Don't know I am trying to figure out if Tony was getting a bit cheeky. . ~~ لا القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد أو إيذاء الآخرين Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others
-----Original Message----- From: gabbydott <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:26 Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block The Scotch animal. So so. More wise keys anyone? Am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2014 schrieb archytas : > 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] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> >>> To: [email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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] >>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> >>>> To: "[email protected] >>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>" < >>>> [email protected] >>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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] >>>> <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. >>> 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 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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