Beach Ices at Praa Sands
Ice meeting the sand at the base of the low cliff behind Praa Sands Beach, West Cornwall. 6th January 2009....
Icicles at Trewellard Bottoms
Water seeping through a wall is turned to icicles, ate Trewellard Bottoms, where Geevor Mine meets the sea....
Winter Sunset at Levant
A late afternoon scene, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall. 7th January 2009....
Winter at Levant
The old electricity generator building, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall, during the recent cold snap. 7th Jnauary 2009....
The Irish and Scots do not have awards systems, why should the cornish?
The Gorsedh was a made up thing to gratify the language revivalists with self indulgent recognition. The Gorsedh survives as there will always be those people that wish to bolster their egos ad feel important, self-aggrandisment doesn't go out of fashion.
I have no personal grudge against the Gorsedh, but my opinion, which as you say I am fully entitled to, is that it is an embrrassment to most cornish people and harmful to the underdeveloped elements of the modern cornish movement.
What use has the Gorsedh been to the cornish for the last 30 or 40 years?
OllAnGwella
yes the bloody linguistics, wasting time and energy on something that should be peripheral to the cornish movement, as it is to the scottish and welsh political movements and was to the irish.
edited by: IrishJack, Sep 10, 2008 - 03:52 PM
But I'm starting to think that it won't for us cornish, no unity, no leadership, but lots of factions, backbiting and esoteric language drivel
The Bureaucracy needs to expand to meet the needs of the Bureaucracy
IJ, you have not really answered my observations on your previous posting but have continued to 'vent' your opinions.
I happen to hold the opinion that the existence of the Gorseth is, and continues to be a positive one and would suggest that its existence has been a valuable contribution in creating an awareness of Cornish history and culture. What could replace it? The Cornish experience is entirely different to the other Celtic nations, but there is a cultural affinity - presumed or otherwise! - with Wales and Brittany.
I suspect that 'some' might share your view but others will share mine - without some sort of poll, numbers are speculative only! - and it is for the Gorseth itself to continually gauge its value and future objectives. I have no idea where you might fit into the Cornish Movement collective but I am inclined to think that your contribution to date has been entirely negative and considerably more so - however objective you might consider yourself to be - than you might consider the Gorseth is, or has been.
STOP THE CORNISH GENOCIDE!- The existence of divergent views occur because the lies and deception have a more profoundly negative, and contrived, consequence for the Cornish people than for anyone else within the UK.
STOP THE CORNISH GENOCIDE!- The existence of divergent views occur because the lies and deception have a more profoundly negative, and contrived, consequence for the Cornish people than for anyone else within the UK.
The Bards do what the Bards want to do.
The CSP do what the CSP want to do.
MK do what MK want to do.
C2000 do what C2000 want to do.
CL do what CL want to do.
The language groups do what the language groups want to do.
CW do what CW do.
etc-blah.
They are all pro-cornish and all care about the future of Cornwall.
If you do nothing much for Cornwall and come on this forum moaning about what others do for Cornwall..
Bardh - you quip, but do not answer the point in question. Is this subject too painful for you to be serious about?
A organisation is not guaranteed credibility just because certain people are members of it; and an organisation is devalued if certain people are made members.
I cannot think for the life of me why Bill Ind qualifies to be a bard.
Credibility appears in the mind of the observer, hardly a provable fact is it V?
With Bishop Bill, I tend to agree with you.
More credibility could have been available if he had made his apology to Cornwall well before his retirement from office rather than the last minute before he de-possessed himself of public godly duties.
Wood and trees. Divide and conqueror. Why does the cornish movemnent need so many organisation, that are effectively competing for attention and time. If the cornish movement was serious their would only be two organisations, one cultural/heritage/language and one political/social/legal.
'One and All' appears to be sheer irony, see language debate for further details.
Why do posters here think that people will join organisations to change them? People join organisation that they like and who project ideas and objects that are collectively interesting and appropriate, this is perhaps why the cornish convention was popular and Gorsedh-MK is not.
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It does for them what believes in it!
