Tag: Freedom

• The Obvious, the Enemy, and the True

  Let’s remind ourselves of something we occasionally forget. It’s obvious that the ground on which we stand is not moving. It it were, our sense of safety and security would disappear. We’d be clinging on for dear life, to whatever we could grab hold of, in a disorienting mayhem of scary motion. We aren’t, however, […]

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  28th Jun 2021

  Consciousness, Environment, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Einstein, Facts, Freedom, Opinions, Relatvity, Uncertainty

• “Everyone Sang” – A Religious Poem?

  Siegfried Sassoon had a Jewish father, and an Anglican mother, and was a convert to Roman Catholicism. This rather enigmatic poem was written just after the end of World War II, in which he served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Some have therefore understood it as describing an outburst of joy in response to the […]

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  7th Feb 2021

  Literature, Poetry, Religion

  Beauty, Freedom, Poem, Sassoon, Transcendent, War