Metanomalies

Metanomalies is a community of communities self-reflecting
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A Permanent State of Debility

This is the storyline, and I believe it to be almost entirely fictional, and it is being spread across the nation, maybe the world, and inculcated to acceptance into the minds of many, maybe most, people.

Posted on July 10, 2021

It is Written

The artificial Briton,it is written, slops online. Heretical opinion, castigates, a spume a time

Posted on July 10, 2021

Light of Knowledge

A window glow shows brilliant; and a teeming light comes in A bare rare glare astounds the sense.

Posted on July 08, 2021

Finding Words

I was broke, would you credit, I consulted a credit broker

Posted on July 07, 2021

Formerly

If I had my life to live over again. If I had to live my life over again

Posted on July 05, 2021

Public-Speak

First lay your ground; the madcap lexicon you draw from, A horns and tuckets register – blow blatant circumstance

Posted on June 23, 2021

Data Day

Dust lifted up spreads, blooms, a cloud on visibility. The ponderers of speculation dally. Add in admixture Of fear.

Posted on June 09, 2021

Next Always Better

That matter has a property; that earth contains it. A force, a draw down; just enough – like Goldilocks

Posted on June 09, 2021

Plain Remarks

That matter has a property; that earth contains it. A force, a draw down; just enough – like Goldilocks

Posted on June 09, 2021

Or All, Or None

I call; I speak out; reach for Him. Asking the world and relegating nothing

Posted on June 01, 2021

And, O, I’ll Go A-wandering

I was eating lunch and the radio was on: “From Our Own Correspondent”.

Posted on May 30, 2021

Scoffing Rakes

If you’ve ever read St Paul’s Letter to the Romans, in particular Chapter 9, and have understood what St Paul is saying there, you will have been shocked.

Posted on May 27, 2021

What Happened to Us?

I recall in my boyhood the lassitude I felt each First Day of the Week. In those days Sunday was a day without resources to do much at all besides watch TV and listen to radio.

Posted on May 26, 2021

Roster

Not to think myself great in doing it. But to think myself late in doing it

Posted on May 24, 2021

Fragmented by Detail

This piece of writing is to be about idealism; about principle; about broad pictures, visions of visionaries; about interpreting the currently promulgated approach to tackling problems which are often man-made, and which are, in a true sense of the word, globally, in need of fixing.

Posted on May 22, 2021

Crazy Patter

If you use your phone whilst driving you are 4 x more likely to have an accident

Posted on May 18, 2021

On the Certainty of God

Cannot be proven; go further, go

Posted on May 17, 2021

Weeding with a Rake: A Review

Here again, in the quagmire of a wake which The New Enlightened imagine was stirred up by Derrida, revels in peril of drowning

Posted on May 17, 2021

Poppycock Usurpers

A mawkish song bedraggled struggles ways along

Posted on May 06, 2021

Children’s Stories: The Genius of Sodor

Rather like Beatrix Potter, of whom a priest I know once said to me

Posted on March 16, 2021

Combative Manners

I’m fed up with people I don’t know

Posted on March 16, 2021

Basic Nonsense

Basic Nonsense!

Posted on March 14, 2021

Perplexity

I have no voice

Posted on March 14, 2021

Scary Story

A dated nineteen-fifties sci-fi novel

Posted on March 13, 2021

Difference, Diversity, Inclusiveness

There are wondrousness of things in the wide world

Posted on March 03, 2021

Prejudice and other considerations

Popularly the word ‘discrimination’ is used synonymously with ‘prejudice’.

Posted on February 27, 2021

Houseless Wretches

A life has something personal going for it

Posted on February 23, 2021

The Technology Takeaway

Labour-saving leisure engraving grommets a

Posted on February 22, 2021

Too Many… Too Much…

Affairs proceed. At first a little careful tacit breathes

Posted on February 16, 2021

Jesters of the Universe

The daffodils are punching well above their weight this year

Posted on February 13, 2021

Mitya

In the unenchanted village hostelry

Posted on February 10, 2021

God’s Ways

And where begin….? The insects in the insect bottle we are in

Posted on February 05, 2021

True and Learning

True is an interesting word. Especially in the ways it is used.

Posted on February 02, 2021

Wagging the Dog

I was 20 when I sat GCE ‘A’ Levels

Posted on February 02, 2021

Parallel Insurrections

In the dark backward and abysm of time

Posted on February 01, 2021

The Staple of News

The waves a-quiver deliver ecumenical news

Posted on January 31, 2021

Roster

That matter has a property; that earth contains it. A force, a draw down; just enough – like Goldilocks

Posted on January 29, 2021

Made Music

Made music, Donne’s in Paradise, his race all run

Posted on January 29, 2021

There was a Girl..

There was a girl, a woman, handsome

Posted on January 28, 2021

Choosing Words

That matter has a property; that earth contains it. A force, a draw down; just enough – like Goldilocks

Posted on January 27, 2021

Don’t Want

Don’t want no mules teaching me

Posted on January 27, 2021

Letting-Go

A wind-hover darling, one worshipping art as himself

Posted on January 18, 2021

The Latecomers

And as this faded world hurtles to better things

Posted on January 17, 2021

Fears for Democracy

Daniel Finkelstein today 14 Jan 2021 on BBC 2 TV show Politics Live gave a commentary on Donald Trump

Posted on January 15, 2021

Proof of Concept

The planet yearns through every evolution it is bowled

Posted on January 15, 2021

Elgar

One has to bear The lingering of the music As a shoal

Posted on January 14, 2021

Stage-Theatre and Movies

The big question is whether there is an unbridgeable division, even opposition, between the two arts

Posted on January 13, 2021

A Bigger Picture Even?

Today: The New Review: The Observer Sun Jan 10 2021

Posted on January 11, 2021

Creation and Character

Life will bring you many misfortunes but you will find your happiness in them

Posted on January 10, 2021

Consideration

Where is My Jab! My Jab!

Posted on January 09, 2021

Important and Valuable

The circus and its acrobats will interfere

Posted on January 07, 2021

The Song of Time

With profligacy to obey the determining Word

Posted on January 04, 2021

A Saraband for Spring

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king

Posted on January 03, 2021

Knowing

It takes only a smallest smack of little thinking

Posted on January 02, 2021

Understanding The Universe

Kant found nought that sorts an “ought” out

Posted on January 02, 2021

Dostoevsky: (The Brothers Karamazov)

A man to span an existential abyss; and that

Posted on January 01, 2021

Sea Shore

Those flames, the risible disciples gathered whose,

Posted on December 31, 2020

The Garden

Here was the gardener, he whose hand had laid

Posted on December 31, 2020

New Year 2021

Regard the shallow seas the landwards breezes

Posted on December 29, 2020

Fantasia On an Overreacher

How can it be elsewise?

Posted on December 27, 2020

The Faults Within Us

The faults within us court this self-identity they make

Posted on December 23, 2020

A NEW YEAR MESSAGE

At the present time it might appear to you to be out of place for me to quote to you a Bible verse

Posted on December 22, 2020

Reflection for Sunday After Christmas Day

In you, O Lord, I seek refuge; do not let me ever be put to shame

Posted on December 22, 2020

Dean Farrar

I can love him for his yearning hest for good

Posted on December 21, 2020

The Business Machine Economy

Mass production has been a means by which to supply us

Posted on December 21, 2020

Seek ye first...and all other things shall be added unto you

The Christ’s Salvation’s here!

Posted on December 18, 2020

The Co-ordinates of the Heart

One cannot say even where one is

Posted on December 15, 2020

Levelling-Up

On-the-level, here is one of several strangulations

Posted on December 11, 2020

Battlelines

Muse The Lord Jesus, strolling challenger

Posted on December 09, 2020

For Whom does Jo Coburn Vote

She’s a BBC TV daytime news24 channel presenter

Posted on December 08, 2020

Demediocracy

Linger along the corridors of centuries

Posted on December 06, 2020

Artists’ Politics

I received an email this morning from The Wales Millennium Centre

Posted on December 05, 2020

Flagship Newsnight, or, Sympathy for The Media

The sentry chairs declare to us our cares

Posted on December 04, 2020

A Return to Normal

I don’t hear the clappers clapping any more

Posted on December 02, 2020

This Above All

The authority of God darts love a lift above full-reach

Posted on December 02, 2020

Conspiracy?

I’m not one for giving credence to organised, premeditated plans of global scope.

Posted on November 28, 2020

A Vital Title Race

Today in Parliament Sir, note the knighthood, Iain Duncan Smith, note Iain, and not Ian, posed (a poser?) an objection to a government having been placed under public pressure by a young black 22

Posted on November 26, 2020

The Debt and Inflation Story

If we borrowed from China and this fed through into higher bank lending and higher consumption

Posted on November 26, 2020

The Closed Shop of Life

Things hung, hang left undone

Posted on November 25, 2020

Risking Dostoevsky

I first read ‘Crime and Punishment’ at college a long long time ago

Posted on November 22, 2020

Travel

The idea behind this piece of writing I am putting down here is that easy access to travel

Posted on November 22, 2020

Popped Seam

I am a fall-guy, spent tithes of time

Posted on November 20, 2020

Corporation Prophets

Prophesy unto the wind; for only the wind can hear you

Posted on November 17, 2020

Out to Pasture

Life in the yard.... at second-hand

Posted on November 16, 2020

Where Faith?

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God

Posted on November 10, 2020

Death’s Comedy

Death’s a comedic landslip

Posted on November 10, 2020

Scotch Song and Burns

The two images on the two pages that follow are of the final song in the book

Posted on November 06, 2020

Caught up in Time

I bought a collection of disks of music

Posted on November 03, 2020

Moral Compass? 3 The Quality of Media is Most Strange

A leading government adviser has warned the UK is on course for "tens of thousands of deaths"

Posted on October 29, 2020

Moral Compass? Part 2

We have a government, during a time in which in their own terms they call a national emergency

Posted on October 28, 2020

Moral Compass? Part 1

In a video I saw lately a person discussed the use

Posted on October 28, 2020

Christ and Nietzsche

Nietzsche no competitor to Jesus, Lord,

Posted on October 26, 2020

Should the Church stay out of Politics?

11am Sunday 25 Oct 2020: BBC TV

Posted on October 25, 2020

Book Review: Environment and Plant Life by S A Searle 1973 Faber

Environment and Plant Life by S A Searle 1973 Faber

Posted on October 24, 2020

Why Does The Government Borrow Money When It Could ‘Print it’ - create Credit - to the Same Effect?

Why Does Government Borrow Money When It Could ‘Print it’, to the Same Effect?

Posted on October 24, 2020

The Jawbone of an Ass

The more I say, the more my words reveal

Posted on October 22, 2020

False

False is the voice you hear

Posted on October 19, 2020

A few chance catches-of-the-day (Oct 15 2020)

The following is not verbatim

Posted on October 16, 2020

'Free Thinking’ BBC Radio 3 Thurs 15 Oct 2020 10pm

Talking on Derrida

Posted on October 16, 2020

We would see Jesus

Now is the time

Posted on October 14, 2020

No Time to Think

Walking the walk of time

Posted on October 09, 2020

Moving with Gravity

Motion uncovers mystery, how that fan and curve

Posted on October 09, 2020

Self-Identification

Free-expression – indulgence of the self?

Posted on October 07, 2020

These Days

Grand feathers dress democracy

Posted on October 07, 2020

Displays-meant Activities

Hello, I’m a – fill in what you wish

Posted on October 02, 2020

More Jokes

An Englishman, a Welshman, and a Pakistani meet in the waiting room at a hospital.

Posted on October 02, 2020

Xenophon’s Story

Socrates, the keeper of the keys till Christ came

Posted on October 02, 2020

Comedy

Comedy is entertainment consisting of jokes intended

Posted on September 29, 2020

Mutability: Bounce and Balance

It can’t be another Saturday, all at once, and gone,

Posted on September 26, 2020

Welsh Joke

A Russian agent arrives

Posted on September 24, 2020

Divining Wine

My wife told me a story from a news bulletin tidbit she had viewed

Posted on September 24, 2020

Social Distancing: from The Natural World? Part 1

This first part of this discussion is largely a digression taken deliberately by me so as to help clear up some questions

Posted on September 22, 2020

Not Founded

Is it because the ego cannot bear to hear: extinction

Posted on September 20, 2020

The Degeneration of Reality

Reality in the natural world has in some sense a fixity

Posted on September 09, 2020

The Distraught Weltanschauung

...And in The Benighted States of America

Posted on August 11, 2020

Nonsense on the Wireless

Today 2020-08-03 Monday on BBC Radio 4 .00 pm and 4.30 pm - Simon Schama on NewYork Art Galleries and the kindergarten-like Infinity Monkey Cage

Posted on August 04, 2020

Under the Hat

Des-prayer-ately excavating endless ways

Posted on August 02, 2020

Disconnect

A neurosis shared is a neurosis squared

Posted on July 29, 2020

Redressing The Past

My wife and I many years ago took out what was called an Endowment Mortgage on our first home together.

