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Thread: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
Post: RE: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodla...
| [quote]The people want burial to stop in the borough[/quote]
Well, you do. |
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28-04-2017, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I agree about 'how are you?' asked by someone the first time you meet them. It feels very intrusive to me. Probably because, unlike 'how do you do?', it seems to demand an answer and 'what the hell's ... |
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robin orton |
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01-04-2017, 11:54 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| The trouble is, there are few ways in modern English usage of expressing different degrees of intimacy. At one time we could distinguish between the intimate second person 'thou' and the polite 'you' ... |
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robin orton |
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30-03-2017, 04:39 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| In my old-fashioned way I registered with Amazon under the name MR ROBIN ORTON. Amazon's communications to me now start 'Dear MR'. |
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robin orton |
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16-03-2017, 09:05 PM |
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Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House
| I too was in favour of demolishing the old pool buildings and Louise House and selling the site for development, with the proceeds used to build a new pool in Willow Way. I now think I was wrong about... |
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robin orton |
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27-02-2017, 01:49 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I thought it was just surgeons who became Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms when they got their MRCS (which would be before they became consultants)? |
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robin orton |
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26-02-2017, 09:35 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Hear hear.
Something else on titles. The 'Guardian' (to which, following the sad demise of the 'Independent', I have recently returned) seems to have abandoned their use altogether and to use just ... |
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robin orton |
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21-02-2017, 04:55 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Wynell, are you really 'Director of global trends and futures - progressive strategies'? Surely you deserve some sort of title for that. 'His Sublime Loftiness, Emperor of the World'? |
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robin orton |
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20-02-2017, 01:56 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]One perhaps could question whether a non believer should ignore such titles as the have no relevance to an atheist[/quote].
One might hope that an atheist would be as keen as anyone else to... |
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robin orton |
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19-02-2017, 06:55 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Was 'forest fire'. Now it's 'wildfire.' |
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robin orton |
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18-02-2017, 03:40 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| And while we're talking about titles, I notice the BBC have taken to referring to the Archbishop of Canterbury as 'Mr Welby'. This sounds very odd to me. Admittedly it is correct (or so I was brought... |
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robin orton |
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02-02-2017, 11:18 PM |
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Thread: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
Post: RE: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodla...
| Are you sure the management will allow your departed spirit to sit watching television with your relatives? They may have other plans for it.
So far as our bodies are concerned, I'm sure that when ... |
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robin orton |
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18-12-2016, 05:19 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill stabbing
Post: RE: Forest Hill stabbing
| It doesn't reassure me at all when I see flak-jacketed policeman pacing around in pairs, with lots of bits of metal sticking out of them which are obviously meant to give the impression they're armed... |
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robin orton |
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16-12-2016, 09:33 PM |
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Thread: 2018 proposed changes to Southern timetable
Post: RE: 2018 proposed changes to Southern timetable
| I thought this had been ruled out some time ago, because it was decided it was more important to provide more line capacity for SE trains between LB and CX rather than for ours. Obviously if you're fr... |
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robin orton |
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11-12-2016, 04:54 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| And here's something else. Some comic (British-born, by the sound of her), on yesterday's [i]The Now Show[/i], referred to the author of the recent report on social integration as 'Dame Casey.' I thou... |
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robin orton |
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10-12-2016, 04:57 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Even David Archer talks like an American nowadays:
PIP: Toby's the one you ought to be apologising to.
DAVID: I already did.
Not the sort of expression which an actor whose day job is as the 1... |
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robin orton |
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09-12-2016, 04:44 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| The OED prefers 'adviser', but says that 'advisor' is often used, particularly in the US, 'in the titles of persons whose function it is to give advice.' |
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robin orton |
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24-11-2016, 08:21 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I'm not sure whether a linguistics expert would be satisfied with 'just fashion.'
Another example. I was brought up to call Aristophanes' play LySIStrata. Today I heard some BBC arts journalist say... |
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robin orton |
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24-11-2016, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| PASToral, eLECToral are changing to pasTOral, elecTORal. These sorts of words traditionally have the stress on the antepenultimate syllable. What has brought about the change, I wonder? |
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robin orton |
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04-11-2016, 09:47 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]When shot at the dove dove into the bushes[/quote]
Only a problem in American English. |
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robin orton |
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03-11-2016, 10:16 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I was brought up (in Leicester, in the forties and fifties) to 'clean' my teeth. I remember there was an advertising slogan for Maclean's toothpaste, 'Have you Macleaned your teeth today?', so it mus... |
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robin orton |
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03-11-2016, 01:06 PM |
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Thread: How to contact the local neighbourhood police? Roll on CPZ
Post: RE: How to contact the local neighbourhood police?...
| [quote]...but now they have got Dartmouth Road improvements...[/quote]
Have we? Not the last time I looked. |
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robin orton |
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31-10-2016, 11:22 AM |
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Thread: How to contact the local neighbourhood police? Roll on CPZ
Post: RE: How to contact the local neighbourhood police?...
| [quote]Roll on CPZ ! Does anyone know if a decision has been made regarding Dartmouth Rd/ Derby Hill/Derby Hill Crescent/Thorpewood yet? [/quote]
The idea seems to have been dropped because of insu... |
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robin orton |
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30-10-2016, 04:54 PM |
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Thread: Fusion - Forest Hill swimming pool
Post: RE: Fusion - Forest Hill swimming pool
| [quote]I finally gave up on my local fusion-run centre and joined the Dulwich centre run by the new company[/quote]
More room at FH for us satisfied customers then! |
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robin orton |
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23-10-2016, 12:34 PM |
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Thread: Water leak in Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Water leak in Dartmouth Road
| I see the leak (or another one in more or less the same place?) is back. |
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robin orton |
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23-10-2016, 12:30 PM |
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Thread: Ignore List
Post: RE: Ignore List
| I quite like some aspects of the new forum, and I must say that I have myself found the other person to be courteous and helpful, despite his bizarre politics.
