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timy
Sport climber
Durango
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Oct 20, 2014 - 10:25am PT
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i have been trusting SuperTopo as a very valuable and precious repository for climbing history and news and philosophy by the best representatives of our sport...never mind the extra noise and controversy...
now this trust has been seriously violated
I agree. I come here to talk to climbers, not necessarily about climbing. Climbers are by nature passionate people and I like hearing it, whether I agree with their opinion or not.
I don't really care if someone flashed or didn't flash Freerider. It doesn't matter. Things that do matter are religion and politics. Topics such as the denial of climate change by religious freaks who are the ones shaping politics and policy are the topics that affect the whole.
Dr.F awesome!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 20, 2014 - 10:42am PT
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Several thousand of my posts disappeared with the erasure (as opposed to deletion) of Dr. F.'s threads. The way I see it, that leaves a whole lot of extra space for me to continue posting ad nauseum. So:
Death is nothing in comparison.
Death is nothing at all.
You won't experience it.
It's not part of living,
so it's not worth a second thought.
I'm curious about the empirical evidence to support this proposition.
John
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MH2
climber
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Oct 20, 2014 - 10:55am PT
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Words and thoughts are but leaves doomed to either decay or blow away in the wind.
If you live where I do you may need to clean them out of your gutters before doom overtakes them.
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Oct 20, 2014 - 11:41am PT
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There is much empirical evidence to indicate that (A) a living human body is required for consciousness. There is no verifiable evidence that (B) consciousness persists after the body is no longer alive.
Therefore, (A) is the most likely hypothesis at this time.
When someone produces scientific evidence for (B), I'll consider and weigh it against (A) accordingly.
That is all.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Oct 20, 2014 - 11:48am PT
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There is much empirical evidence to indicate that (A) a living human body is required for consciousness. There is no verifiable evidence that (B) consciousness persists after the body is no longer alive.
Don't we have to ask Werner about this kind of thing?
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Oct 20, 2014 - 12:14pm PT
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See ya at the crags bro! Where the real sh#t happens ;D
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 20, 2014 - 12:20pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Leave it to the f*#king religious to do something completely normal and everyday... like taking your kid out in the middle of the night to stomp the child to death screaming about demons inside the child while doing it...
just another day when god speaks to another human being....
(I say, the man made it all up and just wanted to kill a child, but that's just me, I'm no religious tw#t!)
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Oct 20, 2014 - 12:25pm PT
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Somewhere out there Ed Hartouni repeats his accurate assertion that anything posted here is ephemeral, though I'm sure there is some sort of corollary that the things you've written that you would most like to never have anyone see again will never disappear from this place.
This is a privately owned board, and the (rather mysterious) folks in charge can do whatever they please. If you piss off a capricious warlord sometimes heads roll. One may not like the moderation style or the opaqueness of the rules and process, but in the end the choice you have is to read/post here, or not.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 20, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
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This is not a sentence... and I cannot even begin to focus on anything written herein...
Yea well, within my finite imagined understanding.
 from this sentence, I could not read on... my mind stuck on this V11 boulder problem of grammar and vocabulary.
sorry... if you are trying to communicate in a meaning full way, please pay a little more attention to your thoughts and clearly aply them to the page....
Thanks and cheers
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Oct 20, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
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The question is what the admin is aiming for? I always thought it was number of hits, but looking at the front page now, what I see is a lot of threads with only 2 or 3 responses. The only one with lots still is the climate thread where people are still insulting each other as usual? Hard to figure. Meanwhile, I am spending several hours a day down loading my favorite historical threads lest the whole scene disappear.I suspect there will be several people who feel as Khanom does.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Oct 20, 2014 - 12:46pm PT
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Bummer Eric. I will miss your presence here..
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Oct 20, 2014 - 12:48pm PT
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Is it possible to delete individual comments after two weeks when the edit sign disappears?
Otherwise, one has to take out the whole thread?
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Oct 20, 2014 - 12:50pm PT
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Well he also posted hundreds of wonderful cactus photos that I wish I had downloaded. His mineral collection was great too.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Oct 20, 2014 - 12:53pm PT
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Words, like leaves, clog the gutters of the mind and cause thoughts to overflow into the yard.
CMac owns the rake is all.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Oct 20, 2014 - 01:23pm PT
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Sorry to see that you're leaving Eric. I'll certainly miss your contributions.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Oct 20, 2014 - 02:38pm PT
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And all we have left now is Science!
And science is either waiting for their Grant approval or too busy verifying the results.
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MikeL
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 20, 2014 - 03:33pm PT
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This is really pretty funny.
First of all the story from Dr. F. That’s hilarious (and sad). More of the absurdity of this world, I guess. (Isn’t everything just really WEIRD??)
Secondly, congrats to HFCS for now owning this thread!
Third, the thread seems to be a continuation. The break was just a hiccup. I guess Victor Hugo was right: “Not all the armies in the world can stop an idea whose time has come.” Apparently, the topic is an important topic.
Fourth, It’s the same people associated with the same content. Dogmatic diehards, it would seem.
Welcome and hiya, all!
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 20, 2014 - 04:14pm PT
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One for locker
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Why are anal beads sold in different colors when they always come out brown?
Edit: owning this thread!
He's up for it.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Oct 20, 2014 - 04:21pm PT
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I come here to talk to climbers, not necessarily about climbing (Timy)
For some younger climbers it may seem beyond the realms of possibility that arguments about placing bolts, speed record ascents, gear analysis, latest difficulty levels, etc. would ever lose their thrilling appeal and become pedestrian . . . but occasionally older climbers or ex-climbers would like to converse on other topics, and for that I appreciate Chris's forum. I, for one, would not be here if it were strictly climbing content. Also, I like the "wild west" approach for throwing everything into the same mix and allowing us to figure out at a glance what we are interested in, rather than placing threads in numerous folders. Just my 2 cents worth.
Thanx to HFCS for starting things up again.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 20, 2014 - 04:24pm PT
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^^^ +1+1+1 ^^^ +1+1+1 ^^^
the sentiment of the entire post is agreeable....
Thanks for speaking my mind for me
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