in the number of aircraft near-misses and crashes that were occurring. And just suppose, that after rigorous examination of the evidence it was found that there was a clear trend in the increase in human error as being a factor in many of these [...]
Usually, a thought is just a thought, nothing else. And the thoughts we carry in our heads don’t necessarily have a close relationship with reality.
For some people, thinking is loaded with difficulty. They are plagued by their thoughts. The peace of the day and night is frequently interrupted by unwelcome visitors that bring [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Internet, Relationships, Society, Technology on Jul 4th, 2008
One story which has been causing a fair amount of sniggers in the press this week is a research report by the UK Health Protection Agency indicating that sexually transmitted infections have doubled in under a decade in people over 45 and are now rising faster than in the young. (The overall rate of [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Mortality, Science, Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2008
I am now the proud owner of a third one.
The experience of getting there was quite difficult.
Let me briefly re-cap.
Two becomes three …
Although I can write about it now, I have been ‘internally speechless’ for days (if that makes sense).
For any non-regular readers, there are two important things that you need to know in order to appreciate this post. The first, is that about three weeks ago I had a minor heart attack and spent a week in hospital (see The English Patient (1) and The English Patient (2)). The other, and [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Mortality, Religion on Apr 11th, 2008
Since my friends have got to know of my present health problems a number of them from throughout the UK have contacted me to assure me that they are praying for me, and I know that at least two churches are interceding for me. I am genuinely touched by the kindness of the sentiment [...]
I mentioned in my last posting how communication was one of the issues that contributed to the high stress levels of my hospital stay. I want to expand on that today. However, I must acknowledge that the communication confusions were also a source of mirth, albeit unintended.
From my perspective there were four communication [...]
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