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No. I don't like commercial gyms - too hot, noisy and busy.

Do you like redskin peanuts?

Same, re: gyms. I've done drop-in but didn't like them.

I like all peanuts including redskin!

Have you read The Mill on the Floss?

No.

Have you read Joyce's Dubliners?

Yes, but I wasn't blown away by it.

Which of your own behaviours have you seen through and changed. (If any)

For me I would say the loud noises and screaming when I was severely autistic back in the day?

If you had to live in another country what would it be and why?
I would say France or Canada because I am of French ancestry and I am obsessed.

1. Finland
2. Iceland
3. Austria

Do you prefer watches with leather or steel straps?

Leather is warmer and softer. I treasure my father's steel-strapped watch, though.

Do you get headaches when the air pressure / weather changes?

Nope. I dont really get headaches.

Are you sensitive to differences in atmospheric pressure? (do ur ears pop really easily)

Don't really get headaches.

Do you believe in God? Why/ why not?

Yes I have. I read Lady Chatterley's Lover in Uni and I just read The Rainbow with Professor kraftiekortie in the autumn. I must admit The Rainbow was quite verbose, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I'd like to read Women in Love at some point but I don't have a copy.

Funny I was just thinking about Lawrence as I put my Brontë Letters book away. I'm finally finished it.

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Okay, let me clarify:

What I meant to say was from the beginning of time, when the universe was created, there has to be either a deity/group of deities and/or a really strong force that makes and keeps the entire world made and together as it is today. A deity/group of group of deities and/or a really strong force that gives conscious beings/life forms (spiritual and human beings included) a sense of morality, common sense, and free will.

All I'm saying is that I do believe in God himself, even though I happen to find myself more spiritual than religious. Sure, there may be the existence of other gods/goddesses, and they're quite powerful, but I believe that God is the god of the entire universe (which pretty means EVERYTHING, so He HAS to be THE most powerful), while others gods' powers and abilities are more limited (e.g. Posiedon is the god of the seas, earthquakes, and horses, meaning he has abilities only limited to those. Thor is the Aesir god of thunder, meaning his abilities are only limited to thunderstorms, lightning, and certain type of warfare. And so on).

Look, all I'm saying is that God (if not some kind of a powerful mystical force) may have given us a sense of morality, but I don't believe that you HAVE to believe in God or be a Christian in order to be moral. I have seen people of other religions (e.g. Buddhists, Shintoists, Jews, etc.) who tend to be a LOT more moral than many Christians are, since many Christians, especially from history, have done immoral things to other people and discriminated them just because they're not Christian, which they even THREATEN them to meet the devil in the afterlife even though they had done NOTHING wrong!

Okay, have I clarified enough? You don't have to agree with it if don't want to, but at LEAST understand it.

"Force" as in Newton's second law? That would be what Ryle would have called a category mistake. Nope, there's no reason, either a priori or a posteriori to believe in any such thing. Please note here that this doesn't imply that there are prior or posterior reasons NOT to believe in a sustaining God or something that sustains the universe which is analogous to a force - rather, that neither position is absolutely merited by reason, and the correct position to take is a strong agnosticism. In fact, a thoroughgoing logical positivist would question the idea that the statement "God exists" has any objective semantic content whatever.

On the question of morality, I'm more inclined to take the view that atheists really can't be good in any consistent way, though this still isn't an argument for the existence of God (not that you suggested it was), but rather for the desirability, socially speaking, of belief in His existence. Maybe I've just read too much Dostoevsky.

BF Skinner, the Harvard behaviourist, in his 1948 Utopian novel Walden Two called the sheepdog "Bishop"; I think this is about right.

To answer the question posed above: I haven't read Lawrence, though I recently bought a neat little volume of his work.

Do you still buy music CDs?

Nope. Ive never owned a CD before.

Do you prefer watching Netflix/movies on the TV or a tablet/computer?

Probably a tablet. Unless I want to watch something with someone else.

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How would you feel if you had to get up from the couch to change the channel on your TV?

I didn't know how to access music on my phone until six months ago, so I bought CDs for my car.
I have Netflix but I've only used it a few times, and only on my TV. I don't even have a tablet.
I would feel fine getting up to change a channel because that's how I grew up.

Do you remember using a card catalogue to find library books?
There were no computers during my entire use of University libraries.

Ah, no I think Im a bit too young for that. Starting from elementary school Ive always used a computer

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