Posted on July 25, 2020

A Psychological Understanding of Reality

In these current days where so many persons want to broadcast that reality is malleable

Posted on July 15, 2020

Metadata

Tenured, inured, secured upon a figment’s trace First nursed, then versed, immersed in going rates as validations

Posted on July 13, 2020

Silent Witness: BBC Radio 3 Sunday 7pm-ish 2020-07-12

I do get upset when reverence and respect is paid to ‘spiritualities’

Posted on July 13, 2020

The Same Old Song

Again, agone, another opportunity Ohone! make importunity, away prognostication! Sinews and thews are tautly flexured Cued to a solemn pitch...

Posted on July 08, 2020

Credit, Rent, Mortgage, Gambling and Taxes: How your earnings are being pinched

They all in their various ways represent to the payers of them; to the people who supply the money by which the ‘owings’ of these financial entities are paid off to recipients; these payments represent debts.

Posted on July 04, 2020

Scenic Drive-thru

Look! that’s a shooting! Drive by Pick up the currency @ 0% commission

Posted on July 01, 2020

Let’s Assume you’re a Crook!

Today in Parliament Sir, note the knighthood, Iain Duncan Smith, note Iain, and not Ian, posed (a poser?) an objection to a government having been placed under public pressure by a young black 22

Posted on June 18, 2020

Then and Now: There and Here

I am a nothing ornament

Posted on June 14, 2020

Wonder-why

I am a nothing ornament

Posted on June 13, 2020

Judgement Day - a grave burlesque

A cheated thought, avast!, comes boarder, out of order

Posted on June 11, 2020

Conundrum

Antecedent coffins line out sedentary innkeepers

Posted on June 09, 2020

Fantasia on Potential

Changing from chains and ashes in this grisly world

Posted on June 08, 2020

Self-Pity

He reeks self-pity – the sitting-pretty critic says

Posted on June 08, 2020

The Lotus Eaters

I sit here waiting to be told

Posted on June 07, 2020

After the Fall

There’s a great plague gone out among men

Posted on June 06, 2020

Teaching Fear by Example?

It’s difficult to write any controversy surrounding Corona Virus without a criticism of one being perverse or even callous in one’s attitudes.

Posted on June 02, 2020

Aerodynamics

Ultra vires: Wise Nature stands not back nor does concede;

Posted on May 31, 2020

All the Right Noises: or Democracy for good and ill

A politician is one who makes all the right noises"

Posted on May 28, 2020

Walled Within the World

That prisoner of the spirit merits some free air

Posted on May 24, 2020

Notwithstanding Storm

Quaffed, cupped, in sea, a crucible of persons

Posted on May 22, 2020

Temptations of The Fall

He shows off ego regent, courant crest and comb

Posted on May 16, 2020

Fear and Adoration

This talk is about the element of fear that is realised in us by items by which we are impressed astonished:

Posted on May 15, 2020

The Clearness of Necessity

World, World, in being, bobbling

Posted on May 13, 2020

In the Midst of Wolves

Just a bother – a superego showing-off – again - waylaying Drowning in cloning its own poor sense of high event Paying out lauds of homage to the personal pronoun Like a five pound note remarks a pool of pence

Posted on May 11, 2020

Blaming the Science/Swallowing Pap

Right since the very beginnings, when this present pandemonium began to take hold, the politicians in authority began by leaning on, and are continuing to lean hard upon, as their crutch, ‘the science’ as they use that term.

Posted on May 08, 2020

Revisiting Evolution Again

Darwin on the ship Beagle travelled to The Galapagos Islands in 1835 where he made the observations on flora and fauna there which began his thinking about the theory of evolution.

Posted on May 06, 2020

Do you only care about the bleeding crowd?

The title is taken from a lyric in a song in the 1960s Rock Musical “Hair”. The full citation I want to talk you through is --

Posted on May 05, 2020

“So we’re all to be Racist now are we Father?”

Back in the early days of the century, people in Britain may recall Tony Blair’s administration waking us up one morning with the news that Colonel Gadaffi and his state Libya were now our friends; that an accord had been reached by diplomats and diplomacy by which cooperation and mutual benefits between Britain and Libya had been agreed.

Posted on May 05, 2020

Permissive

O, hark, a fellow talking with aplomb, His proud out loud monopoly on truth So certainiy assured it says no wrong

Posted on May 03, 2020

Mortgage and Rent Reviewed

The words ‘mortgage’ and ‘rent’ have in their present day usages a common association with money regular payments made by a person dwelling in a building which is owned by another.

Posted on April 30, 2020

New World in The Morning

It’s a one-sided contest The leather pyjamas fitting all one size The clever, the bananas, the cities of flighty crocodiles

Posted on April 29, 2020

Sympathy, Magic, Palaver

Fervidly round in a ring we go One step go up the stairs; then venting, savour prayers Slam a hand on the bannister; set three short drops Decanted out from a canister, of PG Tips, the slops

Posted on April 25, 2020

Taking Part - Within Your Niche

In a strangely comical way, a bizarre absurdity in fact, has grown to become a way of life.

Posted on April 24, 2020

Teaching in the Toyshop

Long-stay appointments for the tongue are oversubscribed Ahem; but don't they service truth?

Posted on April 12, 2020

Good Friday - Priming Softwood

Reward creates itself as each ephemeral orison. I bear a brush make sweeps nor much precision Not my best lot, but I am taught of hardihood some pains This revet corner naked wood sets in a dint imprisoned

Posted on April 11, 2020

Bin Overthinking Things

A proper lesson conjures, separates-free embers Warmth falls- and lux redux - recalls, remembering; Forms heat and folding out, arrears clear; comes alive A throe from Gordian siege

Posted on April 07, 2020

How are Things? How Things are?

There's plenty of bad faith provoking its way around Plenty pathology Plenty the wish the father of the thought reporting OCD escorts the courted public enemy

Posted on April 06, 2020

High Seriousness

The Victorian critic and social commentator Matthew Arnold, son of Thomas Arnold the founder of Rugby School, pronounced famously, at least in English literary circles, on Robert Burns, the Scots National Bard, a judgement which has hung about Burns ever since, and is still alive and kicking today.

Posted on April 05, 2020

Ill-weav'd Ambition - Radio Talk 5

“I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none” ...from -- Macbeth

Posted on March 17, 2020

Patience

Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.

Posted on March 16, 2020

A Scrap of Bone and Breath in Rags

I am fond of saying, I have said many times, one of my favourite things about Jesus; that he was said justly to be 'no respecter of persons'.

Posted on March 14, 2020

Boris £46M to Pharmacy Labs for Virus Vaccine

Recall how when 2 or 3 years back confronted by pressure from the public and media to 'do something about' plastics - their ubiquitous consumption and their terribly adverse environmental impacts – the government of the day handed the problem over to the private sector to dispose of?

Posted on March 09, 2020

If Entropic State be True....?

Because the cosmos to the smallest particle Whatever might be that peculiar article To tunes, the ancients had it, moves in monstrous constant flux Makes merry in a flurry of endemic switches Takes jollies trailing holiday extravaganza

Posted on March 02, 2020

Added Value

“We find ourselves in a situation where we are constrained to produce more and better ways of doing things that save us time – in order that we have more time to produce more and better ways of doing things”

Posted on February 27, 2020

Science and A New World

If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? After all, you say that I drive out demons byBeelzebub. And if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons drive them out?

Posted on February 25, 2020

Remarks on T S Eliot's Prufrock

The title of the poem is worth some dwelling on, and comment. It is cast as being a lovesong - yet how far from a lovesong it is. Maybe there is satirical irony here; about the subject himself, Prufrock; but undoubtedly also about the format and content of the poem.

Posted on February 24, 2020

Love's Portmanteau

With rare and new release increase begins

Posted on February 20, 2020

What Has to be Turned Around (and Will Be)

Stick-pins swirl the cosmos, egging billion slave-will deeds, on, on, A fight-field chaos Scores - beggar all metaphor - intend - inventions teeming

Posted on February 20, 2020

The Readership of the Puddle

We've had a lot of rain lately (Global Warming) And prices just keep going up (Brexit) Our Jimmy, he's just got his A Levels (Natural Selection)

Posted on February 09, 2020

All

There is all For me to be able to say There's a phantom wall Pride, money, power, fame, Brings shutters down Loading eyes

Posted on February 04, 2020

Symphony No. 9 in D Minor by Beethoven

A musick to the ninth degree – an nth sphere somersault Heels overhead dragoons irregulars en-route to tunes, Running a rout throughout our raggéd consciousness

Posted on January 30, 2020

In Aldi

We are tired and we have no resistance Are on a late quaint old-time steam bus rumble Belonging nowhere now nor e'er a weary place to go

Posted on January 25, 2020

Drowning in Facebook

How might a person deal with themselves? How do we manage? No-go no-quarter quarrels over boarder skirmishes Elbows insides

Posted on January 17, 2020

The Weight of Things

As a Christian, there have been and remain certain areas about life, history, circumstance, that trouble me.

Posted on January 15, 2020

Creationism, Evolution, Power and Wealth

What prompted me to write this piece was seeing Sir David Attenborough talking to the famous Nordic girl about climate change. Seeing this reminded me the he had also a few months back appealed for teaching of Creationism to be barred from school curricula.

Posted on January 01, 2020

Everything is Evidence

A nice quit-match - “And there was made not anything not made by him”

Posted on December 26, 2019

Resolution

I'm sure the world resolves into a grove of truth Although I know I have not light to see it Nor being bright enough to delve and dree it

Posted on December 25, 2019

The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry

A cache of wounds lie open bleeding reading here Casualty upon casualty Free bright and vibrant women spirited in grain Angry resentments pain, man-empted to despair Each reaches cannot reach to those things separated Be it love reciprocal, God's peace, or merely a quiet air

Posted on December 25, 2019

HERESY, NARNIA, and APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS

I can be a bit snobbish sometimes. That means I'm easily brought down a peg or two, deflated so to speak, by – to quote Harold Wilson – 'events, dear boy, events”.

Posted on December 24, 2019

Friday 13th

For me be witness all the saints of God Here is a man who’s lightly slighted woman's love Not once, perhaps, perchance it is his way of life, A man unequal to love's constancy?

Posted on December 19, 2019

Three Poems written under Norovirus

Yes, it's always the other side is the enemy Who started it made you do it what you did Ugly faces disfigured, cracked Are in-my dreams

Posted on December 11, 2019

There's no Success like Failure...

A mortal lie to try to do too much Touch on the little things; there you make yourself your smutch Most things go way awry, if not in-hand, far off And rebound consequence, from Cairo to Cape Wrath

Posted on December 09, 2019

Self-hood - An Appraisal

Self-hood might be said to be what is felt, maybe passionately, by an individual to be the innermost identity of that individual; and to be that apprehension of mind that without which being acknowledged.

Posted on December 06, 2019

Self and Sufficiency

I would (if I were good) enwrap me in hermetic prayer Ne'er need a feed, an audience to lead proceed nowhere But shut contented locked away hidden from all the world Define myself by finding founding in the Word Enough

Posted on December 02, 2019

Prosperity Posterity

The world is consumed with a daily round of getting, spending, The earth is consumed by inveterate destitution vending The earth and the world, so embodying one consumptive emptive grave - Forespeaks our latter endings

Posted on November 28, 2019

Fuzzy Data

Poems, prayers, stair assemblages descrying virtual order (Milton would wash himself, éclair, before the hour preparing Attempting nightly settlements might 'quit his Lord And render up fit due)

Posted on November 25, 2019

BALANCE

In a flight of rhetoric the bears ascend a moving stage Bearers of used confusing views invade vague territory Sally on leewards against prevailing winds' temerity Blowing hot and cold

Posted on November 24, 2019

A Psychological Interpretation of the Theory of Proton Death

In current mainstream cosmological physics – it is an approach broadcast on our TVs here and is said by physicists of some prowess to be the eventual fate of material existence

Posted on November 19, 2019

Above the Ordinary

We must eat for nutrition first and not for flavour's sake Flavour before nutrition compromises nature's needs And makes mistake of delectation as like taking weed And other junk from habits, feeding on us and which lead

Posted on November 14, 2019

As Due By Many Titles....

Like we are being acted on, the Romany of the world The chaffinch lifts her note and all a-sudden's changed The porter to the gatehouse ambles opens up the port Or in or out seems best betimes to be our ways to go

Posted on November 13, 2019

Beware - Here Be Hypocrites

Let's just quickly in this item go through the 'logic' of British government policy. I doubt whether Labour will be different to Conservative in the crucial respects I am going to point up; but only Conservatives have made a big fuss on air about the policies to be discussed hereunder.

