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Maybe read some http://www.phdcomics.com , to remind yourself of how much of this experience you share with a diaspora of kindred spirits. Yes, I do occasionally. I feel as if this is my present state: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd051700s.gif 19th December is the deadline for a pre-Ch...

Things could be better. I hope to finish my PhD thesis before Christmas, which might, should, be possible. However, I feel I have wasted four years of my life. My supervisor has a heart of stone. If I am appreciated, she keeps it to herself. Today was quite a bad day. My pet cat is seriously ill. I ...

wild_quinine wrote:It's like usenet without the binaries.

I doubt the average undergraduate today would even have a clue what Usenet is / was. They probably just about remember dial-up.

Poor old Sinner, indeed. I do check it from time to time, hoping to find RedCelt69 locking horns with wild_quinine or Senethro. But I think those days are over.

Thank you very much but this doesn't actually tell me how you meet acadmeic parents! Don't worry, academic parents will be looking for academic children to adopt. Once prospective parents realise that they are talking to a potential child, they'll ask you whether you want to be adopted. You'll prob...

If you recollected waking events from the previous day, do you describe them as being in colour? Your recollections are memories... and memories consist of concepts encapsulated in neurons and synaptic connections. The addition of colour is a curious one to me... and I wonder what non-colour dreams...

I heard about this story and was similarly intrigued and asked myself the same question. I would go along with what Senethro wrote that, in a dream, or when we recall it on waking, we apply the concepts of colour to objects that we recognise. As a side and slightly related phenomenon, I suffer from ...

The Newsnight debate between the Rothamsted primary investigator and representative from 'Take the Flour Back'

From 22':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01hy2qc/Newsnight_17_05_2012/

A very interesting quotation from the Guardian article is the following: Of these, 49% were white and 46% Asian: the proportion of Pakistani Asians remains unknown. However, in a country where Asians constitute 7% of the general population, this is a striking figure. The victims of this sex-gang wer...

There is essentially a problem with contamination. Although few protestors "shriek" so far as I know - that sounds more like an effort to demean them by hinting at "girly" characteristics.....and by what right do women have the right to protest against anything? Happily no hint ...

Just when plant scientists thought it safe to carry out a small field trial, the crazed anti-science eco-Luddites shriek 'contamination!' and threaten to destroy the trial. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17906172 They seem to have a similar mentality to the animal rights protestors. I...

Further support, not that more was needed, for my leaving Facebook 18 months ago. Freedom from these inanities and self-righteous tirades is a particular benefit.

You came here seeking praise. You're right, there was probably some of that, although not entirely. I was also seeking to test my own position and to use the anonymity to test the reaction of those unsympathetic to Catholicism to a Catholic with SSA who want to hold to Church teaching. The only rea...

You are very probably a man of very many talents - and the "journey" consists of fulfilling them and learning their place in your life and how they might contribute to the lives of others around you. It's a journey we all make one way or the other and it isn't exactly the easiest process ...

So, you're borderline starving then, yeah? You've never eaten for the pleasure of the flavours... only for sustenance, every single time? We should be able to play your ribs like a xylophone. Unless you're a hypocrite. Pleasure does not prevent the function of an action, but seeking pleasure at the...

not to put too fine a note on it macgamer, the words missing from that argument are that "it is the stated view of the Roman Catholic Church that "by using contraception........." That's usually taken as a given here whenever I write anything... There is nothing in either the Old Tes...

Sustenance is the evolved function of eating food and drinking liquids. Do you ever add sauces, spices or anything tasteworthy purely to bring pleasure that would not have existed, otherwise? A single dab of ketchup makes you a hypocrite. Adding spices or flavouring to food, does not prevent me fro...

I applaud you for ‘coming out’ or however you want to term it. I hope that it has been worth it :/ Another issue was the ancient hang-up with penetration; the view being that being sexually penetrated is a sign of weakness and submission (in Roman society for example, those who were weaker were sup...

The evidence is in his blood line macgamer. Pure and simple. The Scriptures go to great lengths to specify and assert his descent from David, who was the warrior king. And as I said, Jewish tradition laid down very specific conditions as to the role that any individual could play within the tribes ...

Hey, you're the one who gave the name to Satan; the god who isn't a god. False gods. His power or influence only comes from what was given him originally as one of the angels. What I do (or do not) value is utterly moot. Here, let me Google it, seeing as how you can't be bothered. nihilism (ˈnaɪɪˌl...