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I’ve spent some time recently musing on what the nature of religion might be. There is a reactionary movement within paganism that challenges what is perceived to be the “cherry picking” “my truth” route that many pagan paths appear to have taken… a sort of post modern transcultural unorthodoxy… and this reactionary movement frequently raises [...]
The Mullah Nasrudin Nasrudin saw a man sitting at the side of a road looking utterly desolated. “What’s bothering you?” he asked. “My brother, there is nothing interesting in my life. I have enough money not to need to work, and I was traveling to see if there was anything curious in the world. But everyone I [...] A man wanted to know about mind, not in nature, but in his private, large ‘computer’. He asked it: “Do you compute that you will ever think like a human being?” The machine then set to work to analyse its own computational habit. Finally, the machine printed its answer on a piece of [...] Greg Hill made a really interesting post on his blog today in which he discusses the contention raised by the philosopher Galen Strawson that physicalism entails panpsychism, or the stance that all physical matter is conscious. Now I don’t propose to develop that specific argument, but in comments I have discussed the idea that it [...] A blogger who’s posts I admire wrote what he called “sketch for a short story” a while back. In this story, a credible construction from an indo-european perspective of the sort of things that may have been practiced and believed by the original druids, although in and of itself wholely a work of fiction, the [...] Corwen ap Broch has just started a new ning group dedicated to Animism, which looks to be very interesting. For those who don’t know Ning, it is a social networking site that combines forums, blogs, noticeboards, that sort of thing http://www.animism.ning.com I promised you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? A little background colour first. I grew up in social housing in a small market town called Olney during the 70′s. Back then it had a population of about 2 and a half thousand, and was situated in the heart of rural North Bucks, some 11 miles [...]
Whipsnade Tree Cathedral I recently attended our local Baptist church. I used to attend regularly (the minister and his family are spiritually very progressive and close friends), because my wife and daughter got something of importance to them out of it, and I enjoyed the warmth of the community. The reasons for not attending recently [...] |
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