Posted on November 09, 2019

Damping Things Down

Peering downwards, eyes lit dots above his frames

Posted on November 08, 2019

Frost

Just how repellent I find this series will probably show up in my analyses that are to follow.

Posted on November 03, 2019

Sharpe

This written piece is about history as presented on TV and radio in what are delivered as non-fictional expositions.

Posted on November 01, 2019

Seeing Further

This written piece is about history as presented on TV and radio in what are delivered as non-fictional expositions.

Posted on October 30, 2019

Broken

The broken word’s a sickness going round and round

Posted on October 25, 2019

Marking Time

Marking time, For some fitter crime

Posted on October 22, 2019

Dark Matter

Omnibus 4 of The Art of Innovation broadcast on Radio 4 Friday 18th October 2019 at 21.00hrs

Posted on October 20, 2019

What Might be Believed After This?

The question is a hot one right now. There’s a lot, a lot, of confused uncertainty around. So many exasperations asking “What can we believe is true, and what is not true?”

Posted on October 17, 2019

Monet

Thursday evening just before bed I was looking through a book of paintings by Monet.

Posted on September 28, 2019

Dark Matter

Thursday evening just before bed I was looking through a book of paintings by Monet. It struck a chord with me to view his paintings in the light of what I had written recently about extension and space; the world we perceive to be ‘around us’.

Posted on September 28, 2019

Too, Too Much

Too much talk; to much take

Posted on September 26, 2019

Escapement

Too much talk; to much take

Posted on September 26, 2019

Whose Dogs?

Too much talk; to much take

Posted on September 25, 2019

Vacant Shuttles Weave the Wind

Laid in recumbent graves the men in Northern France

Posted on September 21, 2019

A Few, Not New, Words About The Lord’s Prayer

The Lord's Prayer (traditional words to the Our Father)

Posted on September 19, 2019

David Livingstone

I wasn’t going to write this piece. I was going to leave to lie something I’d watched on TV last night, and which was about David Livingston, the Scottish missionary and explorer of Victorian times.

Posted on September 19, 2019

A Call in Unquiet

Jesus incumbent, you gently saw

Posted on September 18, 2019

Some Thoughts about Vision

Jesus incumbent, you gently saw

Posted on September 16, 2019

The Theology of Wind

To the best of our knowledge it is only living things – some of them – which possess volition of movement.

Posted on September 11, 2019

Our Merry Way

We saturate violence

Posted on September 04, 2019

Words are Friends

Words are a friend of mine

Posted on September 03, 2019

Sustaining Ourselves

The environment is whom we are to please to be

Posted on August 11, 2019

Long Ago and Far Away

As collective entities scientists and their science have used, over the course now particularly of the past three centuries, laws and theories which scientists have discovered

Posted on August 01, 2019

Puffins: Isle of May

As collective entities scientists and their science have used, over the course now particularly of the past three centuries, laws and theories which scientists have discovered

Posted on August 01, 2019

Have At You, You Blind Harpers

I read this traditional saying this evening in a book about the history of words.

Posted on July 25, 2019

Elvis Orbison

I have written before about what are called “Tribute” acts here in the UK.

Posted on July 22, 2019

The Only Thing

When you’re perplexed, and vexed confusions in your mind

Posted on July 20, 2019

The “Problem” of Recognising History

The problem of recognising history is a non-problem. Let’s state its common formulation.

Posted on July 17, 2019

Shelter Comfort

You and I have no right to be comfortable

Posted on July 12, 2019

Bubble Rap

A bubble for the weight of the world describes

Posted on July 09, 2019

The Parody - a first attempt - Pete

A Touch of Autobiography – by Styxenhammer

Posted on June 16, 2019

Momentous Historic Occasions

Momentous Historic Occasions

Posted on June 10, 2019

Contemporary Life

Got my teeth white

Posted on June 08, 2019

God Will Sort It

I do believe that God will sort it all

Posted on June 05, 2019

Dream and Waking

The thesis is that our waking lives are not so different to our dream-lives; as these dream-lives occur during our sleeps.

Posted on June 04, 2019

Walking in Space

WHY do the heathen so furiously rage together? and why do the people imagine a vain thing?

Posted on May 06, 2019

Sold on Feelgood

Draw-up the branded standards let them quiver ceremoniously

Posted on May 05, 2019

A Just Society

Justice for Plato in his Republic consists more or less of everyone accepting their place in society; and for the individual

Posted on April 28, 2019

Hypocrisy

Kind of quaint the way our painted storyboards

Posted on April 26, 2019

Current Car Designs

Walking tall prevailing like a sailing-ship full-sail

Posted on April 14, 2019

Doulos apo Christou

Freely, do a wheelie, on a song bee, in the mind

Posted on April 12, 2019

No, Not Power

No, knowledge is not power; fair freedom, life unchained;

Posted on April 12, 2019

Entropy and Order

The guy Professor Brian Cox whom I have, somewhat chagrined, criticised previous to this essay now

Posted on April 03, 2019

Music and Instinct

When you have become a parent you will know that very soon and without noticing it you become very precisely attuned to the voice of your child

Posted on April 02, 2019

Time’s Ringmasters

Times go the way ringmasters say, who crack the whip, voila!

Posted on March 21, 2019

Centres

Gathering in, ingathering flocks of gorgeous meadow flowers

Posted on March 19, 2019

Skin for Skin

What does this mean? Jesus’ words here are difficult to interpret singly; as having a sole and lone meaning; definitively so. They contain so much meaning they act to confuse a reader of them; because meanings which a person might derive from them are able to permutate by means of overlap; and thereby they multiply in number.

Posted on March 14, 2019

Valour and Glory

Giving again to Him His own ideas – with joy and thankfulness

Posted on March 12, 2019

Sending Men Up

We can send-up to an International Space Station And boast to ourselves about it on the news Men, and women too of course;

Posted on March 07, 2019

In a Monthly Devotional Magazine

Suffering is the great law of the spiritual world. God’s chosen ones escape it less than others; they pay the ransom for others, sometimes at a very high price. We will know only later the work accomplished by our suffering and our sacrifices.

Posted on March 03, 2019

From An Old Man Behind the Times

I have not moved enough, nor moved quickly enough, although The whacky world has moved and quickly slid away from me, Everyday normal casuist brassy blasphemies Go on unweeded, disregarded; - accustomed - rather twee

Posted on February 24, 2019

Heart

Tossed on the deluge Noah swung in heavy seas His muster of living things a crew to populate the world Sou’-westers blown in eyes hamper a misted visibility Weathering through by righteousness wroth God’s decree

Posted on February 22, 2019

Parthenos

There's a bone of contention between Jews and Christians and the same bone exists between Christians and Christians, when it comes to The Book of The Prophet Isaiah.

Posted on February 09, 2019

Rock and Head

I do a lot of desultory reading. I have a library of books, probably several thousand items, and I love dipping in, as and when, time allows and by reading finding out why I bought so many. Few do not repay their investment - in my own eyes.

Posted on February 07, 2019

Three Poems

To Whom are we to Go?

Posted on January 28, 2019

Alexander’s Tears

The violent have taken the streets They built their Babels up and have done worship there In praise of naked works of men; (whose usuries condemn)

Posted on January 25, 2019

The Disservice Economy and its Bad Goods - Powering the Global Money Engine 6

When one contracts for say Internet Services, or say, to a mobile phone network for services, one contracts to pay one’s bill month on month - and by direct debit usually.  This is to say that these services are provided before the fact of their payment by oneself; and conversely one pays for these services after the fact of having consumed them.

Posted on October 15, 2018

Making a Connexion

It’s the heart’s speak-out troth-clad

Posted on August 24, 2018

Always

Always give me light always

Posted on August 23, 2018

Love Your Enemies?

What do you think of LinkedIn? Or the Freemasons? Or Stringfellows? Or Facebook?

Posted on August 22, 2018

Transparency: or Music, Sex and Soccer

Transparency reveals the age - the time’s de rigueur:

Posted on August 22, 2018

DISTURBANCE

And I have felt - A presence that disturbs me with the joy

Posted on August 11, 2018

Home Comfort

Comfort at home where charity begins, begins here where Sleek sinners’ feet take ease, and comfortable, oblivious all the while Of human mess and carnage - sure this party swings

Posted on August 01, 2018

At Durham Cathedral

In the Book of Remembrance here the men’s cold Corpses were laid out

Posted on July 30, 2018

Forward-Thinking

I have not moved enough, nor moved quickly enough, although The whacky world has moved and quickly slid away from me, Everyday normal casuist brassy blasphemies Go on unweeded, disregarded; - accustomed - rather twee

Posted on July 30, 2018

Time Warps

Time - the First Mover’s fatal instrument Fleet to avoid all stasis, room in which to think, Wanders a world commanding, commandeering Mustering squadroned minutes spelt as numbers indolently

Posted on July 30, 2018

Sent Out of The Garden

The little girls next door are playing singing games in the garden Suspended in air war planes fling out bombs on refugees In the peace of the garden the little girls ring-a-round in singing games The numbers on the Stockmarket announce a radio

Posted on July 09, 2018

Postmodernist Poem

The little girls next door are playing singing games in the garden Suspended in air war planes fling out bombs on refugees In the peace of the garden the little girls ring-a-round in singing games The numbers on the Stockmarket announce a radio

Posted on June 24, 2018

“Going to California In my Mind” or “Within You- Without You”

Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes

Posted on June 17, 2018

Towneley Cycle

I was reading a book of The Towneley Cycle of mediaeval dramas, and I was struck, as I have been in the past when reading middle English texts, how it is that certain words as used by the writers of those plays betray their connections with other words;

Posted on June 12, 2018

Returning to a Future

“I been down so long, bottom looks like up”

Posted on June 08, 2018

The Shire and Mordor

Tolkien’s home of the Hobbits is The Shire – and even the name, The Shire, brings to any Briton’s recollection those ‘shires’ in England in particular, where Tolkien lived out a lot of his long life.

Posted on May 26, 2018

Saved from Self

Each of us talks as though from the centre of things As though, in our centres of things, is the place to be, I know, is the locus falsetto which everyone sings, How to get through, undo, such a wicked death pledge of a sting!

Posted on May 23, 2018

Triumphs of the Will

What is the point of the news? To fill one’s conception with views. Whose?

Posted on May 19, 2018

Honest Love

Here - have a supplement! beef-up your prepossession, Additive whey; adjusts tres bon the palate, shapes the limb, Similarly, puts on bulk in scrawny unregarded places Most fulsomely

Posted on May 12, 2018

Going Nowhere; Saying Nothings

Being their livings, Homer, Shakespeare, Joyce, Distrusted words, distressed them oftentimes, And played them down, their fecklessness villainies Congenial mineral, vegetable, animal, all Grand luxury of bluster

Posted on May 10, 2018

Enjoyment (at reading through ‘Scots Minor Poets’)

I am half tickled – pat me on the back a tittle, Joy makes raids on me, waits, bids me happy office Ruffs my feathers, Half puffed-out self-importance, a conceited clever me

Posted on May 05, 2018

Under the Hill

They have all gone under the hill Little Anthony and Bobby Vee Who sang all the day long marvellous harmonies Their cymbal, and their brush, and ambling four-four beat Played out an art, extolled the part, of old romance Sad Lesley Gore, and Dion di Muci, of The Wanderer, All passions lively once; now sudden late

Posted on May 02, 2018

Voice in a Wilderness

Without likening myself to ‘a voice of one crying in the wilderness’ I feel I might ask with some relevance - “Why have not our authorities cottoned on, got a steer on, why so many of their failings in politics, government, public administration, are not ‘unfortunate’ or ‘accidental’ in a sense that they might not have been seen coming or else might not reasonably have been avoided?”

Posted on May 02, 2018

Parliament

Self-satisfied, wealth-gratified lot Happy to bray and cheer on without fervour, thought, Milky words spilling piddling pools all over the place Public with honours, at home in comfort with disgrace

Posted on April 29, 2018

Time Lock

Time - the First Mover’s fatal instrument Fleet to avoid all stasis, room in which to think Wanders a world commanding, commandeering Marshall of squadron minutes, troops accounted indolently

Posted on April 29, 2018

In What have I Offended?

It is a time for sifting recollecting Remembering the account, the cost, of loss of friends On my fingers’ bare bones

Posted on April 27, 2018

The World - In a Grain of Sand

In the 1940s Arthur Miller wrote his play of, ‘All My Sons’, and it was performed on Broadway and a movie was made of it; and his drama pointed up so very poignantly the cost to the ordinary guy and girl of being caught up in a war in which armaments manufacturers were doing huge business upon its carnage.

Posted on April 27, 2018

Mussorgsky - Futurist

With the ironical forename Modest, Mussorgsky comes across in his times as being the most sudden and violent user of music in his compositions.

