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- June 10th, 2014, 11:09 am
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Ban a vowel
- Replies: 45
- Views: 30394
Re: Ban a vowel
Oh, what fun! Ozzie Monkhouse with apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley I met one journeyer from countries lost Who told me: “Two huge, trunkless legs of stone Rise in the desert. Close by, in the dust, This sinking broken phizog lies, whose frown, Whose wrinkled lip, whose sneer of fierce disgust, Sug...
- February 20th, 2013, 6:24 pm
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Pedants' corner
- Replies: 113
- Views: 28925
Re: Pedants' corner
To return to the singular/plural thing about words like data and media, I've had the plural usage drummed into me, but I don't think it really matters. The word "agenda" used to be plural: a list of items, each of which is, archaically, an agendum. But surely none of us is pedantic enough to say som...
- January 30th, 2013, 3:47 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
Ooh, sorry, I forgot all about this. Nearly forgot what I had in mind.
Hennikenniken is not "regurgitation". It's a subset of geology. Think Georgius Agricola.
Hennikenniken is not "regurgitation". It's a subset of geology. Think Georgius Agricola.
- January 10th, 2013, 6:07 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
Hennikennikin Penni kennikin [---][/---] A bad reaction to something in the food at the specialist geology conference?
- January 10th, 2013, 4:46 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
symbol-lean Cymbeline
(can't believe I didn't think of "diphthong"; I got "slip" and "thong"!)
(can't believe I didn't think of "diphthong"; I got "slip" and "thong"!)
- December 24th, 2012, 8:52 am
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Atheists. Why. . .
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8734
Re: Atheists. Why. . .
... is there something rather than nothing? Perhaps because something is more probable state than nothing? Because "nothing" is inherently unstable? ( Skeptical Inquirer , June 2006) It's all a bit beyond my comprehension, but then so many things are and it doesn't really bother me. And if some peo...
- December 24th, 2012, 8:36 am
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
OK, I give up. If you remember what it was, Tet, can you give us a clue?
- July 31st, 2012, 3:28 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Life after death?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17130
Re: Life after death?
The truth is that mind is quite a poorly understood area, and our current level of scientific understanding doesn’t allow us to be anything close to certain that our mind dies at the same time as the body. Intuitively it might seem to some that it should, but intuition isn’t always right. Quite fra...
- July 26th, 2012, 6:58 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
Hen Nikin Pennikin [---][/---] Avoid the spreading of laundry detergent.
- July 26th, 2012, 5:31 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Male circumcision in Germany
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3979
Re: Male circumcision in Germany
I'm not ready to sign any petitions about this. I'm still undecided on the issue, but I strongly suspect that more harm will be caused by the prohibition of circumcision for non-medical reasons than is caused by allowing it to continue, in hospitals, performed by qualified medical personnel, using l...
- July 26th, 2012, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
Loupe soup
- July 23rd, 2012, 6:34 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Life after death?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17130
Re: Life after death?
But I see that the mind uploading article mentions philosophical controversy about the idea, and I know that one of these issues is whether this is truly "moving" the personality/mind or rather making a copy of it. Cloning, which I mentioned earlier, would probably run into the same questions. The ...
- July 23rd, 2012, 2:53 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Life after death?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17130
Re: Life after death?
but this is not life after death is it? Isn't it? Why not? This is from Wikipedia : "In philosophy, religion, mythology, and fiction, the afterlife (also referred to as life after death, the Hereafter, the Next World, or the Other Side) is the concept of a realm, or the realm itself (whether physic...
- July 23rd, 2012, 2:43 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
No, not sliver. A sliver would be too small, I think. This thin layer is more of a surface coating.
- July 23rd, 2012, 2:08 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
Best I can do today:
Henny Penny [---][/---] a thin layer of curd cheese?
Henny Penny [---][/---] a thin layer of curd cheese?
- July 23rd, 2012, 1:59 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Life after death?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17130
Re: Life after death?
(Nice one, thundril.) Welcome, Nimzo. No, I don't think believing in the possibility of life after death is incompatible with humanism. Some people believe that one day we'll be able to upload (or is it download) our consciousnesses onto computers (see Wikipedia on "mind uploading" ). I can't get my...
- July 20th, 2012, 4:59 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
Theology rheology.
I feel a fool.
I feel a fool.
- July 20th, 2012, 4:41 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
Think about flow or about the study of divinity and you should end up with a rhyme But that's what I've been doing, and I haven't ended up with anything. I keep thinking of theology, and the only word I can think of to rhyme with that is geology, and while that relates to concrete, sort of, it does...
- July 20th, 2012, 1:14 pm
- Forum: Club Soda
- Topic: Henny Penny
- Replies: 968
- Views: 170190
Re: Henny Penny
Now I'm even more flummoxed. How the study of divinity flows has something to do with concrete?
The other one, I presume, is fartin' Martin.
The other one, I presume, is fartin' Martin.
- July 13th, 2012, 9:19 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Heidegger Contra Humanism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5802
Re: Heidegger Contra Humanism
Or for a more ... um ... detailed explanation, try "What Heidegger Means by Being-in-the-World", by Roy Hornsby.