This page is links to pages about personal interests, stuff I'm writing and so forth.
Watch this space for more articles, updates, odd rambles, and despatches
Hi, this is my own Home Page. I intend to use it to show you what I'm about and indulge a bit of my own creativity. Essentially I have been writing odd blog-like things since before the term was invented but didn't quite know what to do with them.
As you can see from the main pages and links, I'm working on the EDM Council Semantics Repository. This is a culmination of many years of interest in semantics and cognitive psychology.
Here are some short stories. I'll add a few more from time to time when I get a chance to make some improvements.
I am a Humanist and a Secularist. As a Humanist I believe that morals and ethics come from within the human experience, while as a Secularist I believe that religions should not have official privilege or special position in the workings of the state.
Beyond that I believe there is something within the human experience which is closer to what we sometimes mean by "spiritual" than anything we see in religious belief systems, and that in fact those belief systems act as a form of poison to prevent us finding whatever our true way is. I do not believe that it requires any imaginary beings, or any separate, neo-Platonist separate dimension of "Spirit" for this, rather it emerges from the single physical world we see. The way the world is, and the things that arise out of that world, are far more inspiring and magical than the crass, simplifying "explanations" put forward by the neo-platonist religions (that's the big three).
Here is a thing I wrote many years ago on the subject of dreams, magic and miracles.