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Comment on AS Choices by Farhan Mannan

Farhan Mannan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:14:07 +0000

I approve of all except Geography. Why not a language, if you’re going to do one easy subject?

Comment on The GCSE Farce…. by Physics: the new soft subject? « Gedanken: Stream of consciousness

Physics: the new soft subject? « Gedanken: Stream of consciousness — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:54:53 +0000

[...] the new soft subject? After something of a torrent of stuff (1) (2) filtering through the blogosphere on the subject of science exams, I feel I should add my two [...]

Comment on disclaimer by The GCSE Farce…. « TomTurnerUK

The GCSE Farce…. « TomTurnerUK — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:22:36 +0000

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Comment on Choices, Choices by tomturneruk

tomturneruk — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:37:50 +0000

Would you like to be the first?

Comment on Friday’s Thought for the Day by tomturneruk

tomturneruk — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:37:33 +0000

This is incredibly hard to explain to a sworn atheist as I expect you are (no offence intended).
Religion, or more specifically, Theism is not a knowledge as much as a belief that there is something greater than you out there, and its working for good, and it loves you. You probably know this. We should have a discussion about this sometime. Prepare to be converted….

Comment on Friday’s Thought for the Day by tomturneruk

tomturneruk — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:32:56 +0000

Hi Ben,
The comment you made was very much appreciated, and longer than my post, so I shall reply to it thus:
1) I cannot believe that is true, because blaspheming was made leagal last year in a commons vote. Wikipedia:
On May 8 2008, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 abolished the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in England and Wales, with effect from 8 July 2008.
2) No, i agree, but I though I made it clear that the post was made on my foundation of faith, which I question, but hold as strong as truth.
3) I have to agree with you there, I was a little harsh, but they are atheists.
4) I don’t want to see them banned, but I want this to mean that atheists no longer complain about Christian posters.
I appreciate your comment, and if this conversation continues as I hope it will, then it may become a shiny new blog post of its own.

Comment on GCSE Nightmares by Ben Dory

Ben Dory — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:45:40 +0000

Happy memories. I expect you support my provisional plan to stick two fingers up at Edexcel and not let them use footage from my drama presentation+set for their ‘promotional DVD’ as they request?

Comment on Friday’s Thought for the Day by Ben Dory

Ben Dory — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:41:46 +0000

1) they were not physically allowed to use terminology ‘there is no God’ for some reason, so they had to say probably
2) I agree with Bryant, you can’t definitely say anything, even the most vehement of athiest, like *shudder* that Dawkins thing declares himself a 7 on an atheist scale to 10, since he believes just as much in the likelihood of God as he does in the flying spaghetti monster, Bryant/Russel’s teapot etc.
3) you utterly miss the point of humanism, they celebrate life, not a lack of God.
4) it was the christian adverts that provoked the ‘probably no god’ poster scheme, they were merely trying to level the playing field, you say we are expected to ’stand back’ as though you would prefer to see these posters banned. Is this true?

Comment on Choices, Choices by Bryant Tan

Bryant Tan — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:11:03 +0000

Mr Dean told us when he was explaining university choices that we have always been given the illusion of having freedom to choose … until now. Apparently most of the decisions have been made for us, one way or the other, by other people – be it teachers, parents, peers etc. So by all means: don’t let those people be random people who chance upon your blog!

Comment on Friday’s Thought for the Day by Bryant Tan

Bryant Tan — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:04:48 +0000

PROBABLY! THAT’S NOT ONLY BLASPHEMOUS, BUT ITS NOT EVEN PROPERLY ATHEIST!!

Technically speaking, those who are ‘atheists’ for scientific and logical reasons are actually agnostics. God is almost by definition unfalsifyable, so all we can really talk about is probabilities, and the probability of ‘God’ existing is pretty slim when you actually think about it. Well, very _very_ slim, hence the expression “there is probably no God”. I would at this point interject with the anecdote of the teapot orbiting around the Sun but I expect you already know it – besides, I would go into greater detail, but it would be faster to talk…