Keo.co.za cleans up at awards
30 Nov 2011
Keo.co.za was named the Sports Blog of the Year and won the overall prize for new media at the 2011 SAB Sports Media Awards at Melrose Arch on Tuesday night.
Mark Keohane, the founder of keo.co.za, also won the Sports Columnist of the Year award for his contributions to Business Day Sport Monthly. He was the second runner-up in the overall print category with Business Day Sport Monthly‘s Gary Lemke the first runner-up.
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1 Dec 2011, 00:13 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-644:
Sounds like you are christian, who also believes in the MWI interpretation of QM, not the accepted one, but it is looking more and more likely.
Ppl can have faith, speculate, or philosophise – ppl can individually believe what they want or would like to be the case including that they have the ‘knowledge’ or the ‘truth, all of us have this ability, the mind is an imagination factory that fools us constantly, but what I call knowledge or what we can and will know with any degree of validity is only that for which evidence exists.
1 Dec 2011, 00:19 am
@Sasori(Sasori)-645:
cheers satori
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-648:
yes you keep going on about that, but you forget that you can know what someone tells you. if the scientist tells you that acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s you can test it for yourself by throwing your nokia up in the air and checking how long it takes to hit your pip.
If on the other hand, the watchatutu says, whatever it is that they say (which is pretty unfathomable and probably meant to be that way to retain the mystery), there is no way of verifying it or not. If the watachatutu teacher tells you something and it means something to you and you go Ommmm and contemplate your navel for the next 7 years in a cave, i;m pretty sure your mind will invent some wierd **** and you’d feel you were whizzing around the planet zoltan on your magic carpet, but in reality you were still in the cave.
How can you learn anything new, by focussing within, which is the sumtotal of your OWN experiences, and limits you at source, rather than trying to understand the experiences of others?
1 Dec 2011, 00:19 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-642:
stop being ridiculous… you got no clue who your dude is.. even the name you wanna sprout is an anglicized version of somebody you have not an inkling of a clue about who this person was or is … I got a far better idea than you could ever hope to have .. you living in a state of abject superstitious belief thinking you have access to somebody who it is absolute fact you do not.. so you are unfortunately fooling yourself.. and it should not be for me to tell you this in a public sphere like this but unfortunately if you wanna know the truth of it.. I gotta burst your superstitious bubble and tell you the simple absolute facts.
1 Dec 2011, 00:30 am
@cab(cab)-652:
where you get all this stuff from about chanting OM or contemplating your navel.. you been reading too many watchatutu books and philosophies without even getting to the gist of what it is you trying to find out….
if you wanna know how an electrode travels between one cathode field and another you participate in the experiment and you experience the movement of the electron.. in other words you witness or experience the activity of the moving electrode and then you are able to verify it as fact..
so if you wanna know who you are or experience the knowledge of a particular experience of your existence then participate in the experiment and then and only then can you determine what is true from false or reality from superstition or fiction…
all the books or words or quantum theories in the world will never give you the verified real experience of reality.. same way as the religious follower of biblical texts or any religious texts can never verify what somebody else experienced centuries or generations ago and declare this as truth or knowledge .. it is not..
Only that experience which you can achieve yourself is real.. everything else outside of your own direct perception or experience can never be classified as knowledge.. only as hearsay or theory or assumed information.. but not knowledge.
1 Dec 2011, 00:34 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-654:
got it from you, thats what you saying above, you got too find a teacher in the flesh, and then listen to him and do what he says. i dont like that, i say listen to as many ‘teachers’ as you can, but make up your own mind, and make up your own mind based on objective external evidence, rather than focusing within and arriving at some subjective truth which might have been implanted by a teacher, who is also wrong, but you believe it nonetheless.
foreget books, knowledge can be oratory, can be passed down, etc – as long as its personally AND objectively verifiable, i..e there is evidence for it.
1 Dec 2011, 00:47 am
Scientific claim – nokia phone drops at 9.8m/s squared.
You can personally verify this claim AND it is objectively verifiable.
This is knowledge.
Watchatutu claim – you are JC hisself, ask yourself who you are.
You might personally verify you are JC (if you cuckoo), but it is not objectively verifiable since nooone else has seen you walking on water.
This is belief.
Scientific knowledge is not absolutely correct, it will probably be refined, but what we know at any point is based on objectively verifiable evidence at the time, which can be personally tested if you so desire.
1 Dec 2011, 00:49 am
@cab(cab)-655: the evidence is that which you witness and see with your own eyes that is the evidence.. you have not sat before Einstein and imbibed his knowledge yet you swear his version of events to be true… yet you have never even witnessed that E = MC 2
so where is your evidence..??
Knowledge is not transferred from one person to another.. but you can attain knowledge by means of being taught or directed by someone who can direct you to attain it for yourself in a manner that it can be attained..
if you are eager to become attributed with acquiring scientific knowledge you go to a living science professor and get taught in academic schools of learning by living scientists, not through reading the works of dead ones… the actual experience and attainment is something you can only do for yourself.. no other individual can abridge the transfer of knowledge for you, even whether they have access to it or not.
