So many colorful emotions and archetypal personas that I think we're still howling (howl, howl, howl.) That echo is still here...
On Feb 23, 11:04 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > Still the age old dilemma, damsel in distress. Your the hero arch, > called to the rescue, slay the slip and save the day. I'm quite > devastated by the rejection and will resign to the temperate zone of > the cooler where I may turn Blue, thereby delaying your poetic > recital. I had a moment when I was Green with envy but my skin tones > returned to fleshly hues, not that I didn't feel a bit Yellow after > the suggestion of a firearm attack against me. Orange you glad it > didn't have to happen? Better this than maybe Molly had given me a > Black eye. It's all quite embarrassing really and I'm slightly Red in > the face. I'm just a Silver tooth devil anyway, what the heck, so I > don't have any Gold teeth. There may be Gray skies but it's still a > colorful world isn't it? {;-) > > On Feb 23, 7:36 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Long gone Molly - though I've just dug them up for a novel. Sex in > > the sequel to Catch 22 (Closing Time) was merely the touch of a hand > > to a slip. I am merely the Horse from Don Quixote thrown up again to > > wonder what the fools are up to in my sense of reality. We could do > > with Bat Masterson around here - though my guess is he used a large > > piece of wood. Decent jobs and dignity would kill off more crime > > round here than even one of my old teams. I'll read some of my poetry > > if Slip turns purple! > > > On 23 Feb, 16:00, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I can see that Neil, the chaperon, will be needed to maintain social > > > propriety. Don't forget your firearm and badge, Neil. > > > > On Feb 23, 10:11 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > So now I'm your Pink Slip! Yeehaaa! Fire and Wine! I'm howlin! > > > > > *running the cold shower* > > > > > On Feb 23, 8:59 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > My mom taught me never to let my slip show, but I can see we are back > > > > > to the fire lit night and bottle of wine, good for a group howl. > > > > > > On Feb 22, 4:48 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Well I'm thinking that I'm either Molly's "Friend Slip" or her > > > > > > "Freudian Slip", hoping to find out soon! > > > > > > > On Feb 22, 3:40 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Fiend might be better than Saint Slip given the sanctification of > > > > > > > Foucault by some! Wait until the moon is up before you howl Slip > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > you'll hear my echo ... > > > > > > > > On 22 Feb, 21:07, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Fiend? *howls really loud* > > > > > > > > > On Feb 22, 2:57 pm, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Very insightful, as usual, my fiend Slip. > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 22, 3:49 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Gee Molly, you must have much To Do to typo a To To for a > > > > > > > > > > Do To. Busy > > > > > > > > > > are we? > > > > > > > > > > > Miss your more in depth out looks. {:-) > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 22, 12:08 pm, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > And by the way, moderators, many, many thanks for all > > > > > > > > > > > that you to to > > > > > > > > > > > allow these conversations. You are appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 22, 11:01 am, Kierkecraig > > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Betty, > > > > > > > > > > > > You probably joined the group and choose to receive > > > > > > > > > > > > updates via > > > > > > > > > > > > email. Change your settings to no email if you do not > > > > > > > > > > > > wish to receive > > > > > > > > > > > > email updates. > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 22, 1:18 am, Betty Boop > > > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- On Sun, 2/22/09, Vamadevananda > > > > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ok im a bit lost as to why i am recieving everyones > > > > > > > > > > > > > mail but none is directed at me????/ could you answer > > > > > > > > > > > > > that for me > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Vamadevananda <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Subject: [Mind's Eye] Re: Say it ain't so.... > > > > > > > > > > > > > To: ""Minds Eye"" <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 8:16 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Could we keep Goffman, Ludwig, Lyotard, etc. aside > > > > > > > > > > > > > for a moment, > > > > > > > > > > > > > Neil ! It is very easy to lose focus between the two > > > > > > > > > > > > > virtues of > > > > > > > > > > > > > listening and expressing, the kind you espouse. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The point is you like Chaz and would like to have him > > > > > > > > > > > > > back. Keeping > > > > > > > > > > > > > KC's offering in mind, the question was of > > > > > > > > > > > > > maintaining order on this > > > > > > > > > > > > > forum. Which that involves isn't restrictive at all > > > > > > > > > > > > > : it just > > > > > > > > > > > > > requires that one is verbally meaningful, polite and > > > > > > > > > > > > > respectful > > > > > > > > > > > > > towards each other. Do you disagree with that, this > > > > > > > > > > > > > one basic need of > > > > > > > > > > > > > ensuring order ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And, how does one ensure that order without shutting > > > > > > > > > > > > > out the spammers > > > > > > > > > > > > > and the deviants, the latter who continue to display > > > > > > > > > > > > > obnoxious > > > > > > > > > > > > > ( verbal ) behaviour despite having been given a long > > > > > > > > > > > > > rope in terms of > > > > > > > > > > > > > caution and warnings ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I see this happenning as being more procedureal than > > > > > > > > > > > > > philosophical ! > > > > > > > > > > > > > Much as I envy your erudition, I also suspect that it > > > > > > > > > > > > > can be > > > > > > > > > > > > > debilitating. