A Thinking Man
Blog URL http://www.athinkingman.co.uk/
Located King's Lynn, Norfolk United Kingdom
Tags philosophy, psychology, relationships, religion, morality, therapy, human rights, humanity, society
Notes, journal, diary, blog, arguments, beliefs, cogitations, comments, considerations, contemplations, criticisms, daydreams, engrossments, musings, opinions, poems, points, rantings (occasional), reflections, satire, wit, of a thinking man.
Latest Blog Posts
- One Law for All on Nov 13, 2009 in Censorship Human Rights Law Morality Religion Society Maryam Namazie One Law for All Sharia
Press Release from the One Law for All Campaign One Law for All campaign is organising a rally on Saturday 21 November 2009 at 1200pm in London’s Hyde Park. The rally aims to oppose religious laws in Britain and elsewhere, show solidarity with peop...
- A Degree of Care on Nov 12, 2009 in Education Health caring degree doctors graduate non graduate nurses nursing phlog training
Would you rather have your leg ulcer dressed by a non-graduate, skilled, caring practitioner who knew what she or he was doing, or by a graduate who didn’t? I have mixed feelings about recent proposals to make nursing an all graduate professi...
- Revolutionary Care Treatment on Nov 1, 2009 in Health Human Rights Humanity alimentary bones Bush care plan CIA depression doctors endocrine healing heart heart attack hip hospital hypertension National Health Service NHS nurses operations patient porters QE2 QEII Queen Elizabeth II renal sleep sleep deprivation stents theatre torture ward
The UK National Health Service (NHS), of course, like Mum’s cooking and apple pie, is wonderful. In times of crisis its nurses and doctors will deal gently and compassionately (if not always as speedily as you would like) in A&E, and will...
- Evernote on Oct 26, 2009 in Creativity Internet Productivity Technology iPhone iPhone 3G BlackBerry DOC DOCX electronic Evernote handwritten notes ipadio iPod Microsoft notebook OneNote Palm Pre phlogs scrapbook sound files Twitter WAV Windows Mobile
I’m a child at heart, and I love playing with new software. Occasionally I discover new toys that seem too important and enjoyable to put aside. About three weeks ago I discovered Evernote and have been using it (playing with it) ever since.
- Lost in the Myth on Oct 20, 2009 in Faith Religion Bart Ehrman bible canon Christianity God Hebrews heretic ipadio New Testament non-canonical literature phlog theology
I thought I knew the answers. Well, perhaps I knew that I didn’t really know, because I had never really thought about it (and certainly hadn’t read about it). But when I was a believer, aiming to base my life and theology on what I b...
- Breasts on Oct 17, 2009 in Faith Human Rights Humanity Religion Society bottoms bra breasts Charlie Dimmock deception female sexuality Ground Force Islam legs Muslim sexuality Somalia Sudan trousers unIslamic whipping women
If it is not women’s legs and bottoms (see Appropriateness), it is their breasts. Apparently some men, especially some religious men, just can’t leave them alone. It is bad enough that some women in the Sudan are being whipped for w...
- Chunking Up on Oct 13, 2009 in Existential Health Humanity Therapy BACP Baptist British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy CBT Cognitive Behaviour Therapy counselling counsellor Integrative Newcastle Person Centred Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic psychotherapy
I recently attended a two-day gathering of several hundred people. This large group could be divided into several sub-groups, with each sub-group thinking that they were the ones who were right, they had the real truth, they were the ‘pure and...