Posted on April 24, 2018

Second Childhood

Learning’s a regress of letting-goes Windows on which you painted so Your heart’s-loves scried by accidents you’d hung your coat on To harbour fast against the bays of time

Posted on April 24, 2018

Sides

With all the world intent on holding up its side Encouraging pendant citizenries hop-on, implement the ride Nor wonder can free remain to hear a natal child who cries

Posted on April 17, 2018

Just Here

And everything flops in – sits just here

Posted on April 15, 2018

Lent - as Spiritual R&R

Lent as a fixture in the Christian calendar appears to parallel and so suit with similar purposes to our Lord’s own period of forty days spent by him in the wilderness, at a time immediately following the event of his baptism in Jordan by John Baptist.

Posted on April 15, 2018

Political Gaming Show

Those bandy back shows of squatters studied picking in junk piles And the big bird overlord absurd presides inspects their finds As the dust flies upwards like the sparks of global trouble Coating all things with fine films, where else could these thrive?

Posted on April 10, 2018

The Disservice Economy and its Bad Goods; Fueling The Global Money Making Engine - 7

(I know this is a bit of a rant on my part. I still think it's valuable for its statements albeit baldly of the dreadful states of affairs we are in so deeply so widespread, and made by us, across our world/Peter)

Posted on March 26, 2018

Proverbs Chapter 7 verse 2 in D’Oyly Mant edition of KJV

“Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye”

Posted on March 24, 2018

Contradictions

Contradictions let them stay. Don’t think to reason them away.They are our Meatloaf, heavy metal.They are our carving irons and kettle

Posted on March 20, 2018

The Russian Gas

Let’s trace the ‘function’ of the National News Media. In my estimation the National News Media can be treated of, in regard to its function, in one generalised sweep.

Posted on March 15, 2018

Today’s Tragedy

Just heard a programme on TV speaking about Ancient Greece and interpreting the events, mostly of Athenian history of the 5th century BC through the lens of the, mostly Athenian, drama.

Posted on March 11, 2018

Sunday Religion

I heard a woman speak and offer searching questions on The radio today - Why is it we exist; why are we here? My spirit leapt; at last! A voice is primal-seeking For substance-meaning, life-intentionality.

Posted on March 10, 2018

Something to Lose

If you would use their services, have something of proof to lose, A star, a heap of money or a roarer reputation That’s the proper stuff, the collateral guff the sky-high flier guys.

Posted on March 06, 2018

Somewhere between Completion

Somewhere between completion of our rescue Performed by God Most High in humble frame And Josue warrior prophet smiting jealous genocide There rests The Psalms

Posted on March 02, 2018

We Shall be Known Hereafter

What is the point of the news? To fill one’s conception with views. Whose?

Posted on March 01, 2018

Post-Modern Theorists

Twisted metal train crash wreckage; a measured intervention Pretender Napoleons, conquerors in rococo tongues, Desirous of derivations rummage Karno’s army surplus Something confusedly

Posted on February 26, 2018

“Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”

It is a time for sifting recollecting Remembering the account, the cost, of loss of friends On my fingers’ bare bones

Posted on February 24, 2018

Can it be Consciousness?

Can it be consciousness which irks, which works Within us by a two-edged blade? Hedge-hopping One will shout big glees in joy, forever venture; “For who would lose, though full of pain, this Intellectual being?”

Posted on February 23, 2018

Seeing The Land of God

Seeing the land of God a graze away from touching sense Volunteers high a will, insistent, commandeering awe Taken in at one sweep by volte-face Romantic lays Bled on an otherness parboiled puling counterfactual sighs

Posted on February 19, 2018

Flowers That Are Looked At

The punctilious say that justice must not only be done; but must be seen to be done. This stands a little in opposition to Jesus’ recommendation to us that we ‘do our alms in private’; so that ‘the left hand knoweth not what the right hand doeth.’

Posted on February 17, 2018

Who Would a Brother?

Who would withstand a brother taking heavy punishment Underneath twenty-pounder blows knees bowing, head hung stunned, Bleeding lip, raw red eye, a putty body pasted towards cold floor, The people loving it are shouting frenzies of delights

Posted on February 14, 2018

Zero is not Defined

I have been chugging along with pretty elementary maths with my son for some months now. Every now and then I get a reminder from the guy who writes the text book I am using that, as he puts it ‘Zero is not defined’.

Posted on February 14, 2018

Conditions and Variations

It’s as clear to me as it can be. The parents pass their manner to the children

Posted on February 11, 2018

News as Spoon-fed Scrapings

The Nobel Laureate and physicist Stephen Hawking for some years now, according to his own estimation, has been approaching to A Theory of Everything.

Posted on February 11, 2018

Never Mind; No Matter

The Nobel Laureate and physicist Stephen Hawking for some years now, according to his own estimation, has been approaching to A Theory of Everything.

Posted on February 11, 2018

God and Mammon III

Respecting the Christian virtues – ha ha-ha! Respecting? Huff! rejecting, that is we Who have aspired, desired, sublimely-highly mired

Posted on February 10, 2018

Streams of Living Water

What happens when the drinking water plasticises? Due to a wantonness of many years of practice And what might be this dumping mounting in the sea? Isn’t it sin?

Posted on February 08, 2018

Logical-Positive

A simple childish trust believes before its eyes Cares not to keep concern or leap beyond a trice Regards befuddled elegant arcane philosophers Close over-curious off-the-wall conceivers

Posted on January 28, 2018

The Disservice Economy and its Bad Goods - Powering the Global Money Engine 7

The people have lost the plot; that set of open ground Once home, estate in Paradise, from whence old Adam fell, And Eve beside him, sentient of idea, an inkling guide

Posted on January 24, 2018

Why The News?

What has it got to do with us? The ‘shutting down’ of America; ...go bust! As far as any Enlishman might mourn The Turkish and the Kurds arming for conflict Might they withhold did we serve them an edict?

Posted on January 22, 2018

Grounded in Love

Direct me towards a grounded earth, where courteously laid Long time bestrewed, things beautiful, broadcasted round, Unanxious of men’s martial casts, slight curious jobbing things, Conceived in leisure

Posted on January 21, 2018

God and Money

Money; there’s no-one in the world would disregard it Funny; it’s all mirage A tangent in our heads turned to a beeline when a sum Of money is imparted

Posted on January 20, 2018

Devotions

Devotions are exercises of the mind and heart and spirit which are proper to, and at the same time attempt small repayment to, God for his bounty towards us, his gifts, and his general care of us.

Posted on January 18, 2018

Where do I go?....To whom should we go?

Who would withstand a brother taking heavy punishment Underneath twenty-pounder blows knees bowing, head hung stunned, Bleeding lip, raw red eye, a putty body pasted towards cold floor, The people loving it are shouting frenzies of delights

Posted on January 18, 2018

“The Best Deal Possible”

I want the best deal possible My government is working for the best deal possible We shall not be contented till we get the best deal possible We maintain negotiations for the best deal possible

Posted on January 16, 2018

Old Oaks in Winter

Old oaks in winter, emblems Of a stiffening guise – we search, we find Expression of a stature wrung from-out-inside Prefiguring a figured grain exposed to moaning pains And mourning gyves

Posted on January 15, 2018

Dark Side

And I do deplore my dark-side conscienced consciousness. Brings metals to me, to the fore; as it seems, all the more

Posted on January 11, 2018

Sound and Silence

Music is about what? It’s hard to say, exactly. What there is about good music seems to me to be a fluency of expression, a continuity, within massive variety, of theme and feeling, and carried within all this lives a crie de coeur;

Posted on January 11, 2018

The Disservice Economy and its Bad Goods - Powering the Global Money Engine 5

How many of you people reading this are holding in their lofts or in their under stair cupboards, garden sheds, outdoor lockers; several crates-worth of accessories, fitments, plugs, sockets, adaptors, connectors, cards, chips, cables, and so on; all of which fit for the most part a single piece of hardware only; and none of which you feel you can part with ‘just in case’?

Posted on January 07, 2018

The Lost Lands of Avalon and Lyonesse

The people have lost the plot; that set of open ground Once home, estate in Paradise, from whence old Adam fell, And Eve beside him, sentient of idea, an inkling guide

Posted on January 06, 2018

Sleepers Awake!

Truly random needs abandon’s liberty Outer space grace to spree whereso it list Like The Holy Ghost - Agree? Perhaps? Maybe?

Posted on January 03, 2018

The Disservice Economy and its Bad Goods - Powering the Global Money Engine 4

Everyone in the world who uses such light bulbs will have had some experience of how wasteful and how contradictory to their sold purpose to us as gullible publics they in fact are.

Posted on January 02, 2018

Random Abandon

This way in which we are; it did not have to Be; as spell our present prophets on astute Philosophy; I contradict them here And say that, yes, the will is free, since where Might leg-room theoretic come to be Which routes life’s adaptations randomly By way of blind mutation vis-à-vis, In somewhat gamesome gait, genetically?

Posted on January 01, 2018

The Disservice Economy and its Bad Goods - Powering the Global Money Engine 3

This past Summer our phone has been ringing again and again with calls from our utilities provider ‘whose team is in the area right now’ and ‘is ready to fit a spanking new SmartMeter in your home free of charge’. The nuisance levels of the utilities provider’s calls have been a cause of disturbance to our homelife.

Posted on December 28, 2017

An Anthropology of Cars

Have you seen those bullish automobiles Bearing down as their predatory figures chasing speed For driver-junked adrenalins; they slope forwardly low Crouched, just as are their animals, concentratedly.

Posted on December 27, 2017

Fifteen Minutes in the Frame

It’s quiet. Just me; some music, and a Christmas Eve now dark. The night descended As a song invades my fingertips, not sage Perhaps, emplaces, aiming where might wisdom seem to rise Inveigling; hoping and foreseeing, An optimistic sanction for a joust with letters

Posted on December 25, 2017

Morning and Evening

The day begins dark, heard only are angels singing Supposedly heard; a good word, and a good beginning

Posted on December 24, 2017

Snow Poem

Snow better now than it’s ever been for Santa Claus S’now celebrated as if - was that the birth of God?????? Snow wise-men nowadays; and presents shift so quickly roughly-shodd- Y goods the most part; ….and the people revel just because…..

Posted on December 23, 2017

Oxbridgymoron

I would have everybody rustication mad I would that safe advantages were cause for rags Houseless itinerants addressed as Oxford grads With lavish fancy restaurant tables tabbed Oh, how a comrade might declare - Ah, you, you’re such a wag!

Posted on December 22, 2017

Four or Five

I was maybe four or five When first I found myself alive Next after I discovered dread When I saw I should soon be dead

Posted on December 14, 2017

Fighting

I don’t want to fight I’m tired of fighting Fighting is going on all round me Some delighting In their fighting

Posted on December 13, 2017

Random Genetic Mutation - I don't think so.

This essay is going to look at the idea of Random Genetic Mutation; a concept which might be called the principal supporting precept of contemporary evolutionary theory. I am also later on going to look at an idea, quite prevalent, because an easy lapse to settle into; that somehow evolution is an active principle, a force, blind maybe, but nonetheless, a guiding star to a host of clustered hopes and presumptions.

Posted on December 11, 2017

Beethoven - beyond music

Music is about what? It’s hard to say, exactly. What there is about good music seems to me to be a fluency of expression, a continuity, within massive variety, of theme and feeling, and carried within all this lives a crie de coeur;

Posted on December 08, 2017

City Shield

Caught under, in a crawling shell, with armoured carapace Urban defenders, errant bear brash contactless society Blank faces rebate vibes, brand rigid hard estrangements They counter-factually drive their sorry heartbreaks disengagement

Posted on December 04, 2017

Poker

A reasonably perspicacious person might have predicted that the card game of poker should have become greatly celebrated and its players raised to high esteem in a Post-Modern age such as ours is.

Posted on November 30, 2017

Psalm 15 NIV

Proportionality is best known in its use as a word in Law; Statute Law. Most of us know that rule on which our law is based and which was parodied by the operetta-makers Gilbert and Sullivan, who said;’ Make the punishment fit the crime’.

Posted on November 30, 2017

The Good, The Bad, and The Bubbly

The movie spectaculars of X-Men, and The Watchman, and Dredd - the list goes on…..whose provenance is the US Superhero Comic Book (Marvel; DC; and such) are the offspring of ancient mythologies of Germanic and Indo-European extraction.  This is saying nothing new.

Posted on November 30, 2017

Victims of our own Enthusiasms

Jacques Ellul described his central concept of ‘technique’ as being.

