When I was at school in the UK in the 80s, it was the Ethiopians. We all knew of Ethiopia. Some of us knew Ethiopia was in Africa. A smaller...
Yep, I teach philosophy. Putting it into Platonic terms actually makes it clearer for me. How perverse is that? Nice idea. Cool use of an old idea.
This sounds familiar. When I was at university we were made to do at least one module outside of our degree, which you had to pass but didn’t...
And the nastiest…Joy Division being the name for brothels in concentration camps.
So do some philosophers (Sartre, Camus, Rousseau, Voltaire, even Plato if you want to count the dramatic bits of the dialogues). There’s a...
Oddly, European cultures (Ancient Greeks especially) thought that thinking also took place in the heart. It makes sense, in as much as it’s the...
I know you’ve got a lot to discuss here but one bit stuck out to me: “The psychic essentially manifests an idea into reality and the purity of...
I think the same goes for philosophers, except maybe writers don’t also have an innate need to be unpleasant to people.
They brew a beer in Malmesbury called Flying Monk. It’s a good ale.
i had a sweet one of those from my local Mexican takeaway. It had a sort of sugary cinnamon filling with white chocolate dip. Oh my days.
Being from the Black Country, turning vegetarian was hard for me. I’d spent 30 or so years eating meals that were basically pig. Scratchings,...
I heard somewhere that line dancing was invented because people were too smelly. Maybe there’s some equivalent here. Or maybe it’s a free...
except Barney from Napalm Death.
That was never the intention (note: Americans on TV, not Americans in general). No offence was intended.
I love hearing Americans on TV list their heritage. They give huge lists like “I’m 1/8 Polish, 1/16th Mexican, 14th level Paladin, my Nan was an...
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