The dreadfully stultified pageantry of the British state has been on full display the last couple of days, all mouldy ermine, fraying gold braid and musty velvet. But forms which evolved as a vibrant display of Imperial might have transmuted into rituals of obeisance, as the nonogenerian Prince Philip stumbles behind the Chinese President along lines of men wearing decaying bears on their heads. The sickness of Britain’s monarchical system was never more bluntly revealed than by the rictus grins of the aristocratic clowns balancing their tiaras at the state banquet.
The Chinese are the imperial masters now. Cameron begs them to build a nuclear power station for which the British state guarantees it will pay double the market price for electricity produced, for twenty years. And a government which has just announced the extension of thought crime to the expression of non-violent or anti-violent thought deemed “extreme”, has no locus to talk about human rights, a concept at least as alien to Teresa May as it is to the Chinese Communist Party. Britain has its own war criminals like Blair and Straw running around, immune and very wealthy.
The British state is an immoral entity which I view with disgust. That is what drives for me the imperative to early Scottish Independence to be rid of it. Every day as a British citizen is like bathing in sewage.
You could call the sixth sense ‘intuition’, which is yet another notion bogged-down in bias…..male dominated bias. It’s not measured in IQ tests because….just because. Then again, difficult to measure, but some inroads toward identification should have taken place by now.
Yes, Anarchy is a much misunderstood term,
Ben-Outraged by the Cannabigots, ‘sixth sense’ is a good term to use.
I’m now off to a dinner party (where QM won’t be on the menu), but will try to respond later.
More silly talk Craig. I love living in the UK. The UK is coming to life. The China link is a good one for the UK. On the matter of Scottish independence you remain delusional. The Scots have collectively come of age. They have a much stronger sense of their national identity but they missed the boat on independence. That was a nineteenth century thing – when they were too busy building the Empire. Now it’s too late. The desire is there but the circumstances will never be right. Out the UK, out the EU, out of oil, out of pensions, out of a central bank – no way. It’s one thing to slag off Westminster, quite another to stick the boot into Manchester and Newcastle. Sturgeon says Scotland is the true northern powerhouse. The North of England will have none of that. They will want a border with Scotland and will want every power that Scotland has. The Scots are leading the way – but they will never step outside a door that slam shut behind them. There will never be a second referendum. This is all about a revitalised UK.
“You could call the sixth sense ‘intuition’, which is yet another notion bogged-down in bias…..male dominated bias. It’s not measured in IQ tests because….just because. Then again, difficult to measure, but some inroads toward identification should have taken place by now.”
There are a lot of senses I would put before intuition as candidate for number six. Out sense of hunger or thirst, pain, the sense of hot or cold, our sense of position in space there is a long list.
Today is St Crispin’s Day.
600 years ago we were slaughtering the French.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt
English Casualties and Losses
At least 112 dead, unknown wounded
French Casualties and Losses
7,000–10,000 (mostly killed) and about 1,500 noble prisoners
Dave, are you describing Total Freedom?
This is the sort of conversation your ex-colleague, David Bohm had with J Krishnamurti.
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-video/the-roots-of-psychological-disorder.php
The Ending of Time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dAyQ6mO6Os
A comment from someone who appears to be well informed.
‘Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Talk Talk, Martin Wykes, left earlier this year to take up position as Chief Executive Officer of the Police ICT company, a new company set up to save money on IT for Police Forces. Was he replaced or is IT at Talk Talk now reporting to Finance? Was he pushed or did he jump, following earlier security breaches at Talk Talk? Most importantly, is Police data in safe hands?’
From comments on
TalkTalk ‘knew of hacking risk A YEAR ago’: Company could ‘go out of business’ and lose £75million after millions of customers’ bank details were stolen in cyber attack
Firm faces potentially huge compensation bill after cyber attack last week
Expert says the loss of customers could put company out of business
The hackers behind the attack are allegedly demanding £80,000 ransom
Customers are angry that they face fines or charges for closing accounts
25 October 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3288533/TalkTalk-business-hacking-attack.html#
Dido Harding is said to be under threat of losing her job. Strange that Dunstone the chairman has been silent.
He was one of the signatories to this pre-election letter.
