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Oh, so that's what they are there for
I had been wondering
absolutely
that is despicable
Almost no headaches
except for my pesky family
nice poem
I like it very much
I wasn't worried
no one leans on me, except my family
because I wiggle around if they do
School was great. It always is. I like Wednesday because it is writing day. The class writes all day long, on a different topic every week. We split the class into two groups and I help half and my master teacher helps half. It is a kick to see what the kids write.
And my master teacher has a piano in his room, so I play the piano at lunch every day. I have really missed playing- so that is wonderful too.
You're kidding right?
No
I don't watch anything but pbs and the Fox Sunday night lineup- from Futurama to Malcolm
I'm sorry
I wouldn't go THAT far
I might lean in your general direction
but ON you?
Not gonna do it
lean away
ugh
I think so many humans live such unexamined lives it is impossible for them not to act out their wish fulfillment on every substrate available. The nice thing about critical thinking is that it supports analysis of motives, and it encourages looking at the self for hidden agendas. Faith, on the other hand, is a black box that discourages investigation- after all, you must "believe" how can you examine critically, that which you must accept uncreitically in order to "believe"? I find this to be a huge flaw in faith.
I have been exactly the same with regards to faith my whole life. So I don't anticipate any changes. And I mean exactly the same, from my earliest recollections.
yes
I don't have problem with faith that helps the inner man
but I have a big problem when faith allows people to hurt other people
and it does, you know
not just faith in religion, but faith in all sorts of things
the most dangerous people are the people who are absolutely sure about what they believe (whatever it is) and are collecting no more data (in other words their caravans of critical thinking have stopped)
It sounds good
but in action,when we surrender our critical thought, and put our faith in the wrong things, we end up in some pretty horrible places
so all though it sounds pretty, the results aren't necessarily pretty
That is very good news. People are always less efficient than we imagine them to be. This is annoying when it is your employees, or your doctor, or your government, but is a relief when it is terrorists Perhaps the Peter Principle also applies to terrorists?
Onec you stop seeing the world as wonderful, and interesting and surprising, you might as well crawl in the coffin, since you are already dead, even if your optimistic heart continues to beat
The Roe family "star" in it
Richard Roe is the father
and I can't remember his son's name
They interview Julian Lenon at one point- so Julian is in it
You have got to see the movie Pop and Me. It may be the best movie about Father's and Sons I have EVER seen. It is a small independent picture- but please, tell all your friends to see it. This movie is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
How did the dinner go?
But you are way older- that ought to count for something
I'm on the left coast
it is always early here
I'll try not to
I'm not really a flayer
Ok
so I checked
I used it right if I said Canon- see 5 (a):
can·on1 Pronunciation Key (knn)
n.
1.An ecclesiastical law or code of laws established by a church council.
2.A secular law, rule, or code of law.
3.
a.An established principle: the canons of polite society.
b.A basis for judgment; a standard or criterion.
4.The books of the Bible officially accepted as Holy Scripture.
5.
a.A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field: “the durable canon of American short fiction”
(William Styron).
b.The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic: the entire Shakespeare canon.
6.Canon The part of the Mass beginning after the Preface and Sanctus and ending just before the Lord's Prayer.
7.The calendar of saints accepted by the Roman Catholic Church.
8.Music. A composition or passage in which a melody is imitated by one or more voices at fixed intervals of pitch and time.
I can never remember whether it is canon or cannon- and I was too lazy to check. It might be either. But it just means all that Western lit that is deemed great. I'll read any old canon, or cannon, as long as it is good though. I read from East and West.
Romantic would have sufficed- naturalists (I think) are people like Hardy (Jude the Obscure, etc) - people observing nature in all it's wartiness. Romantics are people - like the Lake Poets, who tend to make everything big and special, and who think more of man in his natural state than in his educated rational state. Of course I put the two words together (which I really shouldn't have done)- but I was trying to get across the romantic aspects of man au natural (without education, without the ideas of others). It is just that I thought it I told you your ideas were romantic, I thought you might have thought I was saying something else to you. Know what I mean?
