IF the present King of Spain

IF the present King of Spain was the "Supreme Governor" of an entity called "The Church of Castile";

and had all "spiritual authority" within that Church;

 if everyone in his family had to belong to "The Church of Castile";

if this church was the established church and had by right members of its clergy in the Upper House of the Parliament of The Kingdom of Spain;

if....

then

The whole world would be disgusted as would and should be the people of Spain.....

THIS IS SO OBVIOUS!

It is a point of PRINCIPLE - and an INTELLECTUAL POINT!

Do people have PRINCIPLES or INTELLECTS any more?

It is quite unacceptable for a reigning living political figure - in this case a Monarch - who still technically in many ways has absolute power - to be the head of a church - and supposedly a Christian church....

Now I want to actually start to study philosophy

I repeat - because I feel the need to - that I regard almost everything I say here as EXTREMELY OBVIOUS and that now I would like to actually start to study some philosophy.

Interesting quote by Michèle Le Doeuff

‎"But my authors, Thomas More and Francis Bacon, are completely neglected by philosophers.
That's part of a wider problem in England, namely the lack of interest in the history of philosophy as such."

Michèle Le DOEUFF, French feminist philosopher, c.1991.

Not much more than an historical accident....?

The "right to bear arms"'s inclusion in the U.S. Constitution is probably not much more than an historical accident....

There is in the English "Bill of Rights" of 1689 a statement of a "right to bear arms" - for Protestants only I should add!....

Would people seriously attempt to reintroduce or invoke this?
Even if they were in some way pro-gun ownership?....

TBC...

The ostensible reason for its sacredness is the necessity for a "people" to have the means to overthrow a "government" that represents a tyranny........

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In republics like the USA the "people" are (at least supposed in theory to be) the same thing as, and interchangeable with, the "government" anyway.....

hmmm.......

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It is high time that the RACIST FASCIST BULLSHIT of the "N.R.A." was ENDED.

The simple point is - GUN CONTROL is a SEPARATE ISSUE from POLITICAL LIBERTY.

I went into politics because I am an anarchist

One of my favourite tweets

One of my favourites of my own tweets comes back to me now. I don't know why.

I am quite proud of it. It is this.

"Mad Mel Philips gives a severe dent to any theory of the Jews as being a people of intellectuals."

Another fave of mine was:

"Things are so bad that I am vaguely concentrating on Kavanagh QC."

:)

While we're at it - another classic of concision:

"I have purchased an Aria Giovanni Love Doll. I have no comment at this point."    :D


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And another treat:


"The Independent on Sunday's Sheepuality List: Featuring a List of (England and) Wales's most prominent sheepshaggers and sheepsexuals. Number 1: Citizen Sofa - famous urban peasant."

P.R.

Just went down the shops.
On the walk there Tony Benn popped up on my music player - a speech attacking PR.

He said that one drawback of PR is that under that system we could get "a coalition government that nobody voted for."

WELL - OBVIOUS POINT - and truly amazing it is too - is that this is EXACTLY what we have now got after this last election under "FPTP".

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Even I was utterly shocked at the degree to which the prospect of a viable 3rd party in England has been annihilated.
The SDP has gone - and now so has the "Lib Dems." And hence also the Lberals or Whigs one of the oldest parties in English history.

ONE reason of course is the disappearance of the Labour Party and its replacement with the USDemocratPartyofEngland/NewLabour.

Now all that remains is the annihilation of the ConservativeParty/NewToriesUSRepublicanPartyofEngland to complete the set. This is well on its way.

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I must repeat that this so-called "Coalition" is in reality a Conservative Government; and also that the office of "Deputy Prime Minister" is a complete fraud and fantasy.

FPTP is not supposed to generate coalitions, never has before and has not done this time.

English political culture is an embarrassment to Europe.

BRITANNIA and HISPANIA

Two political states that exist today - which are really very flimsy historical creations - "El Reino de Espan~a" and "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" have some of their origins and the origins of their names in the names of Roman PROVINCES of the IMPERIUM ROMANUM -

HISPANIA and BRITANNIA.

The creation of the state of the Kingdom of Spain in particular in 1492 was one of the birthplaces of modern political nationalism.... often a great evil......

In Roman thinking political states as we conceive them would have been nearly inconceivable....

The basis of Roman political organisation and thinking about the world in general was the CITY of course - the CIVITAS...

and after that perhaps the province PROVINCIA.......

TBC

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10.09.12

It is fascinating - if a bit contrived - to compare the fact that it became absolutely illegal more or less overnight to be Jewish or Muslim in the Kingdom of Spain in 1492;
and very similarly - and for similar reasons - it became absolutely illegal more or less overnight to be a Roman Catholic Christian in the kingdom of England in about 1534.

Both of these measures - at that time - were "on pain of death".

Both these "staging posts" were also contemporaneous with the commencements of two of the biggest Empires in history - the Spanish Empire and the British Empire.

.......

Carriages

The word "car" is just an abbreviation of "carriage"......

TBC.

Semplicemente non capisco!

David Aaronovitch was rambling about Freud on the radio the other day.

Freud should be left behind totally. That's one thing to get clear anyway.

Now. What Aaronovitch forgot to acknowledge was this - that Freud to a point is exactly what his name nearly says he is - A FRAUD.

Next - and this is something that I simply cannot understand - WHY IS AARONOVITCH and people like him NOT talking about FROMM and SZASZ and people like them?