Comments on: The Blue Screen

By: Stressedoutcop

Stressedoutcop — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:36:32 +0000

Don’t out think yourself – just get in the zone and let it flow.

SOC

By: Steve Antony Williams

Steve Antony Williams — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:35:04 +0000

‘I have this intangible fear that Western society is resting on nothing more substantial than a cloud.’

Ahhh the wonders of postmodern thought, when suddenly it dawns on you that NOTHING, absolutely nothing is irrefutable, therefore nothing is 100% objective and probably doesn’t matter one iota, even if it does exist. But does anything exist obejectively ? Possibly. The existence of the individual is supposed to be the only thing irrefutable, as in “cogito ergo sum” but ultimately nothing matters to everybody, not even living.

And I still haven’t found anything that can be proved beyond all doubt. I have a theory for what the meaning of life is though.

Existentially yours, fish, fish, banana

Steve

By: Demetrius

Demetrius — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:56:41 +0000

What cloud?

By: Mark Brentano

Mark Brentano — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:12:37 +0000

Good luck with the exam BE. There isn’t an examination in existence that you can’t get through with the aid of Buzzcocks.
‘I have this intangible fear that Western society is resting on nothing more substantial than a cloud.’
I fear that cloud may be financial credit…

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:33:20 +0000

Good luck with the exams, BE.

By: wonderfulforhisage

wonderfulforhisage — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:01:40 +0000

Reading your post the following lines from the end of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets came to mind. I think the connection in my mind is the phrase ‘Costing not less than everything’.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

What a boring old fart I am.

By: patently

patently — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:43:17 +0000

Good luck, Blue.

Measured – the “get everything in” approach doesn’t always work. Some exams are too tight for time to allow you to physically write down everything that you think of in the time allowed. So you need to discriminate.

By: The Lakelander

The Lakelander — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:22:48 +0000

Best of luck with the exams.

I haven’t taken any in a very long time but can remember all too well what it felt like.

I’m sure you’ll do just fine!

By: Scrobs...

Scrobs... — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:48:32 +0000

“The papers require a serious level of concentration, the require the candidate to enter a mental state not normally experienced in daily life.”

Sounds very much like the minutes of Tunbridge Wells BC planning committee meetings…

Good luck Blues, you’ve probably got this one in the can!

By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:52:15 +0000

Bonkers isn’t it. At the end of the day people want our money, the paper we print. Once people stop wanting our money we’re screwed.

Having nukes probably helps, a shudder goes down my spine every time I hear a politican say that we should not replace our nukes, presumably so we can keep subsidising economic inactivity instead.

My opinion is that because we have a strong footing on the world stage, a good infrastructure and a bit of clout people believe sterling is worth having. The moment they stop believing that we are doomed, or perhaps worse, have to join the Euro.