"Person, I can't BELIEVE I smoked all that weed."
Just doesn't sound right to my ears.
On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:14:05 PM UTC-5, rigsy03 wrote:
-- dj
On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:14:05 PM UTC-5, rigsy03 wrote:
I just learned that the term "negress" (and also "Jewess") can be
considered offensive- which I did not intend nor understand. I
apologize to any I may have offended.
On Sep 12, 2:11 pm, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anthony Burgess wrote a great little novel- "Nothing Like the Sun",
> which I gave to a friend so I hope I am correct that he posited that
> the "Dark Lady" was a negress and mistress of the Bard's and think he
> died of syphillis. Who knows?
>
> On Sep 7, 3:05 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Wasn't the Dark Lady a young bloke?
>
> > I think we know that the answer has to do with a fair work deal and
> > cutting corruption. I'm not sure we understand how disruptive the
> > rich are and the extent of modern fealty relations. We need to stop
> > all the hard work nonsense without giving up to free-loaders and
> > criminals. Race to the bottom competition is the big problem.
>
> > On 7 Sep, 11:50, gabbydott <gabbyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I am missing +Molly in this thread here. Molly, what do YOU think, the
> > > language that the world is talking in is turning into? How much more
> > > does the image of Clinton and Obama embracing each other count
> > > compared to all the nope-facts that have been listed here? Ain't that
> > > a show with the quality of Shakespearian dramaturgy, being able to
> > > keep the Dark Lady at bay? Connectivism yes, with the right
> > > connectors? Do you see where I see you coming in?
>
> > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Don Johnson <daj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Wonderful to see the old crew at work talking about something I'm
> > > > hugely interested in. I can't wait to read your book archy. Be sure to
> > > > set up a website so you can sell signed copies. I'm going to be all
> > > > over it.
>
> > > > My aunt and uncle were just in London recently and I told them "to
> > > > avoid the chavs." Youngsters here are pretty much the same. Just read
> > > > a bio on George Washington and it was amusing to read some of his
> > > > letters to his adoptive son's school master and others bemoaning his
> > > > charge's lack of ambition and disgusting personal conduct. The more
> > > > things change the more us humans never do. I, of course, was a model
> > > > adolescent that never got into trouble. Ahem.
>
> > > > I've been focused on my country's choice of leader of late.
> > > > Conventions and what not. Folks talking alot and saying less then
> > > > nothing except basically "My opponent sucks ass." Well, they have
> > > > others do it for them but it's the same.
>
> > > > Yeah, y'all are stuck with the dollar. I know it gives us the
> > > > advantage in some respects but if the trend of downsizing our military
> > > > continues I suspect Fran's more pessimistic fears may come to pass.
> > > > This is in no ones best interest except the crazy Anarchists. The
> > > > eternal optimist in me suspects that with a little government show or
> > > > restraint(stop hemmorhaging my hard earned cash) folks(including the
> > > > much maligned .01 percenters) will be more willing to pay up to start
> > > > paying down the debt. We don't need another Terror. No thank you. I
> > > > happen to really like most rich people and would prefer to not see
> > > > thier heads removed from their bodies.
>
> > > > As usual I read nothing in your posts about the problems we face that
> > > > I disagree with. It's only when we talk about solutions that we
> > > > differ. I see massive fraud here in the USA. Everybody wants their
> > > > turn on the tit and those that have been on the longest are the
> > > > hardest to drag off. Incidentally I just watched Cinderella Man about
> > > > John Braddock's heavy weight fight. This was back in the Depression
> > > > when folks were shamed about taking public asistance. Now, folks brag
> > > > about how much they get. The Culture has changed somewhat and short of
> > > > censorship(which I hate) I haven't a clue how to fix it.
>
> > > > I hope to find some time Sunday to delve into this topic further and
> > > > perhaps be more careful to spell better(no speel check) and not
> > > > over-use parenthisis. I was a lazy child in English class.
>
> > > > dj
>
> > > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:20 AM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> The problem is that once the government or the rulers gain control of
> > > >> money, it progressively ceases to be a medium of exchange and becomes
> > > >> a medium of control. That impinges on the functioning of markets which
> > > >> in turn impinges on the maintenance of property rights. Thus, we come
> > > >> full circle from a free society to a command society. There has never
> > > >> been any shortage of those who want to rule. The problem has always
> > > >> been with the vast majority who are content to be ruled. Today's
> > > >> global outcry for the manufacturing of more and more "money" out of
> > > >> thin air is an eloquent testimony. It shows that most people have no
> > > >> understanding of freedom, markets or money. Lacking such understanding
> > > >> - and having no desire to gain it - most people have accepted
> > > >> government as their masters.
