It might be a case of working out where hostility arises and who is trying
to master whom. I had not thought of myself as a holy cow before Al -
thanks for that one!
On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 08:49:37 UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:
>
> You are right Gabby Do not kill the holy cow.. (",)
>
> Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
>
> ---
> 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]>
>> To: [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.
>>>>>>>>>>
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