Beautiful poetry. Is there any German for goose-gabbsed yet? It sounds like something that could only happen to an Englishman. Thank goodness I'm Scots.
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 9:17:02 AM UTC, Gabby wrote: > > It could actually be very tiring to serve the system of embracing the > paradox of being goose gabbsed in order to allow the natural superpower > to delve in fantastic memories of milk&honey lands. Paradise is not lost, > the anti-islamic freedom fighters will bark us the way back and so on and > so on. But - au contraire - this primitive echo chamber of cheap > stereotypes keeps reminding me of the importance of staying awake. Thank > you all. :) > > > Am 17.12.2014 um 00:58 schrieb archytas <[email protected]>: > > Gabby is right, of course or jawohl. Direction is often what screws us. > Most university courses in management have some pot-boiler content on > 'motivation at work' that excludes what is done to get us into work > situations in the first place. The aim is to get get students to hack out > answers from this content without ever thinking. No doubt my insistence on > them thinking for themselves was equally directive. I also taught the > equivalent of getting them to read keynotes like those that let you give > the answers teachers want on Jane Eyre and the rest without reading the > novel. Some of the most directive and awful management teaching concerns > personal development. The best I managed was to let my students know how > little I know, though the Socratic irony is even this is to know more than > people who read management books thinking acting as they instruct is > remotely moral. One of my own teachers, asked to give us what had been > important to him gave us two bits of plain paper. > > So what do YOU think people? I used to give out half-a-dozen potential > assignments. The last question was always 'think one up yourselves'. This > had few takers, though all the best work came from those that chose this > option. One or two were smart enough to negotiate doing nothing, offering > me the opportunity of having nothing to mark. Anthony Flew is supposed to > have answered the question 'what is courage?' with the two words 'this is' > as an undergraduate. Gabby will no doubt tell us this wasn't minimalist > enough. > > False enthusiasm is now taught in teacher training. You've just got to > lurve them sums and keep beating this enthusiasm into kids that can't do > them. We might ask the holy cows - they have fairly complex language if > one bothers to listen to them. > > On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:01:03 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> ROGLMAO. The Holy Cow thing is from Gabby's new tag line. . It is not my >> idea.. the olden calf thing is her's also.. don't want credit for great >> ideas. >> Actually when you think about it minds eye is our sacred cow.. >> >> So what is the topic for barn storming in the Holy Cow of Minds Eye? >> >> Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: archytas <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:28 >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block >> >> 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. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> --- >>>>>>>>>>> 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]. >>>> 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]. >>>> 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 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]. > 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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