What have you been snacking on lately?
I like to eat fruit, especially seasonal fruit, but there's no seasonal fruit in January so I eat kiwi and bananas. And I'd be nothing without FOOD OF THE GODS...
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I saw a bionic eye that records everything it sees in a video earlier. What do you think? Invasion of privacy or amazing technology to help those with sight impairments?
I think it's appalling, like Google Glass, whoever thought that would be a good idea?
I have defended civil liberties against nothingtohidenothingtofear necons but I don't think right-wing "libertarians" are much better if they won't acknowledge that private companies can be as bad as the state.
Everyone has the right to a private life and to only receive this kind of attention if there are good grounds to suspect them of a crime, or how do you know what is being done with all your data? We are getting new challenges in the 21st century and do you really trust any man or machine to watch you?
The only good thing about this is the related song (there's always one of these)
http://youtu.be/b1B_pZC8aWU
I have defended civil liberties against nothingtohidenothingtofear necons but I don't think right-wing "libertarians" are much better if they won't acknowledge that private companies can be as bad as the state.
Everyone has the right to a private life and to only receive this kind of attention if there are good grounds to suspect them of a crime, or how do you know what is being done with all your data? We are getting new challenges in the 21st century and do you really trust any man or machine to watch you?
The only good thing about this is the related song (there's always one of these)
http://youtu.be/b1B_pZC8aWU
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Has a dream about someone you know ever changed your opinion of that person for better or worse?
I hope not! But I don't really remember my dreams so it could be happening unconsciously without me knowing.
I have a recurring dream that I'm driving (in real life I can't drive) when I suddenly realise I need to brake, but I'm sitting in the wrong seat, so I have to frantically get out of the passenger seat into the driving seat. I dread to imagine what that means :)
A few nights ago I had a dream I was flying a plane with some people I was at high school with, they were vaguely ok but I was never friends with them and haven't seen any of them since 2003, or wanted to. And I was flying over this place I go for a walk and telling them all about my walks.
http://www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk/reserves/cotton-dell
If anyone knows what that's supposed to mean they're doing better than me :)
I have a recurring dream that I'm driving (in real life I can't drive) when I suddenly realise I need to brake, but I'm sitting in the wrong seat, so I have to frantically get out of the passenger seat into the driving seat. I dread to imagine what that means :)
A few nights ago I had a dream I was flying a plane with some people I was at high school with, they were vaguely ok but I was never friends with them and haven't seen any of them since 2003, or wanted to. And I was flying over this place I go for a walk and telling them all about my walks.
http://www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk/reserves/cotton-dell
If anyone knows what that's supposed to mean they're doing better than me :)
What does your aura look like?
what food/snacks/candies associated with a specific holiday do you like best?
Having given up meat for lent, and going on a long-distance walk
http://twosaintsway.org.uk
Between Maundy Thursday and Easter Monday, I'll fully be in the mood for what legends eat in the relevant season.
http://www.greenandblacksdirect.com/p/186/mint-165g-easter-egg
:)
http://twosaintsway.org.uk
Between Maundy Thursday and Easter Monday, I'll fully be in the mood for what legends eat in the relevant season.
http://www.greenandblacksdirect.com/p/186/mint-165g-easter-egg
:)
Are you cool with remaining on my list of people to periodically send questions out to, or would you rather I remove you? No hard feelings either way, I'm just trying to sort things out.
Yes, I'm quite happy to stay, I like answering good questions and I do like yours :)
This being February let's celebrate with some snowdrops.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/139243955859/walking-along-the-canal-through-1-church
This being February let's celebrate with some snowdrops.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/139243955859/walking-along-the-canal-through-1-church
When being humiliated in front of other people in a place/event you feel you have to and do visit regularly for your own good, would you still show up or never come back again?
Can and do, it's what I do for a living and it's happening on Monday :)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE Do you think we live in a wonderful world? Why or why not?
I can't think there's much "wonderful" about my world, I suppose it depends on the circumstances you live in, the hand you've been dealt and how you play it. But there are always the books, I'm on this one now.
http://www.simonsebagmontefiore.com/jerusalemthebiography.aspx
& have you heard this version of that song? Last week I was at Chinese New Year with my girlfriend and this female singer did a version of "Stand By Me", which Otis also covered, and I sang it to her :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHl440HB7oI
http://www.simonsebagmontefiore.com/jerusalemthebiography.aspx
& have you heard this version of that song? Last week I was at Chinese New Year with my girlfriend and this female singer did a version of "Stand By Me", which Otis also covered, and I sang it to her :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHl440HB7oI
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What is your biggest desire in life? How do other people think of that?
