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silveradept) wrote2006-11-29 01:05 am
silveradept) wrote2006-11-29 01:05 am
Hot-footing across the deadline lava pool
Calling it a night again, not because all the work is done (Oh, heavens no.), but because I have to get up in the morning and go to class. Maybe tomorrow, significant denting in the workload. Maybe not. Either way, it needs to basically be all finished before I get to the weekend. I wasn’t really helping my cause much by sitting out on one of the campus locales, people-watching and thinking about things other than my schoolwork. But I think spending that time out there helped me in some immeasurable way. Maybe I rebalanced my chi sitting out there eating chips, drinking soda, and watching people go by as music played in my ears.
Tomorrow I’ll do more work.
It has come to this: TV Land will air the 100 most memorable catchphrases of television. What’s more sad is that I recognize most of them. Still, pretty bad when it’s TV catchphrases that are getting their own show. I might recommend playing with a video game system over that. Just be careful around your expensive TV, as Wii straps don't take abuse kindly. And it probably took quite the abuse to get these to break.
Taking a silly thing out to a logical nth degree, the Indescribable Institute insists that schools across the nation begin teaching the controversy over sexual reproduction theories.
An interesting thought, perhaps to come pre-loaded with the $100 laptops - a selection of Wikipedia is being distributed over BitTorrent, most likely with eventual aim of being burnt to CD/DVD and used in an educational manner. Assuming that everything in the articles has been fact-checked, this is a pretty good idea, specially for those on slow to nonexistent connections, assuming someone with a good connection and some writable media starts the process.
An advertisement best left to rot, as it purports to teach the thumb-twitching text-messaging crowd how to improve their speed. Most likely at the sacrifice of their grammar. Or maybe it’s so they can download more cell phone porn, one of the big things that people are spending cash on, faster. Although one would hope they’re of age to do such things.
In a fairly surprising move, the guy who demonstrated how to make fake boarding passes is going free, apparently because the federal government couldn’t find any criminal intent. In this day and age, it’s rather surprising to see that decision appear.
An allegation of a mother microwaving her child. Hopefully it’s not something deliberate, but something that may be explainable as an extreme action from postpartum depression. Not that it necessarily excuses the action, but at least makes it understandable why something like that would happen.
Living at the mall, all the time of your life. Well, at least with these “lifestyle centers” that take the idea of the mega mall and transform it into small-appearing shops (like the Disney ones). The atmosphere is apparently sufficiently changed to lure in more people to them. Apparently, the appearance of town life (or suburbia) is sufficient - the actual content is immaterial. Do we really want to live in a Disney-style illusion over reality? (Which is, I guess, highly overrated.)
London: A Life in Maps. Detailing the progression of the city of London since it was Saxon to the present day. Very interesting, and may be worth a read for people on both sides of the pond.
Liberal Eagle reminds us that war is hell; hell is other people in decrying the spectator-sport atmosphere that surrounds the current war in Iraq, but Democrats and Liberals suggest that Bush may be on his last gasps of F.U.D. That won’t stop other people, like Nancy Levant, from taking up the mantle and accusing us all of being complicit in an Illuminati scheme, currently under the guise of the Council on Foreign Relations.
This following sequence has a running thread through it, but I can’t quite figure out how to make it all work together. So bear with me as I start with the willingness of someone to talk about Muslim domestic violence, hop across to what the Quran has to say, at times, about women's status , take two hops and a skip over to the 16 days of activism against gender violence, and landing with Ratzinger's wish to have "authentic dialogue" with other religious leaders. There’s got to be a thread somewhere in there. I just can’t find it.
Anyway, bedtime. Must catch the bus to the Ford tomorrow for class, which means my morning schedule gets just a bit compressed.
Tomorrow I’ll do more work.
It has come to this: TV Land will air the 100 most memorable catchphrases of television. What’s more sad is that I recognize most of them. Still, pretty bad when it’s TV catchphrases that are getting their own show. I might recommend playing with a video game system over that. Just be careful around your expensive TV, as Wii straps don't take abuse kindly. And it probably took quite the abuse to get these to break.
Taking a silly thing out to a logical nth degree, the Indescribable Institute insists that schools across the nation begin teaching the controversy over sexual reproduction theories.
