It is some sort of sentimental streak that I have identified that keeps me from not objecting to "the master is right" statements. I will work on that.
--- Do not kill the Holy Cow. Am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2014 schrieb : > Neil is right Gabby. Minds eye is a discussion group. . It is open to any > topic. Writers block is a valid topic because you are objecting so much my > guess would be you are suffering from writer's block. > Unfortunately that means we put up with a lot of BS from everyone. If you > don't like the topic the easiest way to deal with it is not respond. I know > that is to simple of a solution. > > Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others. > > -----Original Message----- > From: archytas <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > To: [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > Sent: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 1:43 AM > Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block > > Write the note so we can cut and paste Gabby. One of those cards in the > window of a cosmopolitan guest house would do, or none at all to indicate > we take hospitality for granted. You always were the sweetest goose. My > eyes are warm brown. Democracies with few ideas or contributions are > hard. I was not my own candidate in the mod game - you were. The ears of > democracy were deaf and so achieved default by default. > > On Monday, December 15, 2014 12:41:39 PM UTC, Gabby wrote: >> >> I would not cause problems if we made this group site your writer's blog. >> Democratic principles have never managed to enter this space here anyhow. >> Your input activities have kept the group communication process alive for >> the past years, so we might as well fully face reality and do something >> ourselves to get you out of here and into the world. That way we could also >> try to legitimize the blue eye without feeling too much shame. Speaking of >> shame and mental blockage, yes, it helps to be German to be able to violate >> English language parameters and principles. Universal grammar principles >> have been shown to be violable by speakers of all kinds though. Which is >> why I recommend you changed the welcome note and turned it into a real >> welcome note. Cross out all the things that show how much unpleasant >> experiences you expect to occur and how you are prepared to cross them out. >> A short but friendly welcome note will do. >> >> Am Samstag, 13. Dezember 2014 02:36:57 UTC+1 schrieb archytas: >>> >>> Good luck as ever Molly. I once had a cat that learned to type and >>> turned my thesis into Greek. The dogs aren't being much help, lying about >>> bored when I produce the great work and leaping to enthusiasm only when >>> they hear the noise of Windows 10 signing off. They have decided this >>> means 'walkies;. >>> >>> On Saturday, December 13, 2014 1:15:01 AM UTC, Molly wrote: >>>> >>>> Writing block is a force to be reckoned with. When we can't express, we >>>> can only be still, until the expression begins again. Good luck, my friend. >>>> As for me, I am entering the season of hectic calling. I will miss you all >>>> in the duration, and will try to chime in from time to time. I love it >>>> here. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:47:46 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Odd how easily we get suckered into such as 'bad spelling', the shame >>>>> of the misplaced apostrophe, barking spelling rules like i before e except >>>>> after c (no doubt like seize) and 'for who the bell tolls' (it shouldn't >>>>> be >>>>> whom according to the rules). I actually thought 'histarical' describes >>>>> us >>>>> both to a T at times and Gabby all of the time (not really) - so why >>>>> should >>>>> it be a spelling mistak? Gabbs won't understand none of this Charlie, on >>>>> the grounds of being dragged up in the logically ruthless German language >>>>> in which one must tomorrow navel with head in clouds gaze the dative case, >>>>> bright as a button being in the creation of words so long they probably >>>>> their own internal syntax haben. To make up for this they drop the a in >>>>> 'I >>>>> am a Berliner'. Endless supplies of paper we not though Sweden army trees >>>>> and small army have. >>>>> >>>>> My English teachers had nice legs. I remember little else other than >>>>> the trauma of the Oxford comma and the brutality of the future pluperfect. >>>>> German and Russian came as blessed relief from the language of world >>>>> domination, now wrenched from the Queen's fair hands by Americans with no >>>>> language of their own. I was told I would need these foreign languages, >>>>> along with Latin to better understand Greek and read scientific papers >>>>> written by the only foreigners literate in it. Turned out everything >>>>> about >>>>> Greeks and Romans was an extended lie of the Catholic Church and German >>>>> and >>>>> Russian scientists bright enough to translate papers to English. They >>>>> dropped the requirement doctors speak Latin on the day they started >>>>> teaching it to me. Doctors, of course, never wrote Latin, but this does >>>>> explain why their handwriting is so bad. They just haven't dropped the >>>>> habit of covering up their lack of Latin. It is a matter of great regret >>>>> I >>>>> never discovered who or what was sucking out the brains of my >>>>> contemporaries to make them think. At some point, I strumbled (another >>>>> word we should put to more use) into computer coding. Here one discovers >>>>> that coding is very boring and relies on understanding nothing human >>>>> beings >>>>> say makes sense to machines far brighter than we are, able to translate >>>>> all >>>>> languages through statistical methods badly. >>>>> >>>>> Get out that