| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope 18:32 - Mar 22 with 4088 views | Illinoisblue |
but the prayforlondon hashtag and other trite graphics (no surrender across a British flag) across social media really irritate me. |  |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:34 - Mar 22 with 2416 views | The_Romford_Blue |
And me. |  |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:38 - Mar 22 with 2392 views | factual_blue |
No Surrender and the Union Flag have some unpleasant connotations, what with them being associated with terrorists like the UVF. [Post edited 22 Mar 2017 19:14]
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:43 - Mar 22 with 2360 views | Steve_M |
Yes, I thought the same thing earlier. Somewhat less religion is required not more.
Flags on Facebook avatars are as bad. Tokenism. |  |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:46 - Mar 22 with 2340 views | WickhamsLeftBoot |
That and the flag profile picture on Facebook really irritate me. |  | | |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:46 - Mar 22 with 2336 views | GlasgowBlue |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:43 - Mar 22 by Steve_M |
Yes, I thought the same thing earlier. Somewhat less religion is required not more.
Flags on Facebook avatars are as bad. Tokenism. |
I don't think I'll bother with facebook today. It will be full of anti immigrant crap. |  |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:56 - Mar 22 with 2290 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:57 - Mar 22 with 2286 views | J2BLUE |
I despise the #prayfor hashtag. Was your god asleep when allowing it to happen and if he can't control what happens why bother praying in the first place?
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:58 - Mar 22 with 2272 views | vapour_trail |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:46 - Mar 22 by GlasgowBlue |
I don't think I'll bother with facebook today. It will be full of anti immigrant crap. |
You have sh1t friends. |  |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:02 - Mar 22 with 2232 views | Illinoisblue |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:56 - Mar 22 by BanksterDebtSlave |
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too perfect | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:05 - Mar 22 with 2204 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:02 - Mar 22 by Illinoisblue |
too perfect |
It's ' The Society of the Spectacle' | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:06 - Mar 22 with 2186 views | vapour_trail |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:02 - Mar 22 by Illinoisblue |
too perfect |
Apart from blame bush
Can't wait for the Donald's considered observations. | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:13 - Mar 22 with 2140 views | Illinoisblue |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:06 - Mar 22 by vapour_trail |
Apart from blame bush
Can't wait for the Donald's considered observations. |
I'm sure it will a measured and well thought-out response and not a crass rush to judgement. | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:25 - Mar 22 with 2093 views | Ryorry |
I think it's just people feeling a grief or great sadness, and wanting to express a feeling of sympathy and solidarity somehow. It's not at all easy for many of us to find the right words for such things as happened earlier, and social media is one of the few ways of expressing these things that we have. |  |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:30 - Mar 22 with 2081 views | vapour_trail |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:25 - Mar 22 by Ryorry |
I think it's just people feeling a grief or great sadness, and wanting to express a feeling of sympathy and solidarity somehow. It's not at all easy for many of us to find the right words for such things as happened earlier, and social media is one of the few ways of expressing these things that we have. |
Nah, it's irritating in extremis and steeped in that horrendous few weeks after Diana died. | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:37 - Mar 22 with 2039 views | FrowsyArmLarry |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:05 - Mar 22 by BanksterDebtSlave |
It's ' The Society of the Spectacle' |
It's that thickos are the prevalent users of social media |  | | |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 20:03 - Mar 22 with 1973 views | Ryorry |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 19:37 - Mar 22 by FrowsyArmLarry |
It's that thickos are the prevalent users of social media |
But you used social media to say that ... | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 20:17 - Mar 22 with 1921 views | Illinoisblue |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 20:03 - Mar 22 by Ryorry |
But you used social media to say that ... |
do football message boards fall under the category of social media? I'd say, no. | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 20:20 - Mar 22 with 1910 views | Ryorry |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 20:17 - Mar 22 by Illinoisblue |
do football message boards fall under the category of social media? I'd say, no. |
I know they're not usually deemed to be under the same brolly as fb & twitter, but the bare bones of what they do in terms of functionality is the same - communicate directly with a very large number of people online on a wide variety of topics, including current events, sport, humour, the arts etc. | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 20:33 - Mar 22 with 1864 views | itfcjoe |
Virtue signalling |  |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 20:35 - Mar 22 with 1853 views | Ryorry |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 20:33 - Mar 22 by itfcjoe |
Virtue signalling |
Bit insulting that.
Not in my case. [Post edited 22 Mar 2017 20:36]
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 21:18 - Mar 22 with 1800 views | BlueBadger |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 20:33 - Mar 22 by itfcjoe |
Virtue signalling |
If there's one right wing w*nkers term I really loathe, it's 'virtue signalling'. Up there with 'do gooder' for sheer sh*twitted wilful, mealy mouthed, ignorance.
I LIKE IT when people do nice things and you hear about it. |  |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 21:19 - Mar 22 with 1792 views | BlueBadger |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 21:18 - Mar 22 by BlueBadger |
If there's one right wing w*nkers term I really loathe, it's 'virtue signalling'. Up there with 'do gooder' for sheer sh*twitted wilful, mealy mouthed, ignorance.
I LIKE IT when people do nice things and you hear about it. |
Blimey. Sorry you caught this rant Joe, you've alway seemed like a good egg.
It's been a rough 'un today. | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 21:22 - Mar 22 with 1775 views | Ryorry |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 21:19 - Mar 22 by BlueBadger |
Blimey. Sorry you caught this rant Joe, you've alway seemed like a good egg.
It's been a rough 'un today. |
Can't remember where you work Badger - were you caught up in this? | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 21:35 - Mar 22 with 1739 views | BlueBadger |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 21:22 - Mar 22 by Ryorry |
Can't remember where you work Badger - were you caught up in this? |
It's A Local Hospital. Miles away from today's goings-on in the wider world, I've just spent a large part of the day cooped up in a side room with avery sick chap with Something Very Nasty Indeed, who, despite mine(and most of the rest of the team's efforts) has failed to get better.
Final act of the day was to accompany the consultant to have a word with his wife and teenage daughter to the effect of 'we're not giving up on him, but it doesn't look like he'll survive the night'. | |
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| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 21:52 - Mar 22 with 1693 views | WeWereZombies |
| it doesn't really matter and I know it's how some people choose to cope on 18:57 - Mar 22 by J2BLUE |
I despise the #prayfor hashtag. Was your god asleep when allowing it to happen and if he can't control what happens why bother praying in the first place?
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But the free will argument that religions use is a bit more nuanced than that, isn't it? God may be omnipotent but if he controlled everything we did to ensure bad things did not happen then we would just be automatons. So our lives are richer because we have rights and duties, however we do not have the perfection of a god so we err when exercising free will.
All very neat but it does not account for the misfortune of one being the benefit of another. In reality we strive to attain a world without evil and assume we have the free will to do so but each of us carries the conditioning of our past and the constraints of the people we live amongst which prevent us from realising a world that benefits all as much as possible.
And then there is the view that god is a technician who, SIM City like, set up some starting conditions and then fecked off and left us to get on with it. |  |
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