EXEMPLAR HUMANAE VITAE - SPECIMEN OF A HUMAN LIFE. I am not really a sofa. But I try to be a filosofa. This is the parent blog of my other blogs which all began here, and which in totality constitute the views of an urban peasant living in London. Including some thoughts on politics, psychology, religion, employment and education. And a little humour. I am a rationalist, a humanist and an atheist and I write from a green/socialist/libertarian perspective.
30 October 2010
SDP
The Social Democratic Party was supposed to be a European-style social democratic Party - and look what happened to them! Typical of England's protracted and doomed to be successful attempt to become European!
28 October 2010
Question Autism!
Question Autism!
Someone unable to know what someone else is thinking is merely not psychic and hence quite normal.
:)
Someone whose child supposedly has "autism" was being inteviewed the other day on the radio.
The interviewer asked the parent when they first thought the child had "autism".
The first words in reply were "He was a nightmare!"
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Someone unable to know what someone else is thinking is merely not psychic and hence quite normal.
:)
Someone whose child supposedly has "autism" was being inteviewed the other day on the radio.
The interviewer asked the parent when they first thought the child had "autism".
The first words in reply were "He was a nightmare!"
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26 October 2010
Outrageous!
Nick Clegg calling anyone "inconsistent" has got to be one of the darkest liaisons between kettle and pot in the human story!
:D
:D
"Philosophy is the only subject" and other treat tweets!
Philosophy is the only subject.
That is why it is a compulsory subject in France between 11 and 18.
I don't necessarily propose anything at all in the light of this.
I do think that there is maybe scope for doing things differently in England in the light of this however.
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Salvaged tweets:
Pope Boniface XXIII founded the University of Salari in 1178 in order to:
"boost the local economy and make sure middle class people had jobs."
Universities weren't founded to get people jobs - which has to be their purpose now.
They were founded to impart knowledge.
In the sense that this was what they once did - they have at present entered into a decline, as compared to their past.
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Good to see the economy's been growing - must have been all that watering I gave it, and the nice sunshine.
In market news, three large chickens and a pound of potatoes were sold at a small farmers market in Upper Silesia earlier today.
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The economy "growing" means a "growth" in value - I assume?
Is this "exchange value"?
Is not value of any kind merely an opinion?
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People can earn as much as they like - indeed they do - what I fail to understand is some Americans' objection to providing everyone with their basic needs?
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That is why it is a compulsory subject in France between 11 and 18.
I don't necessarily propose anything at all in the light of this.
I do think that there is maybe scope for doing things differently in England in the light of this however.
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Salvaged tweets:
Pope Boniface XXIII founded the University of Salari in 1178 in order to:
"boost the local economy and make sure middle class people had jobs."
Universities weren't founded to get people jobs - which has to be their purpose now.
They were founded to impart knowledge.
In the sense that this was what they once did - they have at present entered into a decline, as compared to their past.
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Good to see the economy's been growing - must have been all that watering I gave it, and the nice sunshine.
In market news, three large chickens and a pound of potatoes were sold at a small farmers market in Upper Silesia earlier today.
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The economy "growing" means a "growth" in value - I assume?
Is this "exchange value"?
Is not value of any kind merely an opinion?
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People can earn as much as they like - indeed they do - what I fail to understand is some Americans' objection to providing everyone with their basic needs?
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Oh No! Not a "double dip" recession!
"Oh no!" the nation screamed in horror. "Not a "double dip" recession! We don't even understand what it means! And not everyone likes all the rides at Alton Towers!"
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Camoron contends that the cuts are based on necessity not ideology. The exact opposite is the case. Obviously so.
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What would people's reaction be if when 10 different physicists were asked at what temperature water boils 10 different replies - with temperatures ranging from 27 to 124 - were given?
Yet when this happens with "economists" - also - according to some - "scientists" of a kind - this is regarded as normal!
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Camoron contends that the cuts are based on necessity not ideology. The exact opposite is the case. Obviously so.
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What would people's reaction be if when 10 different physicists were asked at what temperature water boils 10 different replies - with temperatures ranging from 27 to 124 - were given?
Yet when this happens with "economists" - also - according to some - "scientists" of a kind - this is regarded as normal!
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25 October 2010
@everyoneontwitter
@everyoneontwitter HELLO EVERYBODY!!! I am missing you!!!!!
*sobs*
:)
I did a good tweet before I went:
So we're off to space are we, Beardy? You're more likely to get me to Brummie!
And even that I'll believe when I see!
Citizensofa
About 27 hours ago, from twittter and tweetbakecakedeck
*sobs*
:)
I did a good tweet before I went:
So we're off to space are we, Beardy? You're more likely to get me to Brummie!
And even that I'll believe when I see!
Citizensofa
About 27 hours ago, from twittter and tweetbakecakedeck
Some Good "Tweets" Salvaged
James Joyce is a very boring writer. "A bowl of lather" - a phrase occurring in the first sentence of "Ulysses" - sums up the whole thing. Discuss.
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Does a geographer ONLY study volcanoes, floods and earthquakes?