One of my lifetime ambitions is to do this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago
I'm going on an 88 mile walk with 4 overnight stays (one of them in my parents' house, the route passes through my city) but that's just a warm up compared to this big beast that, if I do well enough in my 88-mile walk, I'll think about doing next Easter.
Really it's geting slightly better with the days getting longer but I still feel crushed beneath work and bad weather, but I'm sure I'll be back in business soon :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago
I'm going on an 88 mile walk with 4 overnight stays (one of them in my parents' house, the route passes through my city) but that's just a warm up compared to this big beast that, if I do well enough in my 88-mile walk, I'll think about doing next Easter.
Really it's geting slightly better with the days getting longer but I still feel crushed beneath work and bad weather, but I'm sure I'll be back in business soon :)
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When times are tough, is there anything you can be grateful for?
I'm grateful that I don't have to work too much, I only do 20 hours a week and I'm not exhausted like some people I see, I have time to get on the bus/train and get some pictures taken., I know I keep saying this but really.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos
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Can you briefly describe your country's educational system? How do you feel about that?
I left formal education after graduating from Keele, world's best university, in 2006. And I don't have any children, so I don't know much, apart from to say this.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/if-cameron-wants-female-migrants-to-learn-english-why-did-he-cut-esol-funding/
Of course everyone should learn English, there's a problem with people not doing so and some members of the Muslim community are isolated from society and their husbands want to keep it that way, but it shouldn't be allowed...
So why did the strategic thinker, genius and all-round cockwomble (an excellent English word the use of which I recommend) cut funding for teaching migrants English? How the hell are people going to learn because he hectors and demands that they do it, without any help? Everyone who lives here should speak English and have the opportunity to work and contribute to society. It should be expected. But how can it happen if people aren't given any help, just that massively-foreheaded bellend shouting at them?
Like when he bombed Libya and turned it into a failed state, tried in 2013 to do the opposite of what he appears to be trying to do in Syria, or when he cut flood defences just before huge floods Bullingdon Dave Cameron never thinks anything through properly.
Rather than help people who need help and, if given it, would repay society, he simply issues demands and makes it impossible for people to comply with them and that's the "policy" followed by this intelectual titan.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/if-cameron-wants-female-migrants-to-learn-english-why-did-he-cut-esol-funding/
Of course everyone should learn English, there's a problem with people not doing so and some members of the Muslim community are isolated from society and their husbands want to keep it that way, but it shouldn't be allowed...
So why did the strategic thinker, genius and all-round cockwomble (an excellent English word the use of which I recommend) cut funding for teaching migrants English? How the hell are people going to learn because he hectors and demands that they do it, without any help? Everyone who lives here should speak English and have the opportunity to work and contribute to society. It should be expected. But how can it happen if people aren't given any help, just that massively-foreheaded bellend shouting at them?
Like when he bombed Libya and turned it into a failed state, tried in 2013 to do the opposite of what he appears to be trying to do in Syria, or when he cut flood defences just before huge floods Bullingdon Dave Cameron never thinks anything through properly.
Rather than help people who need help and, if given it, would repay society, he simply issues demands and makes it impossible for people to comply with them and that's the "policy" followed by this intelectual titan.
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Everyone can contribute to help create a better and kinder internet. How do you spread the good vibes? #SID2016
Yesterday, me and my girlfriend celebrating Chinese New Year in Birmingham. The only place we could see the singing and dancing was from inside a cocktail bar, and it would have been rude not to drink, so we were a bit merry. :)
And this great singer called Tiffany Pang came on and sang this and had us all swaying to the tune of it, it was cute seeing kids swaying and all sorts. This is the version I'm most familiar with. Perhaps we'd be happier if we all got drunk and swayed to the tune of it and didn't go to work in the morning :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqVO41NKw9A
And this great singer called Tiffany Pang came on and sang this and had us all swaying to the tune of it, it was cute seeing kids swaying and all sorts. This is the version I'm most familiar with. Perhaps we'd be happier if we all got drunk and swayed to the tune of it and didn't go to work in the morning :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqVO41NKw9A
What do you say when friends invite you out but you don't want to go?
