Featured Articles: Spirituality and Stories
The philosophy, stories, poetry, social commentary, and religion of Michael Foord a Jewish, Socialist, Feminist, ex-christian, witch, ex-homeless, ex-prisoner, cult survivor, pansexual, neurodiverse, white, cis and mostly male identifying geek.
Autobiographical
- Back to the Farm
- Doing A-Levels
- A Road Trip to Niagara
- My Ecstasy Honeymoon, Billy Whizz and Simon from the Cult
- Some Personal History with Python
- Grieving my Father
- The Evil Priestess and the Temple to Isis in Battersea
- George William Curry and Pathfinder Squadron 627
- Tales from the Past: Spiritual Mastery, Psychotherapy, Meditation and Worship
- A Collection of Short Memories: The Great Work, Karen, Homophobia, The Police
- Conversations with the Holy Guardian Angel (or How I Ended Up in Prison)
- Pungent Effulgent, The Serbian and Nightmare on Watling Street
- With mine love I doth attack thee
- The Senior Apostolic Leader of the Cult
- Crimes of the Cult
- Dealing with it
- The Occult
- Paradise Mill
- Accidental Millionaire
- The Recovery Guy's Mistress
- Chasing the Dragon
- I'm a Rambling Man
- Prunes and Funerals
- The Copper of Darkest Ohio
- Wuthering Drunks
- Socialism
- An Account of a Curse
- Twagging and the Garden Hip Hop
- Tales from the Past: Wretchedness and a Gun
- My Second Best Story from 2017 and other tales
- Those Times Psychosis Nearly Killed Me
- Fragments of a Once Broken Mind
- A Jewish Love Story
Religion and Spirituality
- The Old Testament
- The Bible: The Bad Parts
- Christian Guilt and a Christian Perspective on Abortion
- Mindfulness of Breathing: A Meditation on the Breath
- Tales from the Past: Spiritual Mastery, Psychotherapy, Meditation and Worship
- New Atheism
- Angelology: The Celestial Hierarchy
- On Being a Wizard or a Witch
- Vipassana Meditation
- Sheol: A Little Poem on the Christian Concept of Hell
- Boudica, the Glorious and Tragic Warrior Queen of the Britons
- Leaving the Past Behind: Christian No Longer
- Hippies and Charismatics: From the Sixties to Here
- Parousia
- Meditation Revisited: A Conception of Self
- Righteousness
- God is Doing a New Thing
- Theodicy and the Problem of Evil
- Visions of Heaven and Hell
- Stop Searching for God
- Soul Healing Part II: Empathy
- Soul Healing I: Becoming Whole
- Soul, spirit and will
- Tainted Love?
- The Fire, The River and a Sword
- The Bible: The Good Parts
- Crossing the Soul Gap: a Rational Faith
- Seeing Angels
Philosophy and Social Issues
- Female Privilege
- Patriarchy and Parenting
- Politics and Voting Systems
- A Hasty Primer on Intersectional Feminism
- Wage Theft and Defund the Northamptonshire Police
- Deriving the Scientific Method and a Nice Life Philosophy from Descartes' Second Meditation
- A Travel Tip for Visiting New Cities
- Intersectional Feminism
- Ignorance and Intuition
- Positive Nihilism: A Fallback Philosophy
- Social Evolution and the Struggle for Survival
- A Tribal World
- Mysticism, Freedom and the Human Will
- Sexuality
- Evolutionary Spirituality V: A Philosophical Quest
- Evolutionary Spirituality IV: Death, Heaven & Hell
- Evolutionary Spirituality III: A Natural Philosophy
- Evolutionary Spirituality II: Goodness out of Chaos
- Evolutionary Spirituality I: A Personal God?
- Analytical Philosophy and Meaning
- Feminism
Collections of Short Meditations
- Come with me human, and I'll show you how to install Linux
- Love Like Gold, Politics and Advanced Calculus
- The Penalty for Rape, Morality, Interesting Times and Orientation
- Does God Exist, Plastic Jesus, Empathic Narcissist, and Join a Cult
- ACAB, Positive Nihilism, Babylon the Great and The Prophet
- Judgement, Faustus the Imp, Invisible Sky Friends and a Curse Against the City of Tyre
- Speaking Up for Anger and Other Short Meditations
- My Second Best Story from 2017 and other tales
- Romance, Telepathy, Intuition and the Pain at the Centre of the Heart
- The argument from tradition, there's a lot more light, and epithets
- The City, Desire, Community and so on and so forth
- Short Meditations on Topics of a Spiritual Nature
Poetry
- With mine love I doth attack thee
- A Collection of Short Poems: Here I Sit, The Cult of None, and Just Keeping Quiet
- The Great I Am
- My Son
- Tangle Heart
- Words, fucking words
- Muddy Waters
- To Those Who Worry
- Aspects of the Divine
- Fragments of a Once Broken Mind
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason
- Sheol: A Little Poem on the Christian Concept of Hell
Technical
- Python Metaclasses in Eight Words
- Some Personal History with Python
- The Role of Abstractions in Software Engineering
- A Very Short Letter to Agile
- Internet Security III: Salting Your Hashes
- Internet Security II: Slowing Things Down
- Internet Security I: Cryptography and the Darknet
- Software Engineering Abstractions: Design and Testing
- The Craft of Software Engineering
- Are We Living in a Computer Simulation
Other Stuff
- Krav Maga and the Turkish Slap
- The Jesus Army and the Independent Inquiry into Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Signs You're in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship
- In Praise of Kurzgesagt: StringTheory
- A Few Books that Have Shaped Me
- The Balkan Wars and Trusting the Media
- Anti-depressants and SSRI Discontinuation Syndrome
- Mother Nina
- The Power to Curse or to Bless: On Swear Words
- Passion versus Peace: The Sith Code
- Magnificent Women
- Be like a child: be furious