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 21 Feb, 20:22, archytas <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The question, I guess Molly, would be how we might > > > > > > > > > > > > > > get the spirit into > > > > > > > > > > > > > > our due process. We fail almost entirely in the UK > > > > > > > > > > > > > > because we can't > > > > > > > > > > > > > > work out what fair expression is and don't do > > > > > > > > > > > > > > proper investigations. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Goffman got a lot right in terms of what is said in > > > > > > > > > > > > > > different places > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and contexts, and I remember a reference to a > > > > > > > > > > > > > > British bureaucrat in > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1941 pointing out the 'economical with the truth' > > > > > > > > > > > > > > strategy - the best > > > > > > > > > > > > > > answers one could ever draft being so meaningless > > > > > > > > > > > > > > as not to allow > > > > > > > > > > > > > > critique or even understanding. Aggression is > > > > > > > > > > > > > > often conflated with > > > > > > > > > > > > > > frustration and a kind of righteous indignation we > > > > > > > > > > > > > > should take more > > > > > > > > > > > > > > account of. I guess the need to sort out spam and > > > > > > > > > > > > > > snerting etc. must > > > > > > > > > > > > > > run up against the ideal of wanting anyone to be > > > > > > > > > > > > > > able to have their > > > > > > > > > > > > > > say. What kills me off in the general run of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > information in the media > > > > > > > > > > > > > > is that they never get beyond a class view or seem > > > > > > > > > > > > > > to understand this > > > > > > > > > > > > > > isn't balance, but prejudice. Even this runs to a > > > > > > > > > > > > > > defence of the Sun > > > > > > > > > > > > > > if not careful (our main grim tabloid). I often > > > > > > > > > > > > > > get a 'let them eat > > > > > > > > > > > > > > cake' feeling. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is a need to spit in the face of smiling > > > > > > > > > > > > > > brotherhoods - yet the > > > > > > > > > > > > > > spit is often merely to say this isn't working for > > > > > > > > > > > > > > me and is hurting > > > > > > > > > > > > > > me. There is a key inertial violence in our > > > > > > > > > > > > > > systems - standard > > > > > > > > > > > > > > academic work would refer to paranoid-schizoid and > > > > > > > > > > > > > > depressive > > > > > > > > > > > > > > positions - but even to say this is to be confused > > > > > > > > > > > > > > with claiming > > > > > > > > > > > > > > people are paranoid-schizoid as an insult. One is > > > > > > > > > > > > > > generally forced to > > > > > > > > > > > > > > be a supplicant to those with the power to exclude > > > > > > > > > > > > > > evidence. Evidence > > > > > > > > > > > > > > itself becomes an instrument of torture - perhaps > > > > > > > > > > > > > > as claims to provide > > > > > > > > > > > > > > evidence might be used against some of your > > > > > > > > > > > > > > prose-ideas (which are > > > > > > > > > > > > > > often a source of comfort to me). I really don't > > > > > > > > > > > > > > want to be > > > > > > > > > > > > > > distracted by bone pointers when trying to discuss > > > > > > > > > > > > > > methyl effects in > > > > > > > > > > > > > > epigenetics - but there is an equal distraction > > > > > > > > > > > > > > from scientistic > > > > > > > > > > > > > > boneheads amongst the phenomenological-experiential. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This used to be put in terms of competing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > paradigms, or analytic > > > > > > > > > > > > > > versus immanent critique - my view was that we do > > > > > > > > > > > > > > this at some speed > > > > > > > > > > > > > > in scientific hypothesising and trying to > > > > > > > > > > > > > > understand others - moving > > > > > > > > > > > > > > as quickly as we could towards observational data > > > > > > > > > > > > > > in an understanding > > > > > > > > > > > > > > of its theory-ladenness and critical > > > > > > > > > > > > > > experimentation. None of this > > > > > > > > > > > > > > was about trashing someone talking about treating > > > > > > > > > > > > > > traumatised kids as > > > > > > > > > > > > > > an idiot because her work couldn't generalise > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (which, of course, it > > > > > > > > > > > > > > could if one looked hard at its conditions of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > possibility) because it > > > > > > > > > > > > > > was only her experience. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Gabby said something about repetition that seems > > > > > > > > > > > > > > tangentially > > > > > > > > > > > > > > relevent. We all repeat. Indeed, her posts repeat > > > > > > > > > > > > > > some kind of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > enigmatic message, always welcomed even when I'm > > > > > > > > > > > > > > confused. 'You poor > > > > > > > > > > > > > > little wain' she might reply - and there would only > > > > > > > > > > > > > > be an exchange of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > smiles. Your response on the return of logos > > > > > > > > > > > > > > certainly made me > > > > > > > > > > > > > > smile. Polite postmoderism only demands a lack of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > seriousness along > > > > > > > > > > > > > > with a refusal to dance on graves. I can't > > > > > > > > > > > > > > remember a bunch of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > politicians so serious as we have now, ceding > > > > > > > > > > > > > > opposition merely to the > > > > > > > > > > > > > > satirists and the dire smalltalk of the pub. Of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > course, > > ... > > read more » --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
