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Trump

climber
Jun 19, 2018 - 11:20am PT
Your life is your life, being what, and how, and why, your life is. There’s no objective measure of it that matters all that much, at least not to me.

But if you have a brain that’s telling you that your life is sad, that seems sad to me. Just don’t think it’s sad, and it’s not sad. This thinking thing is easy.

Being influenced by other people and what they think and how we feel about them, and how what we feel about them (and how their thinking is good or bad for us) affects how much we believe what they believe - having social emotionality affect our thinking - that’s a fool’s errand. Do that and you end up with me as your president. It’s easy to fix that. Just don’t do it.

Or do it, and see if you end up ruling the world. Or just observe whether other species and people do it and end up ruling the world. Best wishes either way.
Trump

climber
Jun 19, 2018 - 11:46am PT
Sure, and I responded to what you thought, too. Thanks, and you’re welcome. I agree - we do this posting thing because we get something out of doing it, for whatever reasons that is. If you like thinking and posting about it the way you like doing it, great! Me too.

Did you think I thought you were serious? I’ll let you manage your thinking and social emotions and jeezes around what you think of what I think.

The greater information always measures the lesser information, not the other way around. But we always think that we’re the ones who open our mouths and spot a fool, rather than the other way around. At least that keeps us opening our mouths.

And climbing. It’s just not so risky when we do it.
Trump

climber
Jun 19, 2018 - 12:40pm PT
Nicely done!

But me, I knew you were gonna say that, and now I just want everyone to know in retrospect - that’s just how prescient I am! But enough about me.
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California, now Ireland
Jun 19, 2018 - 01:11pm PT
Dwain, for once I find humor in that tired old photoshop image of yours, but come on, can you change the script, I'll send you more photos of me to alter. Hah hah.

Trump, gotcha, I understand. I think many of us find forums such as this fun, entertaining and a relief. Sometime I have taken it too seriously, and find that the joke is on me.

But, I do post under my own real name, and have not felt the need to post under a false handle, though as facetious as one may think it is. That is not a dig at you as such Trump, people post under avatars for their own reasons. Who am I to judge, and if I appear to judge, I do not mean to be sanctimonious.

I am just having fun. I live in the sticks, I opted out of Sky when Jennie went into the nursing home, as I do not need TV as such (DVDs, I have about 200 plus movies and get some from the library), and `I get my news online and from newspapers. I do not need TV channels, though sometimes for sports, documentaries and such, it can be handy, but expensive on a limited budget.

cheers

Patrick

And I still say that Messi is the better all around player than Ronaldo, but both are fantastic (especially Ronaldo's ego). As for climbing, who'd think somebody would free solo El Cap. Wow!

Pele, George Best, Messi (my biases). di Stefano, Puskas, Just Fontaine, Eusebio, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, the list goes on.

Climbing? Too many, too many. Norman Clyde, Warren Harding, Robbins, Lionel Terray, the indefatigable Fred Beckey, Smoke Blanchard (a mentor of mine), Gaston Rébuffat, Joe Brown, Bridwell, Herman Buhl, Reinhold Messner, the list goes on.

My two loves after Jen, firstly climbing, second football. Sailing a close third.

Trump, I am just here having fun, sometimes getting my pants in a twist, sometimes being obnoxious, and mainly enjoying the other Taco Standers stories, posts and threads, climbing or otherwise.

Paddy

BlahBlah (how apt) below (how apt)

It is not about soccer, football to most of the world, it is about forums. Don't you get it?

Of course you do not, or you would not have posted what you did.

I do not want to bump this thread unnecessarily that is why I posted to blahblah (how appropriate a handle ?) on this post instead of a new one. He is just looking for some sort of validation, IMO.

Why do I even try to get throughout to some brain-dead posters. What a futile exercise.
Trump

climber
Jun 19, 2018 - 01:46pm PT
Cool thanks for your thoughts.

Yea we wear different hats - we’re climbers and we’re posters. And underneath it all - always - humans.

When we’re posting, we’re wearing our poster hat, and it’s fun to observe, and participate, and try to understand, what we and others are doing when we post.

If we’re interested in what we do when we wear our climber hats, then we go, or watch, climbing.

The why and how of them both is just more information about us as humans, and that’s a fun thing to think about, at least for me.
blahblah

Gym climber
Boulder
Jun 19, 2018 - 02:26pm PT
There's another thread about the soccer tournament.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/441358/Why-soccer-ahem-FOOTBALL-is-the-greatest-sport-OT

You didn't need to start another OT thread. Probably should delete this thread and post on the existing one if you have something you'd like to say about soccer.
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