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Posted in Existential, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Mortality, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Oct 24th, 2008
Suicide is a painful subject for many - especially those who have lost partners, children, siblings, and friends. It is the final statement in a relationship - a statement made by the other person, something that you cannot argue with, but something that those who are left behind want to argue with so badly.
Whether the [...]
(On the day that I read that a Roman Catholic Church in Toxteth, Liverpool, was about to start using the Tridentine Mass exclusively - services in Latin - again, I was reminded of this parable that I wrote some years ago.)
The mountains were cypress-green and breathtakingly beautiful. Spiros was standing in one of the most [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Religion on May 12th, 2008
In Structural and Moral Failure I first wrote about the scandal of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic church.
Although during his recent visit to America the pope repeatedly expressed shame and remorse for the church’s role in the disgrace and met with some of its victims, the willingness of the Catholic church to deliver its [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Religion on May 6th, 2008
Readers who were disturbed by the God and the Virgins posting of 13 December, 2007, may be interested to read this update from Religion News:
State police on Tuesday arrested on sex charges the leader of an apocalyptic sect in northeastern New Mexico.
Wayne Bent was arrested on three charges of criminal sexual contact, said state police [...]
Posted in Isolation, Religion, Society, Television on May 4th, 2008
Dr Who has been summonsed in an attempt to ward off the imminent threat of extermination.
The Telegraph carried a story today about a conference which was held last week in order to revitalize the Church of England. Doctor Who has caught the attention of Anglican leaders, who are encouraging clergy to study the science fiction [...]
Posted in Isolation, Relationships, Society, Technology, Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2008
It looks like the over-friendly or grumpy waiter could be about to disappear from some restaurants (and when I say ‘about’, I probably actually mean within the next 15 years or so) . The reason will not be down to heavy investment in staff training in the catering industry, but to technology. There [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Morality on Feb 24th, 2008
I have reprinted below a recent appeal by Amnesty International on behalf of Yang Chunlin.
Human rights activist Yang Chunlin has been detained for nearly 8 months for his involvement in collecting signatures for a petition entitled “We Want Human Rights, not the Olympics”.
During his five and a half hour trial on 19 February 2008, he [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality on Feb 11th, 2008
As the Olympic Games in China opproaches, it appears that the Chinese authorities are anxious to silence any embarrassing voices about their record on human rights.
In November 2007, a human rights activist, Hu Jia participated via webcam in a European Union parliamentary hearing in Brussels in which he stated that China had failed to fulfill [...]
Posted in Censorship, Education, Isolation, Religion, Science, Technology on Feb 8th, 2008
There have been repeated threats in the US to limit the teaching of evolution in state schools. Three leading Florida state legislators are preparing to challenge new state science education standards that will make the teaching of evolution compulsory for the first time in Florida’s history.
Posted in Existential, Health, Humanity, Isolation, Psychology, Science on Feb 7th, 2008
“There are only four people who think they are Napoleon in my borough, and I know all of them …”
This was an off-the-cuff remark made at a very informative three day course that I went to five years ago. The man delivering the training was a very senior clinical psychologist who has spent most [...]
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