A thriving forum
I’d like to attempt to give my meagre audience a little advertisement or a good, non-profit cause. For a few months now I have been running a debate mailing list or traditionally (and corporately) a listserv (R). This technically means one sends messages to a single address and they are then distributed out to all participants. I wanted a venue for debate outside of school to get lots involved as we have some intelligent thinkers available. Although of course it started out just people I knew, and that it has dropped quiet on occasions (as things do; this is fine) we do now have a thriving forum of people, mainly from school but slowly expanding (a recent debate on love that is currently in progression that has moved to perception and the fallibility of science was started by someone who I suggested the list to on freenode).
Obviously this is a self-sustaining thing but I am glad that I decided to start it as it is providing many opportunities for discussion on complex issues that just don’t reach as much depth in fragile verbal transmissions. At the same time this brings some disadvantages but I think we’re getting some very high quality stuff. Obviously many of us remain naive and undeveloped but that will steadily change. I’m certainly learning a great deal, in more ways than one.
So, to the advertisment: come and join us! Click here to go the sign-up page. All you need is an e-mail account.
Secondly, the Dr Who series finale was incredible. The whole series has had some great individual episodes and more importantly the underlying plot traps that had been laid were fantastic. The writer really came into his own. I don’t want to release spoilers here, but that bit at the end with Jack… unbelievable.