Playing each ball on its own Merit
by Osiris
A mind functions within the periphery, within the limit of its own conditioning. Two days ago Australia broke such conditioning when they posted a total of 434, the first team to exceed 400 runs in the history of limited overs cricket. Though one did not need to wait long until this total was past again; just ask Tony Greig, Australia lost the match, the barrier had been removed.
Salvador Dali claimed Baseball was a metaphor for life, I say Cricket fits better Mr Dali. Commentators have long praised the batsman who 'Plays each ball on its own merit'. Herschelle Gibbs did it to take his team past 400, and so should we. As it is, our action is based on concepts, on ideas. People have an idea of what should be done and what is done is in approximation to that ideal. Thus a division exists between the action and the 'idea', between 'what is' and 'what should be'. Such action is incomplete, therefore there is a form of resistance. Herschelle Gibbs bridged this division two days ago in his innings of 175. Australia¹s 434 runs was a total beyond strategies - he would simply have to play each ball on its own merit.
Playing each ball on its own merit is an action in which thought sees something instantly and acts immediately so that there is no idea to be acted on separately. Playing each ball on its own merit is an action in which the very seeing is the action - in which the very thinking is the action.
Thought is the response of experience, as collected memory, thus it is never new. (Try thinking of something you have never seen before. What about a pink elephant you say? Well I¹m sure you've seen pink and I'm sure you have seen an elephant, try thinking about the unknown? That's what religion tries to do) Thought is tethered to the past and therefore can never perceive reality. For as one Jiddu Krishnamurti espoused, life is alive, it is in constant movement, a perpetual movement in relationship, and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life. Thought must operate in action. Thus we must play each ball on its own merit.
posted by Mr Sensitive @ 2:06 PM
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Ahh Tony Greig…do tell us about your Safari with Mr Packer
Ahh Tony Greig…do tell us about your Safari with Mr Packer
"Well, we were out on the Serengeti, setting up base, which was a Pakistani marquee.
A cheetah arrived on the scene, coming on hard and fast. I moved to the left to give myself a bit of (v)ro-om, and hit the bugger right in the meat of the head.
Kerry looked at me amazed and said 'Greigy, you saved my life.' No worries Kerry, I said back to him, you saved cricket, so we're even. Who ever knew that billionaires could help people, and it would come back to help them in their time of need, just like that flick Pay It Forward with the Sixth Sense kid.
On that day, cynical A.J. Greig died, and for the first time, Tony Greig lived. I cried, and so did Kerry, who was crying for me to 'get rid of that cheetah carcass now Greigy, you useless asshole.
How I miss those times."
Tony you sly bastard, John the Bookey, know's what really went down on your Safari in South Arica...Hanse Cronje's plane!
You will cry again Tony...just Kapel Dev did
"Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it."
"Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it."
Unless of course you are either CS Lewis or a religious scholar of varying degree. Then, by all means, talk it up as is your right to do so. The irony implicit in the above quote makes me smile so much.
"Have your eyes grown strong enough to behold the fundamental force that is restriction?"
"The dalang is more than a puppeteer. His skill makes us believe that we see a war between two great armies, but there is no war. There is only the dalang."
"All times are the same time. The initiation of a sorceror reveals this. That is why they say a true initiation never ends."
"I've had a long time to think about this. So let me get things straight. You're right here with me. You're suffering too, Omega. Am I right? That's okay, everybody's got chains they wanna get out from under, right? Even you."
"The whole of creation was nothing but a cage, devised by Ormazd to trap the forces of evil where he could destroy them. That's when the battle started. Ormazd, creating the first trap, created the concept of restriction. The forces of Ahriman struggle for liberation. Which side are you on? Do you know?"
"And there's a fundamental force in me too. I gave my life over to representing something that's in all of us. So whatever's holding you down, wherever you are, however hard it seems... how about you and me escape together?"
"Forgive yourself and remove those chains you wear."
"Think of timespace as a multidimensional self-perfecting system in which everything that has ever, or will ever occur, occurs simultaneously. I believe timespace is a kind of object, a geometrical supersolid. I believe it may even be a type of hologram"
More of the Adventures of A.J. 'Tony' Greig will be coming soon. Have your keys ready please. The new Boonie is here, and he has been for awhile, hiding in plain sight, like a snake in the grass. He's a wily old fox for sure.
Glad it made you smile! Comic book philosophy seems to do the same for me ;) However, I am a bit confused as to why you believe CS Lewis and/or religious scholors (of varying degrees) would have any more right to 'talk it up' than the average Joe...though!?
Did you know that the kangaroo has an amazing function of producing low fat milk from one nipple and full cream (basically) from the other?
However, I am a bit confused as to why you believe CS Lewis and/or religious scholors (of varying degrees) would have any more right to 'talk it up' than the average Joe...though!?
Well, I would have thought based on the following line that that was the case you were trying to make.
"Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it."
Unless of course you're the aformentioned Mr Lewis, who based on teh above line, would seem to not practice what he preaches, seeing how he is a writer by trade.
Or in other words, you're trying to read too much into a sentence where I'm taking the piss.
Oh, and not comic book philosophy, but meta-textualism. The Invisibles quotes are of specific myths, but they play into the meta-textual hijinks as well.
