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shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

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

Quote from: BrutusTheBear on Today at 05:25:05 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"

shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

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

Quote from: seankenny on Today at 06:38:27 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'.

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by edshakey on Today 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!

Quote from: remus on Today at 06:39:38 pm

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...

shootin' the shit / Re: UK General Election 2024

« Last post by Oldmanmatt on Today at 06:43:23 pm »

Quote from: ToxicBilberry on Today at 06:09:34 pm

I thought appeals to authority were all the rage? People love an 'expert'

Have you re-read any of your own posts?
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I believe they’re a very mainstream, real, theory (not to be confused with MSM, which is the wrong kind of mainstream) and you cited so many experts and treatise in support…

Brutus, given your history, some of the things you have endured and watched others endure (I only know that little bit that I’ve heard in passing, since we knocked around different ends of the same community, though I don’t think we ever actually met) I’m not surprised at your anger at “the system”. But, do you not think that you’ve set up a bit of an echo chamber? Personally, I think ALL media (especially opinion based) requires a pinch of salt that would render the Dead Sea quite drinkable.

Who was it above that had the hard on for Centrists (tm)? Can’t be arsed to reread. Encouraging Centrists (tm) to your side of the divide is how you win elections. No win,no power, no change. You should love them, embrace them and then you can gently guide them to utopia. Sort of.

Abbot might very well be a very nice person, with admirable ideals and notions. She is also a gaff prone, lose cannon and widely known. There might be plenty of others, with similar views, but lower profiles, who avoid the purge (shouldn’t that make you happy?) but her deselection seems prudent. The “bad optics” are in the eyes of the deeper shades of red in the party, the optics to the population in general, much better.

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