You are right Gabby Do not kill the holy cow.. (",)
Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others.
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From: gabbydott <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block
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.
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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]
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> To: [email protected]
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> 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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