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Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Mortality, Psychology, Religion, Therapy on Jun 15th, 2009
I caught part of BBC’s Songs of Praise last night. Well, it was on the TV, and I have spent enough years in my former life as an active Christian to have a strong cultural resonance with some of the music, and there was nothing else in particular to do, so I watched.
In the [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Religion on May 21st, 2009
To deliberately malnourish and beat children so that, in some cases, their bones are broken, is bad. To systematically sexually abuse them over a number of years is evil. And for some remote, generalized individuals years later to say “Sorry” is not good enough.
The physical scars of endemic emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of thousands [...]
Posted in Faith, Humanity, Internet, Morality, Religion, Technology, Time Wasting on May 12th, 2009
I was recently shown a full page advertisement in a magazine that almost had me choking on my coffee. It was for a £29.99 porcelain composition of two figures on either side of a children’s roundabout. One of the authorities quoted in the advertisement described the figures as the most moving statuettes created [...]
Posted in Censorship, Creativity, Human Rights, Isolation, Literature, Religion on May 5th, 2009
Ok. I have a confession to make. And I feel the need to point out that I did the deed during a difficult time in my life. But I have to admit that I have bought and read all of Dan Brown’s books.
I turned to the The Da Vinci Code for some light relief and [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Religion on May 1st, 2009
In 2007, Kareem Amer, an Egyptian blogger, was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty on several charges including ‘sedition’ and ‘incitement to hatred of Islam’. In March of this year, Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, a young Afghan journalist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Kabul’s supreme court for the crime of blasphemy. Kambakhsh’s [...]
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 Education, Human Rights, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Law, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Apr 21st, 2009
Posted in Creativity, Education, Faith, Religion, Science on Apr 20th, 2009
There is a slightly amusing discussion going on - I am reluctant to call it a debate - in the responses being made to a Times Online article by Sarah Ebner about whether or not magic should be taught in schools.
The article briefly describes the career of Brad Ross who started learning magic at the [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion on Apr 12th, 2009
I wasn’t there and I didn’t do it. I hadn’t even been born at the time!
For a long time I always used to associate Easter with guilt. Although family would try to stuff you with chocolate, and church would try to tell you it was joyful with antiquated, mournful melodies, it is the [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Politics, Religion on Mar 27th, 2009
I think I am living in the UK in the twenty first century. I think I am. Sometimes things just seem so absurd that I question my reality. Some things you just couldn’t make up.
Just bear with me. Suppose there were laws about pigs - laws set up to protect the rights of pigs [...]
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