On May 10, 9:47 pm, (max.it) wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 06:35:46 -0700 (PDT), Salahoona
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> <dona...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >On May 9, 11:29 pm, (max.it) wrote:
> >> On Wed, 7 May 2008 03:48:48 -0700 (PDT), Salahoona
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> >> <dona...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >First of all, let me define an Ontological Instrument:
>
> >> >An Ontological Instrument is any device or system which determines
our
> >> >perspective on the world; the telescope is one example, education
> >> >another.
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> >> >Education is the use of the collective wisdom of the past. Such an
> >> >instrument is the same as designing a car in such a manner that the
> >> >steering wheel, driver's seat and dials face out the back window.
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> >> >There is an old Irish joke; from the day's when the hearth, with
turf
> >> >fire, was the centre of the house and where the old couple lived.
The
> >> >woman of the house was slagged for ru****ng back and forth to poke
the
> >> >fire.
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> >> >=93Well=94 she said, =93if I take my eye off one, the other goes
out=94
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> >> >Donal
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> >> >PS. For the savvy; the man of the house is sensitivity for person
and
> >> >the turf fire is the task. Gordon Brown is not a fit person for PM
at
> >> >this time.
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> >> Broon is a drooling imbecile.
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> >> max.it (the orange cage)
>
> >Well, I heard him say, yesterday: "Who could have foreseen the rise in
> >oil prices?"
>
> >People run out of confidence before they run out of capital - he still
> >has a backdoor to the clerks of the Treasuary
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> >Donal.
>
> A rise in price of any heavily taxed commodity is going to hurt.
>
> Broon is being rather quiet, But Granny Smith is making the news and
> winning the hearts of the anti skunkweed voters. Making a big fuss,
> ignoring the advice independant board. Almost a martyr. They always
> mention organised international crime gangs, then they slip in illegal
> aliens. It's a technicolor smokescreen.
> So they are confronting the drugs problem, tackling international
> organised crime, and addressing immigration issues. On the strength of
> a nothing reclassification of a recreational drug.
>
> Broon isn't hip enough, and Smith has a single track appeal.
> Somebody will choke on their own vomit soon.
>
> max.it (the orange cage)
Create an enemy and re-direct the mobs anger towards it is a strategy
for survival. One can then 'lead' the mob. This government has an
obsessive need for measurement and forget that you alter something by
measuring it. Now that Brown is PM, his social backwardness is
exposed. However, one might ask, seeing that bankers are more
powerful than governments, if they, the bankers, have chosen to throw
Brown to the mob.
There was a lovely book, name I can't remember, of this guy about 1920
who got a car and drove it around the Sahara, which was then mostly
unexplored. He described going from oasis to oasis and the isolated
'island' cultures he found in each. Some rocky oasises had brackish
water unfit for humans and these were inhabited with baboons. They
were generally unafraid of him, insulting even, but the water was good
enough for his car.
He spent some time describing the baboons' culture, comparing it with
the human cultures in a similar situation.
His bad manners in presuming first take on the water caused havoc in
their culture (making fools of the chiefs I suppose) and civil war
would erupt from time to time, ripple up and down the hierarchy until
some small group would 'get it' (the curious and friendly group;
perhaps the young and disenchanted). They would be chased off the
rocks and have to 'plead' to be re-instated (demonstrating the chiefs'
authority). Each ripple lasted less than an hour. It's lucky for them
that they hadn't discovered writing, or their little civil wars might
last for centuries. (My little joke).
Donal
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