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A Serious Warning to University of Gloucestershire Students: They Aren’t Lying To You About Cars (Updated for 2015)
In past years I have written advice for Freshers of the University of Gloucestershire. My friends who work or studied at the uni have added to it. You can find it at Fresher’s Week in Cheltenham: Six Things I Wish … Continue reading
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today… (Was I Briefly Sexy?)
It was twenty years ago today, or so the papers tell me, that Nevermind by Nirvana and Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers were released. Memory… (and I **won’t** swear I did not have a gun…) … Continue reading
Ambiguity, Belief, Religion and Terror
OK, so today I picked up New Scientist, because I’m interested in gravity, and there was a fairly basic bit on it in there. Nothing very exciting I did not know as it turned out, but New Scientist is always worth a read anyway. There was an article on how engineers form a disproportionate number of rightist and Islamic terrorists – well I hardly thought this was news, the only profile I ever saw for a religious terror suspect a few years back in a book on terrorism said exactly the same thing as this new research. Continue reading
Posted in Paranormal, Religion, Science, Social commentary desecrated, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged ambiguity, ambiguous concepts, Andrew Eldritch, Atheist personality traits, Authoritarian personality, causes of terrorism, engineers, Floodland, fuzzy boundaries, Ian Hume, JREF, Klaus Theweleit, latitudinarianism, literalist, Male Fantasies, New Atheism, New Scientist, Psychology of Nazism, psychology research, religious language, research I want to do, Richard Dawkins, RichardDawkins.net, Seven Types of Ambiguity, Sisters of Mercy, terrorism, University of Gloucestershire
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Cycling in Cheltenham
Well it’s been a few more days, and owing to some work which has required my close attention I have not written much for the blog. Oh and I have been playing Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook… Er, yes, um… OK, … Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, Social commentary desecrated, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
Tagged Bicycle User Group, bicycles, bikes, Cheltenham, Cheltenham & Tewkesbury Cycle Campaign, Cheltenham cycle paths, Cheltenham cycle paths map, Cheltenham sex shop, cycle paths, cycling on pavements, fear of cycling, getting fit by cycling, Honeybourne Cycle Path, more people cycling, pedestrians deserve better, Pittville Park, Pittville Park cycle path, Swindon Village, Tewkesbury Road, University of Gloucestershire, University of Gloucestershire Bicycle User Group
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CJ on uni life…
account of my time at the University of Gloucestershire as is – perhaps more similar to a Dennis Wheatley novel filmed by Andy Warhol with a Velvet Underground and Jefferson Airplance soundtrack than the official version promoted by the Prospectus Continue reading
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Tagged bizarre biographical notes, CGCHE, Cheltenham, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Christian Union, College of St. Paul & St. Mary, drugs at university, Family Nights, Holy Trinity Cheltenham, Marinetti, open days, Psychedelic drugs and mysticism, Student Life, Student Parapsychology Society, Trinity, Undergraduate Life, University Life, University of Gloucestershire
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Family Nights in with Satan?
Unusually, this post began as a comment, on the Reverend Keith Hitchman’s blog. http://hitchmo.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/1269/ Keith writes — “Finally the University of Gloucestershire is to take action against student sports societies that encourage new students to take part in bizzarre and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast Rabban, CGCHE, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, Christian Union, College of St. Paul and St. Mary, CPM, Crowleyian rites, Family Nights, gay nazi wizard, hazing, Holy Trinity Cheltenham, Immigrant Song, Keith Hitchman, my university career, Reverend Keith Hitchman, Rosehill Hall of Residence, student traditions, Student Union, UGSU, University Gloucestershire Student Union, University of Gloucestershire, unwilling participant in melee, UofG
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Fresher’s Week in Cheltenham: Six Things I Wish I Had Known
Another year, another Fresher’s Week about to start here in Cheltenham. A friend from the University of Gloucestershire told me the new students arrived today, but it was only when I met some friendly types who started a conversation in a … Continue reading →