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The wounds inflicted by the enemy in futile wars
Are flaunted by the soldier as a prize.
So in the high endeavour, for so great a thing,
Why should I be dismayed by hurt or injury?

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Gurus saying the west not had the conceptual vocabulary to translate Chandrakirti prior to Wittgenstein though . . .

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Child, I never had a problem w the plural but if someone referred to me as a child when I was lil i kicked off . . .

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I've hated that word since I was one . . .

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All stems from the tendency of people to get on w those they interact w regularly . . .

Put people in a "closedish" system and they start to cooperate . . .

All that deliberate missing target in trenches etc . . .

Of course that can be manipulated tho . . .

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Makes the smugglers having a drink w the police seem positively civilised . . .

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Yup, it the lovey dovey, faith and devotion buddhists doing that sort of thing . . .

I more the other sort, gimme insight and let me put a bomb under samsara . . .

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Wittgenstein would say we are playing two different language games with the "british isles". I'm merely applying a label to an archipelago but Foucault would say you are using the internalised power structures of colonisation to colonise yourself . . .

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So let me get this straight . . . .

Wittgenstein wrote a load of bollocks and was hailed as a genius . . .

Then he refuted his bollocks and was hailed as an even greater genius . . .

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Whereas in the uk social services running round taking peoples kids then going home to the husband who has been cooking crack and shagging teenage girls all day . . . .

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You should carry sugar lumps or sugar sandwiches for the horse . . .

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Morning Ash,

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i not a cabbage buddhist . . .

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The translating chick is sooo cute . . .

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So on the one hand you deny the narrative construction of reality (as archipelagos, islands and rivers exist) and on the other hand embrace it (in the case of power structures)

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I'm a fan of James Clavell's books and seen this a few times . . .

Dunno where it from, watching on some dodgy streaming site, it's a 10 part series. . . .

a panda bear eating popcorn from a bucket ALT: a panda bear eating popcorn from a bucket

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Shogun . . .

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Evening . . .

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I want a nap . . .

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Self cherishing arises from the belief that there is a boundary where I stop and you start . . .

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You need to read Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers

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Life in samsara is not easy . . .

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Maybe you need shinrin-yoku wellness nature pampering retreat . . .

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Quote from Karate Kid . . .

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I'd of thought it's just the product of high population density and a lot of city living in japan . . .

Interesting to note also is the way the article casts humans and the environments they create as separate from nature. Beaver dams = natural / cities = unnatural.

YouTube video by KLF The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North (Official Video)

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It's Grim Up North . . .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XL...

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Good afternoon Ash, can i stop hiding from trick or treaters yet . . .

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain

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Good morning @mcmgoptimist.bsky.social @fumingsouffle.bsky.social

Apparently we need to connect to nature more . . .
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What your saying is there is no geography separate from the political power structures through which it is viewed.

However i think for a lot of people on the big island those political power structures are very different from your own so they don't overlay the same politics on the geography.