NO! So why do "psychologists" and "neuroscientists" sometimes seem to go on about only so-called "disorders"?
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If "psychosis" is a "break with reality" then our entire economic discourse is "psychotic". Discuss.
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Does a geographer ONLY study volcanoes, floods and earthquakes?
NO! So why do "psychologists" and "neuroscientists" sometimes seem to go on about only so-called "disorders"?
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If "psychosis" is a "break with reality" then our entire economic discourse is "psychotic". Discuss.
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If I shag a sheep - and it does happen to a lucky few - then what percentage "sheepsexual" am I? (Socratic Question).
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Where in the Bible or any other work of fiction does Jesus say "Thou shalt burn books"?
It's explicit - the guy said "Love your enemy!" - if he existed. TANTUM RELIGIO POTUIT SUADARE MALORUM.
It's amazing that people in the USA want to burn books and impede mosque-building!
It sent thousands of its finest sons off to die in order vanquish people who did the same - people who burnt books and burnt synagogues to the ground - the Nazis!
There is no necessary link or Special Relationship between the USA and England nor between the USA and the State of Israel.
The USA is an independent secular republic. One of the first anti-imperialist entities in history.
The USA - especially since 1945 - has also been probably the most imperialist entity in human history.
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Where in the Bible or any other work of fiction does Jesus say "Thou shalt burn books"?
It's explicit - the guy said "Love your enemy!" - if he existed. TANTUM RELIGIO POTUIT SUADARE MALORUM.
It's amazing that people in the USA want to burn books and impede mosque-building!
It sent thousands of its finest sons off to die in order vanquish people who did the same - people who burnt books and burnt synagogues to the ground - the Nazis!
There is no necessary link or Special Relationship between the USA and England nor between the USA and the State of Israel.
The USA is an independent secular republic. One of the first anti-imperialist entities in history.
The USA - especially since 1945 - has also been probably the most imperialist entity in human history.
24 October 2010
A History of Ethnocentrism and Eracentrism in 100 Objects
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"An Astrolabe was a Medieval blackberry"
(Offensive to Medieval people)
"Spanish silver was "The American Express" of the 16th century".
(Since when was a credit card a pinnacle of civilisation?)
"Persian chariots were the Ferraris of the Ancient world."
(I'd rather have a chariot myself.)
The three quotes above are some near exact quotes from:-
EBC RADIO4's - "A History of Ethnocentrism and Eracentrism in 100 Objects".
Capitalist propaganda as well.
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"An Astrolabe was a Medieval blackberry"
(Offensive to Medieval people)
"Spanish silver was "The American Express" of the 16th century".
(Since when was a credit card a pinnacle of civilisation?)
"Persian chariots were the Ferraris of the Ancient world."
(I'd rather have a chariot myself.)
The three quotes above are some near exact quotes from:-
EBC RADIO4's - "A History of Ethnocentrism and Eracentrism in 100 Objects".
Capitalist propaganda as well.
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AN "I-PAD" = Computer + Phone + Musicfile Player = Pointless and useless.
???
Some African Wisdom
******* "FORGIVING IS VICTORY" - from SWAHILI WISDOM.
"WHERE THERE IS NO WEALTH THERE IS NO POVERTY." - from TSWANA WISDOM.
"WEALTH TAKES CHARGE OF ITS OWNER." - Ancient Egyptian WISDOM.
"THE DEPTH OF A PERSON'S LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN IT'S LENGTH". - from SWAHILI WISDOM.
"HE WHO DOES NOT ASK A QUESTION LEARNS NOTHING." - from SWAHILI WISDOM.
"COMMON SENSE BORN BEFORE BOOK" - From BAJAN WISDOM.
"NOT TO KNOW IS BAD - NOT TO WISH TO KNOW IS WORSE" - from WOLOF WISDOM.
"THE WOODS ARE NOT HEARTLESS - THERE IS COMFORT IN SOLITUDE." - from SOUTH AFRICAN WISDOM.
"MONEY IS NEVER COUNTED WELL FOR YOU WHEN COUNTED BY SOMEONE ELSE." - from UGANDAN WISDOM.
"TO FORGET A WRONG IS THE BEST REVENGE." - from SWAHILI WISDOM.
"PEOPLE WHO SHARE WITH OTHERS ARE SELDOM HUNGRY." - from HAITIAN WISDOM.
"TO LOSE YOUR WAY IS ONE WAY OF FINDING IT." - from SWAHILI WISDOM.
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19 October 2010
What is Growth?
There is no economy. And even if there were one it would not matter at all if it "grew" or not.
1 October 2010
TALLY HO!! CHOCKS AWAY!!
BATTLE OF BRITAIN - FORGOTTEN AIRFIELDS REMEMBERED!
Across the British Isles during the summer and autumn of 1940, dozens of bases provided the runways and maintenance facilities for RAF Fighter Command's defence against the relentless attacks of Hitler's Luftwaffe.
Sixteen of the most famous, many now disused and forgotten are featured on this superb T-shirt, with a patrol of Spitfires symbolising heroic Allied resistance to the planned Nazi invasion seventy years ago. Wear it with pride, against fascism then and now.
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