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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 12:35:03 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

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