Religious fundamentalism – Shit happens!

According to:
TAOISM
Shit happens
BUDDHISM
If shit happens, it isn’t really shit
HINDUISM
This shit has happened before
ISLAM
If shit happens it is the will of Allah
CATHOLICISM
Shit happens because you deserve it
PROTESTANTISM
Let shit happen to somebody else
JUDAISM
Why does shit always happen to us?

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The Torment of Saint Anthony- naked truth

Just heard the news that an original painting by Michaelangelo, ‘The Torment Of Saint Anthony’ is going on show in New York.
A quickie: when I was growing in Ireland and the UK it was common to say a quick prayer to St Anthony if you had lost something.
It was just “Saint Anthony guide me”. It [...]

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Science, religion, creationism and Darwin

There has been a lot of debate, books and articles and programmes about the issue of: ‘Is there a God?’; ‘Is there life after death?’; ‘Is Darwin right?’; ‘Are spirituality and religion shams and delusions?’

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The Apocalypse and the credit crunch

I’ve had a longish break from this blog that included Christmas, the New Year and my birthday. There is a condition known as blog burn out but I don’t think I was suffering from that. Maybe I had just run out of ideas for posts.
What’s happened since then? Well, the world has spiralled down [...]

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Naked Pierce Brosnan – why the interest?

It’s funny. I put up a post about a time many years ago when I co-wrote a Celtic rock musical for the Edinburgh Festival that starred a naked (and young) Pierce Brosnan. Since then, the post has been by far the most popular on this blog – despite all the other stuff happening on the [...]

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Whatever happened to all the wild young children?

I am watching a TV programme about ‘Wind In The Willows’, the all-time classic children’s tale of the river bank with some of the greatest quotes of all time. Kenneth Grahame based his mythical story on the Thames side village of Cookham, where he lived as a child.
The programme made the point that as a [...]

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From Elton John to Sai Baba

I have been invited to do a local radio interview and it’s one of those shows that have a pool of standard questions that you pick out of a hat. Questions like: What book has had a lasting impression on you? What period of history would you like to have lived through? What’s the favourite [...]

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Young adult fantasy is going well

It seems that just by putting the word ‘naked’ into a title or tag has increased hits to this blog tremendously. I’m glad a few of you out there have managed to find ‘Tall Story’. I’m not sure yet how you go about linking to this blog (if you wanted to) or vice versa. I [...]

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Everyone’s jumping on the sacred bandwagon

I am sitting on a story that could shake the world.
No, it’s true.
My US agent has been shopping ‘An Angel On My Shoulder’ to a receptive bunch of editors and they have universally praised it while rejecting it. It is a dramatised true story that reads like a spiritual thriller. Well, that’s exactly what it [...]

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So, what is reality when it’s at home?

I guess that the most fundamental question any one of us on this fragment of dust can ever ask ourselves, and one that can sound profound or pretentious is – what is reality? It’s an interesting question. It’s one that another blogger I’ve come across has had a stab at answering http://omniverse.blogspot.com/. But how many [...]

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