h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

abbreviation? that's what i typed - but my head said 'adjudication'.

etc. etc.

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Well, fair enough. It did, I recall, start with you wittering dully about Gaelic, about which you by your own admission, know nothing.
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Where did I admit that? I do know some things about gaelic as it happens, including the history of it.

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It reminded me slightly of the time I used the word 'Teuchter', you questioned whether it was a term of abuse, I said not and you dug out a link to show me otherwise. Hell...how was I to know?

Maybe it would have been less dull of us to ask Researcher Teuchter for an abbreviation.
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I have no idea what your point is there

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But enough of these über-dull Culture Wars.
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Hmm, I didn't realise you were at war with me here Ed. Thanks for letting me know though.


The point still stands. You argue that it's all material. I give examples that show that it's not.

Oh, tush. The War thing was so obviously a joke, hence the YouTube link. Did it also need a smiley?


nnn...I'm that your point about NZ churches putting in effort to save souls despite a lack of booty does not yet trump the argument, I fear. For 'Booty' substitute 'Land'. (Or, more precisely, the productive value of that land. )

Now I've happily conceded that one can think of material colonisation (ships and guns) and cultural (churches and schools) as all of a piece. I still maintain, though, that the dull old material is at the rood of all human motivations, colonists or other. It's not the only way of looking at it - the cultural p.o.v. is often enlightening but (as I say ad nauseam, I know), it's reducible.

*However*...you are separating out that. >>the moral *and* the material<< (hence, you recall, I fail and you win)

*But* what I'm still doubtful about is where this 'moral' comes from? Is it not shaped by material circumstances that instill in the missionary's mind a vision of the fit purpose of the land (our lot should own it) and therefore the fit conduct if its inhabitants (they should assimilate or just go away)? No...it will be a lot more multi-faceted than that. But if you insist that the moral/cultural aspects are not reducible to the material, I feel you must a) tell me where they come from and b) why they worked so effectively in favour of the colonists that they can be regarded as tools of material colonisation.

C'mon...help me out...is there a middle ground here? Thesis, antithesis, synthesis etc. etc.

Nobody has to win. As Frs will tell you it's the taking part that counts.

And, of course, I could simply be mistaking what you're saying. In which case try saying it better.

>Or blandness<

Don't worry I'll save you from that

Enjoying your discussion with Ed.

> As Frs will tell you it's the taking part that counts.,

No its the winning

Do excuse my even-worse-than-usual typing tonight. Cloudy contacts.

(Oh sorry you were being ironic ...missed it).

Now was it irony or litotes...or both?

And on that bombshell - bed.

'litotes'

That was another one of your words I had to look up. Sleep well..

I never do now.

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Jaysus, but we need an editing thingy. <<

No,no,no! No editing thingies!
You must learn to live with your pistakes
and see the depths of yore Froidean sleeps.


~jwf~

Agreed no editing. It can be the unconscious, yes.

Or...it can be fat fingers. 'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.'

And all that phallic symbolism is a load of cock.

Q. How many Freudians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A. Two. One to screw in the bulb and one to hold the penis...NO!...mother...NO!!!...LADDER!!!

Hmm. It's funny I should say 'screw', no?

Well i've read most of his writings and he's hugely influential. There would have been no Rembrance of Things Past without him.

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But enough of these über-dull Culture Wars.
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The last thing this site needs is more Dulla Wars....

Oh and there would have been no Jung for the more spirtitual types amongst us.

My father was a Jungian man, and so was his father before him.

Q. How many client-centred therapists does it take to change a lightbulb?

A. How many do *you* think?

So was I for a long time..I've also read all his stuff as well. I'm still a bit that way.