Oblivion With Bells
An enquiry into life and death, and what we believe.
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Quote Post: Jamie Lee Finch
Quote Post: Pericles
Wrestling with words
Back when I grew up online, there was a word that I worried would be used against me. It was source? Source? meant back up your claims with the source of knowledge you are using . Sometimes this was easy, you just needed to link to the article you had gotten your information from. But other [ ]
Quote Post: Bertrand Russell
Music Mix: ‘Roll In Rock’ (2010)
A playlist I put together for my birthday in 2010. Finally put together into a mix! Listen: Download: Album artwork: Spotify:
Music Mix: ‘Groove Is In The Heart’ (2025)
Dedicated to Bob. Listen: Download: Album artwork: Spotify:
Music Mix: ‘Life Affirming’ (2025)
Dedicated to my children. I will always be in front of you. Listen: Download: Album artwork: Spotify:
Let’s talk about the climate emergency
Who wants to talk about the climate emergency? Who is excited to talk about the climate emergency? A show of hands? Maybe if I was at a Green Party meeting I might get an enthusiastic response, but I ve found in general most people would rather not talk about it. I think we all exist in [ ]
Quote Post: George Orwell
Fear of no longer existing anymore
What feeling do you have when you wake up in the morning, when your feet touch the floor? Or before that when you re lying there, thinking about your feet hitting the floor? What feeling do you have, what does that feel like for you? The Rover (2014) A long time ago I watched a [ ]
Quote Post: Emily Wilson
Quote Post: Hannah Arendt
“Thoughts & prayers” is really just “thoughts”
Recently I found myself watching a documentary about Shawn Mendes, a Canadian pop singer/song-writer. During the documentary we learn about Shawn s ambition to not just play at but to sell out a stadium in Toronto called the Rogers Center. Part of the film showing us this journey is seeing a journal where Shawn has written [ ]
Book review: The Denial of Death, Escape From Evil
My background for wanting to read these books is deconverting from my Fundamentalist Christian beliefs in 2017. I knew I wasn t going to Heaven, so suddenly death was final more scary. When I first read The best books on Fear of Death recommended by Sheldon Solomon from Five Books I felt some encouragement that [ ]
Losing my religion
I identified as a Christian for my whole life until two weeks in 2017 changed all that. In the subsequent seven years since then I ve been trying to work out whether I really deconverted then or if that train had been a long time coming. I still don t really know, but it s probably more the [ ]
Quote Post: Eric Fromm
Fiction Post: The Scientist
He knew straight away. He was returning from a walk with his wife when he heard it. He looked up to see it passing overhead. It was heading west. Years of experience kicked in. Numbers. Probabilities. Knowns and unknowns. The scientist couldn t be certain. But he knew that what he had seen was probably about [ ]
8 changes for reducing your carbon footprint
Source: The Climate Super 8 https://giki.earth/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TheClimateSuper8_final.pdf
Great Watching: Being 97
This touching short documentary looks at themes of death meaning through the eyes of a 97-year-old man. A great watch. As I sit out now on my deck of the house, I look at the trees blowing a little in the breeze. And I ve seen them innumerable times but somehow, seeing the trees this [ ]