Bogosity

NOTE: this is a vague review of the film Amazing Grace.

The meaning of life has gained a fifth bullet point: learn from your heroes.

Let me recap:

1. A support network. William Wilberforce found wonderful resources in his friends. Note that their material help was probably not as important as just the fact that they [...]

I almost forgot to reveal the answer to last week’s homework about how to exist with dignity and honesty in a society where you feel you have to hide parts of yourself most of the time.

The truth is that you can’t. I think Jesus demonstrated that to us fairly strongly, as have the many [...]

Everyone’s going to think I’m an arsehole but I just need to say how happy I feel about the blue sky today after a week of the kind of rain that made me want to travel across marshes of dead spirits and climb Mt Doom. It was like the never ending wintertime of despair [...]

So did anyone do their homework and come up with ideas about how to improve my self esteem and sense of existential inconsequence? I used to think that if only I could do something really interesting and cool then my purpose in life would become clear – hence I learned to play guitar and [...]

Did anyone watch the panel discussion about Happiness and it’s Causes on Compass on Sunday night? If you missed it, imagine the Dalai Lama sitting quietly while a bunch of highly priveleged well to do types pontificate, intellectualise and plumb the shallow depths of anti-commercialism, quasi buddhism, the golden rule and positive thinking self-help [...]

Some may think that the silence on this blog lately is because I’m really busy, or I’ve gotten a life, or that I’ve stopped thinking. I’m here to reassure you dear Bogosity fans that this is not the case.

The truth is I’ve been working on trying to blog some things that have been going [...]

For those of you complaining and moaning to yourselves about the lack of updates to Bogosity, look over on the right column and you can see a feed from my Tumblog which has lots of links to things I think you should read. You can even subscribe to it in an RSS reader. [...]