1 Dec 2011, 01:01 am
you are confusing experience of who you are with belief of who you are
if the fall of nokia at 9.8 m/sec is valuable information to you then regard this as your reason for experience of life. but this is hardly knowledge..
knowledge is knowing what life is.. what your reason for existence is.. what you are doing inhabiting a human body and what your real purpose of realization is…
all other materialist acknowledgement or scrutiny of measurement of what already exists in nature is not knowledge.. it is monkee see monkee do what nature already ordained for monkee to exist… knowing why and how nature works and the purpose for experience and existence within nature is getting closer to understanding of knowledge.
1 Dec 2011, 01:05 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-657:
One of the most important facets of human knowledge is writing, and yes books, which allows einstein to write and explain his formular for others to test and verify. Which they have done many times over.
I’m sorry but you simply do not understand the scientific method. A theory does not just mean a guess, in science it is a claim to knowledge that is supported by evidence. What you call a theory, is a hypthosesis, i.e. a guess. While guessing and imaging are a part of science, the essential part is the evidence (to support the hypothesis). A hypothesis does not become a theory (scientific) until there is evidence for it. It is then laid bare and subject to intense public scrutiny. It cannot be a vague claim, it has to be precise and repeatable, otherwise other scientists will poke holes in it and the theory will be discarded, which is exactly what people try and do, which is to personally test the theory and see for themselves that it is correct.
Specifal relativity has been tested so many times by so many different people that its over a century old and still not one single bit of evidence to refute it (tho they are checking the speed of light barrier which the italians think they’ve jumped). I cant test it at home, because the theory is so cuttting edge that it demands particular precise instruments, but i could go and test it if i had the eqipment. The same for the existence of dinosaurs, i can personally go and see a dinousaur skeleton at the museam.
I think professors and teachers are overrated, the best you can do is to listen to as many different persperctives as you can to broaden your horizons, but ultimately there is a distinction between knowledge (which is evidence-based) and subjective belief.
Einstein special relativity formula was at first not accepted but over time the evidence became overwhelming.
1 Dec 2011, 01:07 am
@cab(cab)-656: I believe that Frans Steyn’s boot defies physics. Sorry I do.
Like a neutrino.
Neutrino boot. Travels faster than the speed of light.
1 Dec 2011, 01:10 am
I apologize if my scientific intellect frightened you all away.
I will refrain from anything metaphysical and remain aloof and transcendental. Kind of bobbing up and down on the mattress with my legs crossed.
1 Dec 2011, 01:12 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-658:
I am not attributing my personal ‘value’ to any particular type of ‘knowledge’, as in meaning. 9,8 is very valuable if you want to get to the moon or know how planetary bodies move, but it has absolutely no personal value to me.
I dont know if there is meaning or value, or if these are merely cultural concepts that we as humans, a social species of life, have developed. For example, what is ‘good’ or ‘bad’?
I think all humans have an innate feeling that there is a purpose to their life, some see it as more transcendental and it would be nice if this was the case, in truth i probably intuitively feel this is the case, but I also recognize that this is not necessarily the case, that such teleological reasoning might be flawed and that there might not be a reason to anything, it might all just be random, completely and utterly random, and there is alot of evidence to support this view that you may consider bleak.
1 Dec 2011, 01:14 am
@SodaJoe(SodaJoe)-660:
lol – yeah pity he got injured.
anyway sorry got so wrapped up in this one, forgot on a rugby site.
How are you? still making biltong or freezing your ballas off?
1 Dec 2011, 01:14 am
“So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one – big hitter, the Lama – long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the 18th and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”
1 Dec 2011, 01:20 am
lol – where;s that from?
1 Dec 2011, 01:28 am
ah yes, caddyshack, bladdy excellent, better than stripes.
1 Dec 2011, 01:29 am
the number of the beast, fantastic.
night
1 Dec 2011, 06:21 am
@Bod(bod)-100: Yarpie.
1 Dec 2011, 07:59 am
A bELATED cONGRATS TO KEO AND TEAM AND THEN TO ALL THE kEOLINGS WHO MAKE THIS SITE SOMETHING SO SPECIAL.
oH fARK cAPS – sORRY
1 Dec 2011, 09:08 am
@Gunther(gunther)-407: Actually, that’s a regular sized cheque.
1 Dec 2011, 11:14 am
Soda Joe is still ‘out there’….
All is well!
1 Dec 2011, 17:17 pm
No one talks about about death because what is there to say, it happens……..and that is that…….now one knows anything about it and if they say differently they are talking chit.
1 Dec 2011, 23:08 pm
huge congrats!!! Deserved winners.
2 Dec 2011, 01:39 am
Congrats Keo, all writers and bloggers!
2 Dec 2011, 22:31 pm
silly little girl with her hair all done up in curls, and hubby gonna buy her another string of pearls so she can go to the bio-scope and watch Tarzan swings and Tarzan falls – she gonna watch all those death romanticizing war movies so she can marvel at death till she gotta experience it herself… then she wanna befuddle her own brain and pretend it don’t happen to her it only happens to others
death is as real as life.. in fact possibly more real than life.. life is dream state and death is awakening.. when you learn how to die that when you know how to live.. till then its just like you sitting in the movies and pretending you Jane Fonda when you ain’t…
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