Generally I will be honest and say I don't want to go out or don't want to go if certain people will be there. A friend of mine went through a phase of going out every night and hanging round with people that I disliked on sight and he didn't understand at first that I didn't want to.
But the he fell out with them big-time and even though he is much more outgoing than me he understood because of that and I hope everyone else does.
If ever you don't want to do something you don't have to, and you should be able to say as much and people should understand it doesn't make you a bad person!
But the he fell out with them big-time and even though he is much more outgoing than me he understood because of that and I hope everyone else does.
If ever you don't want to do something you don't have to, and you should be able to say as much and people should understand it doesn't make you a bad person!
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What do you do if you feel that you've really wronged another person or done something bad but the person has died?
YMMV but I love to go here and light a candle.
http://www.stchadscathedral.org.uk/
And even though I'm not a religious person I think often about my dead family and friends, you could even call it saying a prayer for them. So that's what I'd probably do, I always find it difficult to admit I'm wrong and this humility business never really commended itself to me but I love being alone in that place.
Of course you can do practical things like help their family but I assume your meaning to be if there's nothing at all you can do in this world.
http://www.stchadscathedral.org.uk/
And even though I'm not a religious person I think often about my dead family and friends, you could even call it saying a prayer for them. So that's what I'd probably do, I always find it difficult to admit I'm wrong and this humility business never really commended itself to me but I love being alone in that place.
Of course you can do practical things like help their family but I assume your meaning to be if there's nothing at all you can do in this world.
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How much do you need to know about a topic before you form an opinion about it?
I try (without always succeeding) to have an informed opinion before mouthing off. I used to be quite arrogant but hopefully my prolonged illness has killed that and done at least one good thing, and in my recovery I'm more humble about making statements I can't back up.
I have a cousin who, apart from the fact that his views are unpleasant in themselves, speaks in such broad terms and making generalisations and holding forth about topics he knows nothing about. I don't like it in the least. When I argue with him, at most of the family gatherings we both attend, I always worry that he's turning me into himself, his views irritate me so much that I say the opposite thing but behave just as badly.
But I should hope overall I stay in my lane and only speak on subjects I know something about :)
I have a cousin who, apart from the fact that his views are unpleasant in themselves, speaks in such broad terms and making generalisations and holding forth about topics he knows nothing about. I don't like it in the least. When I argue with him, at most of the family gatherings we both attend, I always worry that he's turning me into himself, his views irritate me so much that I say the opposite thing but behave just as badly.
But I should hope overall I stay in my lane and only speak on subjects I know something about :)
What would you call a profoundly enlightening experience and why?
Go for a nice walk, in the city, the country, along a river or canal, in hills, woods, anywhere theres not too much traffic.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/20/frederic-gros-walk-nietzsche-kant
Especially if I climb a hill, I find the cares of the world disappearing and being replaced by a new perspective on life and dare I say enlightened. It really provokes stimulating thought and it's a way of improving your life dramatically. Learn from the master :)
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/138732214219/at-consall-and-along-the-churnet-river-and-the
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/20/frederic-gros-walk-nietzsche-kant
Especially if I climb a hill, I find the cares of the world disappearing and being replaced by a new perspective on life and dare I say enlightened. It really provokes stimulating thought and it's a way of improving your life dramatically. Learn from the master :)
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/138732214219/at-consall-and-along-the-churnet-river-and-the
Which sandwich topping would you be and why?
I'd be one that no one likes, so I'd never be eaten.
That's my survival strategy :)
That's my survival strategy :)
Do you have any near-death experience? How do you believe a life after death will be? Is afterlife real?
"I don't think I have a direct line" [to god]
David Cameron said that and for once I agree :)
David Cameron said that and for once I agree :)
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Have you ever questioned your faith? Is there any common misconception about your faith that people always argue about?
I'm an agnostic so I don't have any beliefs, but what does bother me is this stereotype that non-religious people and the "atheist movement" are all white middle-class men like Richard Dawkins, so many people who will tell you how liberal and progressive they are will hate atheists and will make stereotypes about non-religious people.
