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- Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:58 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: RUTH KELLY CONFIRMS POLICE INVESTIGATING ST. JAMES
- Replies: 47
- Views: 63627
FT I think you're both right and wrong. Philosophy does not mean you are without principles or beliefs. Plato believed in God, reincarnation and (perhaps against his own inclinations) condemned homosexuality ... but nobody says he isn't a philosopher. The point about philosophy is that you are prepa...
- Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:34 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: RUTH KELLY CONFIRMS POLICE INVESTIGATING ST. JAMES
- Replies: 47
- Views: 63627
- Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:20 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: WATCH CHANNEL 4 NEWS TONIGHT AT 7.00PM (TUESDAY 14TH MARCH)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 62932
- Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:04 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: RUTH KELLY CONFIRMS POLICE INVESTIGATING ST. JAMES
- Replies: 47
- Views: 63627
Chris It's nice to hear what you have to say. I think there is a growing appreciation that it's necessary to find reasonable win-win proposals to go forward. Trying to destroy the SES won't work because so many of us value and love what it has done for us, AND we know that it's no longer doing the e...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:27 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Much Ado About Not Much, My Post & The Current Pupil's V
- Replies: 30
- Views: 43190
I'm glad we all seem to be agreeing on so much. At the end of the day it's not rocket science - there are plenty of models to follow if St James wants to become fully accepted as part of society. It seems now that the only question is, what will the powers-that-be do? Will they take some positive st...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:12 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Much Ado About Not Much, My Post & The Current Pupil's V
- Replies: 30
- Views: 43190
Snowman Too right. All that you suggest is reasonable and fair. So long as the SES believes in a distinction between 'us' and 'the world' (shakes head disbelievingly) it is going to be a slow process getting there, because subconsciously 'the world' (that is anyone not 'in School') is opposed to The...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:43 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Much Ado About Not Much, My Post & The Current Pupil's V
- Replies: 30
- Views: 43190
Keir Great post. Absolutely. Wandering minds is bang on. My memory of a similar saying: "He who says he knows, knows not. He who says he knows not, knows not." There are a lot of stories in the ancient traditions where the person who sets out to tell someone else something suddenly realises he hasn'...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:31 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Much Ado About Not Much, My Post & The Current Pupil's V
- Replies: 30
- Views: 43190
Hey Sam I've got to say you have my sympathy. Being regarded as a cult victim isn't easy. Good for you for standing up for your school. None of this reflects on you as a person in any way, so don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Arguably it's different for an adult SES member like me who ...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:25 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: An SES member says: it's time for an SES apology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 102368
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:50 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: An SES member says: it's time for an SES apology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 102368
Anton Nice one, Sancho! Well, I for one am happy to leave the Sanskrit to others - but in this case I wasn't drawing on any mystical significance. We don't have to look any further than the heart to find the cause and location of all the problems here. As the second half of your post amply illustrat...
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:51 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: An SES member says: it's time for an SES apology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 102368
FT I think the way being made a tutor affects someone depends on the person, like anything else. Above all, it depends on how secure they are. Maybe, also, things were more extreme in some of the overseas branches than in the UK. I bet you got everything in spades. My own experience over 2 decades, ...
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:03 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: An SES member says: it's time for an SES apology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 102368
Free Thinker Thanks for that. As for Anton ... I can't dislike anyone who's so creative with his insults! I find the number of evil people in the world decreases as you get to know more of them. I shouldn't really have got into personalities. But I would have to say Lambie is not someone who fantasi...
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:34 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: An SES member says: it's time for an SES apology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 102368
Anton I just saw your PS. I REALLY don't want to get into an argument about Sanskrit. My Sanskrit is poor, it was just a whim really. But since you've raised it again, I will explain what I believe it means. chitta can mean mind but usually means the heart. Mind would normally be manas or buddhi (I ...
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:14 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: An SES member says: it's time for an SES apology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 102368
Anton, We may consider ourselves mutually rebuked then ... But I have to take issue with your latest post, which makes an assumption as to my naivety (and now portrays me not as a quixotic knight but as a pawn). I think I preferred being a knight. But I suppose you are one horse up on me there. I'm ...
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:04 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: An SES member says: it's time for an SES apology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 102368
Anton Ha ha! What a fantastically rude posting. I'm an emotionless android. I'm an immature baby. I'm an ever-so-Anglo-Saxon knight with poofter tendencies who dissolves into a puddle of piss when he gets a whiff of Aussie true grit. Wooah! Strewth! Remind me who's playing the colonial card here? Lo...