And at long last I have just formally submitted. Feels great

Thanks everyone! I woke up with a slight hangover, but not too bad (obviously didnt celebrate hard enough, will have to try again tonight!) They're sitting next to me in their shiny bindings
, and I'm just about to take them to my department

Btw 110,000 words - ten percent too long, but me and my supervisors decided it was all relevant so kept it in and pray the examiners wont notice!!

No!! I bet there are tons of mistakes, but I just cant bear going through it again, especially as its way too long - 350 pages!!

Make sure you dont have a crap computer that decides not to save your conclusive chapter!!

I'm sitting next to three copies of my thesis, waiting for the binding department people to come back from lunch to bind it all up.

Feels kind of weird though. Like my friend of three years is about to leave me!!

I will reply at length to scamp when I have the time (i.e. after have submitted thesis tomorrow hopefully - yeah!!), but just so you know they decided what went into it in a big conference of theologians who met in Nicea

And finally ... yes scamp I am a little bit offended by your comments, particularly your surprised conclusion that there doesnt seem to be a correlation between intelligence and religious belief.

My first degree was in theology, and the arguments were just as systematic, robust, intelligent etc. as those in my phd subject area (healthcare sociology)

And another thing, this whole idea about relating religions to war. Well I dont know about other religions, Jesus was a pacifist and promoted pacifism. So its not the religion that causes wars, its what people do with the religion. And if they werent fighting for so called 'religious' reasons, they'd just mask whatever they were fighting for in something else.

but surely scamp, the Bible is just as valid a historical document as any other thing written at the time, so why should it be dismissed as a fairytale? For example, there's more documents pointing towards the existence of Jesus, than there is Julius Ceasar. But have you ever doubted Julius Caesar existed?!

It depressed me today having to go into the local cafe to apply for a job as my PhD funding runs out next week and I should submit my thesis on Monday. £5.05 per hour!! Is this all I have to look forward to, serving meaty sandwiches?!!

Depressed

I like Longleat. It's cool, and you can see the shirt which Charles 1st wore to his execution!

Just as some people here cant understand how an intelligent person could believe in God, I find it bizarre that some intelligent people dont believe in God.

The weirdest comment I ever heard was a friend saying to me "I dont believe in God cos there's absolutely no evidence for his or her existence." We were standing in the middle of the Welsh countryside at the time next to a gushing waterfall!

I agree that religion is largely sociological, but think that there is definately a God/divine being/ call it whatever, and I'm proud to be Church in Wales!

Umm, well, I'm Church in Wales ...

I like to take every Monday off. Also every Friday and sometimes Wednesday too.

I have pondered this very same question. I meant to be submitting my thesis on Monday, and have woken up almost everyday this week with a hangover. Today is my first hangover-free day, so maybe there is hope for me yet!!