Well, but a bookshop wouldn't go amiss.
Nov. 7th, 2006 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slemslempikeI was looking at the website for the British Humanist Association (trying to work out what humanism is, after thinking about a post that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lsugaralmond made), and found this part of their quiz hilarious:
5 When I look at a beautiful view I think that …
A) it must have been designed by God.
B) it would be a nice place for a motorway.
C) this is what life is all about - I feel good.
D) we ought to do everything possible to protect this for future generations.
My general reaction to beautiful views is "oh, that's nice", so I'm probably up there with the unsustainable-transport-planners in many people's eyes. I don't tend to be moved by scenery, although hedgerows do bring out an occasional patriotic murmur. I'm thinking that the BHA is not the place for me, based on that.
Today I finshed The Archaeology of Knowledge. The main outcome of this is that I can now say that I've read The Archaeology of Knowledge, as long as it's in a situation where there will be absolutely NO follow-up questions. Tomorrow will be spent going through the spark notes guide to work out what it actually means. I made an icon from the phdcomic feed, because it seems that it's going to become useful very soon , and I thought that if I needed to make a post and illustrate it with an icon of despair, it would only be exacerbated if I had to make the icon as well. It was mostly in Photoshop, but I couldn't work out how to do a border, so I saved it and then did the border in Paint.
This time next month I'll be in Africa.
lsugaralmond made), and found this part of their quiz hilarious:5 When I look at a beautiful view I think that …
A) it must have been designed by God.
B) it would be a nice place for a motorway.
C) this is what life is all about - I feel good.
D) we ought to do everything possible to protect this for future generations.
My general reaction to beautiful views is "oh, that's nice", so I'm probably up there with the unsustainable-transport-planners in many people's eyes. I don't tend to be moved by scenery, although hedgerows do bring out an occasional patriotic murmur. I'm thinking that the BHA is not the place for me, based on that.
Today I finshed The Archaeology of Knowledge. The main outcome of this is that I can now say that I've read The Archaeology of Knowledge, as long as it's in a situation where there will be absolutely NO follow-up questions. Tomorrow will be spent going through the spark notes guide to work out what it actually means. I made an icon from the phdcomic feed, because it seems that it's going to become useful very soon , and I thought that if I needed to make a post and illustrate it with an icon of despair, it would only be exacerbated if I had to make the icon as well. It was mostly in Photoshop, but I couldn't work out how to do a border, so I saved it and then did the border in Paint.
This time next month I'll be in Africa.
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Date: 2006-11-07 11:54 pm (UTC)And, dude! Don't you always look out at beautiful rolling countryside and think fond thoughts of bulldozers? I know that I sure do!
Humanism always struck me as something I should really look into. Mostly this was becuase of Linda Smith and because I was working from the
shoddy guessworkassumption that is was connected with atheism in some way, but it's been sort of peripherally in the vicinity of my radar for a while now. THAT'S how serious I am about it. Dude.no subject
Date: 2006-11-08 12:05 am (UTC)Most beautiful rolling countrysides that I come across make me think "just how late is this train running". I do feel a bit crap about it. Surely I'm meant to be moved by mountains? But there's nothing can compare to a Penhall, so what's the point?
I only thought of Humanism because of Linda Smith! Lsugaralmond linked to the national secular society as well, which seems a bit less quiz-prone.