Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:13 pm
Then you're where you're supposed to be.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:15 pm
Is that true for vuja de experiences too?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:15 pm
Is that true for vuja de experiences too?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:32 pm
that's just a glitch in the system
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:42 pm
Switch! Apoc!
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:31 pm
Absolutely.
And it probably happens to climbers more often. Perhaps it's the intense focus in the now that allows you see something anew.
And it probably happens to climbers more often. Perhaps it's the intense focus in the now that allows you see something anew.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:00 pm
I climb cus the view is probably better from up there, if I could just make it. it wasn't till I was twenty or so that I realized they had ropes and such to keep me from dying in my pursuit of the top. Now its the sandstone that has seeped into my veins, and the memory of the movement that allowed me to make the clip.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:09 pm
where do you climb limestone?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:17 pm
I don't even know what your talking about 
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:24 pm
The Zen thing can't be all there is, if so we are only climbing stuff that we can do. There must be some latent drive powered by failure and self doubt that gets us on more difficult stuff. I think Wes' sig answered why climb in a nutshell, "pummel the body and (to) purify the soul. When I think of Zen, I don't think pummel.
We could just be pawns in DNA's game, our species has a habit of going up hill when we don't have to . . . why build the pyramids, run the marathon, drive the convertible Beamer, etc? These extreme individual forays are survivalist strategies for the whole.
Perhaps we climb because we are really Chimpanzees. Climbing pries away the thin veneer that we call civilization to expose the animal. In this climbing falls into the class/set containing sex, love, eating, defecation, running, jumping, swimming and etc. Somehow the Gumby world has managed to avoid climbing.
We could just be pawns in DNA's game, our species has a habit of going up hill when we don't have to . . . why build the pyramids, run the marathon, drive the convertible Beamer, etc? These extreme individual forays are survivalist strategies for the whole.
Perhaps we climb because we are really Chimpanzees. Climbing pries away the thin veneer that we call civilization to expose the animal. In this climbing falls into the class/set containing sex, love, eating, defecation, running, jumping, swimming and etc. Somehow the Gumby world has managed to avoid climbing.