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We had a Head Boy called Napoleon Jones, doubtless, later, a personality in conflict. A very large number of British British find huge problems not with 'Dewi' (simple and phonetic) as with their ancestors' attempts to please the Germano-British by imitating their surname forms. Anyone called, for i...

My deepest sympathies. There are less gloomy ways to reduce boredom, though. Look around for any TA (probably died out now, but what I trained in) or NLP groups around you? A lot depends on who's leading the group, but they can often help.

The question has to be whether the second opinion was worth anything and would be of benefit to the patient All rational opinion says otherwise. Surely it would be totally criminal to let people experiment with this poor child?

I don't know. I've never seen or heard it used seriously except by Nazi nutters prevented from abusing people. There's awful, mun!

'Politically correct', surely, is Nazi for 'normal good manners'? I have never heard or seen it used otherwise.

The whole point about counselling is to learn to shut up and listen, then be encouraging if you can. The problem about it is keeping out of it emotionally, and not letting the 'counsellee' get at you outside agreed hours. The only kind of 'counselling' I've had that was effective was Reichian, becau...

The 'God' concept was once a logical one, replacing a lot of godlets, myths, etcetera etcetera, and giving a coherent pattern, but the more we know of reality the less compatible this concept seems with it, particularly 'God' as a father, and so on. The only argument that seems to have any weight wi...

I have four children, and amongst 'em they have just one child. It seems to me that capitalism has reached the point where human survival is a very dubious notion, forgetting about burning us off the earth by climate or nuclear war. I can't imagine who in his/her right mind would have children now: ...

I think what you are having are mini dreams as you doze off. I've had it too. If you are capable of taking control while still in the dream, that's lucid dreaming. I did it once as a little 'un. I was falling and I willed myself to fly and save myself. Alas, I then suddenly veered towards skyscrape...

Dioch, Rick. I wasn't suggesting that my English teacher was particularly reliable: few of 'em were. That's what comes of moving up to 'Welsh' Shropshire!

Some men, particularly American ones, have been brought up to push hard to be noticed and to 'win' any disagreement, and they get very boring on radio, when they interrupt all the time. Most women, for cultural reasons, can managed detailed work much better than most men from the same culture, just...

Trump strikes me as a loose cannon rather than as a puppet. That's the problem, surely?

Philosophy Explorer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 6:34 pm They each have their uses in language (I prefer short, but long can communicate more).

PhilX

I was always taught that decent style require variation, or you end up sounding like Hemingway or Henry James!

It depends on how one 'Trolls'. For example, I could troll by saying all Americans are simple minded gun loving, burger eating, money infatuated, carbon emitting morons with little understanding of the consequences to themselves. There are a lot of people on this planet that would feel irrational t...

My old English teacher always used to warn us off Philosophy, quoting Aristotle (allegedly?) saying that it was no study for young men, and Leavis used somehow to indicate that he regarded it as very much inferior to decent novels as an examination of the world. We did do a paper called, for some re...