>
> > > >> As Robert Heinlein stated the problem - it is impossible to free a
> > > >> serf or a slave. He or she must free themselves and most are much more
> > > >> terrified of that prospect than they are resentful of being ruled.
> > > >> Sometimes Gabbers sounds like one of those women who sit around
> > > >> looking pretty John Cheever used to write about. I know she isn't, a
> > > >> matter for taking either way and one end against the other. The
> > > >> Germans have no sense of humour we Anglo-Saxons can understand because
> > > >> it just isn't funny kind thing. I too am part post-modern text
> > > >> engine. Did you know we are probably 'related' Gabs? A whole pile of
> > > >> your guys invaded Scotland with farming about 3000 years ago. It
> > > >> seems the Germans are responsible not only for bad opera and the
> > > >> interminable Mahler, but also porridge.
>
> > > >> The blueberry pie is spot on rigsy - even if you give me the recipe
> > > >> I'll probably foul-up the cooking. Much complexity in maths comes
> > > >> down to formulating the sum so we can count - the modern solution to
> > > >> Fermat's last theorem is an example, however cunning. My suspicion is
> > > >> there is no pie to bake with the arguments about. Wittgenstein used
> > > >> to take apparently very different arguments and show they were based
> > > >> on what in my everyday I'd call the same shit. No doubt some would
> > > >> prefer 'root metaphor'. This is merely an application of set theory,
> > > >> and eventually leads to the notion the universe is just the history of
> > > >> an electron over time, or Barthes' idea text is all about seduction.
>
> > > >> My suspicion is we are lost in world-views of the slave and serf -
> > > >> though I don't end up as a libertarian. Most people don't work very
> > > >> hard. Otherwise my novel will sell in millions (it's finally at the
> > > >> agent's - friends will be able to download it free at some point).
> > > >> Most people, in academic terms, can't "read". Even I don't do
> > > >> 'misucation'! Though I note it may be more descriptive than ejucation
> > > >> on the forced processes of childhood. I don't just think money has
> > > >> become the means of control - the whole process of making argument
> > > >> accessible to only a few is part of that spreadsheet.
>
> > > >> Trying to get people to do things as a manager or teacher often left
> > > >> me feeling it is cruel to have to do such work unarmed. These days I
> > > >> think we'd be better off with a less gruesome system than money-
> > > >> misucation that kills and impoverishes in millions to deal with
> > > >> laziness. Anyone else hate teenagers? They are lazy, dirty, loud,
> > > >> littering scum. I even had to take my grandson and his two mates to
> > > >> Blackpool Pleasure Beach - the notion of just going on the train was
> > > >> beyond them. We even have to force people to be clean. No amount of
> > > >> soldierly ear-wax is going to stop me getting a hygiene message
> > > >> thought of someone I have to share the intimacy of a tank with.
> > > >> Deontological liberalism won't do Gabby.
>
> > > >> On 3 Sep, 13:09, gabbydott <gabbyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>> People being too taken up with survival and 'homeward mobility' to
> > > >>> want to listen to the wise men's advises and sermons coined the
> > > >>> corresponding German idiom which literally translates: To understand
> > > >>> only train station
> > > >>> (http://german.about.com/od/idiomsandproverbs/a/German- ).Expression-Nur-...
> > > >>> German WW I soldiers did the Odysseus thing and put wax in their ears.
>
> > > >>> Now, what exactly do you have to do in order to not mistake the
> > > >>> messenger for his message? You need to know how the distillation
> > > >>> process works! Repeating or pushing up what the seemingly best has
> > > >>> said and loading it up with your own history only fosters the
> > > >>> development of the fool's gold production technique.
>
> > > >>> If you use fear as a transport means for your message instead of using
> > > >>> it as a catalyst for progress, I'd call this a systemic misucation of
> > > >>> fear that you are propagating. The system is rotting, let's rot the
> > > >>> next!
>
> > > >>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Vam <atewari2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>> > Neil, 'many likes' and 'much love' ... for bringing this crux to focus.
> > > >>> > Fran, you hit it on the head about our times.
>
> > > >>> > Maybe, Don will take it forward with his passionate disputation.
>
> > > >>> > The puppeteers have "unlocked" the value, they say.
> > > >>> > Means, people have been effectively harnessed into the system which reaps
> > > >>> > the 'value' they create in a high-GINI hierarchical structure, in which too
> > > >>> > they are made to pay for their needs at costs that leave them poor. Except
> > > >>> > for the smart few who agree to actions they might be indicted by law for or
> > > >>> > stoned to gore by the people !
>
> > > >>> > The whole of education serves to provide an inexhaustible stream of
>
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