Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Quotes worth giggle and so on and so forth
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. done.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell
Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault,
Edith Hamilton:
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
- Casey Stengel
If you smacked a kid in the face with a bottle of Johnson's No More Tears, would it create beautiful irony?
I still miss my ex-girlfriend, but my aim
is improving.
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.
The reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
Always remember that you are unique; just like everyone else.
This girl rang me up one time, she says "come over, nobody is home", I went over, no one was home!
Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
King - Please! Please good people! I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
Peasant 1 - No one lives there.
K - Then who is your lord?
P1 - We don't have a lord.
K - What?
Peasant 2 - I told you, we're an anarco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer must be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting; by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs-
K - Be quiet!
P2 - but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more serious-
K - Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
P1 - Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Ha!
K - I am your king!
P1 - Well I didn't vote for you.
acrasial adj ill tempered
nequient adj
not being able
phlyarologist n
one who talks nonsense
plebicolar adj 1626 -1820
courting or appealing to the common people
prandicle n 1656 -1658
small meal
roblet v 1674 -1755
to lead astray
snobographer n 1848 -1966
one who describes or writes about snobs
weequashing n 1888 -1902
spearing of fish or eels by torchlight from canoes
flosculation n 1651 -1651
an embellishment or ornament in speech
historiaster n 1887 -1894
petty or contemptible historian
jobler n 1662 -1662
one who does small jobs
We've found a great jobler who takes care of our repairs quickly and cheaply.
Listen here you acrasial snobographer, you weequashing leporicidal hill-dweller, your unrelenting phlyarologistic flosculations are indeed replete with moil, any one would find it so. You would roblet the poor denizens with such logorrheic effluvium.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell
Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault,
Edith Hamilton:
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
- Casey Stengel
If you smacked a kid in the face with a bottle of Johnson's No More Tears, would it create beautiful irony?
I still miss my ex-girlfriend, but my aim
is improving.
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.
The reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
Always remember that you are unique; just like everyone else.
This girl rang me up one time, she says "come over, nobody is home", I went over, no one was home!
Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
King - Please! Please good people! I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
Peasant 1 - No one lives there.
K - Then who is your lord?
P1 - We don't have a lord.
K - What?
Peasant 2 - I told you, we're an anarco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer must be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting; by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs-
K - Be quiet!
P2 - but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more serious-
K - Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
P1 - Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Ha!
K - I am your king!
P1 - Well I didn't vote for you.
acrasial adj ill tempered
nequient adj
not being able
phlyarologist n
one who talks nonsense
plebicolar adj 1626 -1820
courting or appealing to the common people
prandicle n 1656 -1658
small meal
roblet v 1674 -1755
to lead astray
snobographer n 1848 -1966
one who describes or writes about snobs
weequashing n 1888 -1902
spearing of fish or eels by torchlight from canoes
flosculation n 1651 -1651
an embellishment or ornament in speech
historiaster n 1887 -1894
petty or contemptible historian
jobler n 1662 -1662
one who does small jobs
We've found a great jobler who takes care of our repairs quickly and cheaply.
Listen here you acrasial snobographer, you weequashing leporicidal hill-dweller, your unrelenting phlyarologistic flosculations are indeed replete with moil, any one would find it so. You would roblet the poor denizens with such logorrheic effluvium.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Instrumentalism
Instrumentalism
Instrumentalism views scientific method as a means to an end rather than itself able to reveal absolute truth.
The most well-known example is that of Copernicus's theory: the sun is the centre of our solar system and has Instrumental Value in that it is to be seen as a useful method of prediction certain astronomical events but is not in fact true - and therefore not in conflict with the Church.
Instrumentalism views scientific method as a means to an end rather than itself able to reveal absolute truth.
The most well-known example is that of Copernicus's theory: the sun is the centre of our solar system and has Instrumental Value in that it is to be seen as a useful method of prediction certain astronomical events but is not in fact true - and therefore not in conflict with the Church.
Magic
To the modern mind-set magic is often associated with an irrational or childish view of the world. Where it once was, like philosophy, the equivalent of science, the way of explaining things and affecting the world, it is now seen as poor science or an inadequate means of working with the world.
Another view is that like religion magic has and does serve as a way of keeping social order. Serving as a symbolic function in society, magic like religion becomes a non-rational practice rather than irrational when compared to the predominant modern western conception of the world.
