GrandmasterP

Anybody who eats red meat most days in the UK must be pretty rich IMO. Lamb in Tesco supermarket last week was on at £18 a kilo! Our bought- in food for a whole week costs less than £30 not counting the dogs. New puppy is on fresh raw minced beef at the moment cos that's what the breeder fed hence I have been at the butcher counter this last three weeks . Even that costs an arm and a leg. £7 a kilo for the good stuff that isn't mostly fat. We're slowly weaning puppy off mince beef and on to fish and chicken with her biscuits. Red meat is a total rip off price-wise IMO.

How kind. Thank you. Is s/he Chen Xi Yi ( hermit) lineage by any chance? That's proscription number 27 on that foolish list BTW. We do all tend to say similar things.

The Rinzai Zennists go in for whacking. Story goes that at Mount Baldy Zen Centre ( Leonard Cohen's place) there was a retreat and the whacking guy was patrolling the zazenners who were sitting alongside the regular monks in the zendo. Whacking guy goes up to one sitting monk. Monk takes off his bib and bows to whacking guy who then whacks the monk's shoulders, bows and moves on to a retreatant just down the line and stands in front of him. Retreat dude stands up, punches the whacking guy hard in the mouth and walks out. Now that's true Zen comrades.

Not a happy lass.

Somebody's craving for beef-burgers.

Taoism and Agnosticism here. That's a very short list though. My underpinning professional philosophy and the approach that I tend to teach on and from is ' Neo-Pragmatic Constructivism' and that's not even on the list. Why not 'Existentialism' either? That's one of the major players.

I love that ' grocer's apostrophe'. Saw this one yesterday outside a shop in town..... " Lettuce's 35p"

I don't eat red meat. Never got a taste for it as we didn't have it when I was a kid. Fish and Chicken will provide all the protein anyone needs. Vegans probably need to take supplements. There'd be a tad less arguing in the world if everybody just ate whatever they liked eating and shut up boasting that their 'diet' of preference is somehow better than someone else's diet of preference ( it isn't). It's just 'dinner'. Enjoy your dinner.

Well there's you Brian. Plus BKA. MH. Me Quite a few of us 'immortals' on here. None of the MoPai boosters sadly, those sad saps are well and truly lost thus far along their journeys. On topic though and re that windy OP from our Russian chum. It possibly suffers in translation but the overall tone of it tends towards triumphalism. Triumphalism might appeal to the Slavic mindset (audience) as they've not had much in the way of triumph this many years past. Our Russian chum's 'guru', or whoever is pushing that material to the Russians is following a well trodden path. 1: Delineate and define what it is you are NOT ( i.e.are 'better than'). 2: Sell your own schtick to the poor bleddy Russians who are shivering in damp and unheated concrete apartments awaiting a better tomorrow. People gotta hope so 'hope merchants' are seldom short of customers. That OP is a faux Taoist " Jehovah Witness- style" tract, nothing more and with just as much value.

Good call. Through a Bayesian lens maybe you take an objectivist approach and our chum the subjectivist. That perhaps won't get us very far though as not everyone understands Bayesian praxes.

But you definitely typed that message and I definitely just read it in the same way that you are really ( in a practical sense) reading this response now.Whatever you believe to be the case, by your own clear definition of terms ; cannot actually be the case hence what we have and all we have is this reality ( fictive or otherwise) within which we all live, move and have our being. That's the reality wherein empirical events are replicable and measurable, the boiling point of water for one example. That is Ralis' point as it is, and must be, by your own definition; your own conclusion. If you can't yet apprehend your own logical conclusion then you've gotten a bit lost along the journey so far. Think it through buddy and take your time. If you cannot see this I'll not labour the point but it is a pretty simple point. Phenomena 'are' and 'is-ness' just 'is'- irrespective of what any of us choose to believe.

But you've already agreed with Ralis asun.... You said that.... " there is a conventional (objective) reality, which is valid in its nominal application".... which is exactly the same as what Ralis is saying. Your rider that.... " however ultimately there is no inherent objective reality (nor any sort of reality)." Must be self-referentially correct as well. Break it down to cases using one of Ralis' analogies and you have admitted that...( as an example) There is such a thing as basalt albeit that I think it's nothing. Or one of mine... " Asunthatneversets believes his argument, as made; to be valid at the time of typing. That said, he does know that what he has typed is inherently nothing." It all makes perfect sense as Ralis keeps on explaining to you. You are of the same mind and making exactly the same claims that Ralis is making

Gaelic-- Story Telling

It's a direct quote from a report is that second para. I'm not so sure it's right as such, managers have to justify their existence and 'who pays the piper calls the tune'. He does seem to be advocating a Laissez Faire ( leave it alone) leadership style though IMO. Not so sure he might be described as an anarchist in the sense we know anarchism ( Kropotkin et al ) as he implies rulership albeit a 'hands off' ruler. If he had been an anarchist we'd likely not have had any Chapters or verses at all to discuss. All we'd have would be agendas for and minutes of meetings. Anarchists like meetings.

Lecker

"It is hard to understand nothing. But the multiverse is full of it." ( Terry Pratchett)

Fair enough this was written by management psychologists paid for by management but it does sorta define the 'leadership style' mooted in those first four lines..... "Laissez-faire leadership, also known as delegative leadership, is a type of leadership style in which leaders are hands-off and allow group members to make the decisions. Researchers have found that this is generally the leadership style that leads to the lowest productivity among group members."

Might those Japanese characters say......? " Warning! May contain nuts."

Off topic this but here goes. True topical tale. We moved here in December 2005 and now we're packing ready to move again. Tip runs most days with junk and last Friday I finally cleared out the garage only to find a cardboard box under a workbench still taped up and unpacked since we moved in here. It has photo albums in it and Mrs GMP decrees that it is coming with us to the new house.

Quite a few folks cultivate on beaches of a morning. That's my only public venue when we are at the seaside. Here I cultivate in our garden unless it is raining so no audience as such. Here in Leicester there's a public park where ( mainly Chinese) people play TaiChi. I doubt that you'd encounter anything beyond polite interest as long as you weren't in anyone's way.

It must be bed time. That actually made sense .

Very wise too. Have you seen what we wore back in the eighties! Light that bonfire bro.

He's left handed ( check out that cosmic mudra) and black. Go figure.

I'll have the toast and marmalade then. Breakfast being ( IMO) the most important meal of the day.

Whenever our lads brought home a new girlfriend for tea Mrs GMP would dig out the family albums to show the lass the baby and growing up photos. You can imagine just how much our lads enjoyed that. Our youngest lad took to hiding the album.