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Name: Chelsey
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Metro: Grayslake
Birthday: 8/28/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: GOD, David, My family, Music, Friends, Piano, School, Cooking, Cleaning, Knitting.
Expertise: Falling asleep during movies, leaving things to burn on the stove, oh, and piano.
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Art
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AIM:  chelseyeliza84
Member Since:
10/24/2005
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| Tea Parties and Cedar WaxwingsA wonderful day with David.
I'm making pineapple cheese bread and David is writing up curriculum for Art Appreciation in the fall....
We made tea, read Chesterton, and saw a cedar waxwing out the window.
A quote from today's studies:
The linguist Noam Chomsky has suggested that postmodernism is meaningless because it adds nothing to analytical or empirical knowledge. He asks why postmodernist intellectuals won't respond as "people in physics, math, biology, linguistics, and other fields are happy to do when someone asks them, seriously, what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc? These are fair requests for anyone to make. If they can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames."[23] | “ | There are lots of things I don't understand — say, the latest debates over whether neutrinos have mass or the way that Fermat's last theorem was (apparently) proven recently. But from 50 years in this game, I have learned two things: (1) I can ask friends who work in these areas to explain it to me at a level that I can understand, and they can do so, without particular difficulty; (2) if I'm interested, I can proceed to learn more so that I will come to understand it. Now Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, Kristeva, etc. — even Foucault, whom I knew and liked, and who was somewhat different from the rest --- write things that I also don't understand, but (1) and (2) don't hold: no one who says they do understand can explain it to me and I haven't a clue as to how to proceed to overcome my failures. That leaves one of two possibilities: (a) some new advance in intellectual life has been made, perhaps some sudden genetic mutation, which has created a form of "theory" that is beyond quantum theory, topology, etc., in depth and profundity; or (b) ... I won't spell it out. |
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
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| MusicWhat if all the music you heard was either made by you, or performed live? This is what the world was like, up to about a century ago.
I have been dying to tell this to people who say they like music, and yet don't play an instrument or sing.
Music, like dance and art, has become a commodity in today's world. It is best left to the professionals.
However, we don't have to be good at an instrument or be able to read music, because recordings can be bought. We obey less than we know, to use a religious analogy. Here's my thought: I don't think we really own music, unless we get to be part of it.
An ipod is great, but if all it does for your sense of music is get you to buy more albums from your favorite artist, then good for that artist. Is it good for you?
So: here's my challenge. Take a one-week vow of "All the Music I Hear will be Live or Made by Me." Don't plug your ears in waiting rooms or at the mall, but don't go there to get your music fix either. Sit down at the piano. Learn the words to a song. Get guitar lessons.....
Just some unorganized thoughts. What do you think?
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| Chesterton Again     I really love this quote from "Emancipation of Domesticity"... "Woman must be a cook, but not a competitive cook; a school-mistress, but not a competitive school-mistress; a house decorator, but not a competitive house-decorator; a dressmaker, but not a competitive dressmaker. She should have not one trade but twenty hobbies; she, unlike the man, may develop all her second bests. This is what has been really aimed at from the first in what is called the seclusion, or even the oppression, of women. Women were not kept at home in order to keep them narrow; on the contrary, they were kept at home in order to keep them broad. The world outside the home was one mass of narrowness, a maze of cramped paths, a madhouse of monomaniacs. It was only by partly limiting and protecting the woman that she was enabled to play at five or six professions and so come almost as near to God as the child when he plays at a hundred trades. But the woman’s professions, unlike the child’s, were all truly and almost terribly fruitful. | | |
| Another oneDonaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
Association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services) is an example of the virtually unlimited compounding of nouns that is possible in many Germanic languages; with 79 letters, according to the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records, it is the longest word published in the German language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizit%C3%A4tenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
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| Up LateThe longest German word verified to be actually in (albeit very limited) use is
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.
[which, literally translated, breaks up into: Rind (cattle) - Fleisch (meat) - Etikettierung(s) (labelling) - Überwachung(s) (supervision) - Aufgaben (duties) - Übertragung(s) (assignment) - Gesetz (law), so "Beef labelling supervision duty assignment law".]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language
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