Vexen Crabtree’s blog

Hiding in London

2008-12-14T12:38:59Z

I've been staying at my friend's house in London, in Croydon... and although I've gone into London proper just to go to the British Library, I haven't told anyone I'm here at all! One reason is that I had to recover from Thursday night out in Bla...

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The Anti-Religious Forces Driving Secularisation

2008-11-30T14:26:12Z

I have moved page Anti-Religious Forces: Specific Factors Fuelling Secularisation page to my new www.Human Religions.info website and lightly edited it.

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The UK Teenage Pregnancy Rate

2008-09-23T10:04:01Z

On my page "An Analysis of UK Trash Culture" by Vexen Crabtree (2004) I've added a brief comment on UK teenage pregnancy rates: The Institute for Public Policy Research reported in 2007 that British teenagers are the worst behaved in Europe. In...

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Hellraiser quotes in Solitary Experiments tracks

2008-08-27T12:44:36Z

I have noticed three tracks from the EBM/darkwave band Solitary Experiments to put on Hellraiser: Film samples used in music tracks I own (Vexen Crabtree) Here is a copy of the new text on that page: Track Pandora's Box on "Cause & Effect" (2004...

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Is a religion better for being well-behaved or for being truer?

2008-06-24T20:39:40Z

Is a "better" religion one that improves people's behaviour (pragmatists would say so!), or is a better religion one that is close to the truth (idealists, unite!)? Religions that are appealing probably fit in the former category, whilst potentia...

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It's alive!

2008-06-24T20:19:56Z

Most journals and blog sites are blocked by the very heavy firewall that exists in this country... but I just found that Vox works! I will have normal internet access later this year.

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Tired

2007-08-03T12:33:48Z

Was up at 2am (after getting away from the Gate only at 10pm), to man the security desk... after my shift finally finishe at 9am, instead of sleeping, I went off into London because the thought of staying in my temporary work accomodation in Houns...

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Stupidity!

2007-04-03T09:36:01Z

Human Stupidity pages by Vexen Crabtree: Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant. The Devil's Dictionary

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Some notes on Sleep

2007-02-26T19:50:07Z

I'm slowly finishing the wonderful book "Neuroscience" (Bear, Connors and Paradiso), all about the brain, and thought I'd share three of the random things I've noted: To quote from a book by James Horne entitled Why We Sleep, "Many people feel...

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TV Violence - R. Gross

2006-11-25T23:35:06Z

"Field experiment [studies are those] in which children or teenagers are assigned to view violent or non-violent programs for a period of a few days or weeks. Measures of aggressive behaviour, fantasy, attitude, etc. are taken before, during and ...

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