Stuart Jenkins

Piano playing, LGBTQ+ affirming, Baptist minister. Sing, cycle, wildlife, theology, Bonhoeffer, wood, pens, tweed, poetry, science, art, corks, ink, 78s.

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@SchopenhauerNow Got to be Socrates. I read him (Plato) in my early teens and realised I probably couldn't defend anything I thought.

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@RobertAllenPoet @MichaelRosenYes It is a great poem, and fun to read out. I enjoy Hopkins's cheekiness: 'morning morning's', 'rolling level underneath him steady' - a mere ten syllables squirted in just because he can. And the ffs, 'rebuffed the big wind' you say and you're joining in with it.

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@StevenIsserlis In J B Priestley's Angel Pavement the protagonist hears Brahms' First and, though he knows nothing much about Brahms or symphonies or Beethoven, the last movement inspires him. He hums it inaccurately as he grapples with life and hope in tawdry antisemitic London.

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@gjquartermaine @JChimirie66677 So good to read informed and thoughtful contributions to a debate, especially when they characterise other opinions as utter nonsense, and end with STFU.

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@OrthodoxOrigen Bonhoeffer
Buber
Wittgenstein
Gutierrez
Mcfague
Denys Turner
Alison
McGilchrist
Tillich
Crossan

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@andrew_lilico @MartinDaniel100 No point talking to you then.

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@EdelaQuintaine Saying it's hard to know either way is very sensible, then.

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@OrthodoxOrigen First time I read the Communist Manifesto it was like reading a brilliant article out of yesterday's newspaper.

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@Joe_ICHTHUS Nietzsche is quite a fun read. So is Plato. Descartes, Hume, W James perfectly readable. Wittgenstein, not the Tractatus, but PI is good. Kierkegaard good. But Hegel? Heidegger?

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@ariana_farhad @BulwarkClips This interests me. Where do politicians like Kennedy get their bizarre ideas from? Why can't they evaluate their sources?

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@PAHoyeck Thank you. I appreciate this clear explanation. (I've heard lots of rubbish ones.)

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@reacctionary This is a froth slug, as usual trying to steady itself before doing some calligraphy.

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@reacctionary That's interesting. Not many things last anything like that long. I am impressed by great age; beginning to admire myself.

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@reacctionary A negative of a photograph of a broken 78 record. Bach's Double Violin Concerto, I think. A shame; one of my favourites. Oh well, I've still got the memory. For now.

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@SchopenhauerNow Does it offer a different view rather than take one?

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@maklelan Thank you, Dan. I appreciate your honesty and commitment to others.

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@NickFreiling @RyanHaecker I'm with DBH, here.

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@CarlBovisNature Wings like arty Venetian blinds.