Posted on November 30, 2017

Melee-go-round

Makes a blank evolution, turning like a slow elephant On a box, in a circus, blindfold Takes up proffered buns, a willing trunk, and grasping There is no other fare

Posted on November 26, 2017

Porcelain Dolls

Porcelain dolls dance down the streets; are here, Joggling high-shoes flap, flap; and to an urgent rap Overlord of the musak ruling in the Shopping Malls A persistent present’s peak-post-modern Music Hall Plaintiff, acknowledges suffering in the race for cool

Posted on November 26, 2017

Reasons and Seasons

Turning the world moves on equinoctial play Idly squandering time-on-its-hands away The sea-changes ring when the birdies will sing Pleasant part-song - lulla-lay

Posted on November 26, 2017

The Balloon of Science and the Ignorance of the World

How hard it is to advocate a remedial true cure Without attaching wrong bad faith conceitedly demure In a brute association with one’s rich urbane aplomb Of self-congratulation.

Posted on November 25, 2017

What is the Point of the News?

What is the point of the news? To fill one’s conception with views. Whose?

Posted on November 25, 2017

Inauthentic

Here are some girls – young ladies, at a foyer desk Dancing a double, from swim tickets to house cafe Two jobs in one, a posse modulating as a pool

Posted on November 23, 2017

Ryanair made £1.1 billion in half-year Profits in 2017

This money was made, was it really made, or was it merely aggregated as fees had from other holders of money? Let’s be generous and say some of it has truly been ‘wealth-creation’, which to define might be to say that a greater sum total of money value is now in existence than was the case before Ryanair had provided the services of which this money is the palpable profit for them having provided.

Posted on November 21, 2017

Ego contra Death

Building sandcastles on the beach, the reach Of tide approaching; time wafts, westers, lightly runs away Grains in the hourglass finely wetted set, cement together Adhere in the face of watery bombings spoken of, foretold

Posted on November 21, 2017

King Canute

In a time when teaching history was simply telling children stories about the exploits of famous British people of the past; and many years ago when I was at junior school, one of the time-worn stories which was told to us, along with those of King Alfred burning the cakes;

Posted on November 20, 2017

Flee from the Wrath to Come

Go low into the earth, defend you from the wrath, Here sentience knows no comfortable berth besides Where works The Thunderer tender-set against self-harms - We riddle, chat, rat-catching one another for the stars we climb

Posted on November 14, 2017

Technique and Torpor

Don’t mistake Robert Burns here - he’s not anti-justice nor is he anti-Christianity in him saying these things in his verses. He does however point up the fact that civil and institutianal means of justice and of worship

Posted on November 10, 2017

Don’t Follow Leaders

How hard it is to advocate a remedial true cure Without attaching wrong bad faith conceitedly demure In a brute association with one’s rich urbane aplomb Of self-congratulation.

Posted on November 05, 2017

Lost in Space

Do you not see how this load lays right hard upon us This lax remiss inertia like an immanent payload Bears down, and underneath it down we go, all tangled up Inevitably?

Posted on November 01, 2017

Ryanair made £1.1 billion in half-year Profits in 2017

This money was made, was it really made, or was it merely aggregated as fees had from other holders of money? Let’s be generous and say some of it has truly been ‘wealth-creation’, which to define might be to say that a greater sum total of money value is now in existence than was the case before Ryanair had provided the services of which this money is the palpable profit for them having provided.

Posted on November 01, 2017

Random Genetic Mutilation

Hohoho in the news this week I say Embryos, human embryos, In a laboratory secure of course By competent paternal slightly condescending heads Whose work (of course) is for the human good Preventative or else remedial

Posted on October 31, 2017

Unreality TV and Fake News Radio

Here we are taking in another people’s dirty washing Another jamboree of luscious odorous comparisons Of Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba

Posted on October 29, 2017

Come Mystery To Me

Come mystery, and be to me a good and honest friend, Impart here an allottment, string your solemn alembic strands Wind rolled up mists of circumstance which twitched, bewitch with glamours Carry your feet apace here, I would your untaught enamours

Posted on October 28, 2017

Catalonia

Should we not hear the whole vice of the people Pursue democracy as politics’ most sovereign idol Abiding thereby by a common general wail So every individual gets his rightful Dignitas?

Posted on October 27, 2017

Can’t Get the Staff

Is there a time, since 1869, when first the poor, A proletariat, began, attained to sign To write more than their name or modest mark indite Becoming set among the rolls productive A lettered class, by rote named educated

Posted on October 24, 2017

On a Pastiche Pieta by Sam Taylor-Johnson now on display at South Place Hotel London

Here we have for you today A little consternation given in a roundelay

Posted on October 24, 2017

“Thoughts After Sickness”

I have been fairly ill recently, and consequently things for the past month have slowed right down for me; and I have had time to rest up and think without pressures. I am now on the mend, and I have a few things to say – some of them about my previous written work and my attitude showing in some of it; some about the content and conclusions of that work and the question of their validity or otherwise.

Posted on October 22, 2017

All-Consuming Marketplaces

Assorted games of apprehension they play and captivate us. The grammars of gladsome glamour are so well-known; are lightly thrown. Over one’s eyes

Posted on October 15, 2017

Organic Food - Mendelssohn and The Paganism of Youth

I mean by ‘Paganism’ that unoppresed and delighted sense of being trouble-free, of accepting appearances at face-value and feeling generously full of general goodwill and joy, in a thoughtless and sunny kind of way.

Posted on October 15, 2017

Capital and Self-Interest

It is true that private property ownership does have a ‘spin-off’ being that such properties are generally ‘looked after’ maintained and so what they do and achieve works and continues working. That this continuance transforms into goods and services for others who need them and who are without them.

Posted on October 12, 2017

I’d Like to Say

I’d like to say I’m just a sinner, same as any other jerk The guy who beats his wife and goes berserk The gal who steals softly a pace away With client’ s purse after an evening making bedroom hay

Posted on October 12, 2017

Capitalism and The Kingdom

Let’s look at the pillars on which Capitalism rests, and set our findings on their nature against those basic teachings by which Jesus taught that The Kingdom of Heaven might be ushered into the world.

Posted on October 11, 2017

Eliot - Everyone’s and No-one’s

Mankind cannot without his neighbour’s heed Survive, but cannot, will not, trust his neighbour’s lights His guide his pride in oscillations frights Him in himself and in his neighbour’s eyes

Posted on October 11, 2017

The Miracles 3 - Filling out Background

There is a second battery of offence which confronts a Christian of today in regard to her/him accepting the supernaturalness of The Miracles as being necessary to firm Christian belief

Posted on October 09, 2017

Stravinski and The Soviets

Let’s first run through that Bible story in Genesis of The Fall from Grace of Adam and Eve, the first people and created by God, and placed by him in Paradise in the Garden of Eden.

Posted on October 07, 2017

The Global Fairy Tale

Dressed all invincible without a hint of flaw

Posted on October 06, 2017

Eliot: Formulary

There’s crystals Then there’s muck to build a wall And then there’s rock as stones and gravels, cumbrous boulders

Posted on October 04, 2017

The Miracles 2 - Why not just quit?

In the first part on The Miracles I hope I showed to you how I worked out for my own self’s benefit that a Christian must, has to, accept the supernaturalness of The Miracles so as to be able to believe in Jesus without him using what might be called ‘doublethink’; a holding of obviously contradictory beliefs and in doing so deceiving oneself.

Posted on October 03, 2017

The Miracles

I have been allowed some rigorous self-reflection lately; firstly about my own character and secondly about the miracles.

Posted on October 01, 2017

Justice versus Mercy

“Everyone has won, and all must have prizes”

Posted on September 19, 2017

Control and Related Psychopathologies

Saw a bald guy cruising casual in a tattooed vest

Posted on September 12, 2017

Lies, Damned Lies and Politics

The art of politics in liberal democracies seems to be one of the lowest points in the dignity of human relations to which a so-called public servant is able to stoop. Liberal democracies being societies wherein at the least nominally an electorate has influence, for good or ill, to bring to bear on those who govern that same electorate.

Posted on September 11, 2017

The Grand Global Dream Disaster

Dreams slide into screens Slide into schemes Slide into means Celebrity rock, and movie stars

Posted on September 06, 2017

The Servant of All

The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.  But ye shall not be so - but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. I am among you as he that serveth.”

Posted on September 06, 2017

Eliot - Empty Society

Free to be empty, To have been deemed, esteemed, pre-empted And had schooling in the ruling to be inarticulate

Posted on September 03, 2017

The Day Today

Have you heard of The Worried Warrior?  The guy or girl who is at war with the world because within a war is going on in her/his mind?

Posted on August 31, 2017

The Leash

Life’s livings played, mislaid, by bought desires, acquired constraints By-pass the marching heady saints’ close tonic harmonies Tub-thumping in pursuit of coin collections Their raucous pier-end silver-bandstand unencumbered keys Breathe over sands a music poured out oil on treacherous seas

Posted on August 29, 2017

Eliot - God and Mammon – Two Masters

Assuredly captive shakes our head on haphazard Under the Christmas tree are occular daylights clean blown out On the block of the rational executioner presumed disembling quarrels Ready his circling axe

Posted on August 20, 2017

Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 and other of his works

If you are still with me and are still up for more discussion let me put in here a word about the ancient Hebrews and their apparent cursory dismissal of secondary causes in their scripture writings.

Posted on August 19, 2017

Wayback When

Each a Creation of The Big Bang are we perhaps, maybe? Must marvel at what we are, and hither have come to be, A gala of implications in a Christmas tree snow globe Surpassing in wizardry its incidence arose

Posted on August 17, 2017

The Song of a Creature of a Day – (inspired by a drawing by Durer and by my city walks

There is a weekly newspaper from an organisation named The Salvation Army, and it is called The War Cry. As anyone reasonably conversant with British history will understand; the name of the organisation and of the weekly are both indicative of their origins; and that they were created here in the UK first during the times of British Empire.

Posted on August 11, 2017

The Messiah

I have been unable to get out of my head “And who shall stand when he appeareth?” I have been unable to lay its song And symphony

Posted on August 09, 2017

A World Unregenerate

What’s trapped in us - that forces its way out. Mangles a heart to shreds, affrays; and in its rage

Posted on August 03, 2017

Eliot - Early and Late

Even so great a figure in the intellectual world of the mid 20<sup>th</sup> century as Sir Maurice Bowra was persuaded that T S Eliot’s later works represented a falling off of his poetic gifts; and that Eliot’s early works – I guess Prufrock, Portrait of a Lady, and The Waste Land being primes cases in point, showed the best of Eliot as a poet.

Posted on July 31, 2017

Schiller Beethoven and Joy

This evening 30th July 2017 performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall was Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. One of the most remarkable pieces of music from one of the most remarkable of composers.

Posted on July 31, 2017

Post-postmodernism

The pyre upplumes; ignited by hot hands’ exhilarations A ratio exactly furbished by fire-waving bonded bands Descendants of the village-swarm compound on evil doers Laughingly to burn

Posted on July 27, 2017

The Other Side of The Bubble

In the world like a bubble In the world you don't see here's the bubble You're in, you’re curled

Posted on July 26, 2017

Tony Bianchi

Inquisitive athirst, rehearsed in eager earnest A guy no barrier to engagement might propound Reserve or distance to preserve a height Of fancied amplitudes

Posted on July 24, 2017

In Captivity

Inquisitive athirst, rehearsed in eager earnest A guy no barrier to engagement might propound Reserve or distance to preserve a height Of fancied amplitudes

Posted on July 24, 2017

On Balance

All the days shimmering flurries stir belligerent people Seeking, and serving, not their brother’s better interest, neither Their sister’s, mother’s, father’s, cousin’s, favourite budgie’s, rather

Posted on July 23, 2017

Eliot: Hope

I was searching for a hope at any price – except Integrity – not mine – but of that skein, reputed Of fine thread held up, held out; which latched onto That it should hold me firm

Posted on July 20, 2017

Taking a Cut

If you are still with me and are still up for more discussion let me put in here a word about the ancient Hebrews and their apparent cursory dismissal of secondary causes in their scripture writings.

Posted on July 20, 2017

“The Terrors of the Earth”

Ownership of an item seems to me only to be able to occur once the item in question has dropped out of circulation as it being a value-counter within the system of the means of exchange.

Posted on July 15, 2017

Eliot - Fragments

Coursing across down up roads crossing taking lefts Rights, centres, to the body; blows from city heats Preliminary knockout rounds selecting who might what

Posted on July 11, 2017

Love and Language

Some schemes are proper to poetry; some pertain To prayer more nearly, yet are proper frames; Here then are two alike; two schemas; two regimes Apprising our sincerities

Posted on July 07, 2017

“Thy Rebuke Has Broken His Heart”

It is a shaken weakening ailing sort of thing Throws you over like a fall at combat A thwack and the nervous heart-strings take a tragic loop A fragile shiver

Posted on July 03, 2017

‘I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now’

Doomed dust; thrust from a womb Out of dumb lusts begotten A birthing done forgotten; a wet thirst At once nursed; then days’ rehearsal bit-parts Not yet written; deeds no pattern Eyesight no labels and thought bides vegetable Unsighted to discern the eventual urn Framing all context; and normative reflex;

Posted on June 28, 2017

One’s Lone Narcissism

Locked in a limpid pool which reads your lily eyes Rocking so lightly over waters; gaze ablaze You face the pleasing promise; A moving pictures idol smoothly-groomed of gracious stance A gander being a swan

Posted on June 22, 2017

“To Make Do and Mend”

It‘s too late once emerged to hatch ways out of here After the nursling corn Our fate speaks - make a headway quick and clear Then are we born

Posted on June 21, 2017

Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique

Racked, stretched out prone on its cross of hectic passion Large music plays you; welcomes through cruel iron Gates, wit-hung, levered open

Posted on June 17, 2017

Eliot - Flower Power

Is it a paranoia or psychoses hat creditor, rings in rhymes with predator hat drama chimes out nicely against trauma And evil turns live backwards?

