InsaneJournal

Life this year...
... was good for it set up a better future, but, was also challenging. I've spend 10 months away from home (one reason I've hardly been updating things), and that has meant 10 months away from my poor wife, and 10 months away from all my books. For much of that time I was only online via cybercafés or via military computer networks, existing behind heavy firewalls that blocked many social sites.

The last 4 years I've been in Germany, and out of that, I've spent a full 13 months in Afghanistan doing technical work, it has been difficult to maintain all my civilian friendships and academic contacts; despite that I have still managed to collaborate with a few authors for their respective books on various aspects of religion.

From next year, all will be different. I will living back in England, be able to visit friends in London and elsewhere on the weekends, be able to access English-speaking libraries, and have my cars to hand. So, I'll be both present, and mobile! Although I will have to get used to driving in the UK, with its arrogant drivers, congested roads, slow motorways...

I've been used to living in the much-more civilised Germany, where city-centers aren't full of trash in the evening (unless they're British), where people are nice and polite, things are done intentionally properly, etc... in short, all those values which used to be British, but we have largely lost.

Anyway, I don't really know what directions I will be going in next year. Undoubtedly, I will write more on elements of religious sociology and religious psychology. I know I need to redo my site on monotheistic theology. I see myself revamping my large website on Satanism, due to being with my books and finally reading a few valuable gems that I leave at home because I don't want to travel with them. I'm just finishing a few books on Islam, so, expect some writings in that area.