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Brian Snellgrove

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Will the truth (science) survive?

BJ – can science survive? JB – it is dead. That’s why I left it. If you have to change the very definition of what it is to fit society and the people who run it then there is no validity to it. BJ what comes after...

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A day of rest – well, relatively speaking

So much has happened recently that when the evening comes I don't have the energy or the 'ooomph' to write it down. Today Monday we have the Town Carnival, commencing at 19.30 where an assortment of lorries sponsored...

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What is the brain?

BJ – What is the brain? I reckon that the whole body/aura is the brain of which the brain itself is just a symbol and storer of junk data. It stores all the bad things or indeed everything that has happened to you...

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Inspired words from Buddhist Dr Sukerat Bhakdi

Today I am in full work mode. I love this Doctor; irrespective of subject matter, his attitude is a role model for anything in the scientific or indeed the humanities field. Do watch this interview and watch how he...

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Mobile phones – neutrinos and everything

  BJ – these neutrinos are like a whole new world. JB – I did tell you BJ -I am addicted to it. It has exercised the minds of the greatest people including Einstein and you can’t see the dammed thing. BJ I don’t...

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What does it mean to be human?

I came across this during one of my many wanderings through sites related to Covid. We are supposed to - and were once - an embodiment of light. We are now harbingers of doom in so far as we do not respect our humanity...

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A couple of days in Cardiff

I always follow my instincts when it comes to travel. I got the idea lat Friday that we should do a brief visit to Cardiff in Wales.   It is quite close to us. As the crow flies it is 32 miles but more like 55 miles by...

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Loneliness or enjoying your own company?

BJ – We have a certain loneliness due to our intrinsic state, secondly due to our awareness, and trying to resurrect the dead – who is going to want to seek the light when they are stuck in fear and the two just don’t...

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