tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post4434539866044745525..comments2023-04-11T09:46:53.479+00:00Comments on anticant's arena: A comment too faranticanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-39428134619436418852007-11-07T13:39:00.000+00:002007-11-07T13:39:00.000+00:00We all know Michael is a self opinionated prat so ...We all know Michael is a self opinionated prat so why let it bother you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-44579375307937187852007-11-06T04:53:00.000+00:002007-11-06T04:53:00.000+00:00I don't hate anyone, Richard. But, yes, I dislike ...I don't hate anyone, Richard. But, yes, I dislike Joad because of his conceit and hypocrisy, and I don't consider him nearly such a brilliant and original thinker as you do. He had the 'gift of the gab', but most of his stuff was derivative and mediocre. He was a puffed up bullfrog.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-70392198345498663912007-11-05T22:26:00.000+00:002007-11-05T22:26:00.000+00:00I know a little about Mervyn Peake, Emmett - he li...I know a little about Mervyn Peake, Emmett - he lived not far from here. He drew a cartoon caricature of CEMJ = a man AC loves to hate !Richard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-7778599799341713662007-10-31T02:35:00.000+00:002007-10-31T02:35:00.000+00:00NO Sir, by God...MY cooties are at least OTTERS!NO Sir, by God...MY cooties are at least OTTERS!Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-32948822048316273882007-10-30T22:36:00.000+00:002007-10-30T22:36:00.000+00:00Not ferrets?Not ferrets?anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-23824045093788525102007-10-30T22:05:00.000+00:002007-10-30T22:05:00.000+00:00OH, It's just the God-damn shadow...Jung got awful...OH, It's just the God-damn shadow...Jung got awful sick of the endless shenanigans, too. Not to mention a chap has his own pet lice which, of course, I'll tell you are /gazelles/!Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-10110164440005579342007-10-30T18:23:00.000+00:002007-10-30T18:23:00.000+00:00Well said, Emmett - 'tis only a matter of time.Well said, Emmett - 'tis only a matter of time.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-67588064952785249742007-10-30T15:21:00.000+00:002007-10-30T15:21:00.000+00:00FROM Whence one does, indeed, suspect that you two...FROM Whence one does, indeed, suspect that you two /will/ re-cycle it all again, hmm? 'Tis only a matter of 'when' & HOW SOON?, that's what we suspect (jaded habitues!). I wonder, thusly, if any of the others should care to have a flyer with me on the side...a pinch to a pound, I call it! I'm putting fifty guineas on 17 to one, myself....Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-6404821230617795912007-10-30T11:33:00.000+00:002007-10-30T11:33:00.000+00:00I am happy to say that Michael and I have now kis...I am happy to say that Michael and I have now kissed and made up over on the Gatwick Forum, so this unfortunate episode is done and dusted and can be relegated to the recycle bin.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-68725684415967919012007-10-30T04:48:00.000+00:002007-10-30T04:48:00.000+00:00No, I never knew Mervyn Peake. But in the 1960s I ...No, I never knew Mervyn Peake. But in the 1960s I had a lot to do with J.B. Priestley and his wife, Jacquetta Hawkes. I remember Priestley once saying to me "This country is going through a nervous breakdown". [It was during the Harold Wilson premiership, which ended up with Wilson having one!] I wonder what JB would have said about the times we are living in now, or about his beloved Bradford today. And Maggie Drabble, who wrote Angus Wilson's biography, is a friend of mine.<BR/><BR/>Oh dear - name dropping again. All a pack of lies, of course, like most of what I write according to some.....<BR/><BR/>Thanks for moving us on, Emmett.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-74942436991954190882007-10-30T03:54:00.000+00:002007-10-30T03:54:00.000+00:00MERVYN Peake, God damn it, I asked about Mervyn Pe...MERVYN Peake, God damn it, I asked about Mervyn Peake and NOT these flagitious other posters! Christ Almighty, Secret Jesuit....Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-84958033082897838452007-10-30T00:36:00.000+00:002007-10-30T00:36:00.000+00:00Nothing whatever to do with a difference of opinio...Nothing whatever to do with a difference of opinion. I don't wish people who accuse me of LYING to post here.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-62469861926375175162007-10-30T00:11:00.000+00:002007-10-30T00:11:00.000+00:00ANYONE Been having a look into Trollope? I just g...ANYONE Been having a look into Trollope? I just got into a new one (for me), /Sir Harry Hotspur/. The good old stuff, I think. Which brings /you/ to mind, Aunty...did you ever know Mervyn Peake, I wonder?Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-25439988246624576732007-10-29T23:14:00.000+00:002007-10-29T23:14:00.000+00:00You have the same problem that Altrui had when he ...You have the same problem that Altrui had when he started his blog.<BR/>He lasted only three days before throwing in the towel - after Szwagier and I posted things he didn't agree with.<BR/>Yet, I had pointed out the fact that someone claiming to be a libertarian should not be surprised to encounter people who didn't agree with him.<BR/>I am making no comments on the merit of the case between you and Richard but know that you have 'an interesting view' as to what should be censored.<BR/>I have no such problems in practice despite posting highly contentious articles from time to time.<BR/>Look within for a while and be refreshed.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-52451297182934958552007-10-29T14:57:00.000+00:002007-10-29T14:57:00.000+00:00(I Am moving forward, rather off-topic, with some ...(I Am moving forward, rather off-topic, with some /additional/ observations on the matter of the epistemological problems /common/ to science and religion -- Wook)<BR/><BR/>A Great difficulty which science perhaps recognises better in a projected form is, precisely, /solipsism/; and, in such a connexion, the religious problem is increasingly readily perceptible. Alas, this insight into the fatal limitation upon religion can only arise when one has /first of all/ withdrawn their 'belief; and, our capacity in large numbers to-day, to 'see through' theology is a gift of the modern age which is now ended. So it is, that whenever I lecture on different aspects of the history of modernism, people are often startled to learn that, in the realm of ideas, there may be an irreducible element /always/ of the self-referential; it is, after all, in denial of this embarrassing circumstance that people so often claim 'superiority' for /their/ particular perceptual gambit. However, so far are we from any actual objectivity, the individual narrative-system in the last analysis is 'theirs' because it is most congenial to their particular natural capacities & emotional limitations/, all as conditioned by the experience of life in their particular familial & social setting. To /try/ to better understand this all as has been often noted before, in science we toil with the demands of, precisely, /material/ reality; my only contribution is to point out that 'thoughts' about 'God' hence are, equally precisely, materially real on the electronic scale -- and, to suggest that, as phantasy accumulates as a kind of static charge in the physical system, this whole mass of photons in Dr Hawking's light-cone /may/ attain to a point of critical mass. /Ie/, for me. /all/ of the /archai/ & divinities dwell in at least in one dimension in the futur; this includes the archetype of /scientire/. It may therefore follow that what both science & religion struggle to perceive is something more, over intervening time, of that future. Arguably, religion /is/ played out for a certain creative minority; and, to the extent that religion is a scientific fact about human being at least, copernican mediocrity /does/ mean that science as a system will likewise play out over time. Belief systems remainder contingent, and (perhaps thus!) entropy remains entropy. This is the dark side of veganism & epistemology:<BR/><BR/>THE Great terror of the scientific as well as the religious mind is that, of necessity, /all/ of the 'final solutions' by the way must inevitably become just so many rusty & cracked pots full of dead spiders....Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-69699944026882050252007-10-29T14:37:00.000+00:002007-10-29T14:37:00.000+00:00As Michael again says that I am "unable to be hone...As Michael again says that I am "unable to be honest", I want nothing further to do with him. Dishonesty is about deliberate misrepresentation. If I have misrepresented Michael's views in an over-hastily written comment, it was not deliberate, and no dishonesty was involved or intended, whatever he may think.<BR/><BR/>Time to move on.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-72442999752144287462007-10-29T12:14:00.000+00:002007-10-29T12:14:00.000+00:00Not a problem, I have an aversion to debating with...Not a problem, I have an aversion to debating with anyone who's unable to be honest, frankly it's a waste of time.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358738340705335534noreply@blogger.com