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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Alexander Woolf: My ec... · 0 replies · +1 points

I recall getting high grades for arguing the contrary opinion some forty years back, but when I returned to do some postgrad courses a couple of years ago there was. definitely some 'party line' marking. Anecdotally, some of my lecturers were unhappy with certain universities.

If the implication is that those failing don't know their stuff, you'd need to explain why current academic opinions have apparently been upgraded to objective fact.

I would say it isn't everyone who wants you to stick to the party line, but it's certainly been noticed in some disciplines.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Free speech for Wiley? · 0 replies · +1 points

The calling of Matthew is in all three Synoptics and in all three he is described as sitting at a tax booth or being a tax collector. Please explain to me why the synoptic writers would give Matthew such an unpopular job if he was in fact an illiterate Gallilean peasant?

I think we're looking at the criterion of embarrassment. tax collector. Reasonably well off, needed to keep records, literate. I agree that the 'Matthew' we've got is written by someone with good Greek, but I have no idea whether that means Matthew wrote it himself (since a tax collector on a major trade route might have needed reasonable Greek), the version we've got is the translation, expanded from notes - or whether Matthew was the principle witness for that Gospel.

Every scholar accepts? What on earth have you been reading? It is disputed. It is not unanimous.

By the way, if you have a decent Bible, try reading the footnotes. They include the copyists variations.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Free speech for Wiley? · 1 reply · +1 points

The misuse of that one sentence has been catastrophic. It's misuse dates from about the Second Century, not the First.

You seem to be making some unjustified assumptions. Majority illiteracy is not the same as 'everyone is illiterate'. It means literacy is a job skill, a job skill that a minor customs official would have been expected to possess.

Crucifixion was the most terrible punishment the Romans had in their armoury- it's entirely reasonable that Pilate would have decided 'being very annoying' to the local leadership rated a mere flogging, especially since he didn't like the local leaders anyway... but then changed his mind when the situation looked like turning into a riot.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Free speech for Wiley? · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes. Then we end up in a situation where we can't tell the difference between 'you're hurting my feelings' and 'you're scaring my kids'.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Free speech for Wiley? · 0 replies · +1 points

Nope. Free speech does not include the right to shout fire in a crowded place, nor does it include the right to suggest Group X deserve death.

Basically, 'free speech' can be limited if it *endangers* others. That's different from simply offending others.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Free speech for Wiley? · 0 replies · +1 points

Oh, believe me, this 48 hour extravaganza wasn't about Israel. It's just that the tweets about Israel are the repeatable ones, and the ones about Jews ... aren't.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Free speech for Wiley? · 0 replies · +1 points

I'd suggest that saying 'Group X deserves shooting' -when you know some of your followers have guns - is at the very least wandering into 'who shall rid me of this turbulent priest' territory.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Free speech for Wiley? · 2 replies · +1 points

It's been misused by anti-Semites, yes. Would you now propose we censor everything that's ever been misused?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Free speech for Wiley? · 1 reply · +1 points

He was promoting violence - which I think was the point where people stopped saying 'can a mate take his phone off him' and changed to 'Twitter get him off your platform.'

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Johnson - "Toda... · 0 replies · +1 points

Funfairs are open air and the travelling ones can ask for more park space. Cinemas can restrict audience numbers. Neither are compulsory for children between 5 and 18.

Schools have a set amount of space and a lot of children - who are all supposed to be there five days a week.

My local primary school now has three year groups in, plus the children of key workers and some kids with special needs who are being gently reintroduced to school. While the two-metre rule is in operation, they physically can't fit any more children in. Even the one-metre rule is going to cause problems with this small school on a small patch of ground.

The kids who are offsite are getting daily Zoom lessons, btw.

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