fiddle Allan and we'll jamm some histarical stom >>>>> strumble. >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, December 11, 2014 4:04:29 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I know my spelling is bad.. but it is better than it was. A good >>>>>> brain stoming session is good if fellow participants have brains. >>>>>> Good starting point. >>>>>> >>>>>> Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]> >>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>> Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 9:36 AM >>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block >>>>>> >>>>>> I think we have the idea of the 'solo artist' quite wrong. >>>>>> Collaboration with others is often awful - I really have been to >>>>>> brainstorming sessions of truly brainless proportion - and I long >>>>>> abandoned >>>>>> other academics in anything where I was responsible for deadlines - yet I >>>>>> miss the contributions of others now I've gone solo and still can't shake >>>>>> off what we might call 'audience pressures' or find a voice (though I can >>>>>> still get through 3 hours of lecturing with discomfort only amongst the >>>>>> poor souls that have to listen). 'Histarical' sounds wonderfully >>>>>> descriptive of something you and I experience Al. The Engleesh teechers >>>>>> will never allow it though. >>>>>> >>>>>> I wanted to do something like my teaching strategy - largely based on >>>>>> an early threat that my job was to install a thick textbook of >>>>>> unbelievable >>>>>> tedium in the heads of students, followed by an offer to throw it in the >>>>>> bin if they would have a go at finding something they wanted to do. A >>>>>> kind >>>>>> if make your own mind up novel. I managed this in case study by >>>>>> encouraging investigation outside the written material. I think what >>>>>> happened to me was getting used to writing in hyper-text to be filled out >>>>>> by others and too used to marking all the work as though I was the >>>>>> audience. I am not alone, as an academic, in reading Kierkegaard as a >>>>>> Danish comic (the Nordics will wait much longer for a joke than us) - >>>>>> but I >>>>>> can't find a way to write the bigger farce of language as deception, >>>>>> other >>>>>> than in some turgid academy-speak on such as law courts pretending to be >>>>>> rational while acting out Freud's Oedipal theatre. Histarical! >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:26:06 AM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But what would I know, I seem to be trapped where time is nothing >>>>>>> more than a histarical marker. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]> >>>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>>> Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 7:18 AM >>>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Can you see if the tinsel is being worn inside or on top of the blue >>>>>>> velvet? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thursday, December 11, 2014 5:58:19 AM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I understand what your colleague is saying. As for brains that is >>>>>>>> why I oftentimes why I find myself sitting on the side of the hill. >>>>>>>> I'm >>>>>>>> left wondering if most of the world has turned into a tinsel town? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]> >>>>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>>>> Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 2:07 AM >>>>>>>> Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Creativity is free without copyright protection. Walking into a >>>>>>>> brainstorming session it is tempting to ask 'where are the other brains >>>>>>>> then'? Even the invention of physics outside space-time doesn't get >>>>>>>> one >>>>>>>> out-from-under that manoeuvre, especially when pertinent to reality! >>>>>>>> What >>>>>>>> everyone in the galaxy hates most is a wise-ass. A colleague once >>>>>>>> told me >>>>>>>> she couldn't stand even minor distractions like people talking at the >>>>>>>> back, >>>>>>>> always thinking they might be saying something more interesting than >>>>>>>> she >>>>>>>> was. I was able to assure her this could not be true, as no one had >>>>>>>> ever >>>>>>>> said anything interesting in one of her classes. 'Must have SOH' is a >>>>>>>> general personality demand - yet most react to harmless jibes with >>>>>>>> revenge >>>>>>>> and advertising as harmless. Brilliant riposte - I've just spent 3 >>>>>>>> hours >>>>>>>> fixing the ultimate block to my writing - malfunctioning Microsoft >>>>>>>> Office - >>>>>>>> needed a smile. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> One might try writing on the important, but no one is interested in >>>>>>>> that without the guru act. My aliens have it that the prime directive >>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>> human languages is deception. Few humans can take this deadly >>>>>>>> seriousness >>>>>>>> with a smile. Sadly the aliens don't use money and I have to rely on >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> human audience. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:47:07 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> My first reaction is to try and respond with a clever yet >>>>>>>>> reciprocating idea but I don't want to hate myself after I have >>>>>>>>> posted it. >>>>>>>>> A response to this requires thought. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --- >>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','minds-eye%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/minds-eye/KTUgaEDcurk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','minds-eye%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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