Cogitations

By David Edwards The response to Part 1 of this Cogitation was interesting. Positive comments were mixed with outrage that I should waste time on “twaddle“. A few people interpreted the piece as an attack →

By David Edwards Introduction A fair proportion of the South coast of England, where I live, was recently in uproar at the news that former Portsmouth football manager, Harry Redknapp, had joined arch-rival South coast →

By David Cromwell “It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.” (Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and →

By David Edwards “In thee mercy, in thee pity, in thee magnificence, in thee whatever of goodness is in any creature, are united.” (Dante) Treating Earth Like It Was Dirt Having taken a wrong turning, →

By David Edwards The Tear-Stained Robot Writing in the Guardian, Peter Singer, a leading figure in the animal rights movement, describes the confrontation between animal rights activists and researchers experimenting on animals: “This situation has →

“Q. You’re married? A. Right. Q. Children? A. Two. Q. How old? A. The boy is two and a half, and the little girl is a year and a half. Q. Obviously, the question comes →

By David Cromwell There is an intense feeling that we all experience during our best moments that life has meaning; that it is priceless, and filled with immense potential. The seventeenth century French philosopher Blaise →

By David Edwards Truly, Madly, Deeply – Above All Madly British people are not good at happiness. According to research published in 2002, around one-third of British people suffer from serious depression at any one →

By David Edwards The Catastrophe Of Corporate Work My early sense that people had a tendency to trade their authenticity for a socially approved, false version of happiness was reinforced mightily when I entered the →

By David Edwards Personal – Political Many of the dissident philosophers and rebels of the past like Rousseau, Rocker, Tolstoy, Thoreau, Emerson and Fromm wrote often about the personal experiences, motivations and concerns that informed →