GOD (SORRY YOU DON'T EXIST) IF WE HAVE TO SING ABOUT SOMETHING IT MIGHT AS WELL BE ABOUT PHILOSOPHERS

Look just because I'm a philosopher it doesn't mean I Kant have a sense of humour (did you see what I did there?). Anyway, THE CURMUDGEONS are doing Christmas songs in their posts and I don't want to be left out. Unfortunately almost all of the bloody things include references to Jesus and god and stuff. Don't those songwriters realise that god is dead?

Here's something to keep you going though:

MONTY PYTHON THE PHILOSOPHERS SONG


If this offends you then you can listen to this:


MOSTLY GERMAN PHILOSOPHERS SONG


Don't thank me. In analysing gratitude and the conditions under which it is called for, philosophers have generally tried to account for all the cases in which we find it natural to use gratitude terms (“grateful”, “thankful”, etc.). We use such terms in a broad range of circumstances: it sounds natural to say, for instance, “I am grateful that it did not rain on my wedding day;” “grateful someone happened to walk by as I was being mugged;” “grateful to someone for trying unsuccessfully to help me;” “grateful for someone’s well-wishes.” The breadth of circumstances in which we invoke gratitude terms would suggest that gratitude, generally, is the response a person should have to something good—that is, to benefit or “favour” (Walker 1980–1981)
 In this case you may consider that the posting of the songs was no bloody good then you wouldn't be grateful you ungrateful bastards.

UTILITARIANISM AND THE ETHICS OF GOING TO WAR

It's sad that we've come to this. Angry Jesus and his cohort of evil have forced our hand in going to war against vile and despicable behaviour. Sorry Chair but I do not think we can look the other way here.

We have legitimate authority and as the greater association of bloggers have a monopoly  when it comes to deciding when to go to war.

We have just cause. and have good (moral) reasons for going to war: an enemy  has recently committed a major form of aggression against us; an enemy is likely to commit aggression against an ally of ours; there is a serious humanitarian problem in that this enemy has total disregard for the feelings, safety and well-being of serious and sincere bloggers.

We have the right intention. Our actions will satisfy the just cause even after the war is over.

This is a last resort. Our Chair has remonstrated through proper channels to which AJ and his dodgy cronies have paid no attention. The time for action is now.

We will be proportionate in our retaliation. While we will adopt 21st century methods and not storm in waving swords like a bunch of lunatics we nevertheless need to recognise the violence used by Baxter and give him a taste of his own medicine. This could be in the form of doctoring his bottles of wine (although he drinks such horrible shit I don't know what worse things we could put in it).