No not blame Tony,, with him I not sure which moon he was referring to. ~~ 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 20:31 Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Writing Block Fantasic reply! Blame it on Tony! Go for it. He is relatively new to this group, it must be him! Am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2014 schrieb : > 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] > <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: 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]>: >>> >>> 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 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 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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