Posts by p forrester jarvie
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perhaps its time to pause and say a wee leavening prayer (or even bake a pavlova) for the poor addled wench taken out by policemen in whangarei, policemen who appeared not to be able to tell the diff 'twixt an airgun and a shotgun?
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whereazeera i myself was derived from that material which i, realizing it was universally desired, denied..
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Oh. Thanks for the 'scare quote-marks'
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and that btw, the contractive little signatures of those enthralled by the materials of which they are supposedly 'composed', is pretty much what i meant by immanently constrained...
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ahh, but the devil is the detail, aka the noise! i always like a damn good signal-to-noise ratio myself, but the last thing i expected when signing on here was to be pounced upon & scolded by a team of schoolmarms!
Very well, if it's bullet paragraphs you require, then it is bullet paragraphs you shall get..
I do not think that what i wrote in those posts deserves to be subject to such a brute 'summing-up' drill and automatically re-assimilated to some formulaic old, pre-humiliated horsedog about 'faith positions' versus 'consensus' - one thing is for sure, we did not arrive at the great yawping dawn of the scientific 20th century via a series of consensus meetings!
And do keep in mind sir that the genuine linguistic act is always an irreducible event; verily, the interruption of history by freedom.. Even creating a pole of attraction, contempt & ridicule is above all generative of *attention* - and thus participates in that most noble of all human activities, the constant re-defining of the centre (as resentments re-circulate on the periphery)..
but i have already breached my vow to take one step at a time when approaching anywhere near the great floundering incumbent beast that Darwin's once most innocent little thought experiment (based on analogy with domestic breeding/selection) has become..
so i withdraw my inflamed little troll-bullets for the momeant..
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and what is communicating effectively? Slip sliding off your thread like a snowboarder at an Effective Communication seminar whilst thrusting my business card into your backpocket as i go sailing by?
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the most astonishing thing of all really is the way in which so many to all intents-and-purposes free citizens speak, utter & declaim, in every way as if they verily did have a position to protect, and even if they are still labouring under the fond conceit that this position of theirs re-presents 'science' in all its bright bristling rawboned clarity, they should try not to forget that it IS first & foremost a sacred territory they have assigned themselves to protect, and perhaps also not to forget that the point they REALLY came to believe in the Theory of E was the point at which they believed everybody else must have committed...
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so far as i can see there is nothing incoherent in what i say (full-stop). Since when was there a policing of the length of sentences? I have never, ever understood this notion! For i speak more-or-less exactly as i write and write more-or-less exactly as i speak - and methinks there are hereabouts already too many cute assignations and call-signs bouncing around within this commentariat - just who is to determine whether or not i am one of these 'trolls'? Who is to know what my intentions could be? Do even i? Why, for all you know, i am a renegade scientist tired of mere kennel-management in the lab and have ventured out to do business in the wider field of sign-bearing creatures and the unspoken religious fervour that does not (yet?) know its name! Never forget - that for those with a position to protect, real freedom-of-thought is largely an inconvenience..
hhe heh, just loosening up my stem, y'all..
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Dude, I don't know if you know anything about blog comment etiquette. I'm really hoping you don't, because you've basically wandered in and crapped all over it. You're off topic, you're starting an argument with yourself, and you're being abusive of your host while putting your feet up on his coffee table. You want to be treated with deference, try showing some. You know, like in any other form of social interaction. You behave like a tosser, you get treated like one.
because i am brand new at this, and because, like George W.Bush vis-a-vis stem-cell research, i wish to take but one meticulous step at a time (i am after all, apparently, a man without his meds); thus before going any further i need to know how many of you present here would agree with the above most vehemently expressed conviction? If what EH maintains is the generally-accepted case, then i'm not ready for prime-time, now am i.. Are we merely passing through a glade of 'congenial abuse' here, or have i truly transgressed? -
the image (pre-shrunk) derives from Leiibniz, describing the immanently constrained, minimally adhesive because minimally contrastive, advantages of relations in a post-sacrificial marketplace; he spoke of throwing many stones into the water at once, and how the many ripples manage to cross without ever destroying each other; a new situation in which pre-shrunkenness seems to let everybody succeed all at once at not causing spiritual interference with the other; on the other hand in so many hours we have seen how the mere hint of 'pretentiousness' and/or the ever-anticipated and basically longed-for 'invasion by the fundies' has aroused the 'blog police' to dreary - but we must presume also passionate - states of abuse just like that, as if indeed and in every way they were being somehow interfered with; and that surprises me greatly for i thought the religion of civility and deference you know, like, 'prevailed here'.. to RB himself i apologise for hastily & clumsily written sentence regarding the very-much flogged dead horse of Darwin's theory, but i will re-word that in an imminent post..