An interesting thought, perhaps to come pre-loaded with the $100 laptops - a selection of Wikipedia is being distributed over BitTorrent, most likely with eventual aim of being burnt to CD/DVD and used in an educational manner. Assuming that everything in the articles has been fact-checked, this is a pretty good idea, specially for those on slow to nonexistent connections, assuming someone with a good connection and some writable media starts the process.
An advertisement best left to rot, as it purports to teach the thumb-twitching text-messaging crowd how to improve their speed. Most likely at the sacrifice of their grammar. Or maybe it’s so they can download more cell phone porn, one of the big things that people are spending cash on, faster. Although one would hope they’re of age to do such things.
In a fairly surprising move, the guy who demonstrated how to make fake boarding passes is going free, apparently because the federal government couldn’t find any criminal intent. In this day and age, it’s rather surprising to see that decision appear.
An allegation of a mother microwaving her child. Hopefully it’s not something deliberate, but something that may be explainable as an extreme action from postpartum depression. Not that it necessarily excuses the action, but at least makes it understandable why something like that would happen.
Living at the mall, all the time of your life. Well, at least with these “lifestyle centers” that take the idea of the mega mall and transform it into small-appearing shops (like the Disney ones). The atmosphere is apparently sufficiently changed to lure in more people to them. Apparently, the appearance of town life (or suburbia) is sufficient - the actual content is immaterial. Do we really want to live in a Disney-style illusion over reality? (Which is, I guess, highly overrated.)
London: A Life in Maps. Detailing the progression of the city of London since it was Saxon to the present day. Very interesting, and may be worth a read for people on both sides of the pond.
Liberal Eagle reminds us that war is hell; hell is other people in decrying the spectator-sport atmosphere that surrounds the current war in Iraq, but Democrats and Liberals suggest that Bush may be on his last gasps of F.U.D. That won’t stop other people, like Nancy Levant, from taking up the mantle and accusing us all of being complicit in an Illuminati scheme, currently under the guise of the Council on Foreign Relations.
This following sequence has a running thread through it, but I can’t quite figure out how to make it all work together. So bear with me as I start with the willingness of someone to talk about Muslim domestic violence, hop across to what the Quran has to say, at times, about women's status , take two hops and a skip over to the 16 days of activism against gender violence, and landing with Ratzinger's wish to have "authentic dialogue" with other religious leaders. There’s got to be a thread somewhere in there. I just can’t find it.
Anyway, bedtime. Must catch the bus to the Ford tomorrow for class, which means my morning schedule gets just a bit compressed.
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Hmm. Then in the case of a religious text, which one group wants to revere and treat with cleanliness and awe and another group wants to burn, it would be acceptable either to revere it and treat it with cleanliness and awe, or to burn it, but not to treat it the same way as any other collection of bound pages with words on them in one's collection?
The first premise: described in the first paragraph.
The second premise, that which wasn't addressed in the second paragraph: *looks carefully; breaks down again*
'the claim [claim] is not a wholly void statement, assuming that [X] and [Y]'
Assumption Y: 'that you agree that text should be able to suggest to its readers how to care for it (a text with rules)': a text may do anything, including making wild claims about the Earth and giant purple creator god toads or insisting that on certain days the reader shuns the colour blue. It may suggest how to care for it, but that in itself doesn't create any obligation for the reader to follow thes suggestion: especially in the case of caring for a book, as it belongs to the reader, by ignoring the instructions of care the reader only harms himself in that the book may fall apart faster (in which case the bookbinders will probably profit, if he then buys another copy to replace the old one).
Assumption X: 'that you agree that the labels applied have behavioral norms attached (religious text)': the first paragraph addresses that. There are behavioural norms, but they do not concern what one does in the privacy of one's home, or even in public so long as no one else is harmed by it. Even if public non-harming-of-others behaviour is illegal, as we can imagine a society which makes it illegal to let one's hair be seen, or to pick one's nose, as long as it harms no one else the only person being harmed by the doing of the illegal action is the actor.
There, though, we get into slightly complicated territory. So, ignoring the public for now: in the privacy of one's own home, so long as it harms no one else, I claim that behavioural norms, behavioural expectations, societal expectations, all the complex social rules which govern daily public interactions have no bearing. What one does with oneself and one's solely owned belongings is one's own business, no one else's, and no one has anything resembling a right to try to control your actions or obligate you to do anything during that time.
Note that this does not apply when one's actions or lack thereof have effects on others, and note that living animals could be included in the category 'others' (or not, as the case may be), depending on point of view.
'If that didn't make any sense, let me know.': likewise.