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A few spring colour photos taken on the way back from a pastoral visit to Oakington

A few spring colour photos taken on the way back from a pastoral visit to Oakington
All photos taken with a Fuji X100F
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Unitarian minister in Cambridge (UK) with sympathies towards an Epicurean/Lucretian inspired religious naturalism and Christian atheism. Communalist, jazz bass player, photographer, cyclist and walker.

Over the years I've tried various descriptions of "where I'm generally at" but, although they have been OK as far as they go, they've not fitted as well as they might. These days I find the following words of the philosopher, Paul Wienpahl, fit the bill better than anything else: 

"As I see it, the point is not to identify reality with anything except itself. (Tautologies are, after all, true.) If you wish to persist by asking what reality is; that is, what is really, the answer is that it is what you experience it to be. Reality is as you see, hear, feel, taste and smell it, and as you live it. And it is a multifarious thing. To see this is to be a man without a position. To get out of the mind and into the world, to get beyond language and to the things is to cease to be an idealist or a pragmatist, or an existentialist, or a Christian. I am a man without a position. I do not have the philosophic position that there are no positions or theories or standpoints. (There obviously are.) I am not a sceptic or an agnostic or an atheist. I am simply a man without a position, and this should open the door to detachment" Paul Wienpahl in An Unorthodox Lecture (1956)

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