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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by Dolly on Yesterday at 11:29:41 pm »

Ah ok. Understood

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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by ToxicBilberry on Yesterday at 11:20:16 pm »

It’s the Arthurian legend - the people and the land are one, this has been forgotten. By restoring this connection through the will of a powerful leader the land can be healed. In this sense through a sort of environmental populism, not that I’d agree with anything so crazy, but you never know.

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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by Dolly on Yesterday at 11:11:12 pm »

Afraid you’ve lost me there

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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by ToxicBilberry on Yesterday at 11:01:18 pm »

It is very interesting Dolly. I wonder if this could be the Green Party of the Future?

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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by Dolly on Yesterday at 10:46:46 pm »

The McGhilgrist book is genuinely deeply interesting
I’ve been back and read it multiple times. Some of it resonates with me like reading Umberto Ecos Travels in Hyper reality ( like an easier to read Baudrillard America IMO even though it predates it) where you just say “yes of course that’s right”
Not all of it.
Having said that. In my 60th year this year I’ve become a Green Party member. I’ve paid money and everything
Everything else is just fiddling while Rome (and the rest of the world ) burns

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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by ToxicBilberry on Yesterday at 10:26:32 pm »

You are passionate, but seem defeated. Don’t give up, give us the solution (I think we all grasp the judgement). What’s your answer? What would get us out of the hole you feel we’re in?

Of course that’s slightly mocking (gentle though, right? And, you’re fond of a “mocking” yourself) but I am genuinely interested.

On further reflection the simple answer to this question is - ride the tiger of modernity

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by spidermonkey09 on Yesterday at 10:12:54 pm »

 Awesome. It was 18 degrees today ffs!

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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by stone on Yesterday at 09:38:43 pm »

Durham folk your LP candidate was just imposed by the NEC and is none other then Luke Akehurst who is currently very busy attempting to delete the many vile posts he has made on social media.
Compare and contrast to the social media activity Faiza has been purged for.

This morning, to try and give a flavour of Luke Akehurst, when mentioning him on here, I tried to link to his "take the test" Blog post from back in 2006. In that he had a test people could use to assess whether candidates had the right stuff. It had various question with score points. One question was whether the candidate approved of various historical military interventions. Support for the Iraq invasion gained points but even more points were gained if the candidate with the benefit of hindsight approved of America's invasion of Vietnam. I asked Luke about it on Twitter a couple of years ago and he vigorously defended his view that it was good that the USA invaded Vietnam.

Anyway if you now Google "luke akehurst 2006 take the test" you'll get a link to it but clicking on that just takes you to a "page not found" 

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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by ToxicBilberry on Yesterday at 07:23:28 pm »

After giving us your views on politics you’ve moved swiftly on to epistemology. You’re spoiling us, Ambassador!

I was being sincere about appeals to authority. Re: Epistemology it's not something I know lots about. One quote that springs to mind is by Guenon on the nature of truth.

'Truth is not a product of the human mind'

To the best of my knowledge I'd agree with that, which IMO, is opposing post-modernity or the current 'hyper-modernity' that we're witnessing. I'm currently almost half way through the 1st volume of 'The Matter with Things' by Iain McGilchrist - I haven't got to the chapter on truth yet, but will feedback when I do. What I can say is that his 'hemispheric thesis' seems very close to Roger Scruton's theory of Cognitive Dualism which he describes in 'The Soul of the World'. In which one part of our minds is representational and stuck in the 'Realm of Abstract Quantities' while the other holds a broader more complete often ineffable understanding of things, often neglected in the modern world leading to a loss of the sense of the sacred and the meaning crisis. This is given even more clarity in Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil' although I came to the conclusion he was a very bitter and sexually frustrated man with a constant headache, projection maybe, there's a few of us out there.

Otherwise, Plato's dialogues on Truth and Knowledge were good, but I find Socrates quite annoying. Put to death for being a Troll before Trolls were invented. In the end in life and climbing I like to go by Alfred North Whiteheads conclusion in 'The function of Reason'.

Live, Live Well, Live Better

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by edshakey on Yesterday at 06:47:46 pm »

He even keeps the left hand on! Super impressive, nice one Max.

He mentions in the UKC article that it's been a long held dream to flash it, bit of a shame Adam got there first!

Well impressive given he hasn't done loads outside

Yeah it's amazing seeing comp climbers flashing a grade below their "maximum" - although, clearly, it wouldn't be their actual maximum if they spent some more time trying things.

Hope this bodes well for Budapest - Jim soloed an E7, maybe rock is the new comp training...