Herbert Henry Asquith

I find that I prefer to live in the moment without worrying about the past. How about you? Do you live in the past, present, or future?

Allison

January 22, 2018

I admit I tend to live in some imaginary future, populated with amazing things that won't happen & fears of things which also probably won't happen.

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Stevie Wonder once told me off for that...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6GFRuFEQK78

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Could I ask work you do?

Stephen Ind

January 22, 2018

I work in accounts (though not a real accountant!)

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It isn't exactly laugh-a-minute stuff but I'm good at it and get on with my workmates so it's not too bad.

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This is the reason I enjoyed watching The Accountant film so much, the incongruity of someone being both an accountant and a hired killer!

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How can a broken thing fix a broken thing?

January 21, 2018

For the same reason that scattered bits of a jigsaw can make a picture together :)

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How do you deal with negative comments?

January 21, 2018

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gALPWW9QByQ

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Do you believe in God and religions? if yes, how can you prove to an Atheist that God is real?

January 21, 2018

I'm an agnostic over whethe God exists. It isn't proof but I find the book Mere Christianity by CS Lewis to be very challenging to a naysayer.

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This is a summary of my attitude :)
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-easter-hymn/

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Stoke Minster, where you went to a Remembrance Sunday commemoration, looks quite lovely. Have you spent much time exploring it?

Stephen Ind

January 21, 2018

Not enough, actually.

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I will go back and look at, for instance, Josiah Wedgwood's grave.
http://www.thepotteries.org/listed/176a.html

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I didn't know how closely the church was intertwined with Wedgwood and his life (the Wedgwood family still exists, though on a different site) and his associates, and it's stood for centuries, I've only actually been there about 4 times so it's one for the future.

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Do you ever wonder if an alien is looking at you right now through an advanced telescope and thought "I'm going to save this little creature from this weird planet" but then he changed his mind because you don't deserve it! lol

January 21, 2018

I have never considered this :)

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Have you read Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams? There's a hilarious sequence in which a charachter is abducted by aliens and it brilliantly parodies science fiction and "paranormal" investigations.

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If you look it up on Google Books & search inside for "aliens" you can find it, it's more fun than any answer I might have thought up.

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If all jobs had the same pay and hours, what job would you like to have?

January 21, 2018

I'd certainly go back into academia, do at least an MA.

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I think my subject would be the immediate pre-1914 period, perhaps the Home Rule crisis.
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/ireland/homerule.htm

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Some aspect of history anyway.

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No, I haven't read it :3 do you recommend it?:)

January 20, 2018

Yes, you can't go wrong with Douglas Adams!

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How was your Remembrance Sunday? I see from an answer here that you went to commemoration is that right?

Stephen Ind

January 20, 2018

It was very moving, I went to the largest church in my city.
http://www.stokeminster.org

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As you can see from the picture attached to the previous post, lots of serving soldiers and veterans were there. I go there each year and it's a very solemn occasion.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s-YUDZf5cZo

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If you could have anything you wanted for dinner tonight, what would it be?

January 20, 2018

My last meal :)
Leek & potato soup with bread from my local bakery,
http://goodfoodshops.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/stoke-london-road-bakehouse.html

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Old-time English Sunday dinner with lamb & roast potatoes (no greens thanks)

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Sticky toffee pudding

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And I'd go to the scaffold eating a bag of herbal tablets (see enclosed)

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Was my question weird? do you want more weird questions? haha :3

January 20, 2018

It wasn't weird, though I couldn't think of an answer I'm afraid!

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I always welcome good questions, anon or otherwise, so please do ask some more.

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I couldn't directly answer your question but I do agree there should be more words for things.

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Have you read The Deeper Meaning of Liff and Afterliff? They express what I'm trying to talk about there and helpfully coin "new" words :)

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Could I ask why you would not consider writing poetry?

Stephen Ind

January 19, 2018

Simply because the inspiration has never struck, I find creative fulfilment in my photography blog & it hasn't really occurred to me to write poems (or songs).

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I have nothing against the idea, I just don't see it as something I should do myself.

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Do you write poetry?

Stephen Ind

January 19, 2018

No, I never started!

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I do find that AE Housman expresses my sentiments, when I feel strongly about something, I'll find that he wrote about it.

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I am also open to discovering new poets, or new to me anyway. But I have no plans to take up writing myself!

