Mary:
I'll stick to discussing beans, then. ;)
Ron:
I grew up eating string beans, spent alot of time picking them,
picked them with my mother. we used to have long conversations working in the
garden. That night, when the baskets were full, we'd sit on the porch and
snap them into small bite sized lengths. We picked soy beans too and let my
mind wander as we labored in the sun, when my father came home from
the steel plant where he was a welder, he'd sip a beer and have the radio on
and help
us snap beans, some of the best times with my folks was over beans.
Beans....my favorite is bean soup, made with several kinds of beans,
because in tough times, mom would buy any beans that were the cheapest
at the dented can store, from black beans to lima, red to pinto to lentils.
It was those times, when she just threw leftovers in apot, "hunters stew"
usually deer meat and anything that could be rustled up that were the best
probably because we were hungry.
Being so tight with my parents and sister, I learned not to judge
people by their gender or race or social status, But I do judge them
by their genuiness and honosty.
>
> Mary,
> To be honost, why would gender matter one bit on an intellectual
> forum?
>
> -Ron
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mary <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Fri, February 12, 2010 6:47:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [MD] The Truth of Symbol part 1 - Joseph Campbell
> (Demanding Evidence part 2)
>
> Hello X Acto knife,
>
> Hmmm. Pythagoreans and neo's? I don't get it. Went to your wiki
> link,
> which, by the way, one of my son's teachers says they should never use
> because you can't trust anything written in Wikipedia. An odd
> sentiment I
> told him. Why people would go to so much trouble to falsify
> pythagoreanism,
> for instance, is beyond me, but hey, I just work here.
>
> The only thing I know about Pythagoras is what I learned in geometry
> class,
> so I was surprised to learn they had such reverence for BEANS.
> Personally,
> my favorite meal is beans, cornbread and fried potatoes. This was
> handed
> down from my southern poor-white-trash parents. My Mother used to pick
> cotton every year just so she could get new shoes for school, and her
> favorite meal after a hard day of childhood labor was beans, cornbread,
> and
> fried potatoes. My son, who has never picked cotton in his life, much
> less
> actually seen a cotton plant, likes the fried potatoes but doesn't like
> the
> beans. Go figure. Of course the beans are no good without a big ham
> hock
> added to the pot. That grease really gives those beans great flavor.
>
> There's a difference of opinion about whether you should serve red
> beans or
> white. Reds are traditional, but, despite the fact that they are
> Yankee
> food, I prefer Great Northern beans myself, a connoisseur of red-neck
> cuisine.
>
> The five pointed star thing intrigued me too, especially the fact that
> Pythagoreans put two points up and the one down. Here in Texas, the
> five
> pointed star is a potent symbol of the state and always has the one
> point at
> the top, thus confirming my belief that Texans have a point on the top
> of
> their head.
>
> I especially liked this quote, " Women were given equal opportunity to
> study
> as Pythagoreans; however, they learned practical domestic skills in
> addition
> to philosophy.[9] Women were held to be different from men, [I put
> emphasis
> HERE >] but sometimes in good ways." Snorting Dr. Pepper up my nose!
> SOMETIMES?
>
> Since Marsha is on sabbatical, I guess I am the token woman on the
> list.
> Try to be nicer, you guys! You don't really want to just sit around
> and
> talk to yourselves, do you? ;)
>
> Mary
>
> - The most important thing you will ever make is a realization.
>
> > Sorry to butt in, but that makes good sense Mary, in fact it can be
> > traced
> > to the Pythagoreans and neopythagoreans.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism
> >
> >
> > -Ron
>
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