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I am a fifty-six-year-old self-taught writer and philosopher who lives in London and publishes on the Internet. My principal commitment is to the ideological philosophy of Social Theocracy/Transcendentalism, which I have spent years developing.

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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: My father: 20 of 122
I have never celebrated Father's Day for the simple reason that I never knew or saw my father. To me he is the Irishman from Galway who drunkenly made the mistake of getting involved with a woman whose mother had wanted to return to Ireland from Aldershot in England when her soldierly husband (originally from the North of Ire... More..
Arts & Humanities > Ethics Why moral relativism is wrong: 9 of 27
Since I often write about what is called the intercardinal axial compass stretching from southwest to northeast and from northwest to southeast on a crossed diagonal basis of inter-class and inter-gender polarity, I may as well add some new thoughts to the corpus of axis-inspired ideas which enable one to distinguish church-h... More..
Arts & Humanities > Philosophy (Other) The human condition: 9 of 19
You cannot understand the human condition, torn as it is between gender conflict, without understanding psychology and physiology, and you can't understand psychology without physiology or physiology without psychology, since the two aspects of the totality of factors somatic and psychic 'hang together', though with different... More..
Arts & Humanities > Meaning of Life The quest for truth and the meaning of life: 22 of 40
The quest for truth as the meaning of life is only one of a number of quests or meanings which life vouchsafes its human beings. I personally - or perhaps one should say 'universally' - have made the quest for truth and, I believe, achievement of it the meaning or purpose of my existence, thereby enriching my life. But those ... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) Should the Bible continue to be used for swearing-in ceremonies and in courtrooms?: 145 of 254
They say the Bible is the word of God, but it is a poor type of god whose word is printerly, i.e. in print, and not of an italic writerly character properly commensurate with a metaphysical disposition and/or dispensation - at least when monochrome, and preferably of a white-on-black rather than black-on-white nature. I don't... More..
Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts What does freedom mean to you and does absolute freedom exist: 19 of 33
To contrast the doing of metachemistry with the pseudo-being of pseudo-metaphysics, as one would contrast power with pseudo-contentment.To contrast the being of metaphysics with the pseudo-doing of pseudo-metachemistry, as one would contrast contentment with pseudo-power.To contrast the giving of chemistry with the pseudo-tak... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Perspective on class in modern society: 13 of 20
Class comes in different shapes and sizes, but is always either noumenal or phenomenal, that is, of an ethereal or a corporeal nature. There are 'upper class' types in the former, and 'lower class' types in the latter, but it is not simply a matter of upper and lower. Each of these is divisible between what could be called th... More..
Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts Attempting to define God: 18 of 27
People speak too much about God and not enough about metaphysics, the religious context or element par excellence. Such a context, which is rather more airy than fiery, watery, or earthy, is the element of soul par excellence, and therefore although ego figures as the other aspect of self which has to be addressed, it is less... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) What is religion and what is it all about?: 34 of 41
Religion is about God and God's raison d'etre. God is truth and truth is a kind of knowledge germane to metaphysical ego. Therefore metaphysical ego, as an expression of truth, is God, and God's raison d'etre is nothing else than to achieve Heaven and thus get from ego to soul, wherein truth is eclipsed, as it were, by joy. B... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Religious Speculations & Criticisms The concept of good and evil, positive and negative: 10 of 12
People tend, erroneously, to think of evil and good as equivalent to black and white, or bright and dark, or light and shade, as though they were two sides of the same elemental coin, say the beauty and love of metachemical free soma vis-vis the ugliness and hate of metachemical bound psyche, the absolute (noumenal) female ac... More..