More than 100 business leaders sign letter backing Tories
Letter to Daily Telegraph from business chiefs praises George Osborne’s lowering of corporation tax and comes as Ed Miliband attacks zero-hours contracts
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/01/over-100-business-leaders-back-tories-change-in-course-risk-uk-economy
He is reputed to have personal wealth of £1.49bn.
He sponsored the Fulwood Academy,
http://www.fulwoodacademy.co.uk/about/our-academy-sponsor/
which was put into special measures.
http://blogpreston.co.uk/2015/07/fulwood-academy-is-taken-out-of-special-measures/
Ms Brooks is a governor and handed out the prizes. She helped the pupils set up their newspaper. No phone hacking training given we trust.
Brooks Fulwood Academy governor role questioned by NUT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-14082040
Those are not extra-sensory receptors, Fred. What is difficult to measure is things outside our earthly perceptions.
Good question from Kuenssberg. And not, I fear, the kind of question that would be allowed in China. <<
she is our neocon shill. all bow down to her indefatigability in chasing straw men.
It would be interesting to know how your obsession with Krisnamurti arose Villager.
I should say I dislike cults of all varieties.
http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/krishnamurti.html
David Bohm is mentioned.
Mary born out of my observation of your ignorance.
Have some crisps while it is St Crispins Day Mary, and stay in bliss. 😉
K was nobody’s guru, nor was/is there a ‘cult’ around him.
Yet he is one of the wisest men to have walked the planet in modern times.
Mary, what did/do you make of Bernard Levin? Here he is interviewing the ‘cult’ Leader. Watch this, then let’s talk>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1AvljMbU8c
“Those are not extra-sensory receptors, Fred. What is difficult to measure is things outside our earthly perceptions.”
But they are senses. Saying intuition is the sixth sense implies we only have five normal senses.
s/be Krishnamurti
That was a sharp and fast retort.
The happy clappy mask slipped and the real acid comes out. You are really a pretence.
I am not ignorant and people in glasshouses should never throw stones.
Yes I did say ‘senses’ but the context is their limited nature in our understanding of the Cosmos. A sense of hunger hardly reveals anything of that nature.
Now Mary you are a voracious researcher, except I wonder how much of the stuff you ost you read and form independent opinions on yourself.
I’ll throw you a gentle challenge: Which one single person living in modern times would you propose, in your opinion, was the wisest.
K figured out, via original thought practically every aspect of this 4-letter word we call L I F E. Unlike your tablet, we don’t come with ‘instruction manuals’ of how we should operate effectively and efficiently. So it is incumbent on each of us to figure it out for ourselves. In that, we don’t have to reinvent the wheel, but the most difficult part is to beyond simply appreciating something at an intellectual level. One needs to eventually and actually make it part of one’s self, ie write one’s own story, which also overlaps with the story of mankind.
I suspect all too much for you Mary, just as one know’s it is for one’s own mother!
Now, carry on.
Alcyone, J. Krishnamurti has written almost as many books as Barbara Cartland, only I hear hers have less of a yawn factor.
Even his mentor Charles Webster Leadbeater wrote over 69 books, no wonder Krishmurti is living in California, so would if I had the profits from the books, Mills and Boon eat your heart out.
The Theosophical society has a rather interesting seal.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Theosophicalseal.svg/150px-Theosophicalseal.svg.png
Such societies make you wonder if it isn’t all just a cash making scheme, afterall this on has split into three different societies after infighting led to a bust up.
Maybe it’s all in aid of selling more books.
Leslie
“I love living in the UK.”
Agreed. People are voting with their feet.
“Today is St Crispin’s Day.
600 years ago we were slaughtering the French.”
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Now Mary, we just slaughter the Libyan’s Iraqi’s, Afghani’s and Syrian’s, and any other defenceless country that’s ripe for asset stripping.
Mary, yours is an old tirade against Krishnamurti. I am not at all clear of your motive to discredit him, when it is entirely apparant you know little about his life and zilch about his work.
So please don’t play wounded-victim with me.
IF you are being serious for a change then stop being accusatory and emotional.
Villager I will decline your offer to ‘talk’. One I have really nothing more to say and two I am cooking supper for a couple of friends. No crisps will be provided. They do not feature on my shopping list.
