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This is my third volume of short essays to make you think. I look for patterns and generalisations; keep things simple - not to offer truths, but to highlight where complication and specialisation might get things wrong. From the nature of God to what is knowledge, I theorise on subjects as varied as politics and psychology. I even attempt an explanation of Adam's Rib.
Anthony North
Thinker & Storyteller****7,453 Words to Save the UK and I,Writer are now FREE. Scroll down to find them.*****1955 (Yorkshire, England) – I am born (Damn! Already been done). ‘Twas the best of times ... (Oh well).I was actually born in the year of Einstein's death, close to Scrooge's Counting House. It doesn't mean anything but it sounds good. As for my education, I left school at 15 and have had no formal education since. Hence, I'm self-taught.****From a family of newsagents, at 18 I did a Dick Whittington and went off to London, only to return to pretend to be Charlie and work in a chocolate factory.When I was ten I was asked what I wanted to be. I said soldier, writer and Dad. I never thought of it for years – having too much fun, such as a time as lead guitarist in a local rock band – but I served nine years in the RAF, got married and had seven kids. I realized my words had been precognitive when, at age 27, I came down with M.E. – a condition I’ve suffered ever since – and turned my attention to writing.Indeed, as I realized that no expert could tell me what was wrong with me, I began my quest to find out why. Little did I realize it would last decades and take me through the entire history of knowledge, leaving me with the certainty that our knowledge systems are inadequate.****My non-fiction is based on P-ology, a thought process I devised to work with patterns of knowledge, and designed to be a bedfellow to specialization. A form of Rational Holism, it seeks out areas the specialist may have missed. I work from encyclopaedias and introductory volumes in order to gain a grasp of many subjects and am not an expert in anything, but those patterns keep forming. Hence, I do not deal in truth, but ideas, and cover everything from politics to the paranormal.When reading my work I ask only: do I make sense? Of course, an expert would say: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I agree. And an expert has so little knowledge of everything.I also write novels and Flash Fiction in all genres.
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I, Observer - Anthony North
I, Observer
By Anthony North
Copyright Anthony North 2013
Cover image copyright, Yvonne North 2013
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Other books by Anthony North
Beginning in 2019 I’m publishing 14 volumes of my fiction, inc 7 novels in most genres, & 21 works of non-fiction covering cults, politics, conspiracies, religion, disasters, science, philosophy, warfare, crime, psychology, new age, green issues & all areas of the unexplained, inc ufology, lost worlds and the paranormal. Hopefully appearing at the rate of one a month, check out the latest launch at my bookstore at http://anthonynorth.com or buy direct from Smashwords for all devices at: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/anthonynorth
In addition to the above, you may like my ‘I’ Series – 8 volumes of flash fiction (horror, sci fi, romance, adventure, crime), 4 volumes of poetry & 5 volumes of short essays from politics to the unexplained. Available from same links as above. Also check out my bookstore for news of my books out in paperback.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Sense & Senselessness
Nature of God - Thought
The First Spirits
A Moderate Kind of Guy
The Psychology of Creationism
What Can We Know?
Icon Fever
Perspectives
Nature 0f God - Other
The Noble Democrat
Techno-Animism
Are Celebrities Mental?
We've Forgotten Curiosity
The Thing About Adam's Rib
There Are Reasons Behind Reason
It's Abnormal To Steal
Digi-Man
Contradiction
God's Science
The Spirit of the Thing
Does the Devil Have a Halo?
Booze of the Gods
How Culture Changes
Simplicity & Complication
Why Does Bad Exist?
How to Explain Knowledge
The World Is What It Is
Vandals of the Past
Uni-Cult
Chaotic Minds
About the Author
Connect With Anthony
INTRODUCTION
This is my third volume of short essays to make you think. I look for patterns and generalisations; keep things simple - not to offer truths, but to highlight where complication and specialisation might get things wrong. From the nature of God to what is knowledge, I theorise on subjects as varied as politics and psychology. I even attempt an explanation of Adam's Rib. If you like, you might also try the sister volumes:
I, Society: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/272861
I, Essayist: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/259928
SENSE & SENSELESSNESS
I like learning what others have thought and done. The one leads to the other. It isn’t necessarily the case that thought and action are in the same person. Often it is a thinker who has the thought, and a whole society that continues with the action. This is, infact, the process of history and philosophy.
It can lead to sense and senselessness.
For instance, most of a scientific view see their paradigm as sense, whilst the religious view is senselessness. This does, of course, work the other way round, too.
This suggests that sense is not necessarily a definite, but a state of mind in itself. Thought, it seems, is needed to decide between the two – and never the twain shall meet. Which to me is insanity.
We can find little sense in Communism.
At least, we can’t how it turned out. It becomes repressive and totalitarian. Yet surely there is sense in the idea that we should all be equal? That people should share?
Of course it makes sense – as a sentiment, if not a reality. But why did it all go so wrong? Why did a beautiful foundation of Christianity in Jesus turn so many into mass murderers in his name? (If you disagree, think Witchhunts and many other atrocities).
I think the answer is this: there is usually a large degree of sense in any argument or stance. But then it all descends into senselessness when people decide it is the only way to think. Thinking is always right and sensible – but the fanaticism that arises from action from the thought is always senseless and wrong.
NATURE OF GOD - THOUGHT
The problem with God is He causes far too many arguments. And the main bone of contention is whether God does, or