That sounds like you hit the nail pretty square on... perhaps intelligence negates any inherent purpose, and we are "supposed" to make our own.
The Purpose of Humans?
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That sounds like you hit the nail pretty square on... perhaps intelligence negates any inherent purpose, and we are "supposed" to make our own.
Right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Look - we can get the trivial stuff about celestial old blokes with beards wrong, but by the light of the iron chicken, let us please at least keep the facts straight!
Red
Thanks, I'm now having to wipe mayonnaise and piccalilli off my monitor
Makes a change from tea, mind.
BTW, I think you meant a dyslexic, agnostic insomniac...
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To be the most advanced species on the planet, whilst simultaneously creating and feeding on concepts of self doubt and that there has to be a purpose for our very existence!
Thats just human superiority complex kicking in now though
I disagree
The motivation behind saying that was not "We can do whatever we want 'cause we're the awesomest bipeds on the whole planet!" but rather, we have to choose our purpose because if we don't, we won't have one. We have removed ourself so far from nature that the purpose that every other creature has simply doesn't apply to us any more; I certainly don't think that's a good thing, and definitely not a mark of superiority, more a rather saddening mark of how far we've gone down the wrong road.Pete
I think you are right ....bad Red......the Dog will get me now
Not at all. Some things are just too important to let pass.
(I've got all the programs on DVD; and Noggin the Nog too.
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hmmmm but, without cheating, can you name both ragdolls from Bagpuss? And the bookend? And who loved Bagpuss? And who was the boy mouse on the mouse organ?
I can do that one!
Gabriel the Toad
Madeleine the Ragdoll
The bookend was Professor Yaffle.
And Emily loved him
(There was an interview with Emily Firmin on the BBC News website recently, talking about her dad and Oliver Postgate)
Charlie Mouse.
Bought the video when the kids were small - I think I could still talk/sing along through every episode
Edit: Haven't managed to acquire Noggin the Nog or the Clangers on DVD yet, mind... Can you tell I'm a Smallfilms fan?
Gabriel the Toad
Madeleine the Ragdoll
The bookend was Professor Yaffle.
And Emily loved him
(There was an interview with Emily Firmin on the BBC News website recently, talking about her dad and Oliver Postgate)
Charlie Mouse.
Bought the video when the kids were small - I think I could still talk/sing along through every episode
Edit: Haven't managed to acquire Noggin the Nog or the Clangers on DVD yet, mind... Can you tell I'm a Smallfilms fan?
Right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can put up with nihilism. I can put up with arguments about the existence of DOG (did you hear about the agnositc insomniac? He lies awake at night debating the existing of DOG)
But that is just plain too much!
Its blue string PUDDING ***
Soup comes from the soup dragon who mines it from the soup wells!
Blue string is consumed in the form of pudding
Look - we can get the trivial stuff about celestial old blokes with beards wrong, but by the light of the iron chicken, let us please at least keep the facts straight!
Red
Superb!
:You_Rock_
hmmmm but, without cheating, can you name both ragdolls from Bagpuss? And the bookend? And who loved Bagpuss? And who was the boy mouse on the mouse organ?
Not me, I found Bagpuss a bit childish, sorry.
I found Bagpuss a bit childish, sorry.
I loved Bagpuss but could only name Professor Yaffle, I can name all the Clangers though.
Ooooops
Silly Toddy, of course it is pudding
Gimme a break, the eldest is thirty this Summer, it's been a long while since I made the blue string spaghetti stuff...........used to make Desperate Dan style mini cow pies, complete with pasty horns and tails, too
Never guess I had fun with my kids would you ?
atb,
M
Silly Toddy, of course it is pudding
Gimme a break, the eldest is thirty this Summer, it's been a long while since I made the blue string spaghetti stuff...........used to make Desperate Dan style mini cow pies, complete with pasty horns and tails, too
Never guess I had fun with my kids would you ?
atb,
M
An aside if I may.
In an interview, Oliver Postgate told of the time when a Clangers script was censored by the BBC.
Major clanger was trying to open a door and the script had him say "the bloody thing's stuck again". The producer was horrified, "you can't have him say that", he said.
Postgate was made to change the script.
What a wonderful institution the BBC is.
In an interview, Oliver Postgate told of the time when a Clangers script was censored by the BBC.
Major clanger was trying to open a door and the script had him say "the bloody thing's stuck again". The producer was horrified, "you can't have him say that", he said.
Postgate was made to change the script.
What a wonderful institution the BBC is.
Not me, I found Bagpuss a bit childish, sorry.
I have, courtesy of one of my staff, a Timothy Mouse who sits on my filing cabinet. When pressed, he sings the "we will find it, we will bind it" song by the mice on the mouse organ.
Never fails to make me smile when a client is having a bleat!
I have, courtesy of one of my staff, a Timothy Mouse who sits on my filing cabinet. When pressed, he sings the "we will find it, we will bind it" song by the mice on the mouse organ.
Never fails to make me smile when a client is having a bleat!
Wonderful.
Each to their own.
To serve our masters, the cats.
Too right! They are the true rulers of the planet. (Along with the dolphins
Too right! They are the true rulers of the planet. (Along with the dolphins
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