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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 08:28 PM Original message |
Snow Sex: A Literary Exercise and its Implications |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. And THEN there's the Constitution!!! |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 08:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Don't get me started...n/t |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. Religions that didn't write books didn't have this problem, did they? |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 08:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. 2 problems |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 09:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Almost every "native" religion in the world follows this model |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 09:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Well, I have to say, even though I know it won't be popular, |
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iris27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 09:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. A religion without historical texts *would* be more quickly able to serve the |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
6. yep |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. "There is no correct interpretation of any text." |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Based on what measure? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
11. Concur in part, dissent in part |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 11:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Good subject line. I'll re-use it. Concur in part, dissent in part. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 12:35 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. When the formalist David Hilbert produced a careful axiomatization |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 12:48 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. More empty elaboration on the concept of abstraction, |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 02:42 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. No. You claim "if everyone in a conversation is talking about different things .. it would be |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 12:33 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. But is mathematics authorship or conversation? |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 01:20 PM Response to Reply #18 |
28. I am curious what you mean by: |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
12. "From the beginning not a thing exists "...Hui Neng |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 11:06 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Solipsism by any other name would still be just as self-centered. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 11:11 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Nothing means nothing...what is this "self" you mention? |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 11:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. . |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-06-10 11:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Now you've grasped it. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 07:09 AM Response to Original message |
21. Great point - and then you look at works like the bible, when you have to add... |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
22. While interpretation is open, not all interpretations are equally credible. |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 05:21 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. Context may matter, but also falls prey to interpretive problems. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
23. You should post this in all of the forums. Recommended. nt |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 05:29 PM Response to Reply #23 |
34. I don't know about all the forums, |
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jeepnstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
24. Context is king. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 11:44 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. So are all Christians who disagree with your particular interpretation of the bible |
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jeepnstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 12:28 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Not at all. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Oh, I get it. |
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jeepnstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 02:25 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Or maybe I haven't as much as them. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 02:49 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. So you're one of the "legalistic swine" in that case? n/t |
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jeepnstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. If I am I deserve to be corrected. |
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onager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 09:57 PM Response to Reply #31 |
37. Jesus H. Christ apparently being a "legalistic swine..." |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 06:29 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Now wait a minute... |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 05:32 PM Response to Reply #24 |
35. You sound like me the first time we discussed this topic in class... |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 07:23 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. No control at all, or simply a lack of complete 100% control? |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 08:38 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. If it helps, think of authorship like throwing a dart. |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 09:20 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. That's a lot of control, even in the analogy, however. |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 09:35 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I agree with you about two way communication, |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 10:03 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Not just fiction, but, for example, simple instructions |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 10:41 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. How does your wife know the note is for her, |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 12:26 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Context |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 06:41 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. My point was a bit simpler than that: |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 10:43 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. You seem to be putting a whole lot of emphasis... |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-08-10 11:07 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. That would be because I was specifically talking about writing, |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-10 12:46 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. "I will agree that you have some" |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-09-10 07:01 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Sure...and what's that old adage about best laid plans? n/t |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
36. Excellent! K&R ....n/t |
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