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Comment number 1.
At 20:37 11th Feb 2011, logica_sine_vanitate wrote:Apparently The Thinker was originally meant to depict Dante in front of the Gates of Hell, pondering his great poem, The Divine Comedy.
So seeing you positioned there at the 'gates' of your blog, I don't know where that leaves the rest of us?! Perhaps generating more heat than light!!
More seriously... congratulations on your award.
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Comment number 2.
At 18:19 12th Feb 2011, newlach wrote:Solid shoulders that could do wonders with a discus or a javelin, but what big hands!
Here is something that some other thinkers might be interested in. "The Opium of the People" will be broadcast on Radio 3 tomorrow night and will "explores the places where atheism and pantheism intersect".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yhrdq
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Comment number 3.
At 22:23 12th Feb 2011, Scotch Get wrote:Mazeltov!
(We'll just ignore the prohibition on graven images...)
>8-D
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Comment number 4.
At 22:37 12th Feb 2011, Tullycarnetbertie wrote:It's the spitting image of you. You look much better than David Dunseath.
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Comment number 5.
At 20:49 14th Feb 2011, Ian Hall wrote:I wonder what the large number of awards ceremonies in the media and entertainment world tell us about this group's sense of its own importance. Is there any other group in society which feels the need to pat itself on the back on such a regular basis?
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Comment number 6.
At 21:30 14th Feb 2011, romejellybeen wrote:I knew a scientist who got the OBE for fifty years studying the hind legs of cows. Outside Buckingham Palace after the ceremony he ststed that he it wasnt the first time he had received a pat on the back.
- The Two Ronnies, 1976.
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Comment number 7.
At 16:14 15th Feb 2011, allybalder wrote:Does thinking about religion count as proper thinking?
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Comment number 8.
At 17:08 15th Feb 2011, logica_sine_vanitate wrote:"Does thinking about religion count as proper thinking?"
Well obviously not, considering that there are far more profitable things to 'think' about, such as the idea of everlasting mindlessness. Now that really is a decent concept to get your brain cells stuck into, innit?
But, of course, we know what 'the thinker' was really thinking about: "Where did I leave my flippin' clothes when I agreed to take part in that blinkin' Spencer Tunick shoot!"
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Comment number 9.
At 00:02 21st Feb 2011, Will_Crawley wrote:Does thinking about religion count as proper thinking?
-- Yes.
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Comment number 10.
At 10:49 21st Feb 2011, Eunice wrote:To the thinker......
What is 'proper thinking' and presumably there is 'non-proper thinking' and what differentiates them?
How do you know if you are thinking properly? Is it by outer agreement? or something else?
Do you know where your thoughts come from? How are they generated?
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