Philosophy

Elisha – Picking up the Baton

3rd November 2019 1642again 0

We have finally got to the subject of the Elisha in my series of the prophets of the Old Testament, who I had meant to cover after addressing Elijah, but then got distracted by Isaiah, [more…]

Queerness, Civilization and its Discontents

1st November 2019 honey the monster 0

Foreward: I’m cross posting this in a couple of places. It’s bound to be a dramatically unpopular piece wherever I post it, but I’m providing it in hopes to stir thought on the subject, if [more…]

Midlife and the search for the ‘Wild Man’

24th October 2019 Going Postal 0

Midway in life’s journey, I found myself in a dark wood, having lost the way. -The Comedy of Dante Alighieri This perhaps an off-beat subject for GP, but one that affects everybody at some stage [more…]

Friday Night at GP

18th October 2019 Going Postal 0

From time to time it is perhaps appropriate that we should relax a little the bonds that tether us to the straight and narrow. As we all know well, A fitting apologia for a bit of [more…]

Book Review: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell – Part 2

17th October 2019 The Black Swan 0

Published by Quill, an imprint of William Morrow & Co. 1988 paperback edition (first published 1987) ISBN 0-688-07951-2 In the previous part of this review and discussion, we looked at Part I of Thomas Sowell’s [more…]

Book Review: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell – Part 1

10th October 2019 The Black Swan 0

Published by Quill, an imprint of William Morrow & Co. 1988 paperback edition (first published 1987) ISBN 0-688-07951-2 Having reflected on how often he had encountered the concept of ‘visions’ in his work over the [more…]

Red Tape

21st July 2019 Going Postal 0

As some of you may remember my Mother died back at the end of March. She was nearly 100 so it was not really unexpected but when it did happen it was not helped by [more…]

From Draft to Bookshop – A Journey

5th July 2019 Colin Cross 0

Almost two years ago this weekend my wife and I, rather nervously, drove into a small Devon village on our way to visit a family that I had only met through Going Postal but who [more…]

Ezekiel the Mystical Prophet Part 2 – the Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

28th April 2019 1642again 0

I wrote these articles at the prompting of Goodnight Vienna who became very interested in the Old Testament prophets at the end of her life, and the pair on Ezekiel were the last ones she [more…]