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thanks!

isn't this the cross for the soccer players?

if I only knew what soccer means ...

I'll take your smart-ass comment as a lame attempt at humor. Yes, I'm quite aware that all you non-Americans call SOCCER...futbol. Us dumb Americans and our cultural imperialism...tsk tsk. Or could it be that over here we have an enormously popular sport with the exact same pronunciation...and thus created a new name to avoid confusion?

 

It looks like the cross dedicated to the SOCCER players depicted in that movie "Alive". I know, once again...dumb Americans portraying the tragic events over the Andes mountains...how dare they.

> futbol.

sorry, look, I live in the mountains and here nobody plays football. there's simply not a single large enough horizontal field suited for that "sport". ... they play "petanque" (which needs only small level fields) tossing steel balls bigger than the volume of the player's neocortex.

after e.g. formula-one, I find "le foot", as the french pronounce it, is the most decivilized, decultivized, and degenerated sport. it almost beats the niveau of the gladiators' "sport" in the roman arenas or that of Cicero who ordered to chase foxes, with burning torches attached to them, into these arenas - only for the amusement of the masses - in order to profit from the glorious rewards of democracy: majority, the big benefactor of humankind.¹)in the 20th century there even was a "football war" in southern america. (see the book by Kapuzinski with the same title.)

> cultural imperialism...

sounds like a contradiction in terms; reminds me of Marx's pathological expressions like "expropriation of the expropriators" or "dictatorship of the proletoriat." I liked very much when soviet union called the western ideology "imperialism" when the huge size of the soviet union was the result of their own imperialism. (by the way, they never got it that capitalism is not an ideology.)

> It looks like the cross dedicated to the SOCCER players depicted in that movie "Alive".

although I'm neither fond of foot nor movies, it is possible that I've read the corresponding book and can finally imagine what you were talking about, although I do not remember anything about a cross in the story I have in mind. did you mean the plane that crashed into the snow and where they had to eat all except the bones of ...?

thanks for your comment!

best

g dii

¹) "One important fact is the accession of the masses to complete social power. As the masses, by definition, neither should nor can direct their own personal existence, and still less rule society in general, this fact means that actually Europe is suffering from the greatest crisis that afflict peoples, nations, and civilisation."

Quote from Jos頏rtega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (Le Rebeli�n de las Masas), 1930, reissued 1993.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing...

 

Yes...they became cannibals. It's tragic, and an amazing story of survival too.

 

Cultural Imperialism merely implies that one culture(ie. american) takes a dominant stance and simultaneously disregards any other cultures wherever and whomever they may be. It is simply a term like any other.

 

 

Since they show it at the top of a mountain at the end of the film in a dramatic "flyby" sequence, while Ave Maria plays, one is led to believe that the two are linked somehow.

don't know what culture you are talking about while you also mention dominance.guess we use a different vocabulary. if some nation is a leader in continually degrading culture in general, I'd not talk about dominance. while there are also leaders in destruction, the word leader generally has a positive connotation denominating those who create. the same goes for dominance. nobody can be proud of dominance at least not in a negative way, - in addition to the fact that proudness is a sin, - not only in Buddhism.

what concerns the reasons of the ongoing destruction of culture which by the way already started with Martin Luther as Heinrich Heine explained, I'd recommend to read a recent book: African Revenge, although the author is adhering to Herbert Spencer, which is not my cup of tea, - nor Darwin for that matter - the book nevertheless presents an interesting theory.

Ohhhh...

 

I finally understand the confusion.

 

This is a photography forum known as "Photo.net". I think you might be looking for a forum known as "PompousNarcissist.net". It's where everybody who's anybody goes to needlessly pontificate on all the books they've read or are going to read in a vain attempt at bolstering their own pseudo-self esteems.

 

You might consider joining...it's free and right up your "alley". Yes...it's in quotes because I'm sure your next Tolstoy-esque entry will inform us all how you've never heard of such a thing as an alley.

 

Have you considered getting over yourself?

still don't see any relations between the above cross (or crosses in general) and soccer; maybe a pantheist could; only they wrongly believe "all is God," which is wrong, because "God is all," - as Heinrich Heine wrote.

Thanks by the way for your comment on the photo of a stone I found; you delivered another proof that the critique reveals more about the critiqueur than about the object being critizied.

p.s.: I've read the books I'm talking about ... and more.

First of all: never ever stop taking your meds without your doctors' permission, because I quite clearly explain (in the 2nd post) the possible connection between soccer and the actual picture you have posted...not "crosses"....and...your first comment is so out in left field, out-of-context that I think you may need a search party to get back to Earth. Again with the Heinrich Heine quote...did you two date at one time or what?

 

And thank YOU for posting THIS ridiculous exercise in narcissism as total and unequivical proof of my last statement.

 

 

P.S. That, my dear Watson is precisely the problem. Try putting DOWN the books filled with OTHER peoples' thoughts and...go outside. Take a long walk in the sunshine. Breathe in the air. Come up from your mothers' basement and live a little...throw a frisbee. By an ice-cream cone(google it...we'll wait).

 

But most importantly...try thinking for yourself for a change...without quoting Mr. Heine or Rudolf Steiner or Plato or Elvis even. It will hurt your head at first but I promise this goes away with practice and what's more...the rewards are life-changing and profound.

 

Good luck.

thank you for you continued interest in talking to a narcist, who's nothing more than a poor tool of Ahriman.

1. I'm still convinced that soccer and cross are mutual exclusive, no matter where the association came from - and it didn't come from above.

2. before talking about thinking it is necessary to know how we form thoughts and then you'll see that thinking is personality free. narcism doesn't fit in if you discuss with an independent thinker.

3. you can read the thesis in philosophy by Rudolf Steiner (1892) if you want to learn more about a spiritual activity called thinking. "most people will never get it" as Charlie uses to say, who is without any doubt at least as smart as yourself, but that leaves hope for a few - and maybe Charlie got it - at least he derives a lot of fun from his intellectualism; in contrast to many others he praises by name and critiques only by group; one of his most important opinions, which is often overlooked by the masses, is that the masses are not a little bit stupid but massively stupid, but nobody has any interested in saying so."

back to Rudolf; it would be better to read his thesis in german, but maybe the english translation might help those who can't read german but understand the 2nd most cultural dominant language of the world (the 1st being chineese, - if numbers count), english.

by the way, there are 3 sentences in Steiner's thesis which you could explain to me once you've read it.

Thank you in advance and bon courage - as the Frogs say!