I've got a vested interest in the great books, because I began my life with great books and I hope to end my life with them. Your former POV sounds like the POV of a romantic naturalist (imo). You aren't the first to see man's ideas as more pure in a state of nature (as it were). Of course you might not have known that, if you were trying to keep yourself pure
The funny thing is, all the romantic naturalists I've ever read in the Western canon, were remarkably well educated. So their words are not as convincing as they might have been if a wild boy raised by wolves had written them.
Were you a wild boy raised by wolves?
invisible
hands down
Just think of the insider trading opportunities!
But seriously, we have the ability to stand on the shoulders of giants- or we can choose to be our own little midget selves, and eschew the great thoughts of great minds that have gone before. To me it seems a pointless kind of purity- the purity of ignorance. I prefer to be steeped completely in as many great minds as I can get my hands on. Their thoughts to my thoughts, their minds to my mind- it is the literary version of the Vulcan mindmeld (imo).
That's what makes your thought on this such a great thought
and I'm not going to sully this beautiful moment we're having by putting one of those nasty <g> in it
Originality is but one key, if you don't know the writers before you, you have discarded a priceless legacy. Some people have a grace and a fluidity with the ideas of others, that is not original in and of itself, but is original in style- would you consider that original? I can't tell. I'll give you two examples of borrowing (there are so many, but these are two that leap to my mind- after Hamlet, which always comes to mind first) - "Sweetness and Light" is one of the phrases the critic Matthew Arnold is famous for- by that he meant the civilizing aspects of culture, of aesthetics- but guess what? The term isn't his. It comes from Swift and his work "The Battle of the Books." The passionate Shepard has inspired NUMEROUS responses- most notably, I believe, Ben Johnson's- Marlowe of course wrote the original (or maybe not! Maybe he stole it from someone else). Plagiarism has a strong history in letters, as does "borrowing". It is my belief that originality is only meaningful when it is coupled with the knowledge of what has gone before- otherwise you are in danger of discovering the obvious, and that which has already been discovered is obvious to any educated person.
Thank goodness you are not posting there, because if you posted my post there I would have to kick your ass (in a nice way, of course). I have nothing to say to the folks there. There is nothing to be gained by talking ideas with people who view ideas which do not agree with their ideas as treason. I wish I were kidding, but I've read enough of them to know I'm not. What can you do with people whose ideas you understand but do not agree with, and who view your ideas as the mark of the beast? IMO you stay far far away from them- and let them live in the world they imagine for themselves, and try not to get enmeshed in it.
One of the most powerful learning tools is dictation or copying. This is like pagiarism- except the work is not represented as one's own. I think we expect too much sui generis from children, without giving them adequate models of what we want. Children should be copying out great writing as soon as they can write- so that they can internalize the rythms of our language, and produce original material when they are older. I cannot imagine wanting to steal ideas, if you had the tools at your disposal to produce really fine ideas of your own.
I am very sad for the high school students who felt they needed to plagiarize. I borrow all the time from great writers, and from other teachers, but I always credit the people I am borrowing from. I hope we learn to teach students how to write their own ideas better, and how to borrow gracefully and while giving full credit. All the great writers borrow, and all the great writers use other writers' ideas as springboards. The trick is to teach that. This is not, imo, a moral problem, so much as it is an educational problem. The same people who will wail and gnash their teeth about this (I stole that from the Bible, btw) will fail to see that the emphasis on teaching to standarized tests to improve "accountability" has led instructors to rely more and more on bubbled in scantron tests, and less and less on written work- which is generally not tested on these standardized tests. There are no easy answers, there are no perfect villians, we live in a complicated world- and the biggest fools (imo) are the people who fail to recognize that.
Oh dear
I'm so sorry about the pasta. I think those fresh pastas in the stores are awesome. I can't tell them from homemade. And I think I have a fairly discerning palate.