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I really like the poem by AE Houseman that you referenced with regard to World War 1. I find his poetry so powerful. Can you describe what it is that you like about his poetry?

Stephen Ind

January 19, 2018

No, I can't :)

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I'm not completely sure but I think it's because he was superficially a staid, unemotional & somewhat cold man, but we in fact know he had a burning heart beneath the buttoned up suit.

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The emotional themes are probably what I most relate to and there's also his fierce intellect and mastery of style. (Could any fashionable modernist poet match "When the bells justle in the tower"?)

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And he also wrote the poem that epitomises Monday mornings.
https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/stars.html

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That's nice :3 I read books too :) do you like poetry books?

January 19, 2018

I don't read poetry much but I LOVE AE Housman, I love all his poems, this is one written about the men who died in World War 1.
https://www.poemtree.com/poems/EpitaphOnAnArmy.htm
(I'm very interested in commemorating the centenary of World War 1, I enclose a picture of the church I went to on Remembrance Sunday).

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Ugly is the new beautiful. Do you agree?

January 19, 2018

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I wish you all the best! :) I hope you see your girlfriend soon :) btw, it seems you're a nice person! Nice to meet you :)

January 18, 2018

Thank you!

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I don't think I'm especially nice but I read interesting books :)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/20/fiction.ianrankin

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Einstein had a theory that time travel was possible. He said the theory could be proven, by flying around the earth, at a supersonic speed, and one way would produce losing a second. The other way gained a second. Jets have proven his theory true. Do you believe that time travel is possible?

January 18, 2018

It could be!

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For centuries most people believed that aeroplanes were, by definition, impossible and would never happen but a few people like Samuel Johnson foretold that one day they would be invented.
http://www.bartleby.com/209/771.html

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So why not time travel?

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Though whether it would be a good idea, I agree with the reservations the artist expressed out flight and CS Lewis expressed about space travel, even if you're not a theist then you can see the central point of not wanting the current crop of world "leaders" to wield these powers.

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" I look forward with horror to contact with the other inhabited planets, if there are such. We would only transport to them all of our sin and our acquisitiveness, and establish a new colonialism. I can’t bear to think of it. But if we on earth were to get right with God, of course, all would be changed. Once we find ourselves spiritually awakened, we can go to outer space and take the good things with us. That is quite a different matter"

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So I think time travel could be discovered but what uses would it be put to? That is the question.

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17 days passed of 2018, are you still sticking to your new year's resolution?

January 18, 2018

I haven't made one :)

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The idea is, if I do everything in moderation, I never need an extreme reaction against it. Because I wasn't obese in 2017, I don't need to starve myself in 2018. Because I did a reasonable amount of exercise in 2017, I don't need to obsessively go to the gym in 2018. So life will largely be a continuation of what it was last year, hopefully with seeing my girlfriend & doing interesting things more often.

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This is the thing I most look forward to, which I hope to do in May.
http://www.walescoastpath.gov.uk/explore-by-area/north-wales-dee-estuary/?lang=en

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Thank you so much! I love your photos :3 Are you a photographer?

January 18, 2018

I'm not a professional photographer but I do like photographing my wild adventures & blogging about them.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos

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Why not a song about photography as well (see the music tag on my tumblr, and it's personal to me as my girlfriend lives in another city & I only see her about once a month).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmFFTkjs-O0

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What's your lucky number?

January 18, 2018

42

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Followed :D

January 17, 2018

Welcome aboard, Dana :)

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Perhaps you will enjoy the trip to London I made at the weekend.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/169817491094/much-wine-had-passed-with-grave-discourse-of-who

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I have followed you back as I like your attitude!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjvlrf0OM3M

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Last night, the Vikings beat the Saints, in a last drive that went the distance of the field, in seconds. I say Loki, the Norse God of mischief, intervened for the win, and the game should have to be played over. What say you?

Robin Hood

January 16, 2018

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Where do you get your audio books? Do you every use free downloads?

Stephen Ind

January 14, 2018

I've never found a reliable free downloads website. I occasionally get them free from the library but only rarely do they have one I want there so I mainly use itunes.

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I've nearly finished with the honorary consul so I'm embarking on a new one :)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/even-dogs-in-the-wild-by-ian-rankin-review-rebus

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