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7th-Apr-2008 09:10 pm - as my didjeridoo gently laments...
petiteChartres
Again, bad me not posting, but time flies when yr bemused ...or not.  The usual crap, we LPN's at work grow decreasingly under-gruntled.  Why can't the admin creeps be reasonable & solve it our way?

Little excerpt from a blog on AlterNet, discussing the possibilities of increasingly mutually unintelligible dialects of English arising as it becomes more & more the lingua franca of our ever complicating and interconnected world.  This gem appeared, voicing a number of things I've felt, but for which I'd not found appropriate voice.  As follows:

Seems strange, living and dying Language 
Sometimes I feel the urge to send a correspondence or an e-mail, but it would be difficult to the level of impossibility of identifying recipients. They would include many in Theology, many in academic 'disciplines' (asceticisms?) in Philosophy Depts, English Depts, Social Sciences, Anthropologies, Economics, Political Sciences (let's just say: The Academy). It would include Theoretitians and Practitioners, Counselors, Therapists and Psychologists. Maybe it might be termed as "a socio-cultural correspondence" or something similar. Considering Answers and Solutions to be Provisional Questions, I would form it into a question:

Esteemed_________,

Are Names and Universals Things which Live? Do they act, speak, do, invoke, intend and maneuver? If so, I would very much like to meet them in your absence. I'd like very much to see what they look like, find out what drives them, learn their ways of life and life-styles. Get to know them, you know? It would be a good thing for you, since then you wouldn't have to Interpret and Translate for them, listening to them and then telling me what they said or did. Perhaps then I wouldn't be so confused and always mis-understanding what's related!

You keep telling me that this God, or IBM or Language or this History spoke to you and you alone and that I must trust you. But forgive me, but I don't trust you, you always seem to be holding back a Secret or something; as if there's something you're not telling me. What I keep seeing and experiencing all around me just doesn't seem to match what you keep telling me. Someone is lying! I don't know who, but it's a strange feeling I get.

I sense myself experiencing an end to this correspondence. Please excuse my impertinence. Perhaps it;s just a mis-understanding at stake? I wonder what it means? Perhaps I might ask Science directly; maybe he or she might grant me an interview and I could ask him or her some questions I've been dying to get answered!

Sincerely,
Spectacle B. Skeptical

cc: God, Love, History, Language, Poetry, Science, et al and not excluding Unknown.

p.s.: Please feel free to categorize this or file it under "Miscellaneous" unless, of course, you crumple it all up and toss it in the waste-bin.
29th-Jan-2008 08:51 pm(no subject)
petiteChartres
 "Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must
recognize that it is he who is asked. Each man is questioned by life and he
can only answer to life by answering for his own life."

- Martin Buber (Hasidism and Modern Man)
11th-Jan-2008 12:27 am - cuneiform clay tablet
petiteChartres

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics)
created with QuizFarm.com
You scored as Lord Havelock Vetinari

You are Lord Vetinari! Supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork! Cool, calculated, and always in control. You graduated from the assassins guild, but failed a course on stealth and camouflage, because the professor never saw you there (even though you attended every class). You always seem to know what everyone is thinking, and after a conversation with you, people feel that they have just escaped certain death.

Lord Havelock Vetinari

69%

Gytha (Nanny) Ogg

69%

Carrot Ironfounderson

63%

The Librarian

63%

Commander Samuel Vimes

56%

Rincewind

50%

Greebo

44%

Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax

38%

Death

38%

Cohen The Barbarian

31%
1st-Jan-2008 10:39 pm - rambling in a new year
petiteChartres
 Haven't logged in a month? Bad me! no donut!

Listening to NPR coming home, heard writers telling stories from their lives.  Interesting woman telling about her fiance, a chemist who was in a lab accident where he caught fire.  Described her impression of her memory of his scream as "a raw sound, the cortex torn off, revealing a core of limbic horror".

On a lighter note, she described  how before her skyclad, wiccan-officiated wedding (clergy chosen by her fiance)  she decided , as an act of love, to have a 'belt' tattooed around her waist  consisting of diagrams 
of his favorite molecules.
6th-Dec-2007 09:29 am - drama?
petiteChartres
 For some reason began considering incredibly inappropriate casting for various dramatic roles.  
Most were less than memorable, but one stuck out from the dross:

Think of the battlement scene from Shakespeares' Hamlet.

As Hamlet: Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Ghost: Kermit the Frog.

Run it through your inner critic and experience the dichotomy of revulsion and hysteria.
30th-Nov-2007 10:13 pm - hmmm...
petiteChartres

Reading a Robert Thurman book on Buddhism, created an interesting thoughtstream.  Which would you prefer:

A) These things piss off G**...these are the painful & deadly ways you'll be punished if you get caught in this world,
     then  you get punished for Eternity.

B) We all hurt, but it doesn't have to last forever.  If you do these things, you can make it better.  
     Do them well, you can make it stop.



30th-Nov-2007 09:48 pm - misc. brain droppings
petiteChartres
 Some wordplay:

Glass bakeware made in the Leeward Islands = "Pyrex of the Caribbean"

(dinosaur )3.141592 =  Pi-Rex

dinosaur, baked in a pastry crust = Pie-Rex


"If you want to make an apple-pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe" ~ Carl Sagan
12th-Nov-2007 10:10 pm - heard on radio
petiteChartres

 "christianites" are different than Christians.  They are consumed w/ worshipping Jesus because it looks good to people and it's easier than actually trying to follow his teachings.

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