In fact, most "infidels" are living in developing countries and fear for their lives at the hands of Muslim or Christian fanatics who may violently hate each other but can at least agree on the need to stamp out "godlessness".
I follow someone on Twitter who is Palestinian and was imprisoned (by the alleged "moderates" of Fatah) for saying he doesn't believe in god. Who could possibly think that was justified? And yet western countries are allied to reactionary Gulf states especially and never think about the people who suffer from them.
And it's very easy for virtue-signalling "progressives" to talk about how they're defending oppressed religious people against the likes of Richard Dawkins, who I don't even like, but the point is he isn't typical of the world's godless, who are totally ignored by most people of whatever persuasion who live easily in the west And in most of the world it's the religions which are oppressive, especially against women and children.
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/07/women-god-stangroom-benson
In fact, most "infidels" are living in developing countries and fear for their lives at the hands of Muslim or Christian fanatics who may violently hate each other but can at least agree on the need to stamp out "godlessness".
I follow someone on Twitter who is Palestinian and was imprisoned (by the alleged "moderates" of Fatah) for saying he doesn't believe in god. Who could possibly think that was justified? And yet western countries are allied to reactionary Gulf states especially and never think about the people who suffer from them.
And it's very easy for virtue-signalling "progressives" to talk about how they're defending oppressed religious people against the likes of Richard Dawkins, who I don't even like, but the point is he isn't typical of the world's godless, who are totally ignored by most people of whatever persuasion who live easily in the west And in most of the world it's the religions which are oppressive, especially against women and children.
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/07/women-god-stangroom-benson
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How would you define masculinity and femininity?
I don't know, I know what stereotypical "masculine" and "feminine" traits are but I don't know many people who follow gender roles rigidly and in countries where the authorities try to enforce them, usually by restricting women's role, it doesn't end well.
http://youtu.be/v3euYclhRmw
http://youtu.be/v3euYclhRmw
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Do you believe that religion has come into conflict because of secularism? Why? Do you think yourself as a part of secular society?
It depends what's meant by secularism, I support secularism in not having an officially mandated religion, clergymen (it's always men, in theocratic regimes) creating laws for us.
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/housman1.htm
Of course the culture I live in has been shaped by centuries of Christianity and I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing but it's definitely a thing. But we are secular in that, unlike in many places, no one that I know of wants to go back to the 17th century and the rule of the saints.
I think the old-time secular dictators like Saddam Hussein were better than what came after because we now know what they were doing, which is to prevent people like Islamic state from persecuting anyone not exactly like themselves. So I think religion can flourish in a secular society and it actually is religion, not mixed up with politics like in, say, Iran
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/housman1.htm
Of course the culture I live in has been shaped by centuries of Christianity and I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing but it's definitely a thing. But we are secular in that, unlike in many places, no one that I know of wants to go back to the 17th century and the rule of the saints.
I think the old-time secular dictators like Saddam Hussein were better than what came after because we now know what they were doing, which is to prevent people like Islamic state from persecuting anyone not exactly like themselves. So I think religion can flourish in a secular society and it actually is religion, not mixed up with politics like in, say, Iran
If your parents had belonged to a different religion, do you think you would belong to that religion too? Is it a good choice to follow the religion blindly without 'learning' about it?
I'm an ex-Catholic, I think if I'd been born in Iran I would be a Muslim, if I'd been born in some parts of Nigeria I'd still be a solid Catholic, etc. Most people follow the religion of their parents, unless they convert under pressure from the locally dominant religion, it's silly and arrogant to pretend otherwise. Everyone is a freaked free thinker the same way everyone would have joined the French Resitance, but you can't say that until it's proven.
I admire people who have the courage to reject the norm like this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Namazie
And I think people should know and be taught about other religions and the fact that millions of people are atheists (it's actually illegal to be an atheist or change your religion in some, mainly Muslim, countries). So people should have the information and be free to make their own decisions and I'm not going to say what I would do if I lived under hardcore oppression, I don't know.
I admire people who have the courage to reject the norm like this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Namazie
And I think people should know and be taught about other religions and the fact that millions of people are atheists (it's actually illegal to be an atheist or change your religion in some, mainly Muslim, countries). So people should have the information and be free to make their own decisions and I'm not going to say what I would do if I lived under hardcore oppression, I don't know.
Do you believe that global peace is attainable?
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