Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Don’t Vote Conservative!
If your still unsure who your going to vote for, make sure it’s not the Conservatives. No, really. Don’t. If you’ve been wondering about their motif of family, and this idea of wholesome Britain, and wondering precisely how that’s going to play, well, it’s going to play badly if your Gay. Philippa Stroud claims to…
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Student Nationals, Edinburgh, 2010
It was awesome. Of course it was, it was the nationals. It reminded me of all kinds of things. Why I enjoy roleplaying, why I’m training for ministry, why I like the people I like. My the Nationals forever continue. A lot to do in 48 hours, but then, if you’ve never been, you can’t…
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Batman On an Elephant. That is All.
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American Episcopate ahead of their time?
Amidst calls for another reformation in the Catholic Church, the American Episcopal Church is busy forging ahead on it’s own. The news that’s making the headlines is of course the consecration as Bishop of Canon Mary Glasspool. This is not because she’s a Woman, the presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church is Dr Katherine…
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OK Go’s New Video Outdoes themself
Perhaps OK GO are not known for their music, especially as the the thing that people remember from “Here It Goes Again” is the video. Well, here’s another video by them that is frankly awesome. However, I’d be hard pushed to tell you what the song was, as I spent most of my time, open…
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Nate Phelps Speaks Out
The Westborough Baptist Church, under the stewardship of Fred Phelps have often been in the news, and mentioned on this Blog for their extreeme attacks on people they consider to be against God. Their slogans “God Hates Fags”, and “God Hates America” are well known; they believe that God has cursed America for what they…
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I may not be American, but…
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A Poem by King Henry VIII
King Henry VIII is well known for his many wives, and for being the principal orchestrator of the Reformation in England*, some may not know that he was also a poet. The eagle’s force subdues eache byrd that flyes— What metal can resyst the, flaminge fyre? Doth not the sunne dazle the cleareste eyes, And…
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Why is the Church Obsessd with Sex?
Recently, I’ve been debating with a few people I know, the issues of Sex and the Church. It appears that the Church seems to mask “sex” in the lofty idea of “morality”. It appears, at least on a cursory glance at relevant press releases. It all seems to revolve around precisely what the point of…
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Hamlet and Protestantism
First, let me say that the Royal Shakespear Company’s recent version of Hamlet with Captain Picard(Patrick Stewart) and Doctor Who(David Tennant) is awesome. However, now that I’ve started being a God botherer, I started noticing some odd things about it. I started noticing the religious tone. Nothing unusuall there, because at the time, God was…
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Ann Widdecome: Fail
So, I was just watching “The Bible: A History” by Ann Widdecome. It wasn’t long before it become obvious that this was a polemic from the slightly fundamental side of Christianity, one that slips a little over that line into Phariseac interpretation of the Bible. After riduculing Biblical Scholarship, and wrongly citing it as “Secular”…
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Prison Chaplaincy; A walk on the other side
Just before Christmas I served time as a Prison Chaplain in a Prison. It was only a week, part of the palcements that those of us at Theology College do to ensure that we have a well rounded understanding of the options that are open to us. It was a very strange experience, something that…
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Explainging Max Boyce
I’m a fan of Max Boyce. I have to be. I’m Welsh. The thing is, that people who are not from Wales don’t understand. He talks to a part of Welsh culture that doesn’t really exsist any more… that singing in the bar. The kind that probably died when they closed the Pits, so before…
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The Island of Reason
The first few months had been nothing but rage. Each time, each stake, had been revenge. The number of times he had paid back his father’s death on one of the monsters was incalculable. Just like the times he had avenged his mother by slowly pulling one out into the daylight. They were simply monsters,…
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Alone
He stumbled over the stones on the mountain, and put his hand out to steady himself. He sighed, and pulled his dirty jacket around him. He looked towards the small grey line that winds through these hills. He liked the silence of the mountains. He liked the soft tinkle of the water. Most of all…
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