Hahahaha. Sorry. Just always amuses me to hear Burns being heralded as any kind of literary figure; I make it a rule not to take seriously anybody who writes in dialect. I think this is good reason to not take your opinion on literature too seriously. Should we stop taking Faulkner's As I Lay Dying...
I feel a bit sorry for RedCelt here, but sadly I don't think he's got much of an argument. I don't think the shinty analogy works, I think if you were to count it al up you would find that a greater proportion of english people know something about cricket than the proportion of scottish people who ...
True. But maybe we should put these people to work while we give them their jobseekers' allowance, teach them a trade, who knows? We could build new high-speed rail lines at a fraction of cost with all that labour. Every time I see this point made, anywhere, I want to scream. YOU CANT GET A JOB IF ...
Frank this is probably the best thing you have ever said. I think you need to take this slogan to the masses. But why is it anecdotes instead of anecdote?
Not even the bit in Zarathustra when he gets it on with his eagle and his serpent? I'm sure he's naked with them at some point anyway. Referring to any other deity as God is nonsensical Nonsensical? I'm pretty sure when philosophers talk about a putative omnieverythingunderthesun deity they use 'God...
You know what I find funny? Look in the Daily Mail, bastion of blabbering 'anti-PC' nonsense, you get pages and pages of coverage. Look in the Guardian, bastion of blabbering PC nonsense, you get proper news on the front page and none of these mystifying and hilarious editorials where the writer enc...
I dunno about applying straight for a Phd in all subjects, I'm down for a taught masters in philosophy and pretty much every university I looked at wants you to do that first, then if you do well enough they just transfer you to the Phd program. Surely whether this person needs a first or not depend...
Looking for a physical manifestation of a god is not the way to go about proving its existence. Even the religious will admit that god isn't hiding behind a cloud. God can be disproved without looking up from a piece of paper, god can be disproved with logical argument rather than scientific experi...
The ASA's code states "marketers must hold documentary evidence to prove all claims". The regulator said it would assess the complaint and decide whether to contact the advertiser. Does anyone else think the meeting to try and decide this one will be absolutely hilarious? How do you prove...
Recently I've come around to the dawning realisation that political 'disputes' are just so much bullshit. Take this case: there'll be 2 camps, pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel. Each will argue their own position, and each set of arguments will have a certain merit. You know, maybe 'right' is on a certai...
This whole thing about the standard of TV being in decline. It is rubbish, right? I mean, is it just my imagination or are there actually quite a few decent comedy shows about right now? I mean, Peep Show might not be quite as good as Black Books or Father Ted, but it's not far off. American dramas ...
I cannot imagine anything more procrastination friendly than buying all the series of The Wire. Pretty much defines the word quality. If you want the intelligent description, its like a russian novel with a huge cast of properly developed characters and handling some pretty deep questions. What I li...
Not by me, he isn't. I'm at a loss as to why the sad little man remains so oft-quoted (by some). Nietzsche reminds me of Frank Gallagher style philosophising... you know, the kind of lunatic ravings you get from that guy who insists on sitting next to you on the bus. I've yet to encounter a German ...
Nietzsche would approve. 'Imagine a being like nature, wasteful beyond measure, indifferent beyond measure, without purposes and consideration, without any mercy and justice, fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time; imagine indifference itself as a power'. 'In Christianity neither moral...
-That we're just a clump of matter that somehow possesses consciousness, not inhabiting a universe constructed specifically for our use, which at some point will cease to possess consciousness, and that will be that. -Scientific descriptions of the world have no more ultimate claim to accurately dep...