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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Obituary in the London Times
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:20:05 -0000 (UTC)
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The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> In article <v7eagm$33lch$1@dont-email.me>,
> The Last Doctor  <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>> The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
>>> In article <v7dmhn$302pc$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> The Last Doctor  <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>>>> Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> wrote:
>>>>> The Doctor wrote:
>>>>>> oday we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has
>>>>>> been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since
>>>>>> his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will
>>>>>> be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
>>>>> 
>>>>> posted by "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> There is no such newspaper as “The London Times”. It is simply
>>>> “The Times”,
>>>> as it has been since its name change from “The Daily Register” in 1788.
>>>> This is why other newspapers calling themselves “Times” have to
>> add a city
>>>> or country to identify themselves.
>>>> 
>>>> Similarly there is no language called “British English”. It’s just
>>>> “English” and it’s all the variations and derived bastardisations
>>>> that need
>>>> to be identified by their country of origin (although US English is usually
>>>> misnamed “American English” which is an incorrect term. “Canadian
>>>> English”
>>>> is closer to the mother tongue and is also an American English, as Canada
>>>> forms more than half of North America by area.
>>>> 
>>>> As for common sense:
>>>> 
>>>> It’s common sense that organisms evolve. You can observe and record it
>>>> happening at a generational level, as well as it being explicit in the
>>>> scientific examination of genetics, biology, archaeology and palaeontology.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It’s common sense that Earth and the Universe are billions of years old,
>>>> evidenced by enormous masses of astronomical, cosmological, and geological
>>>> observations.
>>>> 
>>>> It’s common sense that even if you think the Bible is a holy book, it was
>>>> written by a large number of people over many centuries based on hearsay
>>>> and oral traditions, and therefore contains many contradictions, errors of
>>>> fact, fables and stories as well as elements of historical narrative.  So
>>>> common sense tells you that it CANNOT be taken literally.
>>>> 
>>>> Common sense tells you that the BBC has been broadcasting Doctor Who on a
>>>> continual basis since 2005 when it was revived. The series includes three
>>>> seasons that starred Jodie Whittaker as the “Thirteenth” Doctor
>> and partway
>>>> through that time introduced a painfully convoluted new backstory for the
>>>> Doctor, the Timeless Child narrative, which has been supported by further
>>>> narrative elements after a change of showrunner, in stories featuring the
>>>> “Fourteenth” and “Fifteenth” Doctors. 
>>>> 
>>>> It is therefore common sense to acknowledge the 13th Doctor and The
>>>> Timeless Child as part of the canon of the show.
>>>> 
>>>> So, in the words of Greg Davies, What have we learned today? 
>>>> 
>>>> We’ve learned that common sense is a term that does not and cannot apply to
>>>> Biblical literalists, New Earth Creationists, deniers of evolution, or
>>>> people who keep trying to deny the canonicity of the Chris Chibnall era of
>>>> Doctor Who. 
>>>> 
>>>> Such people do not possess or understand “common sense”: their
>> beliefs and
>>>> mental awareness are better described as “exceptional idiocy”. 
>>>> 
>>>> And that’s just for people who hold to only ONE of these nonsensical
>>>> dogmas. Anyone who believes all four goes beyond “exceptional
>> idiocy” into
>>>> realms of cretinous stupidity that can evoke only tremendous incredulity,
>>>> horror and pity in persons who do possess common sense.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thus proving, Atheists, totalitarians and secular humanist views common sense 
>>> as a foreign concept.
>> 
>> Not one word in the list of facts above, that prove indisputably that YOU
>> have no idea what common sense is, and are in fact an ignorantly and
>> inexplicably proud wielder of your cretinous stupidity, requires that one
>> be an atheist, a secular humanist or a totalitarian. Many deeply religious
>> people accept facts. A few gullible followers of fringe cults, do not.
>> 
>> They’re just facts, Dave. Refusing to believe them makes them no less
>> factual. Applying apparently random and unconnected labels to people who
>> accept facts just makes you look even more stupid. You should try to stop
>> doing that.
>> 
> 
> I just stated a fact in proof as demonstrated above

No, Dave, you didn’t. You gave a deluded opinion about three groups of
people that were not mentioned in the discussion and whose views wouldn’t
affect the facts in evidence. And you attempted to address a topic - common
sense - which I just irrefutably proved, using only facts and actual common
sense, that you don’t have and don’t understand.

-- 
“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor