aaron r said:Hi Divide by Zero, I suggest you look up the meaning of, "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king".
Why not just say what the meaning is here instead of making him go look it up? Being cryptic isn't helpful to anyone.
aaron r said:Hi Divide by Zero, I suggest you look up the meaning of, "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king".
I'm actually glad he didn't totally capitulate on his views just because Laura and Joe said so - that wouldn't show much warriorship :P
aaron r said:I don't feel this man is what he purports to be. That is, a spiritual master. He comes across New Agey to me. I thought he was appealing to people's ego to sell the book. He just did not seem to be able to answer Laura's questions and virtually contradicted himself on Putin. Anyway it topped it off for me when he is asking for money and has not finished the book. I think the man is a bit down on his luck.
Freya said:Stefan is on to something. His thoughts on community, self sustaining and life promoting. His understanding that if we allow ourselves to continue on this path that has been paved by psychopaths in power that suck our resources, our life blood and any vestige of 'warrior-ship' that is inherent to the human spirit we will all loose. We will loose ourselves, our commonality, our purpose for even being here.
Carl said:Keit said:I think he was a courteous and polite guest, but it didn't quite disguise his real opinion of Mr. Putin. ;) Notice how he concentrated only on Putin's outward characteristics of a warrior, as if saying that it is all a facade. Unless he simply wasn't able to recognize more than that.
But then, he is entitled to his own opinion.
He said himself that he doesn't pay much attention to the news. The only reason we have a good idea what is really going on with Putin is because we pay a lot of attention to the news (and as Joe retorted, read between the lines). It's not really his area of interest or expertise and his interest is more along the lines of personal and small-community development. So I would just take it as it is.
I'm actually glad he didn't totally capitulate on his views just because Laura and Joe said so - that wouldn't show much warriorship :P
a person who shows or has shown great vigor, courage, or aggressiveness, as in politics or athletics.
Word Origin
C13: from Old Northern French werreieor, from werre war
LQB said:Freya said:Stefan is on to something. His thoughts on community, self sustaining and life promoting. His understanding that if we allow ourselves to continue on this path that has been paved by psychopaths in power that suck our resources, our life blood and any vestige of 'warrior-ship' that is inherent to the human spirit we will all loose. We will loose ourselves, our commonality, our purpose for even being here.
Well said Freya - thanks. :)
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.
There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination
they produce more hues than can ever been seen.
There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of
them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Two Russian railroad security officers snatched a young child from an almost certain death, pulling the minor away from an oncoming train as the toddler walked unaccompanied on rail tracks. Their heroic leap to save the child was captured on CCTV.
Footage of the incident which happened on Saturday in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region near Ashe train station shows a young child walking along tracks without any supervision. The child appears to freeze after seeing an oncoming cargo train traveling along the line.
Staring death in the face and unable to move, the child is then suddenly swooped off his feet, by one of the two rescuers from the railroad security, that by a small chance of fate departed to patrol their segment just a few minutes earlier than usual.
Speaking to Russian tabloid LifeNews one of the rescuers, Arseny Ghazarian, explained that the incident happened near a popular camp site, which constantly sees vacationers crossing the rail tracks illegally.
He explained that on Saturday, he and his partner went on patrol at 4:56pm local time, before noticing a child a minute later.
“We went on the route, saw a child, ran, and barely made it,” 57-year-old Ghazarian explained. “The most important thing is that the child's life was saved.”
Can you imagine, no mother, no father, no one was there,” Ghazarian continued. “I ran so fast as never before in my life.”
As he tried to cover the distance of “some 130 meters” he and his partner also signaled the train to stop. The train slammed on its brakes and began honking, making the child scared and unable to move.
Dashing with all his might, Ghazarian fell about 20 meters away from the child, but the adrenaline rush forced the security guard to continue his strive to save the toddler, whom he managed to grab just as about the train came to a stop at the spot where the youngster stood.
“I cursed myself, when I fell – because of me, old fool, a child could have died,” Ghazarian said.
He explained that after some time the child's “drunken” mother appeared and took the toddler, who had suffered no injuries after the miraculous escape.