Umm imagining from that direction..

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Post #167,361 by Ashton 8/3/04 6:54:38 PM Reply	Umm imagining from that direction.. Taking an allegory for a literal-What-If? has another name - such things are done regularly from a 'Fundamentalist' mindset. Joshua done commanded the Sun not to move.. Oh Yes, I. Read. That. cha cha cha Surely.. You! jest -?-
Post #167,405 by Arkadiy 8/3/04 10:50:19 PM Reply	My problem exactly Except the other way around. When allegory is taken literally, it's fundamentalism. When litearl (impending, in my case, or past, as in pwisal's nice animation) horror is taken allegorically - that's crassness. -- "...was poorly, lugubrious and intoxicated." -- Patrick O'Brian, "Master and Commander"
Post #167,416 by Ashton 8/4/04 1:09:00 AM Reply	Hmmm.. OK, I see your point. Yes, there's a danger within the tiny-brained folk [think Columbine?], a tendency to extrapolate Murica's fav media / Nintendo Ha-Ha violence into some New principle needing Fulfillment. I know of only one remedy to that; one cannot make words (pix) 'safe' for people; one only can attempt to breed sane people who are inherently 'safe' from easy manipulation by abstract symbols. (We don't do that very well; clearly others do better.) Map/territory problem? Creeping dumbth can only worsen the situation, I'd guess.

"Doctor Strangelove" - (Arkadiy) - (29) - Aug. 1, 2004, 10:31:10 PM EDT

That was not "mating" it was "suckling". - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 1, 2004, 10:41:04 PM EDT

Re: "Doctor Strangelove" - (deSitter) - (1) - Aug. 1, 2004, 10:59:57 PM EDT

"Fail Safe" was a good book too. -NT - (Another Scott) - Aug. 1, 2004, 11:02:19 PM EDT

Precious bodily fluids - (ChrisR) - (6) - Aug. 1, 2004, 11:02:49 PM EDT

It's not paranoia if they _are_ out to get you. -NT - (Arkadiy) - (5) - Aug. 2, 2004, 10:47:34 AM EDT

What do you call it... - (FuManChu) - (4) - Aug. 2, 2004, 01:15:59 PM EDT

an Excedrin headache? -NT - (Steve Lowe) - Aug. 2, 2004, 01:25:13 PM EDT

dont bother me when the voices are saying locknload -NT - (boxley) - Aug. 2, 2004, 01:27:32 PM EDT

Chicken and egg problem -NT - (Arkadiy) - Aug. 2, 2004, 03:22:29 PM EDT

{cackle} ... all fearfulness is circular -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 2, 2004, 06:08:10 PM EDT

You weren't listening - (tuberculosis) - (18) - Aug. 2, 2004, 01:59:28 PM EDT

I did listen to the song - (Arkadiy) - (17) - Aug. 2, 2004, 03:28:21 PM EDT

How about, "Intentionally bitterly sarcastic"? -NT - (ben_tilly) - (16) - Aug. 2, 2004, 03:59:57 PM EDT

Sarcasm can be applied to something bearable. - (Arkadiy) - (15) - Aug. 2, 2004, 05:00:11 PM EDT

then you will love "Fail Safe" - (deSitter) - Aug. 2, 2004, 05:08:56 PM EDT

Then you'll utterly fail to get Tom Lehrer + much else - (Ashton) - (3) - Aug. 2, 2004, 06:41:21 PM EDT

Clarification - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Aug. 3, 2004, 03:27:02 PM EDT

Interesting bit of trivia. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Aug. 3, 2004, 04:32:27 PM EDT

Learn something new.. - (Ashton) - Aug. 3, 2004, 06:48:39 PM EDT

And how 'bout that Jonathan Swift guy? - (rcareaga) - (6) - Aug. 2, 2004, 09:20:53 PM EDT

Would you be as enthusiastic if "the proposal" was - (Arkadiy) - (5) - Aug. 3, 2004, 03:15:39 PM EDT

Umm imagining from that direction.. - (Ashton) - (2) - Aug. 3, 2004, 06:54:38 PM EDT

My problem exactly - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Aug. 3, 2004, 10:50:19 PM EDT

Hmmm.. OK, I see your point. - (Ashton) - Aug. 4, 2004, 01:09:00 AM EDT

you have a fundie in the white house - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 3, 2004, 09:46:11 PM EDT

Prec\ufffdsamente, amigo: that is exactly the connection and - (Ashton) - Aug. 4, 2004, 01:12:23 AM EDT

Oh dear. - (pwhysall) - (2) - Aug. 3, 2004, 02:44:42 AM EDT

LOL! -NT - (altmann) - Aug. 3, 2004, 04:14:11 AM EDT

I was going to say - (Arkadiy) - Aug. 3, 2004, 03:17:52 PM EDT

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