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Open and Closed
As we are now in the days of the great O antiphons leading up to Christmas in its most Christian meaning, I have intentionally looked away from politics and its incessant contradictions, smoke and mirrors. Apart from my translation work, … Continue reading
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Tagged Moral questions, Mystery of Evil, Philosophy, Politics, Reflections
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Saving the Planet…
I have been around for a few years and have seen generations of opinions worried about the future of the planet. I am one of them, but try to keep a balanced view of things between the delirium of people … Continue reading
What Now?
The subject of my previous posting was of no surprise. I have followed this Scheißfest over the past year, and have experienced the propaganda coming from both the hard-line right and the liberal or hard left. Since the election, the … Continue reading
Election Day
Over the years, as evidenced by some postings on this blog, I have lacked a sufficiently critical mind about things like the “people”, the “elite, Trump promising to “clean the swamp” when he got elected, and now the Brexit question … Continue reading
The Organ sings again
We are almost at the anniversary of when I went to London with a large van to bring another organ to France. In late January of this year, I wrote the melancholy A New Purpose after the main article on … Continue reading
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
As I sat through the ceremony of reception today at the Préfecture of Rouen of myself and about fifty other new French citizens, I listened to the recorded propaganda message with the ears of a philosopher. The essential theme was … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, France, French Revolution, Politics, Romanticism, War and Peace
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Sarum Calendar 2020
The Sarum Calendar for 2020 has been added to Dr William Renwick’s More Documents page. You can download it from there. It begins from 1st January, so if you need the current Advent, you need the final month of 2019. … Continue reading
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Tagged Calendar, Liturgical year, Liturgy, Sarum, Use of Sarum
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Abusus non tollit usum
There is a story, perhaps untrue, about a public building that had all its fire extinguishers removed because it was esteemed that few people knew how to use them properly. It’s obviously better for the building to burn down and … Continue reading
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Tagged Mystery of Evil, Philosophy, Psychology, Romanticism, War and Peace
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Some ideas to take critically
In the light of my postings over the past few days, I am led to think of a way to keep a critical mind about authoritarian (anti-parliamentarian) politics and “diseased” religion caused by literalism and materialism. I am going to … Continue reading
In Flanders Fields
This poem of John McCrae is well known and taught to children in schools. He wrote from the point of those who were killed in the Great War. It reflects a view of war that remained too romantic and early … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 