Facebook Song of Myself
As Spiderman launching,
launching
launching)
“I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood
isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast
surrounding, It launch'd forth
filament,
filament,
filament,
out of itself, Ever unreeling them,
ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded,
detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing,
venturing,
throwing,
seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd,
till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer
thread you fling catch somewhere, O
my soul.”
(Whitman: reformatted to fit my screed )
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I hate the sinner and not the sin because I don’t
know the Nature of Sin. I think it’s bad boys bad
boys and angry people, the obnoxious & foolish,
greedy & grasping, bible thumpers & savvy tattoo
artists, SUV drivers, tight-wads & lousy tippers,
murderers & anarchists, soldiers of fortune,
addicts & peeping toms. hoity-toity, bullies &
bad listeners, smart alecs & wise guys, thieving
lying & holy terrorists—bastards!
Spiderman tries too hard.
ReplyDeleteOf course. It try hard not to try too hard but you can see how I fail. Got to love it, never the less.
ReplyDeleteI went to a course on "communication skills" for dental professionals not long ago. There people were grouped along the lines of "forthright" vs. "accurate." Since all worked in the dental field, we have to be both accurate (especially the dentist) and forthright (brush and floss your teeth.) Anyhow, most tall along a continuum. However, I did decide that I was a "forthright" married to an "accurate." The "accurates" try very hard and do very good work.--though it may be futile in the end, if nobody brushes and flosses their teeth. :) (or pays their bills.)
ReplyDelete"Forthrights" score high for "integration"; no that wasnt' the word. For "some double-speak word for honesty". "Accurates" scored low on that. The are accurate but guarded and maybe dishonest in that sense. There was a better word. It will come to me.
Just stereotyping in one sense, but one learns something.
An excursus on "trying hard."
Transcendentalism
ReplyDeleteNo, that wasn't it. Still thinking.
ReplyDeletereference to the dentist & communication skills. Transcendentistry.
ReplyDeleteHa,ha. The word came back to me: "congruence".
ReplyDeletePeople who are more "accurate" were said to be less "congruent." People who were more "forthright" were more "congruent."
"Congruent" meant to them something like "forthright" maybe, so it is a useless saying.
It does help me, though, because people who are exceptionally good at something, are'nt that way from nothing, generally speaking. Some genius might have had everything fall into their lap. Let's ignore those; they are the exception.
Most excellent people have tried very hard and failure to them is rarely an option. Asking for forgiveness kills them because they have tried so hard and have garnered a lot of glory along the way--and they now could not possibly have failed. It becomes nearly unbearable to confess fault.
I think it is true that they could possibly be less "congruent" as a group.
I forget what the downside of the "forthright" is; this is very convenient for me since I am one, but then I don't worry as much about failure.
Spiderman, of course, bears a lot of responsibility and is one of the most excellent of men; he has a lot to worry about. It's a bind.
Heisenberg's indeterminacy addresses the fact that it seems impossible to measure velocity and determine place at the same time. Forthright-ness and Congruence: a similar "hostile" yet complementary relationship.
ReplyDeleteIn class, we can be rumbling along (velocity) seeming to be getting
somewhere, moving on down the road, until some one says something like, Well, what exactly do you mean by congruence? forthright? velocity? Place etec and that stops IT in our tracks and down and down we go, round and round we go - in place (more of less) seemingly getting no where trying to come to terms with ourselves. Same deal. Father Berrigan advised in the 60's: Don't just do something: stand there. Same deal.
Quote from the famous internet:
ReplyDeleteHegelians don't care what the issues are. Neither do they care which "side" they are perceived to be on. Their role is to be a barrier to any authentic political discourse that may arise from thinking people. Hegelians do not think for themselves, they follow orders. They repeat words that have no meaning to them, throw around words they cannot define and have no interest in defining. When asked directly what they mean by a particular word, they always respond with "what do you mean what do I mean?" as if you're just too stupid to be answered.
Someone's opinion of Hegel. His "dialectic" is like but not identical with Socratic dialectic.
ReplyDeleteIt's true: the game is more important in the dialectical context that the outcome. "Not whether you win or lose but how you play the game." You've heard that said. Makes good sense in sport, maybe in art. Process on the one hand; finished product on the other. "Hostile" but complementary values--unless one is allowed to dominate.