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I agree, babies remind me of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. I may feel differently when it is my own child but other people's babies aren't cute to me, plus they're always drooling, puking or pooping.

At least 3 of my cousins looked like Gollum when they were born.

Some rap music is massively under appericiated.

That's because it's not music...
Granted its difficult to speak fast but with many there isn't a story (exceptions for very few) and with even more there's no tone or structure... Therefore not making it a all decent 'music' (again except for very few)


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The only way we can continue to evolve is if we stop helping those that aren't able to do things themselves so we can keep on passing the strong jeans that are more likely to live in an environment where we have to fend for ourselves


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I think the working classes have no right to complain about middle class snobbery towards them.

If they couldn't be bothered to get a good education then that's their fault isn't it.

I knew a teacher at high school who was homeless as a child, but she still managed to make it. There's no excuse.


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That's because it's not music...
Granted its difficult to speak fast but with many there isn't a story (exceptions for very few) and with even more there's no tone or structure... Therefore not making it a all decent 'music' (again except for very few)


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Why's that unpopular? it sounds wicked .

It should not be allowed to keep your child in nursery for 12 hours if you have a day off, they are your responsibility

Lol, I said some, your probably about Drake and Lil Wayne or something, I'm talking about Old Eminem, Immortal Technique, it's about the struggles people go through, I find rap very useful as I can relate in some songs

I think people who leave their child in nursery for 12 hours a day (whether they're at work or not) is just cruel. Especially when it's a baby.

I detest rap music.

I hate nightclubs. Social interaction is somewhat tedious.

Poetry is an infinitely better pursuit than any sporting event.

I am religious.

I think winter is a better season than summer.

Death is something to be afraid of.

Universities should not offer courses in management and business (though I have nothing against those courses in principal).

The arts are a more important pursuit than the sciences.

I prefer Moffat to RTD (except for the second half of Series 7, I don't know what he's doing at the moment).

Istanbul is the best city in the world.

Art is only art where these is some form of skilled craft involved to support the idea behind a piece.

The House of Lords should not be elected.

There is nothing wrong with Islam.

I detest most modern rap music too.

Agreed.

Agreed!

(unless you mean it the way Einstein did)

I hate winter

But falling asleep isn't?

Mickey mouse degrees are stupid attempts to devalue education.

Science is an art. You're making a false dichotomy. All arts are what make us human and are to be cherished.

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You sure about that? The best in the entire world?

Agreed. Mucking about and calling it art is disgraceful.

Gotta keep that democracy in check, huh.

I would sooner say there is nothing right with Islam.

Nope, the church-going theistic way I'm very much a social liberal and not at all reactionary, don't see it as inherently opposed to the sciences (and support them), and don't simply "follow what it says in a book", a charge usually levelled against us.

I can't help it, I love it. Everything is prettier, walks are nicer and I don't have to wear such ridiculous clothes .

Sleep=/= a total lack of existence and any meaning.

As a historian, studying a discipline caught between the two, I have to speak out at that. Science is not an art- it is the act of discovery, and is a precise and totally rational manner of study. The arts are largely a matter of creation of a concept transmitted through a craft of some form, and while not inherently irrational are certainly more an emotional response to life and thought.

:et me re-phrase what I meant. Science is important. It should be given as much attention as the arts, it should be fully endorsed. But I do think that the arts are more important in that they are universally needed, even if people don't know it. Even at the dawn of time, literature and music helped us get through the day, and to propose some form of meaning in the world.

Yes, frankly. The Lords are one of the few checks we have on the power of the government. Once a party has a majority, it really doesn't have to many constraints (like in the American system), and needs a body to curb its excesses. To make it elected would subject it to the same petty factionalism as the commons.

I have known a moderate number of Muslims, and if there is something wrong with Islam, it certainly doesn't show in the general populace. Religion is a complex and nuanced organism, and making sweeping statements about how any religion (excluding things such as Scientology and the People's Temple, of course) is should be destroyed, imposed upon others, is universally good or universally bad, is outdated or is the only truth- all such statements are far, far too simplistic, and potentially dangerous to the free flow of thought..

