@craig @cathannabel @kevinwho

I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine how it must feel to lose a partner or parent. I wish I knew the right words to say. Language is rubbish sometimes.

“if it seems we’ve wandered too far afield from the episode”… or maybe right to the heart of it?

Such a beautiful photo, Craig. I hope you get your dream tonight.

Hugs…[Read more]

@cumquat

“this propensity to civility and this use of reason in the development of an argument”

Oh come on now that’s a bit strong. Did it never occur to you that some of us on here might not be the polite, reasonable people you take us for? Maybe we’re just really, really incompetent trolls.

I come on here with every intention of trolling. It…[Read more]

Just back from holiday and caught up with episode 9, and what a corker it was. I loved this. Taking the fairy tale right back to its grizzly folkloric roots. (I really enjoyed your post detailing the fairy tale elements @bluesqueakpip.)

I can’t believe how quickly my reservations about this series have melted.

Hanne: from the Hebrew Channah,…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @whisht Ha ha thanks for the props. Idiot Heights would be far more apposite but what’s the point of the internet if you can’t dress yourself up with a bit of fictional grandeur? How about Whishtminster Palace? 🙂

@mudlark A bit late, but I just want to add my voice to those wishing you well. Hope your nose is causing no…[Read more]

Things are a bit stupidly chaotic here in Savon Manor. If I had time to spare, I’d be able to explain why I started out fearing I might hate this new series, but have now really started to get into it.
In bullet points…

• The new music has grown on me.
•  None of the companion characters wear their heart on their sleeve à la Moffat. But t…

[Read more]

@pedant Jeez! I see what you mean about the oncoming traffic. That first grey car did well to avoid you. It does look scary. Lucky there was a decent-sized verge too. Round our way the country roads are helpfully flanked by ditches.

It would be outrageous even by insurance company standards to try and dispute liability for this. In the other…[Read more]

@pedant

Just checking in. Straight after a big jolt, you might feel ok but the next 24 hours can really take a toll. Hope you’re still ok.

x

@pedant Yeah, good news about glucose levels. But what a way to find out. Sounds nasty. I hope the other driver was duly mortified.

@pedant What a nightmare. Makes you wonder how some people ever got a licence. How are you? Hope not hurt or shaken.

@thane16
Please do send your assignment to me, I’d love to read it. But that’s just for fun. Obviously there are others here that can really guide (@bluesqueakpip) and challenge (@pedant)

But I’m enjoying learning about philosophy, and I can help you out with criteria from a boring, generic teacher viewpoint for what it’s worth. So please don’t…[Read more]

@thane16

Here you go. You mentioned Brisbane so I assume this is your study programme? If so I think it will be extremely helpful for future topics.

https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/subjects/humanities-and-social-sciences/philosophy-reason-2014

If you download the syllabus, you’ll find your question word-for-word under topic 6, along with…[Read more]

@thane16 Good, I’m glad it was helpful. I’ll be interested to find out how you get on, and what your teacher has to say.

I’ve really enjoyed reading this discussion and finding more out for myself. I had thoughts circling about the appropriateness of rational argument and the limitations of lanugage, but they never quite crystallised into a…[Read more]

@thane16

I found this article which, to my untrained eye, seems to cover the arguments and philosophers you are writing about. Although it doesn’t answer your precise question (can we establish…) the author does evaluate philosophy’s “success” if you like, in answering the God question. So I thought it might be an interesting r…[Read more]

@pedant I’d like it if the “nudges” theme became a thing: the message that, however unremarkable we think we are, we each have tremendous power to change and shape the world. But that one bad choice, one little nudge in the wrong direction could be catastrophic.

Thinking about it, wasn’t there a convo somewhere on the Rosa thread about Thirteen’s…[Read more]

Posting this in the pub, as it has nought to do with Arachnids…

@lionheart564 @miapatrick

True story: In my 20’s I spent a couple of years living in Cameroon near the Chad border. Overwhelmingly, anybody there who wasn’t from Cameroon or Chad would either be white European/American/Canadian, or Chinese.
I am stereotypically white European in…[Read more]

@kevinwho Ooh, if the Doctor that we think is the current Doctor turns out to be a pretend Doctor, and then we meet the real and completely different Doctor, then that would be egg on everyone’s face who ever had any kind of strong opinion about the new Doctor, or whether “Jodi” was even any good.  Because that wasn’t even the new Doctor you morons. 🙂

@kevinwho Now we’re talking!

Something that did occur to me but I hope it’s not true is that “ghost Grace” is actually “past Grace” nipping into the future to help Graham through the grieving process.

But that would obviously be pretty terrible if it were true.

But maybe it’s true in a way which turns out to be cooler than it sounds.

So basically, this episode didn’t grab me. Nothing wrong with it. Maybe not my cup of tea or maybe I just spent too long pondering Brexit and the nature of God 🙂

Or maybe there’s such a lot of chat lately about whether “inclusivity” equals compromise that I’ve genuinely lost the will to live.

OR… Maybe what I’m missing is the Bonkers.

I…[Read more]

@Lisa Thanks so much for that. For a woman whose days are devoted to a toddler and massive looney-tunes dog, I’ve done a LOT of reading. So it’s nice to know I am finally approaching a sincere understanding.

There’s more to say, but right now I’m playing Trains 🙂

X

@thane16 Just to point you to my links up top. I got your handle wrong so you won’t have had a notification. X