- September 20, 2009
- One’s State of Life
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- Buddhism, Life
- Tagged with: book, Buddhism, Daisaku, Death, Devil, Dream, existence, faith, good, Head, heart, Hero, Ikeda, judge, judgement, Lovecraft, Murder, Nature, punishment, Religion, sentient, Sound, state, World
Our existence in this world can be likened to a dream. The issue of the greatest importance and eternal relevance is how we face death, the inescapable destiny of all living beings. For in the face of death, external factors such as social status or position in the organization count for naught. Everything depends on [...]
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- April 21, 2009
- Obama’s Been Got
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- Freedom
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High Hopes Replaced by Low Expectations It’s the torture, see? UK In the UK, when Blair was first elected Prime Minister, the people in the country had such high hopes. There were promises of an ‘end to sleaze’ and an ‘ethical foreign policy’. Since those heady few weeks in the UK; We’ve had years of [...]
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- March 11, 2009
- DNA and Capital Punishment
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- Freedom, Life, Technology
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Yet Another Reason Why We Don’t Kill Murderers in Britain Sean Hodgson could be the latest person to benefit from the pure goodness of science and knowledge. His DNA, apparently, isn’t the same as that of the person that killed Teresa De Simone way back in 1979! Tragically, he’s been locked up all that time [...]
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- December 18, 2008
- Colin Stagg:This is Why we Don’t Kill Murderers in Britain
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….at least, it’s one reason why we don’t have capital punishment. The Colin Stagg Story Man admits Rachel Nickell killing The Rachell Nickell murder was a terrible thing, whipped up into a media frenzy like the IRA-bombers-that-weren’t such as the Guildford Four, Birmingham Six and a host of other miscarriages of justice. Because of blinkered [...]
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- November 9, 2008
- Bridgwater Carnival 2008
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Amadeus Meets His Nemesis in the Land of Make-Believe Photo Details These were all taken on my recently repaired Fuji Finepix F30. Everything was on auto and with virtually no flash used. It’s a shame it doesn’t have variable zoom and aperture when in video mode. I could have done with that. Hopefully, you’ll get [...]
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- October 30, 2008
- The Law is Inside Us, Not an External Constraint
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- Cycling
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Currently there is an inquest in Essex into the death of a young woman, Natalie Wade, who was hit by a car driven by three quarters blind pensioner, John Thorpe. ‘Blind’ driver kills bride-to-be Natalie’s stepfather, David Gutberlet, said, “We would like to see the law changed as a result of our daughter’s death. The [...]
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- September 13, 2008
- The 26 Admonitions explained by Richard Causton
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Introduction I’ve nabbed the content of this from Ted Penfold. My wife, has told me that she heard this lecture of Dick’s and found it and him some of the most inspiring things in her life. I came across this wonderful piece by chance, looking for some background information on Nikko, the second guy after [...]
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