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Half Way | The Random Thought Repository
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The Random Thought Repository. November 25, 2014. My friend is awesome, and I’m not just saying that because she’s battling cancer. She just plain is. It’s been five months since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Five months since I found the lump, had breast examinations, breast scans, mammograms, biopsies, diagnosis, lumpectomy, sentinel node removal, ovary stimulation, egg harvest, ten frozen embryos and three cycles of chemotherapy. I’m gonna be able to break rocks on this body…. Notify me of new c...
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The wisdom of passing motorists | The Random Thought Repository
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The Random Thought Repository. The wisdom of passing motorists. August 14, 2012. Riding home from the train station on my bike, it’s quite late and a little dark. I find the battery in my rear light is dead, so being the social rebel I am, I just ride real slowly along the pavement with my working front lights on. A car passes me, and slows down, the passenger leans out of the car and yells “Get some lights! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Madness on the Rails | The Random Thought Repository
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The Random Thought Repository. Madness on the Rails. April 22, 2015. People who know me and my gripes with the train system in this country, along with the crazy situations that occur, often say I should start a blog about it. That may be true, but for now I’ll just post some stuff on my existing blog. Sitting here in Birmingham on my train home to Wellington which is now 8 minutes late leaving and counting seems like a good time. I figured I’d start with the most interesting topic –. I swear I’m g...
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Religion is special | The Random Thought Repository
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The Random Thought Repository. August 9, 2012. I regularly hear the phrase “Don’t talk about politics or religion! 8221; thrown around like it’s some sort of virtue or wisdom, the idea being that talking about these particular topics in public or polite company is almost guaranteed to offend someone. This takes me back to Oxford theologian Alister McGrath’s critique of Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion. McGrath stated that Dawkins didn’t understand Christian theology well enough to b...There are eno...
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Not a DNF! (Yes, yes it is) | The Random Thought Repository
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The Random Thought Repository. Yes, yes it is). December 17, 2014. This blog is starting to become a catalogue of my running failures, something which I definitely need to rectify, this is probably because I don’t tend to dwell on successes and progression, because when I get back to running sub 8 minute miles I’m thinking “Yeah, that’s good and all but you can do better”. 8221; (In the voice of a bad Bond villain) Of course I didn’t really believe that, and my unbelief was confirmed a few minutes ...
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Groundhog Marathon 2013 | The Random Thought Repository
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The Random Thought Repository. March 11, 2013. Well…. I made it. Even though I had only started training again properly in January I just couldn’t pass up this race with it being a mile down the road from where I live! It’s a personal worst at 05:17 but I’m going to choose to look at it differently, it’s a launch pad for my 2013 long distance running. 1055 laps of pain with gold bling at the end. With the Thunder Run 24hr relay racecoming up in July and the Enigma Gold and Enigma Reverse (2 marathons in ...
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Commuting | The Random Thought Repository
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The Random Thought Repository. August 16, 2012. The world of the rush hour train is a strange social yet anti-social environment, the doors of the vehicle often open to compartments filled with human beings who might recognise each other from transits past, but don’t know each other at all, they sit (or stand) in an awkward silence and in unusually close proximity to strangers. The wisdom of passing motorists. The Beast Lurking in the Bathroom ». One thought on “ Commuting. I am the Seat Hogger of which ...
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Mind over uurrghhhh | The Random Thought Repository
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The Random Thought Repository. August 13, 2012. With my sudden increase in running consistency and mileage, my body seems to be screaming at me to quit within the first two miles of every run, after that it settles in a little more and ‘co-operates’. The default human position seems to be intrinsically lazy, it says “sit down, eat, don’t move around so damn much! The default human position. How many of you feel like that? Most of you probably! The wisdom of passing motorists ». Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Atheism is a religion? | The Random Thought Repository
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The Random Thought Repository. Atheism is a religion? May 2, 2012. This is something I’ve heard a lot lately, from the evangelical vloggers on YouTube (probably more the atheists complaining about it! Where has this idea come from? By its very definition atheism is not a religious belief. In the broadest sense it is a rejection of belief in gods or deities citing a lack of compelling evidence, as apposed to theism which is a belief in a god, gods or deities (but I’m sure you knew that! I think not. I...
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