What I don't understand is why it was t... |
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robin orton |
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24-09-2016, 10:19 PM |
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Thread: Ignore List
Post: RE: Ignore List
| We're probably not allowed to mention it here, but it has 'SE23' in the title. |
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robin orton |
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24-09-2016, 08:01 PM |
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Thread: Fusion - Forest Hill swimming pool
Post: RE: Fusion - Forest Hill swimming pool
| I haven't noticed any shared changing rooms. And why, out of interest, do people need lots of private showers? |
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robin orton |
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09-09-2016, 10:06 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
| I think you may find that P1971 has abandoned this forum and is posting elsewhere. |
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robin orton |
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15-08-2016, 10:09 AM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| I think they've happened annually over the last few years, so presumably there'll be another one in May or thereabouts 2017. |
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robin orton |
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14-08-2016, 12:33 PM |
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Thread: Red marking outside house
Post: RE: Red marking outside house
| I shall believe this story when I see good evidence that some burglar has actually used this system (and can explain its rationale) and that some householder has actually fallen a victim to it. |
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robin orton |
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20-07-2016, 07:58 AM |
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Thread: Red marking outside house
Post: RE: Red marking outside house
| Aliens from outer space seems to me to be the most likely explanation. |
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robin orton |
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18-07-2016, 07:33 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union[/quote]
What a barbarous and undignified title. Somebody in No 10 has clearly got a cloth ear.
'Exiting' is a jour... |
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robin orton |
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17-07-2016, 05:46 PM |
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Thread: Thread for the strange and unusual in SE23
Post: RE: Thread for the strange and unusual in SE23
| There is a rumour that there are people around who voted 'Leave', but I've never actually spotted one. Do they have easily identifiable plumage or a distinctive call? |
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robin orton |
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27-06-2016, 04:33 PM |
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Thread: Weather!
Post: RE: Weather!
| No, it's a plot by the Brexit lot to keep turnout low. |
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robin orton |
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23-06-2016, 07:45 PM |
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Thread: Weather!
Post: RE: Weather!
| Our roof is leaking - again, after having some expensive work done on it last autumn. Hope the firm honour their guarantee! |
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robin orton |
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23-06-2016, 08:30 AM |
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Thread: What decade or decades do we all like the best
Post: RE: What decade or decades do we all like the best
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21-06-2016, 03:54 PM |
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Thread: Lets hope he gets his just deserts in prison
Post: RE: Lets hope he gets his just desserts in prison
| How do you mean, 'get his just deserts'? |
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robin orton |
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28-05-2016, 03:54 PM |
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Thread: Water leak in Dartmouth Road
Post: Water leak in Dartmouth Road
| Does anyone know what's happening about the water leak in the road carriageway opposite Express Dry Cleaners (which I'm sure has been mentioned here before, but I can't find the relevant thread)? It's... |
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robin orton |
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21-05-2016, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
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robin orton |
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10-05-2016, 04:58 PM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| [quote]As Voltaire so well observes...
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Oh, him. Man of straw argument, I suspect. Does anyone really 'want to reduce Christianity to metaphysics'? |
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10-05-2016, 04:38 PM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| If you're going to start talking about what God knows, (as opposed to what she understands), I shall bow out, lest my head explode. |
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09-05-2016, 04:23 PM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| How interesting. But where do numbers (including perfect numbers) ultimately come from? Augustine, I have just reminded myself, believed that Platonic Forms had a real existence in the mind of God. ... |
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09-05-2016, 03:22 PM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| @lacb: Independent of God in what sense? Is God himself subject to the rules of mathematics, or is mathematics (as we know it) in some sense dependent upon his 'Word', like everything else in the uni... |
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09-05-2016, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| If maths is the language of God, does he (if you prefer) use it to communicate with us? Or is doing maths just a way for us to listen in awe to his inner musings? |
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09-05-2016, 10:15 AM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| I can only speak as a Christian. It is true that male language is usually applied to God in the Bible, but there are several texts where God is referred to as a mother. It is also true that in Christi... |
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08-05-2016, 11:10 PM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| I suppose that when people say that if God exists she exists necessarily, they mean that if she existed there would be no possibility of her not existing. Unlike everything else in the universe, e.g. ... |
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08-05-2016, 10:13 PM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| I agree that it might be conceivable that there was a necessary being (whom one might call God) who created the universe but was not the ultimate source of values like goodness, truth, beauty and lov... |
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08-05-2016, 04:37 PM |
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Thread: Interfaith Walk for Peace
Post: RE: Interfaith Walk for Peace
| [quote]The problem about saying values must come from some Divine authority is that it leaves open the question of where that Divine authority came from, and the consequent infinite regress.
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08-05-2016, 03:04 PM |
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Thread: Betty Swanwick
Post: RE: Betty Swanwick
| [quote]I first encountered her work in the early 70's when the prog rock band Genesis used one of her paintings for the cover of Selling England by the pound'[/quote]
Ah yes, 'prog rock.' That I have... |
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