Could the Scientologists and the anti-Scientologists and the Independent Scientologist be brought to the table? It’s not the middle East or anything like the Troubles but there has been deaths. Someone recently drove a car in a Scientology church. The problems with this religion, once again, seem to be growing more than subsiding. It’s a…
Author: Dortju
April 21, 2019
But I think the ‘barbaric singing pagans’ have taken the day. In a weekend known for celebrating the right to believe in ‘There is Hope’ we witness a tragedy. As Sri Lanka recoils and London swelters what do we focus on going forward? More conflict between us and them or more cooperation between us? What’s…
April 19, 2019
Or degree’s of separation. It’s apparently how many greetings we all are from having directly met one another. The typical maximum is 5 degree’s of separation. Every rule has an exception, this one is a christian who recently tried to promote it to an isolated island of people who have to now not had contact…
April 16, 2019
Mind the Auld Alliance. Or Vieille Alliance. Or An Seann-chaidreachas. From Edinburgh to Paris one must find the beauty in any tragedy and there is this, the world has been moved. The Auld Alliance goes back to just about the time Norte Dame was built. My only visit to Paris taught me 3 things. How…
January 16, 2019
I spent my teenage years in monk hood. Now what does that actually mean? Well a ‘religion’ was as involved as one would expect. So was no sex before marriage (actually extended to nothing more than a family hug and at most being allowed to just kiss and hold hands with any potential wife). O…
In all senses of those words are what we are born with an infinite capacity to do and full knowledge and die once we can do neither and run out of all options. It seems to be a natural progression. Seldom are one of us born without an ability and desire to climb and love….
It has to include the mind set of ‘if your not with us, then your against us’. This delineates the difference between a religious, spiritual and corporate pursuit vs a dangerous cult. The study of the strange and unusual or things we consider to be alien to us is called xenology. Xenology as a term…
January 10, 2019
Childish behaviour. If you wanted to join a group that depends on it’s competition to be superior, has members who all wear the same clothes and think they have a superior advantage over each other and people in ‘civvy’ street then take your pick. Any religion, sport or military will dress you up and let…
January 2, 2019
Your totally welcome for tea. Your ideology might not be and that is where you need to up your game. In my book if you want to be any of the above – that is 100% fine by me. If you feel the NEED to make me agree with your life style and expect me…
It’s well known a persons stress levels are connected to how tense they are. A high enough level of stress induces a jittery type character and if heightened even more then one gets into what we know as the fight or flight phase. ‘Your getting my back up’ is actually quite an accurate expression to…