Posted on June 16, 2017

Proportionality

Proportionality is best known in its use as a word in Law; Statute Law. Most of us know that rule on which our law is based and which was parodied by the operetta-makers Gilbert and Sullivan, who said;’ Make the punishment fit the crime’.

Posted on June 11, 2017

Doing Time

This looks to me like it is the premise, the basic understanding, on which our economy is built, and by which it continues to survive;  and within its own terms of success,  continues to thrive.

Posted on June 10, 2017

‘The Serpent Beguiled Me, and I Did Eat’

Let’s first run through that Bible story in Genesis of The Fall from Grace of Adam and Eve, the first people and created by God, and placed by him in Paradise in the Garden of Eden. There are people here in the UK today, many, many, who are not familiar with this story; or else whose familiarity with it is rather sketchy.

Posted on June 10, 2017

Eliot - Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru

The author was interviewed about his award-winning novel ‘Gods without Men’. I myself have not read the novel; this essay I am about to write refers to this interview led by BBC’s presenter James Naughtie on Radio Four as above.

Posted on June 04, 2017

Nonsense Logics

The Lord Jesus Christ we are told in several places in the four gospels (the AV 1610 version) was such; was ‘no respecter of persons’. The expression is now antiquated;

Posted on May 31, 2017

“Anger, Despite, and Frustration”

I try to avoid the mainstream news media and their commentary. I have found my mood is more even and settled whenever I am able to get away with not being exposed to these published and broadcast items.

Posted on May 25, 2017

No Respecter of Persons

The Lord Jesus Christ we are told in several places in the four gospels (the AV 1610 version) was such; was ‘no respecter of persons’. The expression is now antiquated; but I am reliably informed that in our times it might be rendered as ‘not a person who pays attention to rank, position, titles, influence, power etc’ - in short The Lord Jesus cut through all that lumber provided to our societies because of our enamoured deference to the world the flesh and the devil.

Posted on May 24, 2017

Strangers in a Strange Land

If you are still with me and are still up for more discussion let me put in here a word about the ancient Hebrews and their apparent cursory dismissal of secondary causes in their scripture writings.

Posted on May 11, 2017

Passion and Desire

There’s a Hebrew image from the Rabbinical writings to which William Barclay, author of The Daily Study New Testament refers, and which conjures the idea of The Lord God leaning forward in prayer to Himself beseeching that He should always remain merciful.

Posted on May 08, 2017

On Spenser

Hear of that lovely hoary tale of old Folding its speculations round us, and never yet over-sold Encapturing in its raptures cheering turbulent dull clay; Wanderings into wolds of words in a wonderful melee

Posted on May 05, 2017

On the Far Side of The World

Boy-biker joy raises terrible noise on the block And reminds me of a man I knew once, Geoff; Dead now of motor neurone; he was pretty gauche; Performed a business operation for his late employ In North America.

Posted on May 02, 2017

Simple or Sophisticated?

Originally I wanted to write about how plain and simple language is able sometimes, when well thought out, to move a person as deeply as any strong experience in life is able to.

Posted on April 27, 2017

Edmund Spenser - Poet Supreme.…..who???…

A dead name. One of those uninviting white Anglo-Saxons of yore. To us, in a time when people are so busily living, past times are so very much not of account.

Posted on April 26, 2017

Eliot: Hurt and Understanding

Hurt understands consideration These words whose scopes reflex  so intercedently This way and that, as how one might consider How taught consideration voluntarily concedes Its graciousness to others

Posted on April 26, 2017

The Feral Weatherman

As on the morning of the bash his position not assumed But compromised by spew bursted across the news G spot BBC’s Weather Office took a sedentary view Saved him, his job strung out on isobars, from houshold scrap

Posted on April 22, 2017

Root 2

I’ve been reading Maths so as to be able to help educate my son in the subject. The guy who wrote the textbook I am using says that there are ‘rational’ numbers and ‘irrational’ numbers. He says an ‘irrational’ number is one which when expressed as a decimal figure carries on (it is thought) to infinity its decimal points, and there are no repeated recurring sequences in the decimal places such as one get when one divides,say, 10 by 3.

Posted on April 18, 2017

Organic Food - The Body as Temple

One of my favourite authors, as anyone who reads my stuff might know, is John Milton.

Posted on April 17, 2017

The Great and The Governed

Dreaming a demos, The Founding Fathers laundered out Their Worships on a Line of Truth in hope, now puppet-show; A conceptual Escape from Alcatraz by leave of Crazy Horse; And the sheen of silver sidewalks soiled, abraded off

Posted on April 13, 2017

Dead Dead Things, Dead Live Things, and Live Things

This article aims to take a look at some conundrums of biology, natural selection, and adaptation. I know very very little about the workings of cellular biological organisms; or for that matter about any biology or organisms of any kind at all.

Posted on April 10, 2017

True

I began a series on Words a few months back, and this article I write now aims at being a continuation of that theme. The word under consideration is the word - True; and a lot of what I am about to write will speak about Christ and about Christians and their faith.

Posted on April 07, 2017

My Friend The Vegan

I have a son who is a vegetarian. He eats dairy products and vegetables, grains, and fruit only. I have a friend who is vegan; and she eats only foods of the plant families of living things.

Posted on April 03, 2017

Consumption by Consumption to Consume

The crazy rabble catching capital trouble, Rouble or dollar, blue n white collar Lean virulent servitudes; renascent slaves Make trade beatitude.

Posted on March 31, 2017

Songs and Tunes I Recall (3)

Now there was plenty of mysticism in the later 1960s and early 70s; associated with popular music and musicians; and there were few performers of the first rank who did not dabble at the least in a little quasi-religious, slightly vague sentiments, on vinyl and in person or performance.

Posted on March 27, 2017

Pitch and Performance

“At the ripe old age of 34 - statistically the happiest of your life - comedian C*** D****** is now seemingly finding peace in a vegetable-planting, self-hating liberal existence... but has he made a terrible mistake?”

Posted on March 18, 2017

God allowed Trump to be Elected so as to give the Tabloid Press some Real News to Print

Everything’s satire, parody, an entire blancmange. Of genres, letting-go of moorings slipping free, adrift, Charts off the radar, dances in the hold, recruited crews, Guffawing on, All troth and fealty neatly being drowned like kittens

Posted on March 09, 2017

Songs and Tunes I Recall (2)

If you are still with me and are still up for more discussion let me put in here a word about the ancient Hebrews and their apparent cursory dismissal of secondary causes in their scripture writings.

Posted on March 07, 2017

What Happens to All the Mayhem

Cantor and Mentor; what becomes of sin After your hand, O holy Christ, has entered in? After a grimy board is wiped, and pristine once again

Posted on March 07, 2017

The Problem of Evil

Building communities is one of those elusive items whose exercise will need to be a regular topic of conversation at metanomalies.com.  The conundrum is - How do communities get “built”? And what are the sociological dynamics that go into the course of their building?

Posted on March 06, 2017

Songs and Tunes I Recall (1)

Let’s begin with Barry Macguire, whose single popular song with which I am acquainted seemed to me, and looking back yet seems to me, to typify strongly one impressive aspect of life for most people during the nineteen sixties and seventies. This aspect was called The Cold War.

Posted on March 05, 2017

Life-aims in Purgatory

I am sure of God Of Him I am certain. Piddling, meddling, concupiscence of dreamers curtain Interfere Obscure, adhere

Posted on March 03, 2017

“What a piece of work is man… how noble in reason...”

Shakespeare’s encomium on humanity which he put into the mouth of his Hamlet

Posted on March 02, 2017

By their fruits; so shall ye know them” OR Our Designs are Whom we Are

I wrote recently a few verses on automobiles and their shapes and about how these shapes reflect an outlook assumed to be conducive to selling cars by their manufacturers; and which shapes do seem to have become successful economically for these makers.

Posted on February 27, 2017

A Deeper Look than Perception

There is a weekly newspaper from an organisation named The Salvation Army, and it is called The War Cry. As anyone reasonably conversant with British history will understand; the name of the organisation and of the weekly are both indicative of their origins; and that they were created here in the UK first during the times of British Empire.

Posted on February 25, 2017

You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin

What does this mean? Jesus’ words here are difficult to interpret singly; as having a sole and lone meaning; definitively so. They contain so much meaning they act to confuse a reader of them; because meanings which a person might derive from them are able to permutate by means of overlap; and thereby they multiply in number.

Posted on February 16, 2017

Organic Food - Paradise Lost – An Epic Poem (3) – by John Milton

John Milton lived through a most tumultuous period in English history. He saw in his youth the procession of events and tensions which led to The English Civil War breaking out; the king versus parliament; the Anglican hierarchy against The Puritan non-conformists; know more commonly as Roundheads versus Cavaliers.

Posted on February 14, 2017

Vestiges

Having no star to reach for; nor no landscape of a sake; No avatar to preach over, hence no scope to cultivate; Failure cuts up desire; forever Christ hangs-on His trace A portent daily

Posted on February 13, 2017

Old Mortality

He’s not fashionable. Almost forgotten in the sense that few people read him these days. He has a Main Terminus Railway Station named after his first novel-writing success; a central monument in his home metropolis; and even an eponym known by people all over the world - The Wizard of the North.

Posted on February 11, 2017

Eliot: Foreigner Policy

I used to fry up, thunder forth, hot turmoils in my brain Sat sedentary galloping, hell-bent on sharing pain Unheedful that a comity might help me to obtain A better company

Posted on February 09, 2017

License to Kill

I gifted freedom to you and you tortured Him Extracted all His greedy sweetmeat marrowbone Devoured; with mouths overrunning, ooze like honeycomb Exacted, wreaked; replete wholesale commodity.

Posted on February 08, 2017

Anti-globalism or A Spade?

Newsnight is glozing over what is happening? Or are these shifts a matter of alignments On other tracks than used to draw assignments Of hopes in votes of principle? Or seemingly? It was too shameful to admit to expediency.

Posted on February 07, 2017

Organic Food - Paradise Lost (2) – An Epic Poem – written by John Milton

John Milton lived through a most tumultuous period in English history. He saw in his youth the procession of events and tensions which led to The English Civil War breaking out; the king versus parliament; the Anglican hierarchy against The Puritan non-conformists; know more commonly as Roundheads versus Cavaliers.

Posted on February 02, 2017

“Thoughts on the Coming of Spring”

Now as the turning of the year repairs To drink at Mother Nature’s reservoirs And February’s days like morning chanticleres Proclaim the earliest presents of a spring With snowdrops nodding lowly on a lin

Posted on February 02, 2017

Eliot - History is Drunk

What is it we are looking for within the truth? A comfort a concession we are surely right About that version soothing best the avid rancour, As icy roads will overturn a skidding tanker

Posted on January 31, 2017

The Sphere of Music

Music’s art draws upon the scope and figure Divined by thought behind high cosmic fires Whose dancing lights glittering at nights, arrayed

Posted on January 29, 2017

An End of January

A dazzling drop of dew throws down its glassy smile; Hangs leafy-slung a shiver uttering trembling light. As if by nervous wavering shook about; a slight perturbance. And a living thing

Posted on January 28, 2017

Organic Food - Paradise Lost (1) – An Epic Poem - written by John Milton (1608 – 1674)

When this epic poem was deemed relevant to one’s life and culture by that sliver of the population which over the generations subsequent to its composition had successively interested themselves in such things; in poetry and in culture and in Christian things; all of which things and their sliver of followers these days are it appears to me to be entering a Dark Age; the poem Paradise Lost had always in every generation been a divider of opinion; an almost polar divider of opinion.

Posted on January 28, 2017

Waiting Mode

Life in a sad and waiting mode for life to cease Thing with a watch to keep and time to crease Tired of the old defects one should police To hold one’s own

Posted on January 27, 2017

Press Radio Buttons

I have written elsewhere about how a fairly conscientious person is able to work to train herself into good habits and out of bad ones. I have written of the value of regularity of routines for helping in this habit self-training.

