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Re: Prince Philip has died

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Post by hobs »

swen-rekcah wrote: post #73
nullsense wrote: post #17

I really wish we could just do away with all this royal family nonsense. You guys are somehow special because what? Useless social fiction from antiquity.

Clearly you know NOTHING about Monarchy, their history and traditions. You’re getting it twisted because of this whole “the royal family are racist” baloney

The reaction to some model complaining on TV is not why MOST people hate the british monarchy.

Personally my grandmother's civilian ship was fired on by the british navy because ... well fun!

Re: Prince Philip has died

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Post by rataata_jr »

1cvmask wrote: post #79

Some famous quotes of Prince Philip. Make your own judgement while you downvote his comments. “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit) “Do you still throw spears at each other?” (in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Indigenous Australian entrepreneur) “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.” (after looking at the name badge of th…

Everyone is product of their time. Give them the benefit of the doubt. He could be one of the reasons why we are all not speaking in German right now.

Re: Prince Philip has died

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Post by bidirectional »

Grustaf wrote: post #42
nullsense wrote: post #17

I really wish we could just do away with all this royal family nonsense. You guys are somehow special because what? Useless social fiction from antiquity.

It's obviously not a social fiction, regardless of what you may think about monarchy in general. They have power because they inherited it from someone that conquered it. Just like people may inherit companies and fortunes.

Not at all in the case of Elizabeth II. She holds the throne because parliament gave it to her ancestor, George I, to avoid a Catholic inheriting the throne.

Re: Prince Philip has died

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Post by rogerthis »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #53

Because Prince Charles is heir to the throne (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person), some in the HN community may be surprised to know that he wrote a book on philosophy . https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-New-Way-Looking-World/dp/0061... I found the book to be astonishingly good. It takes a design approach to Platonism and western esotericism. It goes deep into "sacred g…

I think he was friend of Martin Lings, who was very close to the Perennialist School (René Guenon, Frithjof Schuon).

Re: Prince Philip has died

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Post by sloaken »

samizdis wrote: post #56
maybeOneDay wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can see that argument for some of them, but if anyone said the slitty eyed or spear throwing comments to me and then tried to pass it off as "it's just british humour mate" I'd laugh in their face.

Quite so, and you'd be right to. But Prince Philip also came out with some decent quotes - some arguably typical British humour and some others just his thoughts: - I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family. - Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years. - You're just a silly little Whitehall [civil se…

You had me at: >- I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer.

Re: Prince Philip has died

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Post by kmlx »

Thorentis wrote: post #110
nindalf wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it’s interesting that you’d blame this family for the horrors of colonialism. They haven’t had a say in British policy for around 2 centuries. Although the monarch meets the Prime Minister every week, they cannot tell the PM what to do, unless it affects the royal family personally. The PM listens to what they have to say but charts their own course. If you’re looking for someone to blame, Churchill deserves…

Unfortunately people are very quick to assign "generational guilt" these days. It's as if we've gone backwards, and are no longer capable of being individuals. "Oh, you're white/black/related to x/decended from y, did you know your ancestors did *that*?"

because it’s much simpler for people to find external causes to their misery than looking at their own actions.

nothing new, see “religion”.

Re: Prince Philip has died

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Post by gadders »

bidirectional wrote: post #104
zpeti wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An interesting perspective I've heard is that she should have been more political in a few extreme cases. She is the head of state and her actual job should be to bring left and right together in the very controversial, almost unsolvable issues, and get them sorted out. She should really be like a couples therapist for political leaders. She never did this. She always stayed out of politics.

It should be noted that the 'staying out of politics' is a public phenomenon. In her weekly meeting with the Prime Minister, The Queen makes her political stance well known (that is the entire point of the meeting).

She's worked with 14 prime ministers, starting with Winston Churchill and going downhill from there. She might know a thing or two.

Re: Prince Philip has died

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Post by bb123 »

nullsense wrote: post #17

I really wish we could just do away with all this royal family nonsense. You guys are somehow special because what? Useless social fiction from antiquity.

Personally I think are (or used to be) a useful cohesive agent for the country. If the alternative is Trump and the Kardashians then the Royal family doesn't seem too bad.

Re: Prince Philip has died

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Post by bb123 »

iso1631 wrote: post #69
jiriknesl wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe there are lots of people from the UK here.

The biggest impact is that all TV and radio shows are cancelled for the forseeable. Will be interesting how it's dealt with due to covid. Will be especially interesting in Northern Ireland, which is currently inflames because of the fallout from a funeral for a republican figure which had many people attending it in breach of lockdown rules, but with no police action (which, combined with Boris's Border, has led to a…

Eh? I'm watching TV in the UK right now. Nothing is cancelled.
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