And why the anonymous? Was that you who posted all the Benjamin Creme stuff as well? Surely StayHuman has not been retired?
Just with that kangaroo anecdote, is there some symbolic allusion there that I'm missing, or is that you with your teacher hat on? I'm leaning more toward teacher hat, because it would maybe have been something you discovered while preparing lessons for Japanese students about Australia or something, but that's just an educated guess.
I've no idea why you detailed it to us though. It's not that fascinating a fact, is it?
;) Nothing to read into! Just crazy facts - and great guess btw!
It gets worse - not only that,
but the female Kangaroo is contiuously pregnant. They have only one joey, but if that joey dies at any point during the pregnancy, it is immediately replaced by a Joey that is kept is 'suspended animation' in the mothers womb at all times, then if that Joey dies, it is replaced. Even if it dies at 2 weeks or 6 months...
What a wonderful fact about our fellow Aussies!
And what is more Australian than Tony Greig?
A South African who played for England and commentates for Australia, you won't find anything more aussie then that, his name should be gracing the Macquarie.
Why would Tony Greg be on the cover of the Macquarie dictionary? For revamping the word 'room' to 'rvoom'? What a linguist!!
Vincent Deighan?
And not just room, he's done wonders for the Name 'Lee', surely he spent some time in Oxford?
I quite frankly don't know what Vincent Deighan has to do with this anonymous. Word on the street is that he is the mummudrai (Google it!) of Frank Quitely. We 3 are all friends.
I've never heard a combination of two words roll off the tongue as perfectly as they do off Tony Greig's, when he utters those words Brett Lee half a beat faster than the rest of his sentence.
Hmmm, might have to post later on how Alan Moore's Promethea Apocalypse has actually happened(!), and the first signs of it are showing up in television cricket commentary. I mean, where else would it first appear? The circus? I think not, because Tony Greig, the zeitgeist of our times (and the 60's, and the 70's, and the 80's and...), doesn't appear under the big top. He's Greigy not Dumbo, he's not a clown, and he ain't Sideshow Bob. He's the main attraction, A.J. Greig. Start paying homage now; if you're lucky he'll remember that once he has been knighted.
There appears to be numerous anonymous (anonymi?)
Secret Society of Roasters.
Charge your sigil!
Coming Peter!
All my dirty money is on South Africa winning the 2nd test with Shaun ‘Ritchie Cunningham’ Pollock making the winning runs by sneaking a leg bye of a Symonds delivery, a wily young fox for sure. Prove me wrong Warne…prove me wrong.
Aren't you supposed to be dead, Hansie?
Hansie needs a new pad
Planes have parachutes
And John the Booky has angry young Indian men who worship Kali
You add it up Mr Sensitive
Bloody Warne
Lucky I'm not a betting man
How much do you want to bet on that?
He's touchy but the magician knows the score...
'The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.'
Alan Moore
Turner have you revived your high school enterprise?
"I was chatting with Shane Warne and asked him about which country has the best women. After paying a bit of lip service to other countries he came to the conclusion as well that South Africa has the best ladies. Well, there's your confirmation: if Shane Warne says it, it must carry some weight, as we all know how he is with the ladies."
"This is Test Match cricket not a kindergarten party."
Actual Tony Greig quotes from the 3rd Test between Australia and South Africa. The Warne one was just surreal. I never thought I'd see the day when Tony Greig is talking up Warnie's rep with the ladies.
Read the end comment of Anthony Greig
Greig was once involved in a controversy during an English tour to the West Indies in 1974. It was the second day of the First Test at the Queen's Park Oval. The West Indies had been batting, and were held up only by an unbeaten century by Kallicharran. Greig was fielding at silly point. The last ball of the day was bowled to Bernard Julian, who knocked it past Greig and then headed off to the pavilion. The stumps were pulled on the batsmen's end and most of the English team set off for the pavilion themselves. Greig's back was to all this action and he was not aware that his side had conceded that play be suspended for the day. Seeing Kallicharran out of his crease, he fired the ball into the wicket and instinctively appealed, and Hang Sue was forced to raise his finger.
The home crowd was less than entirely pleased and proceeded to storm the pitch and besiege the pavilion. After two hours, the English appeal was withdrawn "in the interests of cricket in general and this tour in particular", but a cloud remained over the rest of the series.
After forming a bond with the Nine Network's late Kerry Packer during the World Series Cricket days, Greig was offered a "job for life" by Packer as a commentator during Nine's cricket coverage. Today, Greig lives in Australia and continues this commentary role, and is criticised by some for his bias against the Australian team and his occassional out-of-context comments. Greig also has commentated for Channel Four in the United Kingdom. He is also a board member of the Epilepsy Association.
In 1999 Greig was involved in a controversy where, in a match at the North Sydney Oval, the camera zoomed onto a couple in a marriage ceremony at a nearby church. Greig made a remark about the woman shown being a mail order bride - "Do you think she’s been flown in?". The Remark was made "off microphone and not intended for broadcast".
What a man, what a life.
Are you at work Mr Sensetive?
Father time has answered my question
I am always at work my anonymous friend, I am always at work. Just like the Devil; always trying to GET YA!!
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