1a2bcio8

I deserve that I could attempt to explain but it would take some time which I don't have. What a cop out eh? Ahoy me harty. You are a prime example of my point; you don't wish to think any further than how it already is. That's upto you and I'm fine with it but I do wish to express my observation of it - regardless if I am wrong or right in that observation. If I were a hindu, I'd pay my finest respects to you.

Again, I will have to ask why? I still can't find a fixed basis for this 'right'. I'm sorry but words like 'right' and 'should' don't really do it for me. They seem metaphysical and thus nonsensical in reference the physical world. I can't find a 'right' or 'should' anywhere. Nothing, as far as I can tell, has a 'right' or no 'right'. I may be off the mark here but it's where I stand at the moment. Anything involving a justification ultimately ends in infinite regress. I guess you can get into a group and decide that you will react to something AS IF it has a right but I can't get any closer to 'rights' than that. Sorry if this is a bit patchy, I find it difficult territory. I'm not denying culture, just highlighting the fact we may blindly follow it. We may be so entrenched that we are effectively robots which our society has programmed to behave. Our conceptual reactions to external stimuli causing us to be behave in ways that were already decided. I am including myself in this Imagine a society with individuals that can be involved in culture but at the same time be aware of it's limitations so that they are able to ignore it when they see fit; that suggests to me the best of both worlds, group cohesion and individuality - admitedly my ideal. Consider the fact that sometimes society designates norms that contradict the desires of the individual to the detriment of individual happiness. We all have weird expressions in all sorts of ways but they get hidden, repressed or ignored because we are too busy behaving in the way we 'should' behave in such and such a context, completely unaware that we're doing so based on our social programming. I personally think we are whatever we are. Robot, individual, whatever. It's all well funny if you think about it. I do think, regarding the buddhist in me, that allowing your concepts to define your world will ultimately make you suffer. It's easy to think that they don't but I reckon they probably do. Entheogenic experience is supposed to be very similar to satori which basically means enlightenment. You might have been onto something with the shrooms The reason I practise meditation and yoga is it helps your remove all the programming of society, or supposedly so. Perhaps I'm just being indocrinated by another system There's certainly a f'load of dogma in whichever social group you involve yourself with. I feel I've wandered from my point. Too much thinking today.

Hoping to be there on sunday.

Ok fair enough, I shall puts things a bit differently. My point is that we all grow up in different societies. Within each society you'll find people behaving in a 'similar' fashion that is different from other societies. Therefore we can assume that each society, to some degree, is causing the differences of behaviour itself. In other words, society creates itself from what it already is - with somewhat of a deviation across time. For instance, you may have one society that loves and eats meat and one society that finds the eating of meat disgusting. It is most probable that the society has caused its members to think in the way of loving or hating meat. Neither society is 'right' or 'wrong', they are just different. In other words the society has constructed the thoughts and feelings of people contained within it. So each of us grows up in a society and that society gives us certain thoughts and feelings about things. The idea of 'law' or 'ownership' are two of those ideas. The ideas decribe how we 'should' or 'have' behave towards certain things in our environment. But the laws do not tell us how the environment is. The environment holds no laws. Nobody ever actually owns anything, they just say they do, or it is written down that they do. Other people can abide by that or ignore it. If you abide by that idea by saying "I shall not take such and such an item because there is a law that says I should not", then I call that being controlled by an idea. If instead you were to have a thought about something and you then said, "I will not take that item because the person who uses it might beat me up for doing so" or "I will not take that item because I do not want that person to feel bad about not being able to use it" then I consider that to be more likely a thought of your own; perhaps. It could always be that you're just repeating somebody elses thoughts on how they percieved the matter. Morals are another form of ideas that control the way we react to situations. It is the same if you are to say, "this is my 'country', I should be able to live here, but that other person who began their life in that other country should not be able to live here". The land mass that we currently reside on and that we call the UK would appear to me, to belong to no-one. We just say that it belongs to us, but the words or ideas are not the thing. Yet I think that most people who reside here think that this is their country and they do own it. You only own it in your mind, most probably because your society in the form of school, family, media etc. have all told you that you do. I think a more accurate thing to say in this regard is that 'you don't want those people to come to this land mass where you are currently living". I think that gets closer to the truth of things. I think that this sort of though will change the way you think about the material world. It becomes a lot more difficult to say "you can't come here" when you realise that the "here" is not yours. Additionally the word 'should' is very dodgy if you think about it. There is nothing in the material or physical world that says conscious behaviour 'should' do this or that. "I have a piece of paper that says I own this air! How dare you breath it!". If we all realised that concepts are arbitrary and don't have to mean anything to us as individuals and don't actually mean anything apart from us as individuals, the world might be a happier place, at least in some sense. Perhaps though we'd find anarchy. I don't know. Finally, I'm not saying laws are completely useless and that we should ignore them, that's upto you and not my concern; choose them if you so wish. The question is, are you choosing them yourself or just following your social programming? Are you viewing the world for how it is, or how your history is telling you to? Do you even care? If not, that's fine by me I'm not high today :wizard:

