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Themes from Doctor Who (Season 1)

By Thinking, TV, Online Streaming & FilmsNo Comments

The time travelling two-hearted alien is back! Doctor Who returned to our screens at Christmas and has been fantastic.

Christmas Special: The Church on Ruby Road

  • The Doctor likes to dance.
  • A ‘Foundling’ is an abandoned baby.
  • Repeated accidents are a sign of Goblins.
  • Golbins are real, sing and have a King.

Episode 1 – Space Babies

  • The Doctor lives for days of adventure.
  • The law doesn’t always make sense.
  • Every person or creature is unique in the universe.
  • Nobody grows up wrong.
  • Sometimes technology takes things literally.
  • Good people sometimes do bad things whilst trying to protect others.

Episode 2 – The Devil’s Chord

  • Life without music would be awefully dull.
  • The impact The Beatles had was global and transformative.
  • Music can be wonderful or terrible.
  • According to The Doctor: “Music is the highest form of thought.”

Episode 3 – Boom

  • Dad’s should never let their children down.
  • The Doctor is enough annumition to destroy only half a planet. To be honest, I expected him to take out at least half a solar sytem.
  • War, business and an Artifical Intelligence make a bad combination.
  • The Doctor has excellent control of his adrenealine and other human involuntary processes.
  • Churches can become armies.

Episode 4 – 73 Yards

  • Saving the world can be done through fear, fright and flight.
  • The Doctor can disappear without a trace.
  • Sometimes it takes a lifetime to work out what’s going on.
  • Rejection is emotionally harmful and can be a devastating and heartbreaking experience.

Episode 5 – Dot and Bubble

  • Spending too much time in social media can lead you to missing what’s happening in the real world – including human eating monsters.
  • Sometimes The Doctor saves people who are not nice. Think when Lindy said to The Doctor: “You’re not like us, are you?”
  • Some people will do anything to save their selves. Including sacrificing others.
  • Some human eating monsters like to work through their list of prey alphabetically.

Episode 6 – Rogue

  • The Doctor could fall in love with a man. This makes The Doctor not only wonderfully complex, but gay, lesbian and bisexual depending on his/her current gender.
  • Some aliens come to Earth for entertainment.
  • Some aliens have faces inspired by birds.
  • Rogue gets lost in another dimension forever. This is emotionally painful for The Doctor, showing that he can experience love-like feelings.

Episode 7 – The Legend of Ruby Sunday

  • Susan is the name of The Doctor’s granddaughter.
  • Everyone loves Davina McCall.
  • An old enemy returns with the power to kill.
  • Kate Commander in Chief of UNIT cares about the lives of her staff.

Episode 8 – Empire of Death

  • Kate puts her hope in The Doctor.
  • The mysterious old white-haired woman (photo in episode 7) “had such plans.” But what where or are they? And who is she?
  • The Doctor is the one that brings death.
  • Sometimes a happy for now ending is more than satisfactory. In fact it’s wonderful and heart touching.

Blog soon,

Antony

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Wednesday 25 September 2024

Relationship Red Flags

By Love & Relationships, ThinkingNo Comments

I’ve been thinking a lot about romantic relationships recently.

Relationships can be complex. Having two (or more) individuals each with their own wants, needs and desires requires good communication to navigate the labyrinth of potential issues.

I am famously single, due to the fact I grew up around abusive relationships.

But here are some red flags that would make me run for the hills:

  • Manipulation – Getting you to think or feel a certain way. Particularly negative thoughts or feelings such as feeling inadequate, guilty, shame or fearful.
  • Any sort of Unjustified Blame.
  • Controlling behaviour – Getting you to act in a way that suits the other. This includes not allowing you to spend money or wear certain clothes.
  • Disrespect – Including put downs or insults.
  • Oppression – Preventing an individual from expressing opinions or views.
  • Any sort of abuse – Physical or verbal. Nobody has a right to abuse another.
  • Using Sex, Money or Anything Else to alter the power balance in an individual’s favour. This includes denial unless an individual complies with what the other wants.
  • A lack of anything positive – A relationship should help you to grow as a person and this requires support and positivity.
  • Alcohol or Drug use – Usually to mask historic trauma. The individual part taking in these behaviours needs to address the trauma and begin to heal
  • Isolating – You from family and friends.
  • Too Serious, Too Soon- Wanting to move in, get joint bank accounts, etc early on in the relationship.
  • Wanting to spend every waking minute with you.
  • Excessive jealousy.

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Blog soon,

Antony

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Sunday 15 September 2024

Anger & Depression – My Current Stages of Grief

By Health, Life, ThinkingNo Comments

Loss leads to a grieving process. I feel like my vasculitis diagnosis and accompanying symptoms have led to a loss of a quality of life, as well as a shorter life expectancy than I had expected. So I’m currently grieving.

I’ve done the denial and shock stages of grief, but am currently struggling with the anger and depression stages.

Anger is a weird one. I’m not angry at a person or God, but I’m angry with the whole way this universe works. It feels unfair and even though I know logically that life isn’t always fair, I’m still angry about it. Anger isn’t something I experience often and it is one of those feelings that for me is uncomfortable. I’m rarely ever angry so my resilence to tolerating this emotion is quite low, as are my coping strategies for dealing with it.

Depression on the other hand is bunch of feelings that I’m far too familiar with due to having bipolar. Hoplessness, a lack of joy, physical/mental exhaustion, I could go on, but I won’t.

These feelings of anger and depression are a normal part of the grieving process. I know that. But it doesn’t make them any easier to deal with. I’m struggling to cope, so I’ve referred myself for some counselling. I know there’s really no solution to these feelings, they are not a problem or a puzzle to be solved, they have to be experienced, in order to move on to the acceptance stage.

Right now I’m focusing on being patient and kind to everyone – including myself, so that I don’t inflict any harm on anyone because of how I am feeling.

I am acutely aware that my last few blog posts haven’t been positive. But I suppose that’s to be expected when you’re grieving.

Write soon,

Antony

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Saturday 29 June 2024

Don’t Buy MSI

By Technology, ThinkingNo Comments

Don’t buy MSI laptops. You have been warned. I’ve had two in 18 months, the first a gaming laptop and the second a producitivty laptop that have both broken after really sort periods of use.

MSI laptops used to be known for their quality and come with a price tag that reflects this.

My first laptop was a secondhand MSI gaming laptop that keys on the keyboard stopped working after only around 3 months of use. Okay – I thought – I could vouch for anything the previous owner had done to it.

So I bought a brand new productivity laptop from MSI. First the camera broke, then a speaker, then the mircophone. I ended up having to replace this laptop after about 12 months of use.

I have now switched brands to acer and bought the Acer Nitro 5 with these specs.

Write soon,

Antony

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Monday 24 June 2024
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