my mind begins to hum...

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In the Gylfaginning,
she is described as the daughter of Loki and Angrboða
– a giantess (gýgr, see jotun) –
and thus sister of the Fenrisulfr and the sea serpent Jörmungandr.
Since her father is often described as a god,
although both his parents were giants,
the same might be said of Hel.

could you take the words from them one by one?

or anesthetize the meaning?so what who i've found and who's found me... i am yet unripen

what of attributed meanderings of meaning?

When Odin became aware of the existence of Loki's children,
he banished them to remote places.
Hel he cast down to her realm in the underworld
and gave her authority over all those in the nine worlds
who do not die gloriously in battle but of sickness or of old age.

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"And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings,
Sleep and Death, awful gods.
The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams,
neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven.
And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea's broad back and is kindly to men;
but the other has a heart of iron, and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze:
whomsoever of men he has once seized he holds fast:
and he is hateful even to the deathless gods."

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connections betwixt dream and wake
forever quandaries; wrought or make

up against selfserving contextualization

Habits of thought, reading, writing, and speaking
which go beneath surface meaning, first impressions, dominant myths,
official pronouncements, traditional cliches, received wisdom,
and mere opinions,
to understand the deep meaning, root causes, social context,
ideology, and personal consequences of any action, event, object,
process, organization, experience, text, subject matter, policy,
mass media, or discourse.

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"For what appears to be truth to the one
may appear to be error to the other.
And patience means self-suffering.
So the doctrine came to mean vindication of truth,
not by infliction of suffering on the opponent,
but on oneself."

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It is the impossibility of living by any other means
that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat,
and our masons to construct buildings in which they will not live.
It is want that drags them to those markets
where they await masters who will do them the kindness of buying them.
(hour by hour)

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http://www.comnet.ca/~pballan/T&H1930b.jpg

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a little cave with an entrance closed over from the inside...
with a hole for air and a hole for food...
thus sense deprived a mystic made...

'cording to (a) tradition

yet hear on backs of mecha
thunderous profits do they seek
by appropriation of outward habits...

habit... a monk's war-drobe?

ney, they prey
and every witch way

the seek a pittance

one more day

but not as nearly as acute as if they notice you refute

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_sabi

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"A curse is the effective action of some power,
distinguished solely by the quality of adversity that it brings."

Latin adversus, "against", "opposite".

"Any culture whose values and lifestyles
are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture"

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then this stream and what it is...

of goods, services

surely an industry: trucking
and it's various repercussions



for what symbolic connection made
but the transcontinent railway
could have been outdone by other
than ford's brainchildren, though they smother

yet what nature is this collective beast,
esoteric... as an engine from a seat


and where is the line between free use of symbols of an alphabet
from free use of meaning wrought in any symbolism
even as dense as shared imagery?

the basis of the normality of conceived understanding
is wrought of taught and borrowed tongue

lest my tongue be too large for my mouth, and i slur in play

random psychological samples?
perhaps given some meaning through meaning imbdued search?

or are there merely wholes punched through...

variable wormholes in net space?

if but minds and thoughts soo freely slipped their binds...

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'tis minds and binds thereof
that human connections are made of?

memories acidic or sweet
is there more than conscious meat?

and if you paint them, fold them, pose them
is it difference to embold them?

to bounce from what is
into miryads soon of what was

to taste a bit of tempering
to flex constituent fibres

yet from there to here and here to there
to merely spend some extra fare?

or to see the willing?

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we may observe that what we call mind, is nothing but a heap or collection
of different perceptions, united by certain relations...
Now as every perception is distinguishable from another,
and may be consider'd as separately existent; it evidently follows,
that there is no absurdity in separating any particular perception from the mind;
that is, in breaking off all its relations, with the connected mass of perceptions,
which constitute a thinking being.

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But there is another saying not of late understood,
by which they might learn truly to read one another, if they would take the pains:
and that is Nosce teipsum: Read they self...
whosoever looketh into himself, and considereth what he doth,
when he does think, opine, reason, hope, feare, &c,
and upon what grounds,
he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts, and Passions of all other men,
upon like occasions.

