@lionheart564 yes I had a quick look at what healthcare in China consists of, because I realised we might be coming from very different perspectives there. I honestly don’t know what would have become of my boyfriend by now under your system, or any system other than the kind we live under. Which makes me somewhat partial. But I grew up with my…[Read more]

@lionheart564 yes I had a quick look at what healthcare in China consists of, because I realised we might be coming from very different perspectives there. I honestly don’t know what would have become of my boyfriend by now under your system, or any system other than the kind we live under. Which makes me somewhat partial. But I grew up with my…[Read more]

@lionheart564 it is a fact that ‘communism’ and ‘socialism’ mean different things to different people. I don’t feel that what Marx was getting at was the kind of ‘communism’ that occurred in China and the USSR.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who lived under the USSR suggested in one of his works that part of the problem there was that people were not…[Read more]

@lionheart564 I have a different experience in the UK- train services, Water companies, both have become less efficient while being profit driven. Admittedly, those are not in direct competition, but also, different energy providers, different internet providers, no good experiences there. This might in part be because ‘government controlled’…[Read more]

@lionheart564 the book sounds very interesting, but I’m also interested at how you watch a television program that discusses the evils of post-slavery racism towards black people and think, so emphatically, ‘what I really want to watch is an episode full of black people being racist towards whites.’

In terms of Doctor Who, the Silerian two-parter…[Read more]

@lionheart564 when a company is profit driven it will tend to start to prioritise profits. The NHS, struggling with budgets, will extensively treat elderly people suffering from cancer as well as other medical conditions, spend a lot of money on treatment for people who don’t, for other reasons, have much time left.

I also fear that a company…[Read more]

@miapatrick

how would publicly owned and regulated education and health service companies be in competition with each other, though? If they’re not profit driven, their main order of business is to do as much as they can do with the available budget.

I believe that’s quite sensible @lionheart564  ?

I really think that you can NEVER expect pr…[Read more]

@craig

I didn’t even SEE your post! I’m sorry, thank you, that was awesome! Love Dr Neil.

@idiotsavon

Good question! It is: Can God’s existence be established by rational argument?

We chose. I chose this: God’s existence cannot be established using, or by, rational argument.  You have a toddler. Say no more!

It’s very very tricky. We cannot…[Read more]

@lionheart564

I appreciate your suggestions! Thank you. I’m not sure you can use paradox fallacies in philosophy. Premises and predicates as well as ontological, teleological or Aquinas’ cosmological arguments counter the argument. And are used as expressions of the arguments. Annoyingly, philosophy essays have a very specific method of argument…[Read more]

@lionheart564

I dabbled in various martial arts to the point where I run from danger…. ok, limp from danger (bad knees)… I did learn one really good tai chi form and do it often… if not very well. 😉

@lionheart564 how would publicly owned and regulated education and health service companies be in competition with each other, though? If they’re not profit driven, their main order of business is to do as much as they can do with the available budget.

@lionheart564

You should never put schooling and healthcare into competitive market places (taxes provide those essentials) because it simply cannot work. Look outside China and into the U.S. Then, look at Australia. Really look.

T16

@lionheart564 the only thing with that argument is that the originals made a lot of social commentary. The Empire is facist, it’s clearly singled as facist, down to the designs of the uniforms. Princess Leia is an important political figure who strangled Jabba the Hutt to death with his own chains. I agree that sub plot, at present, looks as…[Read more]

@lionheart564 that’s an interesting point and thanks for your perspective. It does leave the fact that British people of Chinese ethnicity would have a different emotional response to ‘yellow face’, and are sometimes on the receiving end of racism within this country. So an episode focusing on racism within China would still be problematic and not…[Read more]

@lionheart564

Welcome

Missy

@bluesqueakpip Definitely comedy horror. I adore spiders so was basically going “stupid humans don’t go in there” the whole time and howling with Halloween laughter.

Lovely that the Doctor is rooting for the spiders.

And He Who Shall Not Be Named was the truly scary thing… noo no nooo noooo nope train to nopeville we’re gonna elect someone…[Read more]

@lionheart564

(also, this is a show that once used white actors in ‘yellowface’ to depict Chinese characters).

I understand it’s offensive intellectually but don’t feel offended emotionally, it just feels ridiculous and funny.

That’s a really interesting point.

I wonder if part of this is the relationship of slavery between black and white,…[Read more]

@lionheart564 I forgot to mention, if you look at the main navigation, there is a “Help” section which might, well, help!

@lionheart564

I think there is some misunderstandings.what mean is that racism or sexism isn’t a white thing, it’s a human thing.

I don’t think you would find anybody here who would disagree with you. But Doctor Who is a UK show sold (until now) to largely Western markets, where the primary privilege is held by white males, so it is bound to ref…[Read more]

@lionheart564 Welcome. It’s always nice to have new members. And don’t worry, I put this site together and I still don’t know how it all really works.

But it works most of the time.

It’s a bit like The Doctor and the TARDIS in that way!