I think that perhaps you didn't understand what I said. You seem, in part, to have gone through the exact process I was trying to illuminate - unless perhaps I am talking poo. My point stands in opposition to preaching because it's basis is relativisitc which removes the absolutism which preaching is usually based upon. That's fair enough. I'm not going to tell people how to think or feel. I'm just expressing what I think is the actuality of material/physical things before we start projecting our intellect and abstractions onto them. One point I should have included is that you are not neccesarily hypnotise if you follow the cultural norms; that may just be your choice to follow them. I just happen to think it's more than like that you are hynotised/indoctrinated by your following of them. I'm including myself in that. There are so many behaviours that I inact each day without either a first or second thought. I believe them to be a result of the process of culturalisation in part with biological disposition. I do however think that if you are aware of what I speak of, you'll be less likely to denounce anyone that breaks or goes against those cultural/group/individul norms because you realise your justification is almost definitely arbitrary and relative. Rules seem like a whole different thing when you realise they are not absolute. Sorry Tomm, I only just noticed your reply. We're about to get into infinite regress. Why does payment of taxes result in ownership? Where is the justification for what you say other than in your own mind? You're making an assumption that a certain quality creates a result but how do you know? taxes = ownership. Why? If you respond to this with another conceptual justification, I will simply ask you "why?" again. This process can repeat and I think you'll never find a point where we stop. Think of a child and and their endless use of the word "why?".

Can someone prove to me that they own a 'land'? As far as I can tell nobody owns anything. Show me evidence otherwise and I will take off my trousers, put them on my head and start clapping. The abstract concepts we refer to that say 'ownership', 'law' etc. have no place other than in our heads. You cannot find 'ownership' or 'law' in that land mass or that shape we call a house. I've never seen 'ownership' or 'law' anywhere. Thus we are all hypnotised by the culture we grow up in; we are all sleepwalking, guided by that culture's conceptual suggestion. It would seem that no-one has anymore right than anyone else, predominantly because 'rights' don't seem to exist apart from in our minds. That 'illegal' individual whom began on another land mass is neither more entitled or less entitled to be here than any other person. You thinking otherwise is the sign of sleep. Well, half sleep.

It's Kid Spatula from his Meast album. Ecentric and upbeat electronica is the best description I can give. Be warned, if you listen to the album, you may well end up dancing around your room like a spazmodic mr. soft.

Cheers for comments. Joe - New vid out soon hopefully. This footage was the extras. I'm collecting more 'preferable' footage for the next one. Nick - See above. Jonny - I'm riding an ashton frame and I really like it. Chronically worried it's going to break though

Word up. New vid by myself bodged together last night. Needs tidying but I can't be bothered. Enjoy, perhaps. Ben. video, getabmx

Bah. One dodgy passport stamp and you're out? Not if I ran the country. Law above everyone and everything else! God save the law! Long live the marshmellows!

