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Totalitarianism via Corporate Management
I don’t have a lot of experience of the corporate world. I work for it by translating stuff from French into English, and I sup with the Devil with the very long spoon of the internet and e-mail. Occasionally, an … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate management, Mystery of Evil, Philosophy, Romanticism, Totalitarianism
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A New Dawn
This entry more or less started as I took my boat out yesterday afternoon on the sea from Veules les Roses. The north-east wind was light and there was little swell. I close hauled into the wind and the tidal … Continue reading
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Tagged New Goliards, Philosophy, Reflections, Romanticism, Spirituality
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Post-Modern Goliards
The theme has fascinated me for a long time. I feel profoundly dissatisfied with the development of conservative mores. I notice the fascination many of my contemporaries have for the generation born in the 1920’s and 30’s who lived their … Continue reading
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Tagged Moral questions, New Goliards, Philosophy, Politics, Reflections, Romanticism
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The Meaning of Life
Yes, indeed, the title of a somewhat dumb Monty Python film from 1983 featuring the exploding Mr Creosote. My subject is that eternal question of our times and the whole of human history for as long as meaning has been … Continue reading
Romanticism and Traditionalism
A major article has just appeared on the Orthosphere blog – Romanticism & Traditionalism. It is not a new article, but the blog acknowledges the source. The themes given here have resounded with me ever since my university days in … Continue reading
Romanticism takes off!
I was doing my daily rounds today and found Brexit: Hell No? This little article reflects a comment from yesterday in my previous posting in the theme of inevitability. A light bulb moment happened. I remembered my old philosophy classes … Continue reading
Christian Humanism
The themes keep going through my mind – those of the Romantic’s lament over our passing as humans and our being brought back to a kind of feudal existence under the domination of the strongest. We have to begin with … Continue reading
Et in Arcadia Ego II
It just goes to show… I tend to regurgitate old stuff and add subtle things to old posts. See Et in Arcadia Ego. At my age, I tend to go on with the same fundamental thoughts. I arrived at Fr Montgomery’s … Continue reading
Anti-Intellectualism
I noticed a posting by my fellow priest Fr Jonathan Munn – Biblical Balderdash on the question of Christians who call themselves “Bible-believing”. I have tended to beat a drum about fundamentalism and other “diseased” forms of religion, and was … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Philosophy, Politics, Reflections, Religious pathology
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Human achievements and God
I have seen a few posts about, especially my friend Patrick who has been writing on the limits of human technology and engineering, especially the flying machine and the aeroplane. He reflected many of my own thoughts from my Amiens … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts & Crafts, Faith and Reason, Jules Verne, Philosophy, Reflections, Science
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The Blue Flower 