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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Bludhaven Scoop

    This is a newspaper that I wrote for my Dark DC roleplaying game. It’s only a bit of fun, put here for some players who couldn’t make the session. BludhavenScoop ~BX

  • My First Grandchild, by Edwina Slack

    I had forgotten just how sweet it is, To hold a tiny baby in my arms, To feel the silken head resteing against my cheek, The fragile fet pressing against my side, Child of my own dear child, my thankful heart Echoes the murmmuring lullaby I sing. I see the blue eyes close, the lashes…

  • Modern Poetry Idea

    Recently I attended a beat-poetry evening, called Voicebox run by Un-deg-Un. There I had the pleasure of meeting the youth poet for Wales. I was not brave enough to share any of my work, beliving them to be unpolished, and unfinished. They were definately too short. However, it has occured to me that I write…

  • Hell.

    They sell hell is something you carry around with you. That it is not a place. There are many people who think that they have been to hell, or are in hell. This is, perhaps, true. Though it is only, really, a pale version of hell. An idea that is part of the genius of…

  • Midwinter Anthology

    Jara23 Publishing Proudly prestents: Midwinter Anthology, 2013. This is offered to you for free, and is available in PDF (and on the Kindle store (coming soon). Download your copy of the Midwinter Anthology, 2013 here. Note: Version last updated : December 19, 2013 to fix minor spelling errors.

  • Nelson Mandala’s Inaugaration Speech

    To commemorate the death of Nelson Mandela, and listening to the way he tried to live his life, I could find no better tribute than his own words: We dedicate this day to all the heroes and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many ways and surrendered their…

  • In The Beginning.

    [Writing a new version of the 9 lessons and Carols service with modern readings, we needed a new opening to it. I had long felt that the rather brief reading of Genesis 3 didn’t really give the scope of the view of God, so I wrote a paraphrase. Here it is, in case someone finds…

  • Kindle Fire on Linux

    This is just a quick note to say that Linux (or at least, Linux Mint 15, after a recent update), has just made Kindle Fire HD’s plug-and-play. Huzzah. That is all. ~BX

  • Maleist Biblical Reading

    During the course on Biblical Hermenutics, I was told that there were not many readings done from the perspective of a man, writing as a man. I thought that it was time that I tried to do some writing from this perspective, and so I have produced what I hope is a “Maleist” reading. It’s…

  • Dark DC

    Here is the draft ruleset for Dark DC. If your a player, feel free to download it and have a look at it. If your not, this post probably makes no sense to you and you can ignore it. Dark DC Rules ~BX

  • Better Late Then Never, ALPHA 0.2 Code uploaded

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/bltn/ I have finally uploaded something to sourceforge. After years of being overly-protective about my code, I’ve finally written something that I want to share. Not because my code is any good, or indeed, robust, or any of those things that code should be, but rather that I really want a task manager that uses…

  • Memes, Proverbs, and Movie Quotes

    The internet is filled with “memes”. I use the “” advisedly, because they are distcint and different from the psydo-scientific term Meme. Of the “memes” that are floating about the internet, most seem to be a comment on life, but there are some that seem to be suggestions on how to live a better life.…

  • Water Found On Mars : The Impact on Theology

    http://youtu.be/6OMlekqnL8I : Water Found On Mars Yes, folks, it had to happen sooner or later. Water has been found on the red planet, Mars. Initially this might not seem such a big thing, but it means that, at some point, water in it’s fluid form may have been found in abundance on the surface, which…

  • Liturgy Translations : English To Welsh

    Here are some translations from English to Welsh of some bits of liturgy that I couldn’t find natively in Welsh. They are fairly rough tanslations, and as has been pointed out to me, the Welsh does need to be rethoguht rather than mindlessly translated. I’m not necessarily happy with the first translation simply because I’m…

  • “..heart of all our faith and belief there lie value judgements”

    Reading a document I came across this line. It follows on from a debate that suggests that nothing in our faith(as opposed to religion) can be proved empirically, and that this leads us all to make value-judgements based on our understanding of our faith. There is often a core of belief that we have chosen…

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