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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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May 26, 2016 - 06:15pm PT
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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May 26, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
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"This being human is a guest house, be grateful for whoever comes." Rumi
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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May 28, 2016 - 08:16am PT
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re: "legal fiction"
"A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts which is then used in order to apply a legal rule. Typically, a legal fiction allows the court to ignore a fact that would prevent it from exercising its jurisdiction, by simply assuming that the fact is different."
"The term legal fiction is not usually used in a pejorative way, and has been likened to scaffolding around a building under construction."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_fiction
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"I hate double standards!!! Some girl gets a vibrator and it's seen as a bit of naughty fun, but when I ordered my 240Volt FuccMaster Pro5000 blowup latex doll with 6 speed revolving pussy, elasticated anus with imitation sh#t dribble and breast nipple discharge, non-drip semen collection tray, together with optional built in realistic rape scream sound system, I'm apparently a dirty fuccin pervert!!" -Smith
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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“We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.”
Watt
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.”
What? yes, Watt...
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"Sometimes I wonder if common sense is actually uncommon in the land. Maybe it's a rare commodity to be cultivated & cherished." -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movement of water... - still all is beauty!" John Muir
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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"There's two things in this world that more than anything else make me wonder:
The stars above me...
and the moral law inside me..."
As I remember Zapffe...
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perswig
climber
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please
Whose epitaph?
Dale
(edit for spelling, I'm embarrassed to say)
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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The Faerie Queene is the most extended and extensive meditation on sex in the history of poetry. It charts the entire erotic spectrum, a great chain of being rising from matter to spirit, from the coarsest lust to chastity and romantic idealism. The poem’s themes of sex and politics are parallel: the psyche, like society, must be disciplined by good government. Spenser agrees with the classical and Christian philosophers on the primacy of reason over animal appetites. He looks forward to the Romantic poets, however, in the way that he shows the sex impulse as ultimately daemonic and barbaric, breeding witches and sorcerers of evil allure. Like the Odyssey, The Faerie Queene is a heroic epic in which the masculine must evade female traps or delays.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jun 17, 2016 - 06:26am PT
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"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed."
Blaise Pascal
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re: consciousness, sentience
"I feel therefore I am conscious." -hfcs
Only two hits at google right now. Surprised how low the number. So I wanted to add my name to the roster.
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re: the new global empire
"As of 2014, the world is still politically fragmented, but states are fast losing their independence. Not one of them is really able to execute independent economic policies, to declare and wage wars as it pleases, or even to run its own internal affairs as it sees fit. States are increasingly open to the machinations of global markets, to the interference of global companies and NGOs, and to the supervision of global public opinion and the international judicial system. States are obliged to conform to global standards of financial behaviour, environmental policy and justice. Immensely powerful currents of capital, labour and information turn and shape the world, with a growing disregard for the borders and opinions of states."
"The global empire being forged before our eyes is not governed by any particular state or ethnic group. Much like the Late Roman Empire, it is ruled by a multi-ethnic elite, and is held together by a common culture and common interests. Throughout the world, more and more entrepreneurs, engineers, experts, scholars, lawyers and managers are called to join the empire. They must ponder whether to answer the imperial call or to remain loyal to their state and their people. More and more choose the empire."
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Harari
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" The Universe doesn't have a purpose, free will is an illusion, and quantum physics is beautiful. Now you know me." Jim Al-Khalili... physicist, author, broadcaster and humanist --
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perswig
climber
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Jul 16, 2016 - 07:18am PT
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...I felt a little like a dying clown, with a streak of Rin Tin Tin...
What he said.
Dale
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Jul 16, 2016 - 10:17pm PT
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Adventurer
Mountain climber
Virginia
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Jul 17, 2016 - 03:20am PT
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"When you travel, if you avoid the people, reject the food, and fear the religion, then you might as well stay home."
"Parental success is not measured by what parents are able to do for their children, but rather by what children grow up able to do for themselves."
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perswig
climber
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Jul 24, 2016 - 04:13am PT
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It’s as if someone decided to outlaw ducks and beavers and nature said, “Piss off. Behold the platypus.”
Dale
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jul 25, 2016 - 06:29pm PT
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Who doth molest my contemplation?
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jul 30, 2016 - 08:12pm PT
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"There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket." — Will Rogers
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 16, 2016 - 07:46am PT
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You can't help but compare yourself against the old-timers.
Can't help but wonder how they'd have operated in these times.
--Sheriff Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 22, 2016 - 03:05pm PT
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"We rise and fall to the level of our training."
-adapted from Archilochus
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"As long as you're trending in the right direction, it doesn't matter if you're losing."
-Tim Ferriss, the monkey mind episode
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What are your tips for developing mental toughness?
Eliminate any types of excuses or "outs." Don't think, just do. And when it gets painful, focus on little chunks. -Amelia Boone
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