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"On spaceship Earth there are no passengers only crew"


Real Name: Allan
Lives In: Copenhagen, DK
Birth Date: June 15
Member Since: Feb 14, 2006
Last Login: Jul 05, 2009   20:00 UTC
Member's Time: Jul 06, 2009   01:54 CEST
VT Rank: 1031
Deals Rank: 608
Travel Interests: Wine Tasting, Arts and Culture, Skiing and Boarding, Diving and Snorkeling, Adventure Travel

 

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A look at the world

by TheView - last update: Feb 28, 2009

Skip a stone into the sea of history
The nick TheView comes from a reflection on a very fine book about objectivity; The view from nowhere, By Thomas Nagel. As this web page I have, only can be from my own perspective and if at anytime it should transcend to somekind of objectivity it will only be accidental or by mere chance. I limit myself to the simple; TheView.

A tip beon traveling.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old. For no one is either too young or too old for the health of the soul. He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed. Therefore, both young and old must philosophize, the latter so that although old he may stay young in good things owing to gratitude for what has occurred, the former so that althougt young he too may be like an old man owing to his lack of fear of what is to come. Therefore, one must practise the things which produce happiness, since if that is present we have everything and if it is absent we do everything in order to have it.

Epicurus (341-270 BC). Letter to Menoeceus.
Where to go next?
Sterling is no more but nice photo!!

Travel with no fear

Accustom yourself to believing that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply the capacity for sensation, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore a correct understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life a limitless time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terrors for him who has thoroughly understood that there are no terrors for him in ceasing to live. Foolish, therefore, is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will pain when it comes, but because it pains in the prospect. Whatever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

Epicurus ones more ;-)

travel plans

MSc degree in physiology/sports minor in philosophy Just done :D

Feb: 13-15 Berlin

Marts: South east asia ... India here we come! 13 marts - 1 april.
-I just plan on backpacking around ...if you have some good tips of things to see or do pls. tell me!!

One thing I will like to see is a wild tiger (elephant back trip or something). Best place to do this?? pls give me a hint if you have one ;-)


May: Marocco via Spain, Marrakesh VT-meeting 25-27.

Jo104´s London VT meeting :D

More Travel plans in preparation. :D
buy one more minute if you like!
This and top Photo by Sinequanon. Thanks ;-)
Moving through archways of life

Like the battered armies of history

With vulnerable body’s

Encountering arrows unshielded

Unprepared for massacre we move

Carcasses to Cupids slaughter

TheView's Albums
Title [Click to view]Travel YearPictures
My first VT meeting.- 6
Ultimate a great game- 6
A little viking gathering- 8
Meeting other VT members- 8
Great VT Meetings- 5

Comments for TheView
jo104 Thu Jul 2, 2009 15:40 UTC
 how are your preparations coming on?
Sage49 Wed Jul 1, 2009 22:08 UTC
 Allen!!!!!!! hi, yes, im back. What's going on with you? I am planning on going to Austria but not sure... Hey, by the way, I signed up for the Ultimate CHicago!!
L.K Sat Jun 27, 2009 23:14 UTC
 Hej Allan Lige et forsinket tillykke - er desværre for lidt på VT... finder jeg dig på facebook? Lis
Kaspian Sat Jun 27, 2009 17:42 UTC
 Marrakesh videos are all posted. Bellydancer in "Part 1" at 11:00 minutes.
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