As for music, I started playing the piano at 5. I have some talent, but realized in college I don't have THAT kind of talent- The kind that would make me make music my life's work. Mr. X is also musical- and played the guitar and the harmonica. His parents never forked out for music lessons, which is too bad. Our two older children are very very good. They are wonderful singers as well as musicians. My oldest daughter sang with a Kodaly singing group for 2 years, and next year we hope she can be in chorus at school- although it will be a lot of work, since she is already in band. My son is amazing on his clarinet. He was the youngest student his teacher had ever had, and he learned to read music over night (literally). He can pick out anything by ear- yesterday it was the Star Spangled BAnner, a few weeks ago it was Anitra's Dance from the Peer Gynt Suite. As you know my son has learning disabilities so we are so glad he excells in this area. We are going to start him on the Saxophone next year, and keep adding instruments as his teacher thinks fit. We are just lucky we had the time and money to try so many different things with our kids so we could find out what they were good at.
I hope the youngest has some talent, because she is EXTREMELY jealous of her brother and sister. They practice a lot, and my little one gets out her tin whistle or her guitar whenever she gets really burned up (she has lessons at school- but she isn't learning anything Just in case she doesn't turn out to be musical I am starting her with tennis lessons as well. She is the most atheletic of my children and has excellent balance and reflexes, and we did have some good tennis players in our family.
I don't usually steal posts, but this one was so silly I had to take it. I have taken the name off the post, so as not to embarrass the writer:
'Plagiarism, from today's Boston Globe:
"Classics teacher quits in a plagiarism case
ALBANY - The chairman of the classics department at the University at Albany
stepped down after charges that he plagiarized more than 50 pages of Latin
translations from two other scholars, the school announced Thursday. Professor
Louis W. Roberts also resigned from the post of director of the doctoral program
in humanistic studies. He continues to be a faculty member at the university, where
he has taught since 1989. (AP)"
These stories are the tip of a huge iceberg. Clearly, one can't look for moral leadership at the top of the academic hierarchy. I believe many factors
contribute to this scandal, beginning with the general decay in moral values in our society, which itself largely reflects a general undermining of our
traditional standards of morality such as Christian ethics. The Internet is also a factor, with the ready availability to students of customized reports and
papers on any topic that a teacher may assign, providing an irresistible temptation for plagiarizing.
In the Kansas case you cite, parents responded by defending their children and attacking the teacher, another sign, right in our heartland, of our loss of
any moral compass.'
....................
Tell me what you think about my interpretation of this. Rather than seeing raging immorality devolving from a lack of the ten commandments and prayer in the schools, what I see in this case are competing moralities. What this poor fellow sees as a lack of a moral compass, I see as the elevation of the morality of defending family members to an unnecessary degree. I think we could all agree (to some extent) that defending members of your family is "moral"- and it is so written in most religions. The parents in this case simply carried it a bit too far. And then the author of the piece above, not only failed to see the competing morality, but he leap frogged over THAT to the fact that the "answer" to the question he failed to correctly interpret was Christian morality. Ah, how confused people get. Is it not so? And has it not always been so?
Plagiarism has always been with us. The great Bard of Avon himself, was a consummate thief. He stole (I believe) every one of his plays. I have read the original Hamlet (for example) from the Norse Edda. Was Shakespeare Immoral to steal the story of Hamlet? I wouldn't have said so But perhaps it illustrates some grave decline in Christian values at the time. heehee
Hey Poet.
How are you?
What are your plans for today- aside from cooking and cleaning?
I'm picking up a van load of girl scout cookies from the cookie warehouse for my daughter's troop.
And we're buying my youngest a clarinet today. The oldest plays flute, my next child plays the clarinet, and now the baby will also play clarinet. I can't believe how fast they've grown up. Seems like just yesterday they were pounding on their high chairs.
You are quite welcome.
I always have many helpful suggestions.
I read that chapter on the discussion of Holidays in his french class to my family on Thanksgiving. We we're falling off our chairs by the end of the chapter.
When I want humor, I read David Sedaris.
I rarely smile or laugh at posts, unless they are extremely stupid- and unfortunately Poet doesn't let any posters who might post stuff like that post here (sigh). Sometimes the jokes are funny- but most of the time I've already seen them.
If you want to inspire smiles I suggest you go out and smile at real people. Usually they smile back.
brrrr?
If you think that was cold, you must be from the tropics.
It was a joke
IT was meant for Poet, and she got it
so my work is done
I'm not sure you should be letting strange men touch you
but I tend to be judgmental about stuff like that