: About Me

I am a designer woodworker, writer and film maker and also perform latin gypsy jazz guitar music. I work for myself and have several published books, one a bestseller and another that won the UK Booksellers Association Top 200 Awards. I am a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. I have a website called www.woodomain.com. I am not married and don't think I have children but one can never be sure. I have a wonderful dog and I am very grateful for the creative talents I possess. There are many things I am hopeless at in life (marriage would be one of them!) but I am good at what I do and enjoy inspiring others. I feel if you receive a good education you have an obligation to hand that down and my films on woodworking and design are unique in that respect.

My passion is ...

playing the acoustic guitars I make

I know too much about ...

woodworking, design, British motorcycles and women

My parents always told me ...

always work hard.

My childhood ambition ...

never to grow up

My favorite memory ...

fishing for salmon on crystal clear Scottish rivers in my youth

Why I write ...

because I have a desire to communicate ideas I am passionate about.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Radio 4

My first job ...

packing shelves in a butchers shop

My best moment ...

making love to a beautiful young Danish woman

My inspiration ...

wood, music

Arts & Humanities > Schools of Thought Is there one right religion?

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I would say yes but it would be a matter of choice. For centuries humankind believed in absolutes and absolute truth. It was believed to be an absolute truth that Hell existed and that the Earth was created in seven days. The current dominant thinking (since Einstein) is that everything is relative. This is also humanly logical as we cannot be in all places at once or get into the mind of another human being (we may think we can) and that individual human experience is limited by personal perception and that is dependent on genetics and nurture experience. Right does not necessarily mean j...

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