Another view is that like religion magic has and does serve as a way of keeping social order. Serving as a symbolic function in society, magic like religion becomes a non-rational practice rather than irrational when compared to the predominant modern western conception of the world.
Monday, September 21, 2009
PHYSIOGNOMY
PHYSIOG'NOMY, n. [Gr. nature, and knowing; to know.]
1. The art or science of discerning the character of the mind from the features of the face; or the art of discovering the predominant temper or other characteristic qualities of the mind by the form of the body, but especially by the external signs of the countenance, or the combination of the features.
1. The art or science of discerning the character of the mind from the features of the face; or the art of discovering the predominant temper or other characteristic qualities of the mind by the form of the body, but especially by the external signs of the countenance, or the combination of the features.
A Poem by Franz Werfel called Lied vom Gezeichneten
Wenn dich der Tod beruehrt hat,
Bist du nicht mehr beliebt
Eh er dich abgefuehrt hat,
Wirst du schon ausgesiebt.
Du warst ein muntrer Kunde,
Du spieltest schoen Klavier.
Nun rueckt die Freundesrunde
Geheimnisvoll von dir.
Einst hat man dich gepriesen
Wie standest du im Saft,
Jetzt wirst du streng verwiesen
In deine Einzelhaft
Die Wangen wurden kleiner,
Die Augen wurden gross
Vielleicht fragt Irgendeiner:
Was ist mit dem nur los?
Bevor du wirst dich strecken,
Zur letzten Nacht bereit,
Musst du den Zwieback schmecken
Der Ausgestossenheit.
Und eh du darfst entsinken
Dem leergewordnen Kreis,
Bekamst du laengst zu trinken
Des Welttraums Ather-Eis.
Translation:
When death as touched, no one likes you any more, by the time he takes you away you have already been separated out. You used to be a happy fellow, you played the piano well, now your circle of friends mysteriously withdraws from you.
Once people used to praise the way you looked so vigorous, now you are sternly sent into your solitary confinement.
Your cheeks have frown smaller, your eyes have grown bigger. Perhaps somebody asks: what is the matter with him?
Before you lie down ready for the last night you have to taste the dry biscuit of ostracism.
And before you can be allowed to disappear from the now empty circle, you will long ago have had to drink the ether-ice of interstellar space.
Bist du nicht mehr beliebt
Eh er dich abgefuehrt hat,
Wirst du schon ausgesiebt.
Du warst ein muntrer Kunde,
Du spieltest schoen Klavier.
Nun rueckt die Freundesrunde
Geheimnisvoll von dir.
Einst hat man dich gepriesen
Wie standest du im Saft,
Jetzt wirst du streng verwiesen
In deine Einzelhaft
Die Wangen wurden kleiner,
Die Augen wurden gross
Vielleicht fragt Irgendeiner:
Was ist mit dem nur los?
Bevor du wirst dich strecken,
Zur letzten Nacht bereit,
Musst du den Zwieback schmecken
Der Ausgestossenheit.
Und eh du darfst entsinken
Dem leergewordnen Kreis,
Bekamst du laengst zu trinken
Des Welttraums Ather-Eis.
Translation:
When death as touched, no one likes you any more, by the time he takes you away you have already been separated out. You used to be a happy fellow, you played the piano well, now your circle of friends mysteriously withdraws from you.
Once people used to praise the way you looked so vigorous, now you are sternly sent into your solitary confinement.
Your cheeks have frown smaller, your eyes have grown bigger. Perhaps somebody asks: what is the matter with him?
Before you lie down ready for the last night you have to taste the dry biscuit of ostracism.
