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Good Night
Nov. 26th, 2015 12:27 amI will be going to bed soon after that long journey to Seaford by bus. Instead of the usual cute pic like the duckling here is my gif soaked horny sleep time. Good night.
Source - True Blodd
Source - True Blodd
Nov. 26th, 2015
Mike Pattenden "Last Orders at the Liars' Bar : Official Story of the "Beautiful South" (Orion)
This is a well researched and very personal biography of a disparate group. Every member and influence is mentioned, but due to the charm and personality of the front man, it becomes mono-focused, and the chance to see the group behaviour is lost. Which is a shame, as this is a remarkable group of individuals and a very fine group, despite their music in my opinion being a bit bland or twee. More of the group dynamic, I believe, would have made any insights more likely.
This is a well researched and very personal biography of a disparate group. Every member and influence is mentioned, but due to the charm and personality of the front man, it becomes mono-focused, and the chance to see the group behaviour is lost. Which is a shame, as this is a remarkable group of individuals and a very fine group, despite their music in my opinion being a bit bland or twee. More of the group dynamic, I believe, would have made any insights more likely.
Whilst i am unable to switch currently between HTML and Rich Text mode on Live Journal for some reason when entering a post or editing it i will do everything on my DW account , which is automatically transferred to LJ. Frustrating but expedient for the time being. Meanwhile, i shall pretend to be Spike kissing Buffy.
On My Way To Hastings
Nov. 26th, 2015 01:50 pmOMG - i am back to normal editing and posting and it wasn't a paid account problem either. Perhaps a gremlin from LJ. Anyway, folks, i am on my way to Hollington , a suburb twixt Bexhill and Hastings. It is an interviewing job and that is all i will say, client confidentiality and all that, but only at the location for half an hour.
Weather is sunny, very mild and i am in Eastbourne at the moment. You could call it a pit stop.
Not due at this location till 5 pm but i do want to make sue that i am in the vicinity , just in case.
Watched couple more episodes of Charmed this morning, with two more episodes later, and i caught up with the latest episode of The Flash as well.
Weather is sunny, very mild and i am in Eastbourne at the moment. You could call it a pit stop.
Not due at this location till 5 pm but i do want to make sue that i am in the vicinity , just in case.
Watched couple more episodes of Charmed this morning, with two more episodes later, and i caught up with the latest episode of The Flash as well.
Immanuel Kant "Critique Of Pure Reason" (Penguin Modern Classics)
To call Kant "dense" is an understatement on par with saying the same about the core of a neutron star. Kant's critiques are not easy going, but the bright side is that his description of the human condition, an attempt to restore science and knowledge in a world transformed by Newton and Hume, is worth the effort.
The Critique of Pure Reason is a watershed in Western philosophy, rightly likened to Kant's own description of a "Copernican revolution" in thought. The book is Kant's groundwork for knowledge itself: the nature of space and time and logic as preconditions for knowledge, shared among all humans, at the cost of sacrificing metaphysics to the transcendental realm of the "unconditioned". In exchange, we restore free will, morality, and (for those so inclined) God to the world of human existence.
Kant is very much the "lawyer" and the detail-man, and his almost obsessive need to sort human nature into a concrete taxonomy is perhaps the weakest part of the work. Still, Kant's division into the phenomenal and the noumenal, the human and the unconditioned, remains foundational, and to understand Kant's argument here is to understand everything that comes after in the Continental tradition. Even if you disagree with Kant's conclusions, there is a wealth of thought to draw upon, from Kant's conception of human existence to his ideas on "things in themselves", morality, and freedom.
The Critiques are a chore, took a good half a year to read it through, occasionally leaving it for awhile before slogging through again, but the kind of chore that pays off dividends.
To call Kant "dense" is an understatement on par with saying the same about the core of a neutron star. Kant's critiques are not easy going, but the bright side is that his description of the human condition, an attempt to restore science and knowledge in a world transformed by Newton and Hume, is worth the effort.
The Critique of Pure Reason is a watershed in Western philosophy, rightly likened to Kant's own description of a "Copernican revolution" in thought. The book is Kant's groundwork for knowledge itself: the nature of space and time and logic as preconditions for knowledge, shared among all humans, at the cost of sacrificing metaphysics to the transcendental realm of the "unconditioned". In exchange, we restore free will, morality, and (for those so inclined) God to the world of human existence.
Kant is very much the "lawyer" and the detail-man, and his almost obsessive need to sort human nature into a concrete taxonomy is perhaps the weakest part of the work. Still, Kant's division into the phenomenal and the noumenal, the human and the unconditioned, remains foundational, and to understand Kant's argument here is to understand everything that comes after in the Continental tradition. Even if you disagree with Kant's conclusions, there is a wealth of thought to draw upon, from Kant's conception of human existence to his ideas on "things in themselves", morality, and freedom.
The Critiques are a chore, took a good half a year to read it through, occasionally leaving it for awhile before slogging through again, but the kind of chore that pays off dividends.
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