Letters to the Editor
ondelette
Published Letters: 1988 Editor's Choice: 19
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@WT @IntrovertGirl @certifiedprepwn3D
[Read the article: The Republican Party is the party of Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, that's your job, as a neuroscientist, to figure out, innit?
Or maybe to figure out whether there is a problem with the logic.
As for how it's unpacked, well, as you say, decoding the logical steps as well as the culture-specific allusions might take any number of steps to replicate what is in fact communicated to the properly tuned in an instant. Human pattern recognition is an amazing thing...
This is an amazingly complex sentence and a half. Fundamentally, the question I was asking was whether your properly tuned in instant fits into finitely many any number of steps or whether human pattern recognition is an oxymoron (aaggghh, I really hope that sentence made sense).
at the end of the forty minutes a little light blinked and suddenly the phrase "Mad cow disease is caused by depression" made complete logical sense, even though its explanation was only in metaphor
This is the second time this backward looking logical sense has been cited since I wandered on to this topic last night, the first time was
- yes, but they only do that afterwards - not before. The logically plausible steps are unconfirmable and therefore, potentially, irrelevant. If you are working on the difference between logical steps and metaphoric insight, why do you try to turn the metaphors into logical steps before accepting them? (certifiedprepwn3D)
So, with much thanks to all on this, suppose I say that metaphor is a series of steps like this
A-->A-->A-->...
---------------> time
where each A is an analogy. And logic is
A<--A<--A<--...
---------------> time
I actually really like this explanation. In essence it says that mathematics is poetry (h/t IntrovertGirl) because rather than poetry being that form of communicating where words have more meanings, logic is that form of poetry where words have fewer meanings.
Where there was nothing, poof now there is something. Where was it packed before it was delivered?
Maybe it wasn't.
One can only imagine how rich and how laconic such a language could be, yet how difficult it would be to reconcile it with any science worthy of the name.
or how rich the science it produced would be. Have you seen Haboken Landscape by Sesshu? Do you know anyone who sees somthing other than a landscape?
sorry to all the others for the OT.
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Sorry it isn't haboken it's hatsuboku
[Read the article: The Republican Party is the party of Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]splashed ink.
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Missing from ondelette's list...
[Read the article: The Republican Party is the party of Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...were a lot of things, including all but one war of the 20th century. I was just showing that it wasn't hard to top the thugs mentioned with wars. I looked at a couple of other lists, and it is probably a toss up between wars and thugs, with probably well above 100 million each for the 20th century.
There is a problem if you try to look too closely. The Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was started by Mao in his own country, I included it as "thug", but it included stuff that would properly be classified as war, like the Red Guard fighting the Southern Command of the PLA with tanks on both sides, and maybe it should be moved from one column to the other. Likewise, is slaughtering your enemy genocidally considered war or "democide"? A lot of democide totals include all genocides, the perpetrators might have called some acts of war. International law does allow war to be genocide. Is starving people in a siege in your own country because they are rebelling which? You can decrease one total and increase the other and vice versa. What about disease? Lord Geoffrey Amherst gave smallpox infected blankets to the Indians. What about starvation? Mengitsu starving the Eritreans counts as what? Does the fact that the 1918 flu epidemic spread and became so toxic in part because of soldiers packed on ships count? The 1870 flu epidemic is usually lumped in with the genocide against Native Americans, should it be? Do the people who got sick from Hiroshima count or only the ones who died during the war? Do the people killed when the government of Khyrgistan ordered troops to open fire count as democide because they were unarmed civilians attempting to flee the country, or as war casualties because they were terrorists and the government was at war with terror? Does working people to death count as war if they were on the other side and democide if they weren't? What if they were part of the resistance? What if a company works them to death?
And (especially for libertarians) if Blackwater kills is it neither war nor democide -- just business as usual? Does corporaticide mean it's okay as long as Wall Street approves? What if a war is started for business interests, does that fall in the corporaticide column or the war column? Does a government-corporate partnership which runs a concentration camp for manufacturing which eventually kills people count as what, e.g. the Silesian-American Corp. at Auschwitz? Is that a form of employicide? When they kill villagers in Nigeria to keep the oil running is that securicide?
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Karen M, IntrovertGirl, do you mean...
[Read the article: The Republican Party is the party of Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This interview? Having trouble with your links.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4551
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@LaL
[Read the article: The Republican Party is the party of Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Any "libertarian", i.e. anyone who is opposed to "authoritarianism" in all its manifestations and guises, would have to be incredibly ignorant, incredibly stupid, or incredibly disingenuous not to recognize that the modern centralized corporation is as essentially authoritarian, corrupt, and dangerous as any government you can name. If anything, a large corporation is even worse than a centralized government in terms of the harm it can do to people, including its own employees.
Thank you for making this clear. It frequently seems as if libertarians do not believe in regulating business, but want government to have very limited power. It's good to know that you believe corporations shouldn't have this power either.
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Re: There Are Two Types Of People In The World
[Read the article: What "truly motivates" George W. Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dubya the cretin said, "All cretins are liars."