Well, I was surprised that I didn't actually die through lack of LJ yesterday. In fact, I found not being able to check it quite liberating. It even allowed me to get some work done ( Read more... )

Or whatever you want to call it. Anyway, I have a question, and it would be nice to get as many views as possible.

How do you decide what is right and wrong? Is it dictated specifically by some sort of doctrine, or what? If you don't e.g. follow a religion, then do you think about where your sense of right and wrong comes from? What do you ( Read more... )

Well, I've just been thinking about religious symbolism ( Read more... )

I was just trying to think if I could think up a sort of universal moral code ( Read more... )

Hmm, yes, OK...I have a question about the war between Israel and the Lebanon. I'm afraid I've failed miserably to pay attention to anything in the papers about the political side, however much I migh go 'Ooh' when I see the military progress on the news. This is my bad - I have some level of world apathy at the moment ( Read more... )

I'm away from the internet and news for one day, and the world ends. OK, well they impose hand luggage restrictions and things after foiled terrorist doom. Like BBC says. I do get the crisis, really I do... but isn't it a bit reassuring that the terrorists were foiled in their doomy attempts ( Read more... )

Thank you to people offering advice and help here. It turns out now though that I can do the screencapping quite well - I've, um, been practising for much of the afternoon. I know this is bad and wrong, but I have hormones and don't feel like doing anything more constructive ( Read more... )

Today has been spent learning German and putting DW stickers into my sticker book :) Oh, and did I mention that my Mum bought me Pirates of the Caribbean Top Trumps for my birthday? *squee* We played them for quite a while and had fun shouting out things like 'Show me the monkey!' Um, you'd have to have been there ( Read more... )

Um, I watched The Patriot (the Mel Gibson one that's a fantastic film charting family and loss in the American War of Independence - and wow, Jason Isaacs plays a sexy baddie). Remind me to review sometime. Anyway, this got me thinking about how I feel about warfare, because people have challenged me over this a number of times ( Read more... )