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Delightful Life said:
"Have you ever noticed how Americans are not stupid? I had been led to believe, by you, that you are as dumb as bricks. And then I meet you all, and then you’re not. I mean, you’ve got your quota, as have we all, but you’re not. Do you know what you are? You’re culturally confident. Good on you, I say. Good on you. And you know who else had that skill set? The ancient Romans. And things worked out well for them for a bit."
--Hannah Gadbsy
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There is a sub-set of Americans, though. My daughter has worked in call centres over the years, often for cable companies in different countries. She describes all women from Florida as "dumb as a bag of hammers".

Also, I love Hannah Gadsby.
 
BetteTheRed said:
There is a sub-set of Americans, though. My daughter has worked in call centres over the years, often for cable companies in different countries. She describes all women from Florida as "dumb as a bag of hammers".

Also, I love Hannah Gadsby.
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One of my fav writers, Piers Anthony, comes from there. One of those writers who is skilled enough they can and gave written Important Works (like he wrote this powerful short story on a world where human beings were raised as food on farms...), but he needs to feed a family, so he gets by by writing fun fantasy books and such. He is best known for his Xanth series, which is based on a Fantasy Florida, where everything is a pun or a word play. I would read them while at the orthodontist lol

I wouldn't want to live in Florida, sounds way too hot lol I wouldn't mind visiting. 2 of my friends are now living there having moved all the way from Van, WA.
 
Delightful Life said:
this one is good

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As long as they didn't label politicians as true! That could purse some labile limits ... ridges to cross ... reminding me of Eric the Awful and Ra' St Evens ... a quandary presented as enigma ... something to engineer improvements into plans for futurism?

Some deny there is any future for other matter ... thus subtle fallacy ... downer like the Kruger-Dunn item ... has ups and downs like sibling Robin ... dippy?

Fissile ... or fusilli?
 
This one is for @Mendalla . I was going to park this in another thread but it wasn't exactly germaine to the discussion.

"Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the
grass."

~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
 
Delightful Life said:
Got a fav routine
skit of they?
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Not really. I'm afraid I don't remember individual skits -- just that they made me laugh and is a hilarious, down-to-earth lesbian from Tasmania.
If anyone has Netflix, a new show of there's just arrived which I plan to watch. Billed as "feel good". Not sure I like the sound of that. It might be boring
 
ninj said:
This one is for @Mendalla . I was going to park this in another thread but it wasn't exactly germaine to the discussion.

"Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the
grass."

~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
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Thus wee ones are milled out without us having to think of how it comes round! It happens in a stage of unconsciousness ... and why some patriarchs deny patriarchy! They weren't conscious at the time due to the fey essence running off with thoughts ...
 
ninj said:
Not really. I'm afraid I don't remember individual skits -- just that they made me laugh and is a hilarious, down-to-earth lesbian from Tasmania.
If anyone has Netflix, a new show of there's just arrived which I plan to watch. Billed as "feel good". Not sure I like the sound of that. It might be boring
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It is not boring. It is Hannah. I've watched a bit of it, and I'm enjoying it.
 
This one for Diversity Month (where all year is a rainbow)

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

JBS Haldane
still hitting it beyond the bleachers
 
"What the myths of objectivism and subjectivism both miss is the way we understand the world through our interactions with it. What objectivism misses is the fact that understanding, and therefore truth, is necessarily relative to our cultural conceptual systems and that it cannot be framed in any absolute or neutral conceptual system… What subjectivism specifically misses is that our understanding, even our most imaginative understanding, is given in terms of a conceptual system that is grounded in our successful functioning in our physical and cultural environments."

– METAPHORS WE LIVE BY, GEORGE LAKOFF & MARK JOHNSON
 
If I ask about the world, you can offer to tell me how it is under one or more frames of reference; but if I insist that you tell me how it is apart from all frames, what can you say?’

– NELSON GOODMAN, WAYS OF WORLDMAKING, 1978
 
"In the effort to make simple a sophisticated domain ... it became a dark and stormy void ... quite formless because of the emotional input" --- Luce!

This may have started from an interpretation of "In the beginning; etc." Essentially this goes on and on ... few like to speak of the etc. portion ... its messy, almost biblical literature!
 
"ask what's more important: human rights, or property rights. If they say 'property rights are human rights,' they're on the right."

-Stephen Brust
 
Must rite's be propped? Thus colons with tight ends ... leading to colonization of the aforesaid ... and some mysterious power set them aside ... thus the ide as isolated sentient!

It maybe found out there ... beyond ordinary tightness ... gravid escape!

The only way scientific observation can be seen ... in context of myth cause of resistance to virtue going down?
 
“ It’s what I call the hall of mirrors. The left hemisphere lives in a hall of mirrors in which its own representation, its own theory about things, is more important than any evidence that comes from the senses or from experience.” — Iain McGilchrist
 
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