Plato's theory, especially in the Phaedrus, allows and even directs the lover
to benefit the beloved.
But the beloved is still seen as an image
of an abstract entity
which remains the source of value for that love,
the model that guides the lover.
Love of the weak, the deformed, the sick, the untalented,
even of the cruel and the arrogant,
not only has no value, it seems, but is not even a theoretical possibility.
Can the object so totally dominate the concept, define it's nature
and give its only value?

Samuel Booth,
who by then was bankrupt,
could no longer afford his son's school fees,
and 13 year-old William Booth was apprenticed to a pawnbroker.
Samuel Booth died later that same year.

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"Greatness" exists in the inconspicuous and overlooked details.
______ represents the exact opposite of the Western ideal of great beauty as something monumental, spectacular, and enduring.
______ is not found in nature at moments of bloom and lushness,
but at moments of inception or subsiding.
______ is not about gorgeous flowers, majestic trees, or bold landscapes.
______ is about the minor and the hidden, the tetative and phemeral:
things so subtle and evanescent they are invisible to vulgar eyes.

Even if we recognize Lockean decency and realism,
we may be apt to regard the moral virtues toward which he directed education
as merely bourgeois or middle-class morality,
hard and narrow, low and colorless.
He may offend our moral taste by seeming to slight imagination, passion and sexuality in favor of reason,
self expression in favor or utility...
Locke saw that we have to be willing to deny our desires, face our fears, endure our pains,
and take pains in labor to preserve our equal liberty
and avoid being either tyrants of slaves.
Lack of self-mastery makes us prone to prey on the rights of others
and willing to surrender out own.
For Locke, passion and imagination make us subject to the authority of others,
exploited by their ambition and covetousness.

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iconoclastic reverence
'eres to hopeful severence
and the din of days gone by

may you free your merry thinker
to redress and then to tinker
but what grounds could score inkind

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"Thus, acculturation can be conceived to be the processes
of cultural learning imposed upon minorities by the fact of being minorities.
If enculturation is first-culture learning, then acculturation is second-culture learning.
This has often been conceived to be a unidimensional, zero-sum cultural conflict
in which the minority's culture is displaced by the dominant group's culture in a process of assimilation."

"Plato argued that this should be minimized to the degree possible."

"... codes of law ... act to stabilize cultural practices and reduce acculturative changes."

Cultural appropriation
is the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group.
It can include the introduction of forms of dress or personal adornment,
music and art, religion, language, or behavior.
These elements are typically imported into the existing culture,
and may have wildly different meanings or lack the subtleties
of their original cultural context.

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Most 19th century and some 20th century approaches aimed to provide models for the evolution of humankind as a whole, arguing that different societies are at different stages of social development.

*cheers*

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A trite or banal remark or statement,
especially one expressed as if it were original
or significant.

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The nature of signs and symbols and significations,
their definition, elements, and types,
is mainly established by Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas.
According to these classic sources,
significance is a relationship between two sorts of things:
signs and the kinds of things they signify (intend, express or mean),
where one term necessarily causes something else to come to the mind.

(thorough and radical semiosis reconstruction) juxtaposed (rigid semiosis control as 'partwise'* empowerment)

As an insect or animal, human or otherwise,
moves through its environment (sometimes termed the Umwelt),
all the senses collect data which are made available to the brain.
However, to prevent sensory overload,
only salient data will receive the full attention of the cognitive elements of the mind.
This indicates that a part of the process must be controlled
by a model of the real world capable of ranking data elements
in terms of their significance
and filtering out the data irrelevant to survival.
A sign cannot function until the audience distinguishes it
from the background noise.
It then triggers cognitive activity to interpret the data input
and so convert it into meaningful information.

*concept referral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience
correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
In this system single experiences must be correlated with the theoretical structure
in such a way that the resulting coordination is unique and convincing.

The sense-experiences are the given subject matter.
But the theory that shall interpret them is man-made.
It is the result of an extremely laborious process of adaptation:
hypothetical, never completely final, always subject to question and doubt.

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like husks without nourish
like swords without bite
of platitudes: vainglory
lassitudes of knowingsight

hollow laughter's flourish
of spasmatic tongue's might
the elder's favorite story
youngest's inherent plight

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[img]http://primate_behaviour.homestead.com/files/Ggorilla2.gif[/img]

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antithetical tendency of paradigm paralysis

yet whatever the collection of guise
there be acculturation forces at play

and what of one
when ones make many

what's 'neath the superfiscal?