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• We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.

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  Dark, Thinking, Car

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• Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in mythological and perhaps in very real terms - of mixed innocence and sin. It is seen by townsfolk as idyllic, lazy, free of urban crime and social problems. But those who grow up in the country can tell stories that often surprise those who grow up in the towns.

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  Country, Growing Up, Real

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• Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

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  Stranger, Social, Playgrounds

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• People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.

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  Thinking, People, Seventies

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• I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.

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  Hangover, Feels, Ran

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• I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

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  Loss, Oil, Scandal

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• I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

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  Innocence, Longing, Lost

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• 1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.

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  Years, Movement, Jubilee

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• I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have received one [ from Queen's Silver Jubilee]. That's the last time that I recall something of an innocent, more-or-less unquestioning monarchist patriotism in Britain.

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  Country, Queens, Children

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• I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jubilee. I remember receiving a commemorative coin from the school. I think it was a fifty pence piece. That was its monetary value, but it was not a normal fifty pence piece, and it would have been strange to try and use it in a shop.

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  Queens, School, Thinking

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• Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.

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  People, Way, Pantheism

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• Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.

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  Interest, Models, Seems

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• There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.

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  Suicide, Ideas, Might

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• If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.

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  Philosophy, Space, Way

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• If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

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  Space, Want, Materialism

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• I think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not long after telling us to beware of aliens because they'll probably just do to us as the conquistadors did to the native peoples of the Americas. So . . . exactly why do we want to go on and on, to go forth and multiply in a hostile final frontier? Why?

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  Thinking, Space, Long

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• Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.

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  Hands, Lines, Austerity

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• There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

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  Strong, Buddhism, Fertility

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• I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.

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  Strong, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.

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  Buddhism, Imagination, Focus

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• The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

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  Imagination, Made, Manifest

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• I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.

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  Spiritual, Natural, Feels

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• I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

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  Perception, Sainthood, Native

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• I never went to church as a child. I did not .

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  Children, Church

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• I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

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  Differences, Catholic, Adults

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