I dreamt my friend and I were scavaging material in an open back garden in the alley way behind my house. At which point I went around the corner to the play park for whatever reason. On trying to get back to my friend I encountered hundreds of half llama/half ostrich animals. At the front was their leader and he was smaller than the rest. I thought to myself, "the leaders are always the smallest". I knew they were going to try and kill me. They marched at and surrounded me. I knew I had to take out the leader to save myself. For some reason I had a spanner in my hand. I started swining, in that dream like slow motion, perpetually missing the leader until eventually I made contact. The leader looked as though I'd hurt his feelings and him and his army left me alone. I love randomness like that. I'm especially curious a dreams meaning. Supposedly your 'unconscious' or right hemisphere trying to tell you something.

Superb. Thanks chaps

Word up, I want to make my bike bar spinable and tail whipable. For my back brake I'm going to legnthen the cable but obviously for the front brake, I need to do something else. I've been told of starnuts and top caps that use wider threads for hollow bolts that you can thread a cable through. Is this true? If it is, where can I find them? If this is not true has anyone got any suggestions of what I can do? Thanks Ben.

I thought that was really good Sam. You surprised me with your music choice which I also enjoyed

Cheers for that. Really enjoyed it

blah blah blah blah blah. Much needed!

I didn't really enjoy that very much apart from a small portion of the camera angles.

I had a predjudice but it was wrong. I enjoyed that. Well done

Superb photo's Mike. You're almost making me want to get into photography.

My contract ran out. I'm currently without a mobile. I suggest the usage of e-mail of landline to contact me Cheers for comments chaps.

The link appears not to work? My bad. Works now. Quality vid. Some good moves going down

It's an ashton. I got it second hand for a bargain price. Be good to see you on a 24" James. I've decided I prefer them to bmx. I wasn't riding with old James. He doesn't really come out anymore. There are some other younger riders in Swindon now. I was out with them for day.

Got a 24" on Monday and took it out for a spin today. This is a very short video of of todays ride. I forgot to charge my camera battery otherwise it might be longer. 36 seconds. Youtube only I'm afraid. Edit: it claimed it was processed, however, it seemingly is not. Hopefully it will have sorted itself out soon

I think perhaps it is eastern culture which has influenced my thoughts on this; especially zen buddhism. The idea that you never begin living or dying. How do you define the beginning of a life? Existence seems like change to me; change thinging. Change has just thinged into my human form and it will thing out of that form. We end up with a difficulty, regarding our perception of 'life', from the fact that the rules of the word get confused with the seeming rules of existence. The word 'life' has a boarder that surrounds its meaning. Something is either life or it is not life. Yet this doesn't, I think, properlly describe the situation of the world and the things which we describe as living. In this sense, everything is life, just a differing form, relative to how it has thinged. In that sense we never die, we just change. The word also describes something static about what it refers to. Yet we are always changing, even when you describe something as a 'life'. Everything is better described by a verb rather than a noun. In that sense we are constantly dying and being reborn. I am not the person I was five years ago or even two minutes ago. In the sense of words, that person is dead. We are different life-forms in each moment. The words confuse the actuality of our situation. If we don't employ the words, we don't see life or death, just change. We also see ourselves as a part of everything else. Thus we are one and same. I'd like to reply to everyone but I don't have time I'm afraid. College work needs to be done and I could spend a long time discussing this. Cheers for all your replies though. You chaps gave me more to think about Yeh I agree with you on that Raub. I've yet to find other ambient that I have enjoyed quite to the same extent. Did you manage to check out Ten and Tracer; they're very much like BOC. If you know of other ambient groups I'd be well up for some suggestions?

Neither I'm afriad. My girlfriend is going to taxedermy me into some cool pose. Funnily enough she's actually away at the moment on a taxedermy course. I suggested that she place me in an attack position and attach loads of hairs to my body. I also like the idea of having my head attached to some plack in somebodies living room above the fireplace.