Posted on January 20, 2017

“And He shall Guide you into All Truth”

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth - for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak;”

Posted on January 19, 2017

Passed Through the Fires

Passed through the fires unknowing this the heat Unanswerable; the conflict and confusions matter Nothing, smoulder inexplicably.

Posted on January 19, 2017

Destiny

There’s a TV show in eight parts which completed last night and I was watching it. About King Alfred of England; national hero, who ‘saved’ England from being completely overrun by Danes – Vikings..

Posted on January 14, 2017

Physician Heal Thyself

The NHS, now its own A&E Dept Casualty, Lay on a trolley haemorrhaging resources Banknotes for sticking plasters peeling away Into bloodthirsty hands

Posted on January 13, 2017

The Last Judgement

Is there to be such a thing? The particular cause of concern is for the consignment of ‘the goats’ once sorted from ‘the sheep’ into an everlasting perdition.

Posted on January 13, 2017

Universal Suffrage

Robert Burns wrote that stanza to introduce his satire poem ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’. Holy Willie is a Calvinist; a man who believes in a predestination set in place by God of the election to Paradise of His saints.

Posted on January 12, 2017

After the Feast

Twelfth Night, the fir tree end-up in a bin. Awaiting there garbage men, needles provoking. A green rebellion at this signal disposition; The feast all done.

Posted on January 06, 2017

Pursuits Involving Doing Nothing

Proportionality is best known in its use as a word in Law; Statute Law. Most of us know that rule on which our law is based and which was parodied by the operetta-makers Gilbert and Sullivan, who said;’ Make the punishment fit the crime’.

Posted on January 03, 2017

TV Jane Austen

A complete 6 episode dramatised TV serialisation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice was shown – as a repeat – on TV yesterday. All afternoon. 

Posted on January 03, 2017

Eliot - Faded Copies

Drawing on Bank of Tomorrow’s expectations, Rested contentedly, brings on hopes agreeable Teaching us manners to draw on No-tomorrow’s Bank’s tangled contraband

Posted on January 02, 2017

The Reformation Symphony

Mendelssohn; a child prodigy; composer by 19 years of his astonishing Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream; with an Overture  which a college colleague of mine damned at first hearing as ‘Radio 2 music’ – Radio 2 being a middle of the road easy listening radio station in the UK, and playing the more enduring ‘hits’ of a generation back.

Posted on January 02, 2017

Oh, How I Love the World

Oh, how I love the world, and how I’ll miss The kiss of slaty shower clouds moistening a grass Each drop of excesses of moisture gift to greet The coming day

Posted on December 31, 2016

Big Issue

Here is a woman tells me of her child And loitering in a street beside a grocer’s storeIndigent sells cheap magazines to make ends meet One step from beggary, two steps from dearth

Posted on December 30, 2016

Sighted Unsighted

‘For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’

Posted on December 30, 2016

I Saw a Rose on Christmas Day

I saw a rose on Christmas Day Bending to bloom over a garden hedge Lending the winter glooms a softer edge And a tender spray

Posted on December 29, 2016

Christmas Special

Here I offer you my friend Philip's Christmas 2016 Letter written to his flock - Philip is a priest - and I felt it good to share this piece with you. Peter 

Posted on December 28, 2016

Baby Boomers

My friend and mentor Rodney Chambers told me a long, long time ago about a Soviet Russian student he had met when he was at Oxbridge. The Russian had entered the UK in the 1960s as a staunch anti-westerner and man of the people and The Party.

Posted on December 26, 2016

Christmas Devalued

There are a thousand and more instances, examples, of how Christmas is devalued by commercial usage of its importance; its occurrence; its potential.  Little I can say on it that I and many others have not said and are yet saying and which demonstrates this.

Posted on December 25, 2016

Between - No Meeting

Full sized posters advertising the production and supply of customised essays to university students were reported to Transport for London who today removed them.

Posted on December 21, 2016

Music Speech and Dreams

It struck me, whilst listening recently to an interesting piece of music that a root human psychological response to music is akin to the experience one has when one is dreaming.

Posted on December 20, 2016

’Snow Christmas

’Snow Christmas ’Snow nothin’s Hit the spot of Christmastime this year

Posted on December 16, 2016

Leisured Lies - Part 2

Immense resources are being invested in and used by higher educational establishments here in the UK.  I have witnessed several proud boasts of elaborate and hugely extensive, very generous laboratory facilities entirely dedicated to establishing a nearer truth of historical situations.

Posted on December 12, 2016

Potassium

Here’s a short piece about the largely hidden from view interdependency and integral nature of ‘things in general’. A bit vague I know, but my aim is to shed a little light on how things are as they are, and how thus they are not radically different to as they are, and so to show that this is the case because of things which we might consider as lay people to be inconsiderable things.

Posted on December 10, 2016

Leisured Lies

Immense resources are being invested in and used by higher educational establishments here in the UK.  I have witnessed several proud boasts of elaborate and hugely extensive, very generous laboratory facilities entirely dedicated to establishing a nearer truth of historical situations.

Posted on December 07, 2016

A House Divided

Forfeits to fortune the wind-of-change guys clown around. Flounders of flunked awareness. Suited-up conjurers on affairs, fair-weather janglers-on about. Intent, which way to go, as if it meant,

Posted on December 02, 2016

The Terrors of the Earth

These are words spoken by Shakespeare’s character King Lear in the drama of his of that name.

Posted on November 30, 2016

The Sway of Property Possession

Ownership of an item seems to me only to be able to occur once the item in question has dropped out of circulation as it being a value-counter within the system of the means of exchange.

Posted on November 30, 2016

Candied or Candid

Candidates for the ride come to conviction thus - Everyone’s taking hidings travelling Babylon’s big bus, Facing the tensions and extensions strained beyond to bust, Mistaking and forsaking scoring errors on account

Posted on November 29, 2016

‘The Order of Society is Maintained by Proper Worship of God’

There is a curious correlation between a powerful possibility that our science of physics turned onto a branch line some hundred years ago, and the great political turmoils we are experiencing almost globally right now.

Posted on November 27, 2016

Magniloquence

It comes so easy to the great ones The Chrysostoms Those whom the ages reluctant to forget Create our specula

Posted on November 26, 2016

Litter and Birdsong

All nature’s cycles vitally by purgings go around But men’s; Even a dog’s pooh wishes well the ocean beds Pressed out of the earth we came, our litter likewise parades

Posted on November 20, 2016

Pathetique

Racked, stretched out prone on a cross of hectic passion Large music plays you; welcomes through cruel iron Gates wit-hung, levered open

Posted on November 19, 2016

Christmas Letter 2016

Here I offer you my friend Philip's Christmas 2016 Letter written to his flock - Philip is a priest - and I felt it good to share this piece with you. Peter 

Posted on November 18, 2016

A Mirror up to Nature - Life as Recreational Activity

The contention of this piece is that in the rich nations of the world daily life for many people, too many people, is become for the most part a recreational activity, rather than there being otherwise a sense of ‘by the _sweat_ of your _brow_ will you have food to eat.

Posted on November 17, 2016

Eliot - Hints and Wrinkles

Out of the lift arises up a splendid sun And the morning it is splendid filled with pranked array Small things on flowerlets woken up depending hang and play And no constraint

Posted on November 12, 2016

Junk and Circumspect

Computer chair in a skip today Charity shop twenty yards away

Posted on November 12, 2016

Performance

Being someone else? it's quite enough Being one, oneself, without a carried onus Of others' loss and bothers, others' troughs And eyes to cry in, and espy in what The world obeys

Posted on November 12, 2016

The Language of Public Life

‘Will you won’t you, will you won’t you Won’t you join the dance?’

Posted on November 11, 2016

‘The Power and the Beauty in Looking Different’ - Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin is attempting to alter the customary, orthodox, understanding and perception of beauty. It looks as if not so much as to extend it but rather to replace it; to displace it.

Posted on November 09, 2016

The Discontent With Politicians

Both sides of the Atlantic, in Britain and in the USA there is a widespread feeling and a pretty commonplace observation being voiced regularly by anyone concerned with politics;

Posted on November 05, 2016

The Language of Decline

Now I guess old people are always banging on about how things were better once; about how things are in decline and standards are deteriorating; it goes with the territory of being past one’s sell-by date.

Posted on November 01, 2016

Eliot - From Fear to Eternity

The Anglo-American poet T S Eliot moved from being in his youth a deeply disillusioned idealist observing the world as a cynic and as a pessimist; and him feeling that life was hollow and superficial and ghastly without ultimate value.

Posted on October 25, 2016

Control and Other Related Pathologies 2

Thinking without Restraints

Posted on October 23, 2016

Control and Related Psychopathologies

Thinking without Restraints

Posted on October 14, 2016

Registers

Language carries a variety of registers within its expression and composition into works.

Posted on October 13, 2016

It’s Not the Immigrants - We’re the Problem!

As I’ve said before more than once, many immigrants coming here (and this is in my own personal everyday experience) are setting up home, as young families; and apparently with every intention to put down roots here.  Their standards and their outlooks and sense of due regard are at least the equal of ours.

Posted on October 10, 2016

Trite Expectations

‘The sacred conversations seem to me better than has ever been allowed……..The high level of abstraction - the sustained abstention from imagery, except the very simplest and least sensuous

Posted on September 26, 2016

Christmas Spirit

For many years there was that hiatus; that gap between a hankering-after and remembrance of a time when there was a ‘Christmas Spirit’ in the air at Christmastime; and now in these recent years that hankering-after and remembrance is hardly ever referred to anywhere anymore.

Posted on September 23, 2016

…….and God Planted a Garden in the East…..

So the Book of Genesis.  Adam and Eve were prepared a place to live by God planting for them a garden. God <em>planted</em> it. So it was laid out for their use by him, a gift of love; and so was not like a forest or a piece of wild and natural ground.  It was ordered and orderly and a haven within which Adam and Eve whilst sinless were able to live and enjoy their lives and the delights and fruits of their appointed garden.

Posted on September 18, 2016

Not Hers Who Brings it Nightly to My Ear………….

‘……………….higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed; and much they may if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my ear.’

Posted on September 18, 2016

A Violated Pair of Shoes

Sometime during 2015 I wrote about curiosity; and about how curiosity is too often lauded and praised as an unqualified good thing and a virtue for a person to possess.

Posted on September 11, 2016

Eliot - Every Grief Mourns the Loss of a Great Joy

I wanted in the first place to write some more about Intellectual Property Rights; then in the second place I wanted to write some more about using scientific language; then in the third place I wanted to write something about the twin siblings Joy and Grief.

Posted on September 11, 2016

The Gospel of St. John Chapter 14

The Gospel of St. John Chapter 14 is a remarkable historical document. Herein Jesus of Nazareth speaks plainly; no holds barred, nothing held back; and he takes pains to explain to his disciples about his and their futures; on earth and in heaven.

Posted on September 04, 2016

Myth and Authority

Possibly the most solid brick wall a mind faces having to break through is the brick wall of unconsidered and semi-conscious assent to authority and it standing over above a person.

Posted on August 19, 2016

The Subsistence of Thought

In my latest piece I wrote about how our eyes and ears and other senses inform our minds so that they can interpret objects according to those objects’ purposes and their structures. I gave an example of an object of this kind -  which we humans name an ordinary dining table.

Posted on August 17, 2016

‘Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on…...’

If you are still with me and are still up for more discussion let me put in here a word about the ancient Hebrews and their apparent cursory dismissal of secondary causes in their scripture writings.

Posted on August 15, 2016

Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements he fell.....

‘For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’

Posted on August 10, 2016

Lottery Blues

Some guys local to me – 20 to 30 miles away – a family – won £66 million on the Euromillions lottery yesterday – Thursday 4 August.

Posted on August 06, 2016

The Set of All Sets

This article is about working out whether there is a God; by trying out explanations applied to everyday problems.

Posted on August 01, 2016

More on Evolution

There is a question about the origins and provenance of the characteristic of living things called reproduction.  One aspect of the question might be stated as being - how did reproduction in living things begin? 

Posted on July 11, 2016

Do we have to keep on Shopping to stay Wealthy and Healthy? Not Wise

This looks to me like it is the premise, the basic understanding, on which our economy is built, and by which it continues to survive;  and within its own terms of success,  continues to thrive.

Posted on July 02, 2016

A Box of Delights

Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R is not a member of itself, then its definition dictates that it must contain itself, and if it contains itself, then it contradicts its own definition as the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. This contradiction is Russell's paradox.

Posted on June 29, 2016

Before Pilate

There is a slightly obscure, undeservedly so, Russian novel, titled ‘The Master and Margarita’ by an unfortunate and late Soviet writer, Mikhail Bulgakov.

Posted on June 24, 2016

SSomething on The Origins of Poetry

This is only my surmise; I have no proof but only what I believe to be evidence.  The contention is that poetry was an evolution which came out of casting verbal spells; that is, out of ancient peoples doing what we’d call, and probably disdain as being, magic.

