Rayvin

Ok thanks, was just gonna post a fairly confused response. I thought your other point about Islam and democracy was interesting though; Indonesia is the closest we get. Although they're technically secular, they have a very large Muslim majority. That's probably something all Islamic countries could aspire to over time.

Oh dear. You'd think a simple bit of Googling...

Started watching this off the back of these comments. Am hooked.

...Yeah I have to read some of this It's willful ignorance otherwise. Thanks lads.

Yeah he's hard work actually, on the reading front. I keep having to stop to look up terms and so on. I'll get there eventually.

I'll make have to make a list Thanks though, I think it'd be genuinely interesting to explore this stuff.

Thanks for that Parky, I'll start educating myself.

I have a book from Slavoj Zizek that I'm working through presently, but he's not really a 'meaning of life' philosopher so much as a political/social one. Anyway, I should read more of what these people say I guess. The Greeks it is.

I'll admit to not being up on my philosophers, I'll have to give it a look. You reckon starting with Sartre then?

I remember that video as well... it's a fucking weird cult Scientology, but it has its fingers all over the place at the moment.

People always strive for meaning, and I think we have less of that now than we've had at any previous point in our existence. Can we cope with the void, is the question?

Aye. All of the near misses I've had as a pedestrian recently have involved cyclists running red lights, so I perhaps lack as much sympathy as I should have. Logically, what you're saying makes sense.

Yeah I've heard it described more as a 'way of life' sort of thing too in truth. Does that mean it's a religion after all then? Might that not make it simply a philosophy?

There's a worrying vision of the future if ever there was one.

I prefer walking but yes, I can see the sense in this. I would cycle if I thought it was safe enough to do so - but it isn't, so I don't.

You're such a bitch.

Buddhism does nod towards that though, doesn't it? Buddha himself appears to be deified as far as I can tell from my wanderings through China.

Oh ffs, we don't need the hidden drama getting them all motivated.

Have to say actually, when I'm driving the single biggest threat I encounter are cyclists coming the other way with those really strong bright flashing lights they have these days. Maybe my eyes are just overly sensitive, but if ever something induces me into an accident, it'll be one of those lights

I wonder how and when/if ever the pound will recover.

Is Ritchie suspended for bookings? I missed that.

Money is a means to an end though. If he's stuck on just 'money' then the guy is a total fuckwi--oh, I see what you're saying.

But where will be honestly see himself going? He's never going to get to manage an upper half team now unless he drags one up himself - and even then, there's no guarantee they'd keep him once that was achieved. He'll never manage in the CL. He'll never get an international role now, surely. What's the point? The best he'll be able to manage is what he's been doing for his whole career. Building shite teams and avoiding relegation.