My charge against you is that you profess to believe in things on bad or insufficient evidence

I actually think spring is the nicest season normally, because it's not too cold but not too hot. Also, late autumn, for the same reason.

But what scares you about not existing? You didn't exist for billions of years.

The act of discovery on good evidence is an art. It may be a different sort of art from the one humanity was used to, but there is good science and bad science, science is supremely beautiful (as well as mathematics, which is also an art - hope you don't disagree with me there), and science does give us meaning, or at least, gives some of us meaning. Every day I wish to know more about what the world is, why it exists, what I am etc.; these are very poetic questions and yet science can answer them all (well, it can if anything can). Science isn't merely about robots and food technology; it's about a way of viewing the world as it really is, not as one would wish us to believe it is. I believe this is what Einstein meant when he said that "science without religion is lame". Contrary to popular legend, he didn't believe in a personal god, but used religiously loaded words as metaphors for what he found in science, the elegance and wonder beyond all the pragmatic benefits it gives us. Science can give us warm and fuzzy feelings at least as much as any film, music, novel etc., and for this reason it is very much an art. Precision and accuracy define its beauty; they don't detract from it.

I reluctantly agree with you. I think if there hadn't been a House of Lords during the previous Labour government, some pretty awful things may have got through. ID cards, for instance.

Most people are good people, so it should hardly be surprising that most Muslims are good people, and there are brilliant people who happen to be Muslim. For most Muslims, Islam isn't a mental disease, but for the craziest ones, it is, and this is because anyone following Islam to the letter would have to be mentally ill. Unfortunately, Islam is worse in this regard than a lot of other religions. There may be some good in Islam, but it is drowned out by all the hate. You can scarcely say that just because most Muslims aren't engaged in armed jihad, therefore armed jihad isn't a real thing or Islam is perfectly fine - it isn't. It shows by the chronic lack of peace in the Muslim world. Statements such as "there is nothing wrong with Islam" are ignoring a huge problem that exists in this world, fundamentally because of Islam.

"Believe" does not mean "hold as an unprovable truth". Yes, the burden of proof is on us and yes, there is no hard evidence. But I just personally find it to be the most likely option. Others are free to have their own opinion .

See, I always like the times/places with some drama in them. Windy hilltops on cloudy days, roaring storms on coasts, blizzards. So I like the winter, because I like it when it's windy and cold. Yes, I know that's weird, but I never claimed that I wasn't .

But I will have existed at some point. I will have been, however inferior a specimen, a human being with thoughts and self-awareness. I would no longer be anything. No perception of what I am or was because there is nothing to perceive, and from my non-existent perspective, that would be horrific. All of life being meaningless sound and fury. It is something we should fear.

I'm not religious because I fear death, btw; if anything it worsens that fear.

I find the music of the spheres and the poetry and spiritual claims of science somewhat irritating, actually.

I like impurity, messiness, and pure conceptual creation more than discovery. The world we live in is beautiful. Its forms and all else is beautiful; but it's only a single type of beauty, and it's too much of a system. It's beautiful, but it is only one kind of beauty compared to the billions of types that the arts can create.

I'm very much a social liberal, so I'm certainly not against democratic institutions, I should point out .

It's been said (on a TV show, admittedly) that Islamic extremism is to mainstream Islam as the KKK is to Christianity. Look across history, and you will see that Islam is not inherently a violent religion. It has been far more tolerant than other religions, largely peaceful, and has a far better chivalric tradition than in the West. Islam has problems within it, but Islam itself is not the problem. You cannot, cannot discriminate indiscriminately against the religion as a whole, or try to look for signs that something is fundamentally flawed with it. Islamic extremism stems primarily from a bad, bad colonial policy and broken promises in the early 20th century. Liberalism was actually fairly popular among the populace of the Middle East until the mandates.

Islamic extremists can barely be called Muslims. They are brainwashed madmen of a movement based in a certain religious viewpoint but stemming from a large number of causes. I may as well tarnish all atheists for the actions of Stalin and Mao when they were motivated by antitheist fervour.

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