14/05/2023 12:33
It was a question this morning (James at Hebron – what was the question?) in conjunction with a question that had been asked in a court in Oxfordshire (A clerical case in which it was asked whether the defendant thought that the plaintiff was a Christian, upon which the answer thereto the judgement depended) a few years ago that made me think about it. Examination questions that require essays in reply may often be phrased in this way: What? Why?
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Vesna ‘are not your dolls’: Eurovision Q&A
Six piece girl band Vesna have already made the final, with a song that urges support for Ukraine.
Continue readingToday is an important day for many reasons. We have crowned a man who is king, who in that crowning made certain clear commitments. We do not have to be monarchists to recognise the benefits of those commitments, and I would suggest that of whatever form of government you want if you do not require of the governor those same commitments then you do both yourself and your fellow countrymen a great disservice. There are only two, or perhaps three, on which comment shall be made here.
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Logic is very important, and if you code or are a mathematician then sometimes you will not be surprised to find that even machines are defiant, recalcitrant and incorrigible, just like human beings. Take this very simple case, you have a two cylinder lock. In order to undo the lock you need a key which has cuts to match both cylinders (not being a locksmith I do not know the technical term for the cut, please enlighten me). So, if we call the cylinders A and B, then then we can say for any key C that if it is TRUE that the A cut matches the A cylinder AND it is TRUE the B cut matches the B cylinder that the key is a TRUE key that will open the lock.
Continue readingAn apology coming so soon after the previous one? One would have thought that cartoonists might have learned a thing or two by now. It is fitting however when two interesting articles are placed side by side they provoke an interesting thought, but given that this morning’s sermon was on Romans 12: Be subject to the authorities, I wondered whether political satire may sometimes be haram rather than kosher. But we do have Rutherford’s teaching also on the matter who promoted Lex rex rather than Rex lex, aptly illustrated by when on the appointment of one of his governors, Trajan handed to him a dagger with the words: ‘to be used for me (As Paul said: they hold the power of the sword) and [if I do wrong] in me’. How different from the lèse-majesté of another nation. On the basis of this, the interesting (or not so interesting depending upon your point of view) thought becomes public at the risk of offending those who by their nature are afflicted with the plague of sensitivity to that which is ill aligned with the contemporary notion of politica rectitude, and given with apologies to those who will recognise that I, being ignorant of such matters, have used the incorrect case.
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It has at last been discovered. It is the time to speak openly and to come out. Coco has been found to be inadequate. There is no other one-word judgement that can be applied. So, it is now time to publish a parable that Coco heard many years ago, but first of all a brief explanation.
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Continue readingWhen you are a marketing executive it becomes you to ensure that any advertising you do will not raise the expectations of your customers and potential customers to an unsustainable level even if you write the most taxing spreadsheet in the world; are the best in the market place; everyone knows that and you always get AA ratings. So that, anecdotally, if you had bought a Rolls Royce, in the days when quality was quality and you had a problem with it, there would be no questions asked when you took it back to the showroom. A new vehicle would be provided. Coco has a suspicion that the one you returned was later rebranded as a Bentley, but that might be an apochryphal addition to the tale.
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If Coco had written:
Gan nad yw rhywun yn disgwyl gweld Firenze mewn erthygl am Fflorens neu 臺北市 mewn erthygl am brifddinas y weriniaeth Tsieineaidd, pam mae disgwyl i un ddarllen Snowdon mewn erthygl Gymraeg am yr Wyddfa?
My surprise is not so much in the way Lidl managed to win, but how they managed to gain a trademark for a yellow disk on a blue background in the first place.
Has no-one looked at the sky recently?
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