The Emptiness and Transience of Life
The Emptiness and Transience of Life In despair, seeing all his plots unravelling, his machinations brought to nothing, Shakespeare's...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 29, 202359 min read
Habituation vs Homelessness
Habituation vs Homelessness This essay was provoked by contemplating Martin Buber’s analysis of the way that 'epochs of habitation'...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 16, 202228 min read
Reason, Freedom, and God
Reason, Freedom, and God “Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Hence the critic can take his cue from every...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 20, 20223 min read
Politics is the worst religion
The reason people get angry when they hear a contrary view is that, deep down, they suspect that that view may be right. The main reason...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 12, 202229 min read
Transcending the Existential Self-Hatred that Consumes the World
The Existential Self-Hatred that Consumes the World Or, The Egoism that Eats God and Feeds Gods The main focus of this essay is the need...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 12, 202110 min read
Imagine Religion - and Politics
This is a post for those who think that religion lies behind the geopolitical conflicts of the world. I write in response to those...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 7, 20213 min read
Men as gods
Review of a new book that highlights themes that are central to my work. Nominalism, Nihilism, and Modern Politics By Matthew Barry “In...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 8, 202116 min read
The Churches and Housing
One of the many perils and pitfalls of social media is that you have to suffer the company of self-important know-all know-nothing bigots...
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Peter Critchley
May 13, 202110 min read
To Live in Truth and Love
To live in truth and in love. Jordan Peterson pulls Christianity out of Sam Harris' reductionist hat There are plenty of people on...
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Peter Critchley
May 12, 202112 min read
Looking for the Heart of the Heartless World
https://pcritchley2.wixsite.com/beingandplace/post/redeeming-empty-promises Looking for the Heart of the Heartless World "Identity...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 11, 20212 min read
Know Thy Enemy
The founder of BLM became a fraudulent brand after buying a $ 1.4 million home Marxist BLM leader buys $1.4 million home in ritzy LA...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 9, 20215 min read
To be God's partners in Creation
“Rovelli is convinced we must work together. “Co-operation is better than competition,” he says. “Physics has reinforced the fact that we...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 7, 202134 min read
Editing the Endless Love on the Unending Road
Dante’s Politics of Love In 2016 I started to write on the internal music in Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, under the title of Dante’s Sweet...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 27, 20212 min read
Something More
I'm a 'something more' person. I wouldn't want to say exactly what that more is, and give the impression of certainty and concreteness...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 30, 20216 min read
Transcendent Standards or a world of pure contingency and arbitrariness
“Listen to me. Postmodernism will be appropriated by reactionary conservatives to destabilize commonly-held notions of evidence....
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Peter Critchley
Jan 11, 20212 min read
Biblical truth?
I was once involved in a debate between atheists and theists. Unfortunately, it was that kind of debate in which the people with the...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 7, 202113 min read
Conspirituality: a Modern Distemper
‘Conspirituality’ refers to the over-lap between New Age / wellness culture and conspiracy culture. I would like to comment on issues...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 6, 20216 min read
Dante The Poet of Reality
More thoughts on Dante. I am working and thinking hard on the book that is in the process of emergence. There is a lot of reading to do,...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 6, 20219 min read
Dante the Christian Humanist
Dante incurred great intellectual risks in expressing himself in concrete terms comprehensible to uneducated minds, but these risks had...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 10, 202014 min read
Seeing the Light
Seeing the Light “I wish, that I could really tell you, All the things that happened to me And all that I have seen, A world full of...
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