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• A Conversation about 'Other' Religions - that is, religions other than Christianity, sparked by a Facebook discussion.…

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Introduction

The term ‘democracy’ appeared in the 5th century BC, in the Greek city-states, most notably in Athens. ‘Democracy’ referred to a ‘rule of the people’ (δημοκρατία: dēmokratía – dēmos ‘people’ and kratos ‘rule’) as opposed to the traditional system of aristocracy, or ‘rule of an elite’ (ἀριστοκρατία: aristokratía – aristos…

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Introduction

Andy Pettman recently wrote an article entitled, "Two sorts of knowledge" and I think he is half right, or maybe two-thirds.  He says:

In English, the word “know” can be used for both a fact and a person.  You can know that the Battle of Hastings was in…

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Introduction

Artificial Intelligence is not intelligent, but it is changing the world.  It certainly poses a risk to some - perhaps many - jobs, but does it pose a risk to the human race, as some have claimed?

One of the significant risks is that AI models need to be trained on large amounts of data - so they will reliably reproduce any bias and injustice which…

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Introduction

There is general agreement that the current economic system is broken - but no agreement on how we ought to fix it.

One of the difficulties of talking about this area is that (like religion) everyone thinks they understand the subject and are qualified to give their opinion; also (and also like religion) many experts disagree fundamentally with…

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Introduction

Money has financial value, but so too do many other things.

The value of things in society is constantly increasing, and (in general) we want to be able to trade these things, so too the supply of money within the society needs to be constantly increasing, to remain in step.

Price and Value

We tend to confuse price and…

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Introduction

The modern world requires an efficient and reliable financial system. We need to be able to pay for things – to move money around, both within nation states and between them. And we need a way to provide capital to people who want to start or grow a business. Beyond this, we (as in 99% of the world’s population) don’t actually need many financial…

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Introduction

Almost every issue and challenge we face is tied up with money - who has it, and how they (we!) choose to spend it.

• Financial Services
• Money
• Money…

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Introduction

Atonement is the name we give to an action which repairs a relationships which has been fractured by wrongdoing, so that the relationship is…

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This article is part of the 'Ground Up' project.

Your Kingdom Come

For…