This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere - that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their... Continue Reading →
Thoughts on moving to Tokyo, 1.
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals. - Jean Baudrillard My first trip to Japan left me with a sense of... Continue Reading →
Outsider
I listened to Lecrae Moore's biography, Unashamed. It was too easy to identify with the prologue of the book - that he felt like an outsider: someone that didn't fit in with any particular group. He wasn't part of the commercial hip-hop community, nor was he part of the Christian music industry. The feeling that... Continue Reading →
Christian dating is complicated.
These round-table conversations including Brian 'Head' Welch are quite valuable. They don't necessarily hit on anything particularly 'new', but their life experiences frame some of the common issues of singleness in fresh ways. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/cY8eBcjJKNg https://youtu.be/XW0n_VHb9y0
Germaine Greer’s ‘On Rape’
Since the 1960s and 70s, sexual agency has not been the same. Relationships between men and women have altered significantly; with the decline in marriage, the rise of co-habitation, pornography, abortion and what appears also to be a rise in rape, and legal issues around what constitutes rape. This new frontier of sexual ethics is... Continue Reading →
Some Thoughts On Relating to People with Dementia (in a philosophically complex way with little scientific rigour & research)
Photo by Daniel Watson on Pexels.com Throughout my experience working in various dementia-specific units, I have been perplexed as to how some people remember things about me. What they don't remember about me is my name, or where I come from. But they do remember my face and rituals in relating that we go through.... Continue Reading →
No fresh thoughts on Singleness
Some friends of mine recently encouraged me to write some thoughts on my experience of 'singleness'. Much of what I write may appear cynical, but these are earnest thoughts. It comes from a place of great failure, but also of great joy. The greatest prize is God himself. No person can be more than that and... Continue Reading →
It’s good to give up porn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWuFzgjxszs&t=503s Not sure how, but I stumbled across this video on YouTube about a bloke that gave up porn and had a better sex life and marriage with his wife. We are just starting to see the effects of porn in how it effects mental health, conditions the brain, and contributes to erectile dysfunction.... Continue Reading →
Reason and the heart
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of...We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart" - Blaise Pascal
An Observed Grief III: Concluding/non-Conclusive Thoughts
It's taken me a while to close these brief reflections, as I honestly couldn't summarise what I wanted to say. As far as grief is concerned, it is true that grief does subside (though suffering may not). Even if your suffering does not disappear in this life, it will at the coming of Jesus Christ for... Continue Reading →
Through the Eye of the Needle 