Happy Epiphany!

Find out more here -----> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_comes_from_nothing

Haha! Obscure linguistic jokes. To be fair, Y is pretty hard to find jokes for. See this website for more ----> http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/langorigins.html

Now this one is my favourite of today's comics. Being doesn't realise that slow and steady really does win the race. Especially when Zeno makes the rules. See more here ----> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes

So here are the last installments of the Being & Tim advent calendar, just in time for Epiphany and the total end of the festive season. TAKE YOUR CARDS DOWN TODAY OR BAD LUCK WILL FOREVER FOLLOW YOU. Thems the rules folks.

If you've enjoyed the advent calendar I'll be self-publishing a limited edition hand-bound, all colour, BOOK, as well as individual prints, at my etsy shop, which is here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/beingandtimetc

If a cartoon from the site isn't there but you'd like to buy it then just send me a message and I'll sort it out for you.

Otherwise, thank you very much for following the blog, and I hope to get some more cartoons up here soon!

Becca x

Day 19: S is for Scottish Enlightenment!

NB. Today's was a real rush job, so the cartoon is looking more than a little messy. Will try and clean it up soon, and maybe even add some interesting thoughts about David Hume. He's pretty rad. Check him out ! Becca x

Day 7 (just!): G is for Game-Theory!

Somedays the commitment to drawing one picture a day fits right in with your schedule. Other days, it doesn't. Today is the latter, which is why a/the cartoon is a bit rough around the edges, and b/I am just gonna leave you with some wikipedia links to investigate on the subject of Game Theory.

Try this .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

And for the particular scenario that Being is talking about try here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma

I'd be interested to hear people's comments on Game Theory, as I never feel like I got to the point of it as it were. It certainly wouldn't make a good board game...

bye! 

Advent Calendar: Day 5 - E is for Elementary

Duck Rabbits!

C is for...

This is 100% SOLID FACT: Descartes did some of his thinking in an oven. Except it probably wasn't a Zanussi Electric model. Intrigued? Watch this video for some fun-time learning from Mr Mark Steel. The oven features at about 1.19 (which is pretty good going for an oven). Just goes to prove that fact is stranger than fiction. Certainly useful for justifying going to the sauna more often anyway...woohoo! Becca x

The Sickness Unto Death

theoLOLgians

Simone Weil

While doing some ''research'' I stumbled upon the blog http://theololgians.wordpress.com/, which describes itself as ''The LOLCATZ meme, but for nerdy theology types''. Pretty self-explanatory, and also pretty darn funny. Check out augustine and tillich for starters, and bonhoffer is pretty funny too.

Theodor Adorno (sort of a theologian)

Paul Tillich

I submit these 3 for your comments....
becca x

Bricks & Sorrow

beep beep! Okay so it's a bit late today, and the image is a bit mussy, because I was rushing and didn't have time for the usual post-production routine!

According to my second year notes (!) the idea of bricks and sorrow being incommensurable is an example of non-cognitivism or emotivism. Moral statements can't really be said to be rational, because they're not statements of fact about the world but expressions of preference: in reality there is nothing by which we can compare them, just like there's no way to decide whether lasagne or chocolate is 'better'. Saying 'murder is bad' is like saying 'boo hiss to murder': saying 'courage is good' only says 'hooray for courage'. (Funnily enough, this is often referred to as the boo-hurrah theory!). The upshot is that we can't have a moral system, because there just isn't a way of systematising such statements. Instead we should just learn more about bricks I guess.

becca xo