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Posted in Existential, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society, Therapy on Apr 24th, 2009
I’m not quite sure what ‘normal’ is, but I’m pretty sure that I’m not it. When the roulette wheel of life flung out its genes, mine fell somewhere near the far edge of the distribution curve, not in the middle. I am learning to live with that. At times it has been unpleasant: at other [...]
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 Education, Human Rights, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Law, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Apr 21st, 2009
Posted in Creativity, Humanity, Relationships, Society, Television on Apr 1st, 2009
I’ve watched too many reality TV programmes. I can recognise the architecture behind many of them only too clearly. Most now follow a pattern. Their predictability is boring me and the genre appears to be exhausted. They are crafted so tightly that the notion of ‘reality’ is absurd.
The key to all good [...]
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 Creativity, Humanity, Internet, Productivity, Relationships, Technology, iPhone, iPhone 3G on Feb 1st, 2009
Things are definitely changing fast.
I have always tried to embrace technology. I enjoy novelty, regardless of usefulness. I can remember my first computer - a ZX81 purchased from WH Smiths. You couldn’t do anything with it really other than try to learn BASIC. Soon the specialist magazines were filled with programs for it that made [...]
Posted in Education, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society on Jan 23rd, 2009
Some time ago I wrote about the case of Anna Ciriani (What has sex got to do with it?) who lost her job as teacher in Italy because of her extra curricular activities as an internet porn star. I argued that provided that these activities didn’t interfere with her classroom professionalism and delivery, that she should [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Creativity, Humanity, Morality, Philosophy, Relationships on Jan 8th, 2009
Several years ago when I first started working with clients via telephone I did briefly explore the use of equipment to record telephone calls. There were two reasons for this: 1) the ability to listen to, and analyse calls afterwards would be likely to enhance the quality of future sessions; 2) in the event [...]
Posted in Humanity, Internet, Relationships, Society, Technology, Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2008
I have enjoyed 2008, and as I have reflected on why, I have come to the conclusion that part of the reason for my enjoyment is an increased appreciation of the internet.
Some of you, like me, may be able to remember the early days when going online was expensive and extremely slow, and you only [...]
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