Posted on June 23, 2016

Surrogation Addiction

If you are still with me and are still up for more discussion let me put in here a word about the ancient Hebrews and their apparent cursory dismissal of secondary causes in their scripture writings.

Posted on June 06, 2016

The Non-Electric Universe

There is a curious correlation between a powerful possibility that our science of physics turned onto a branch line some hundred years ago, and the great political turmoils we are experiencing almost globally right now.

Posted on May 30, 2016

The Non-Electric Universe

There is a curious correlation between a powerful possibility that our science of physics turned onto a branch line some hundred years ago, and the great political turmoils we are experiencing almost globally right now.

Posted on May 30, 2016

Life Stories

Around people whose name lifts to prominence in the regard of public awareness accrete histories and life stories of folk tale kinds, often anecdotal, often celebratory or shocking; or both

Posted on May 23, 2016

‘Salvation is of the Jews’ – St Paul

I’ve been reading Maths so as to be able to help educate my son in the subject. The guy who wrote the textbook I am using says that there are ‘rational’ numbers and ‘irrational’ numbers.

Posted on May 18, 2016

In the Interim - The Power of the Enemy Against Itself

Right-reason tells all with conscience of the necessity of the Kingdom. ‘Thy Kingdom Come….’ is the prayer on the lips and at the inmost hearts of many; some of whom have never picked up a Bible, or else who pick up a Koran or a Talmud; and they wish it equally by means of other guidance.

Posted on May 08, 2016

Bespoke off-the-peg Learning

Full sized posters advertising the production and supply of customised essays to university students were reported to Transport for London who today removed them.

Posted on April 22, 2016

Sentences and Objects

In English grammar every sentence has to have a subject and an object; otherwise it is not a sentence. A sentence is the smallest unit of cogent communication in a language.

Posted on April 10, 2016

Eliot - Fashion and Judgement

In the very idea of fashion is change. What is top banana today is nowhere six months down the line in the fashion world.  Fashions come and they go.  Fashion affects a number of things.

Posted on March 31, 2016

Some Fugitive Thoughts

Having looked into this, and come to a conclusion, I believe the things being said in these blog articles, and their scope and ideas, are things which have been lighted on repeatedly down the ages, by one generation or another.

Posted on March 21, 2016

Listening

A lot of hype is published and taught about listening.  Much of this hype's trajectory carries with it implicitly that a listener ought to park to one side all her critical faculties and then absorb verbatim, in so far as she is able to, what is being spoken to her.

Posted on February 14, 2016

Eliot: For the Tamil Lady

A News Review programme on TV last night (12th Nov 2015) looked at Indian people who migrate to do domestic service work in Saudi Arabia. There is estimated over 1 million such migrants there working and come from India.

Posted on February 08, 2016

More on Evolution

There is a question about the origins and provenance of the characteristic of living things called reproduction.  One aspect of the question might be stated as being - how did reproduction in living things begin? 

Posted on February 03, 2016

Lenin’s Visceral Anger

Anyone who has read a sentence or two of Lenin’s writings will know how ugly they are. Not merely aesthetically-speaking but also ethically and linguistically. He was not a nice man.

Posted on January 29, 2016

Back to the Arena

A typical action movie now has to show destruction - great destruction. The pressure is ever to overplus just that little more than previously, so that whole cities, continents, worlds, are in conflagration and ruin.

Posted on January 26, 2016

Richard Holloway – onetime Bishop of Edinburgh

Language carries a variety of registers within its expression and composition into works.

Posted on January 24, 2016

Teach us to Care and not to Care / Teach us to Sit Still

Lorca is hard to get into for a first-timer.  I have been fortunate; I have had an education; but still I found Lorca hard to get things out of for some time before his ‘grace and flavour’ began to sensitise my taste buds.

Posted on January 18, 2016

Some Laws of Natural Philosophy and Sir Isaac Newton (1687) Part 5

‘Do not Allow what is Good and True to be Spoken of ill’ – St Paul – Romans

Posted on January 02, 2016

Some Laws of Natural Philosophy and Sir Isaac Newton (1687) Part 4

‘Do not Allow what is Good and True to be Spoken of ill’ – St Paul – Romans

Posted on December 27, 2015

Some Laws of Natural Philosophy and Sir Isaac Newton (1687) Part 3 ‘Do not Allow what is Good and True to be Spoken of ill’ – St Paul – Romans

If you are still with me and are still up for more discussion let me put in here a word about the ancient Hebrews and their apparent cursory dismissal of secondary causes in their scripture writings.

Posted on December 16, 2015

Some Laws of Natural Philosophy and Sir Isaac Newton (1687) PART 2

’Snow Christmas ’Snow nothin’s Hit the spot of Christmastime this year

Posted on December 07, 2015

Admiral Jellicoe and the Present UK Government

In 1914, at the outbreak of war in Europe, Winston Churchill was holder of the government office know then as The First Lord of the Admiralty. Churchill appointed a high ranking naval officer, Jellicoe by name, to the post of Admiral of the Fleet.

Posted on November 30, 2015

Friday 5 June 2015 BBC Radio 4 1pm News Here is The News

Earlier this week – a week that has been filled with announcements from the newly-elected Conservative government here – and the first week of the sitting of Parliament in this new administration – the government

Posted on November 30, 2015

Eliot: Following Marx and Engels?

Following Marx, Engels here draws on the familiar base-superstructure model to link causally the world of ideas, philosophies, religions to the material base of society, thereby making it objectionable for anyone ever again to discuss religion, myth or idealist philosophy  without having to view them in the context of the material conditions that produced them

Posted on November 30, 2015

Jeremy Hunt – UK Government Minister Health Secretary July 16 2015

‘Mr Hunt said that a "Monday to Friday culture" in parts of the NHS had "tragic consequences" and said 6,000 people die each year because of this.’

Posted on November 30, 2015

Jesus in a Box

‘This bold, historical detective work--based on Thiering's discovery of the interpretative key to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament--yields a whole new picture of Christianity's origins and the identity of Jesus, as it argues for a Christianity based on the real counterculture and prophetic life of Jesus--not just the mythological surface of the Gospels..’

Posted on November 30, 2015

“Thomas Merton”

I am not happy about criticising adversely any other person who is (like myself, I hope?) in the vineyard doing the work s/he sees God to have given her to do. There are plenty of books which do this, and that is enough said about them.

Posted on November 30, 2015

Whacks from Stats?

This article is not a retraction; it is not an apology or an excuse.  Let’s say it is clarification?

Posted on November 30, 2015

Some Laws of Natural Philosophy and Sir Isaac Newton (1687) Part1

‘Do not Allow what is Good and True to be Spoken of ill’ – St Paul – Romans

Posted on November 28, 2015

Bhagavad Gita

‘In this world there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism. And one who has become accomplished in the practice of devotional service enjoys this knowledge within himself in due course of time’

Posted on November 25, 2015

To the Victors the Spoils

News today from the EU – that around £1.2Bn has been set aside to help Africa and the migrant crisis. Some sobering context

Posted on November 15, 2015

This Insubstantial Pageant

I have a friend who told me this story - A guy came knocking on his door and was an evangelist. After talking to him the guy asked permission to pray for him.  My friend later told me he laughed because the guy began ‘talking to no-one’.

Posted on November 07, 2015

Waiting for Godot

This piece of writing is about life and awaiting things - events; changes; expiries; permissions; queuing; taking one’s turn; anticipating; dreading; wonderment; tedium; excited; nervous; in pain; for release?

Posted on November 04, 2015

Wearing out a Welcome?

This article is not a retraction; it is not an apology or an excuse.  Let’s say it is clarification?

Posted on October 14, 2015

Eliot: Gravy Train or Mercy Dash?

It looks like ‘people power’ pressure is mounting upon us in UK as the migrant influxes from The Middle East and Africa are seeking and are finding new ways of establishing themselves within EU boundaries; and the camped-out occupants of Calais continue to push their bids to reach UK soil.

Posted on September 20, 2015

BLASTED -  Being Confronted by the World

There is a short drama written by a woman called Sarah Kane and called ‘Blasted’, which presents a view of the world as being a great dystopia. ‘Blasted’ seems to me to present a projection  of a troubled mind; as from a magnifying lens onto a screen; that of its author.

Posted on September 13, 2015

The assertion of the ‘I’ over the ‘we’

The ‘I’ is capitalised whereas the ‘we’ is lowercase; always.

Posted on September 07, 2015

The Pathos of Angst

There is a curious correlation between a powerful possibility that our science of physics turned onto a branch line some hundred years ago, and the great political turmoils we are experiencing almost globally right now.

Posted on July 23, 2015

“They Also are Who we Are”

Now it is a fact that to be able to see for what it mostly is the reality of the world of politics, and the game-play of much that goes for ordinary social interaction, a person has to be prepared to accept tough conclusions - To accept them into her heart and being.

Posted on July 08, 2015

“They Are Who We Are”

We know that if anything is able to be done by means of a conscious choice to do it, that that thing requires human agency for it to be done by.

Posted on July 02, 2015

The Control of the Agenda

Have you heard of The Worried Warrior?  The guy or girl who is at war with the world because within a war is going on in her/his mind?

Posted on June 17, 2015

Comedy

In a recent article we looked over Curiosity and tried to sift bad sorts of it from better sorts. The same is attempted here with Comedy.

Posted on June 10, 2015

Curiosity?

The title is of course a tease. A lure. But beware, if you were attracted by the bait this article may not be for you?

Posted on June 10, 2015

Teach us to Care and not to Care / Teach us to Sit Still

Have you heard of The Worried Warrior?  The guy or girl who is at war with the world because within a war is going on in her/his mind?

Posted on May 20, 2015

Teach us to Care and not to Care / Teach us to Sit Still

Have you heard of The Worried Warrior?  The guy or girl who is at war with the world because within a war is going on in her/his mind?

Posted on May 20, 2015

Sustaining the Ballast

The bottom of a ship is the place where it is open to vulnerability; the place where running onto rocks will tear open a gash and sink its proud beauty.  It is also the place wherein any ballast is loaded and held so as to keep it upright, afloat and level in the water.

Posted on May 07, 2015

Should I use a DMCA Takedown Service?

DMCA is US Federal Law. It has its international equivalents such as EU Directive 2004/48/EC, which have closely similar intentions and means of operation. They are Acts of Law which cary components enabling copyright holders to self-police their intellectual property on the web.

Posted on April 22, 2015

“The War on Error part 2 - Communities of the Heart”

Now it is a fact that to be able to see for what it mostly is the reality of the world of politics, and the game-play of much that goes for ordinary social interaction, a person has to be prepared to accept tough conclusions - To accept them into her heart and being.

Posted on April 15, 2015

Truth and Certainty

Several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once it struck me, what quality went to form a man of achievement especially in literature and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously.

Posted on April 08, 2015

John Taylor Gatto Ultimate History Lesson Hour 1

John Taylor Gatto Ultimate History Lesson Hour 1

Posted on April 06, 2015

I know not seems, madam

There is a branch of philosophy known as phenomenology. It is the study of appearances. It is naturally related to another branch called epistemology. This is the study of truth value.

Posted on April 01, 2015

“The War on Error 1. What is De-radicalisation?”

This week (Feb 22-28) UK primetime news ran a story for several days as a headliner item about three schoolgirls from an East London school who had flown to Turkey and crossed into ISIS-held Syrian territories so as to offer themselves as ‘Jihadi’ brides to fighters fighting there.

Posted on March 25, 2015

The Future of the Technology of Piracy Part II - Anonymous Storage

In a previous article, we explored what it meant for a user to be perfectly **anonymous** and discussed technologies which have been developed to attempt an approximation to user anonymity.  In this article, we consider what it means for a file to be anonymous.

Posted on March 18, 2015

Vendettas on Vendors - or The Laborer Worthy his Hire

This article topic came to mind while I was taking a shower this morning.  I’ve heard it put like this from a business partner of a few years ago -  “It sucks to be a vendor.”

Posted on March 11, 2015

The means to build a community

Building communities is one of those elusive items whose exercise will need to be a regular topic of conversation at metanomalies.com.  

Posted on March 04, 2015

The Future of the Technology of Piracy Part I - Anonymity.

As on the morning of the bash his position not assumed But compromised by spew bursted across the news G spot BBC’s Weather Office took a sedentary view Saved him, his job strung out on isobars, from houshold scrap

Posted on February 18, 2015

Introduction to the Future of Piracy Series

To predict the future is a rather bold thing to attempt.  I’m not actually such a bold person and because of this I’ll be a bit more circumspect in what I mean by “predicting the future.”

Posted on February 11, 2015

Organic Food - Pardon the Dust

Hello to all, We're preparing to publish our content and begin building our vision of a community of communities. Watch the space over the next week to see our first article on The Future of Piracy. Metanomalist

Posted on February 10, 2015