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- Tue Feb 18, 2020 2:41 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: What's the easiest language to learn?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21941
Re: What's the easiest language to learn?
The easiest language to learn is one you actually care about. My parents didn't teach me Cymraeg ('Welsh') but I learned it to a fair degree before I was ten, without formal help, whereas the English, who hate us, can't even learn to say the one or two mildly difficult sounds, or the learn phonetic ...
- Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:42 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: The Irony of Judaism
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1525
Re: The Irony of Judaism
England has no Government. The UK government promised the Jews a 'National Home , whatever that might be, to borrow money when it had no right to Palestine whatever. It observed their League of Nations mandate reasonably fairly well after the War until the Palestinians rose against them, at which th...
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 2:05 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Gun Control Advocates are Immoral
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7550
Re: Gun Control Advocates are Immoral
I don't know of a humorous reply, but a long and detailed medical report should stop 'How are you?' For the other, I suppose, 'Too much effort, mate!' is about all I can come up with!
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 1:49 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Gun Control Advocates are Immoral
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7550
Re: Gun Control Advocates are Immoral
America is a weird society, where it is believed that having the means to murder others somehow makes you 'free', so you can meanwhile kow-tow to your masters all day and chorus 'Have a good day now!' as they kick you. If there are enough people who believe the world is flat or that the moon is made...
- Tue Jun 12, 2018 12:48 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: What's the hardest language to learn/master?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13838
Re: What's the hardest language to learn/master?
In the above, my Wife has turned wiry, for some reason!
- Mon Jun 11, 2018 1:50 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Language
- Topic: What's the hardest language to learn/master?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13838
Re: What's the hardest language to learn/master?
I'd say the hardest language is the language least like your own, unless you start as an infant. Chinese seems to me very close to English in many ways, whereas most inflected languages are tough (for me, anyway). Again, it depends on how prepared people are to speak to you - in the Low Countries th...
- Fri May 25, 2018 1:54 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Silence
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3999
Re: Silence
When I was a Quaker Attender, I particularly liked the Silence, and thought it was far too often broken by those for whom the Spirit had been reading Guardian editorials plus Nature Notes. Probably it is the result of spending too much time with talking persons, but Silence seemed to make more sense...
- Thu May 24, 2018 1:23 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: AJ Ayer's Near Death Experience.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8710
Re: AJ Ayer's Near Death Experience.
My father was a parson, and had a great fascination with these 'after death experiences'. He was technically dead for a few minutes as he was being rushed to hospital, and a bit disappointed, There was, he said, just Nothing.
- Thu May 10, 2018 12:46 pm
- Forum: Aesthetics
- Topic: Poetry here.
- Replies: 1185
- Views: 374674
Re: Poetry here.
Ay - expensive funerals to impress the Joneses are much more important!
- Wed May 09, 2018 2:06 pm
- Forum: Aesthetics
- Topic: Poetry here.
- Replies: 1185
- Views: 374674
Re: Poetry here.
I think the real problem is that we have been desperately pretending to turn ourselves into machines that make money, and then thinking up real machines to do it better. That game has got extremely boring anyway, and it would be nice to kick capitalism out of the window and write some decent poetry ...
- Mon May 07, 2018 1:52 pm
- Forum: Aesthetics
- Topic: Poetry here.
- Replies: 1185
- Views: 374674
Re: Poetry here.
It's my own belief that poetry arises from verse that is marked off from normal speech in some way. I can learn about Greek or Latin verse till the cows come home and can't get the pattern clear, but they had a pattern, and the results work, particularly when they were experimenting, like Catullus (...
- Sat May 05, 2018 12:39 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: War is Hell, but Combat is a Mother Fucker
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6475
Re: War is Hell, but Combat is a Mother Fucker
Commonsense - re military roles, you have a most suitable name!
- Fri May 04, 2018 2:08 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: War is Hell, but Combat is a Mother Fucker
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6475
Re: War is Hell, but Combat is a Mother Fucker
I'd sooner be killed, every time, but what sort of mug goes in the Army? I was in the RAF learning Chinese, like a sensible person.
- Wed May 02, 2018 5:48 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: War is Hell, but Combat is a Mother Fucker
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6475
Re: War is Hell, but Combat is a Mother Fucker
The choice is between being a legal conscientious objector, going to jail or wearing a uniform. Nobody can make you kill. I can miss a target from two feet if necessary. My objections were purely political, and the UK isn't into nasty things like that!
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:22 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: I have a highly qualified psychological counselor booked for 12 sessions
- Replies: 23
- Views: 212065
Re: I have a highly qualified psychological counselor booked for 12 sessions
Sorry - you get used to initials you use. Transaction Analysis and Neuro Linguistic Programming.