And before you can be allowed to disappear from the now empty circle, you will long ago have had to drink the ether-ice of interstellar space.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
anthro-
anthrophobia -( )
The fear of people
anthropoglot -( )
Any animal, such as a parrot, which is capable of copying human speech
anthropolatry -( )
Worship of a human as thought they were a god
anthropomancy -( )
Magic or divination using people, or foretelling the future using the entrails of a sacrificed person
anthropopathy -( )
Ascribing human feelings or traits to God or to the gods
anthropophobia -( )
See anthrophobia
anthroposcopy -( )
The art of determining personality or character from physical features
anthropotheism -( )
The belief that gods began as humans and are human in nature
anthropochore (alt. anthropochory)
Dispersal of organisms, such as seeds, as a result of human activity. See also: anemochory.
omphaloskepsis
a form of religious meditation practiced by Eastern mystics who stare fixedly at their own navels to induce a mystical trance. Also called omphalism
The fear of people
anthropoglot -( )
Any animal, such as a parrot, which is capable of copying human speech
anthropolatry -( )
Worship of a human as thought they were a god
anthropomancy -( )
Magic or divination using people, or foretelling the future using the entrails of a sacrificed person
anthropopathy -( )
Ascribing human feelings or traits to God or to the gods
anthropophobia -( )
See anthrophobia
anthroposcopy -( )
The art of determining personality or character from physical features
anthropotheism -( )
The belief that gods began as humans and are human in nature
anthropochore (alt. anthropochory)
Dispersal of organisms, such as seeds, as a result of human activity. See also: anemochory.
omphaloskepsis
a form of religious meditation practiced by Eastern mystics who stare fixedly at their own navels to induce a mystical trance. Also called omphalism
Comparison of Anthropology Definitions
The Oxford Concise Dictionary 4th Edition. 1950
Anthropology whole science of man; physiological and psychological science of man; study of man as an animal.
A New General English Dictionary 1765
Anthropology a discourse, dissertation, or description of the whole man, both soul and body: divines call that manner of speaking of God by attributing to him hands, feet, eyes, &c by this name.
The Large Type Concise English Dictionary No date, circa 60s
Anthropology The science of man and mankind, including the study of the physical and mental constitution of man or his whole nature, as exhibited both in the present and the past.
Pocket Oxford Dictionary 1st Edition 1934
Anthropology whole science of man; physiological and psychological; study of man as an animal.
The Penguin English Dictionary 3rd edition 1979
Anthropology science of the nature of man, embracing his physiological aspects, his racial characteristics, and his social and religious development.
Dictionary of Psychology 2nd Edition 1985
Anthropology science of the nature of man, including his physical characteristics, his cultures and his races. Broadly Anthropology is divided into physical anthropology which includes the study of anatomy and the anthropometric characteristics of various groups, and cultural anthropology which is the study of non-literate cultures.
Macquarie Concise Dictionary 3rd Edition 1998
Anthropology the study that deals with the origin, development (physical, intellectual, cultural, moral, etc.) and varieties of humanity. 2. the study of humanity’s agreement with and divergence from other animals. 3. the science of human beings and their works.
The King’s English Dictionary No Date circa. 1920s
Anthropology the natural history of the human species.
The New Imperial Reference Dictionary No Date circa. 1940s
Anthropology the science of man in its widest sense.
Anthropology whole science of man; physiological and psychological science of man; study of man as an animal.
A New General English Dictionary 1765
Anthropology a discourse, dissertation, or description of the whole man, both soul and body: divines call that manner of speaking of God by attributing to him hands, feet, eyes, &c by this name.
The Large Type Concise English Dictionary No date, circa 60s
Anthropology The science of man and mankind, including the study of the physical and mental constitution of man or his whole nature, as exhibited both in the present and the past.
Pocket Oxford Dictionary 1st Edition 1934
Anthropology whole science of man; physiological and psychological; study of man as an animal.
The Penguin English Dictionary 3rd edition 1979
Anthropology science of the nature of man, embracing his physiological aspects, his racial characteristics, and his social and religious development.
Dictionary of Psychology 2nd Edition 1985
Anthropology science of the nature of man, including his physical characteristics, his cultures and his races. Broadly Anthropology is divided into physical anthropology which includes the study of anatomy and the anthropometric characteristics of various groups, and cultural anthropology which is the study of non-literate cultures.
Macquarie Concise Dictionary 3rd Edition 1998
Anthropology the study that deals with the origin, development (physical, intellectual, cultural, moral, etc.) and varieties of humanity. 2. the study of humanity’s agreement with and divergence from other animals. 3. the science of human beings and their works.
The King’s English Dictionary No Date circa. 1920s
Anthropology the natural history of the human species.
The New Imperial Reference Dictionary No Date circa. 1940s
Anthropology the science of man in its widest sense.
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