St Crispin has nothing to do with crisps btw ;). He is the patron saint of shoe makers.
More mumbo jumbo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Crispin%27s_Day#Feast_day
Anon +1; seconded.
Wendy
“she is our neocon shill. all bow down to her indefatigability in chasing straw men./)”
Yes I do recall Laura K asked some tough questions of Scotch nats as she did Xi Jinping. In typical fashion, the Scotch nats thought this was unfair and decided that being asked awkward questions was evidence of media bias against them (the Scotch Nats of course long for a Chinese-style media).
“Mary is injustice seeking and virtue signalling from nearly 600 years ago now”
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Well I suppose it’s a refreshing change from those including Bibi bitching about how Israel was stolen from the chosen people thousands of years ago.
Change the record.
Leslie, nice comedy sketch. Re-vitalised UK? –right you are. Failed state gone rogue, with bells on. Scotland is already independent -Westminster is looking at military or false-flag terrorist options, sabotage, to keep their fascist grip on our country for the cold and calcualting short term, to extract and exploit what it can, from the people, from the mineral wealth and its agricultural and animal world, all thats left after 40 years of non-investment and asset stripping. Rapine slash and burn, now in blind panic as their multiple pyramid schemes and rackets, piled high, totter and must collapse; when the peoples’ patience finally snaps and when outraged justice moves at last to crush the villainous wretches behind this ‘United Kingdom’ to dust. There is an undemocratic world of raw untamed malignant power – the City, bankers, stockbrokers, corporations, the military and police the security services – in complete and utter control. PMs and Parliament, the whole delusional Westminster dream world you inhabit as you step into and through your wardrobe, are just insignificant parts of the entertainment industry, pier end comedians and novelty acts, playing to empty seats mostly and to two or three in soiled dirty macs at the back, playing with themselves, you amongst them.
When the Ravenscraig complex, built at tremendous expense, as viable, by the private sector, not the state, closed the quality of the Welsh produced steel substituted was found inadequate, intolerably poor in comparision, by many big international and domestic customers and with no improvement that custom was lost to foreign competitors.
I hardly need mention again that wholesale privatisation (first of BP) was started by Labour, not the Tories and was an imperative of the un-needed IMF loan Labour took in 1976. Westminster Labour or Tory is grievously harmful to Scotland (and much of the rest of Britain), by design, by intention, not by accident, chance or monumental incompetence.
Mary
I remember an old Charlie Chaplin movie where he had stewed his boots and rolled the laces with his fork like spaghetti. LOL
So, whats cooking Mary? Tell us after….
Mine is stir fried vegetables in garlic sauce, including chinese cabbage and bamboo shoots and a couple of spoons of chiken in blackbean sauce. No rice, no carbs. Am trying to lose 5 kilos, besides I am ill with chest-infection like symptoms though i know the cause is that i got exposure to chill the other day, from offering my coat to a friend while we sat outside and enjoyed a capuccino. Btw, rice is not good for one when one has chest congestion.
Returning to the Theosopical Society.
In 1911, the Theosophical Society established the Order of the Star in the East (OSE) to prepare the world for the expected appearance of the World Teacher.
Aren’t these cults always waiting on something or someone, who’ll herald a new dawn, meawhile just keep paying your due’s and when the time comes you’ll be justly rewarded.
Mind you the Theosopical Society sounds a lot like the British government, promising something they can never deliver.
Shlomo is carrying out a slo mo genocide of the Palestinians, very soon every Palestinian will have to pass a checkpoint to go to the loo. Its in the last chapter of the Bantustan Theory booklet Regev and the South African apartheid jews have emigrated to Israel with.
God help the Palestinians from the devils who are taking over their olive farms and oppressing them, one square inch at a time. Thank you for your concern Mary.
“There are a lot of senses I would put before intuition as candidate for number six. Out sense of hunger or thirst, pain, the sense of hot or cold, our sense of position in space there is a long list.”
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Well Fred, having the sense to read a link isn’t one them is it.
Our position in space says Fred, is that outerspace Fred, do you mean you can sense just how far away from Andromeda you are, turn left at Halleys Comet first left by the Kyper Belt.