time for a twice yearlly update

[medievalwombat]

As usual, I'm not posting very often. But it occurred to me that if my interaction with the internet is purely a case of me absorbing information and never contributing, then karma will bite me

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[stitchi_monsta]

very interesting about the christian preacher
ive never made that connection until after hearing that
but really it just seems we all live and roam within these churches of the senses - we gather like congregations and groups to experience a place, a moment, an idea, a taste, a sound, a word, a touch and an image. instead of asking why we enjoy this we just blindly take it on board and not because were stupid or ignorant but because no matter how hard we all look the answers arent there - so its safe to presume the answers are these senses. but really deep down we know that our desires for a better world, a tasty meal and a lustful escapade etc, these are all apart of who we are and who we are is our world, and these worlds shine through our eyes and ears.
and exists purely in our minds

robotic armenian bunnies represent! y0

^__^

[medievalwombat]

That's a really interesting idea.....senses as answers.... sensation as the answer to the questions we keep asking... and, considering questions are usually framed with words, the idea of the answers not being words but something more....primal? is interesting.

You're right though...the world is nothing but what our senses tell us.

Though there are people who think the world is what they rationalise it to be, rather than what they feel it to be. Though of course their rationalisation is still coloured by the sum total of their sensations...

[edgecondition]

Wiktionary sounds great!
I think the main problem with learning languages after childhood is that all the conventional language courses are designed like courses for children. The beginners books are invariably full of inane dialogues and sentences like "hello Bob! Bob is a journalist. He lives in Sweden."
And all the time I'm thinking - three sentences, same tense, no nouns - what a waste of time.
If I'll go through the effort of learning languages past age 11, I really demand a grammar map where I can see how far I've gone and what and how much is left.
I'm not surprised latin entries are better; noone ever considered 'servus Bob' a proper introduction to that language, I think...

[medievalwombat]

The latin book I'm using is fantastic... It still has that childlike introduction sort of thing, but it's nice not to spend the first 30% of the course learning greetings... It goes straight in and gives me a sentence like "The farmer is chasing the bull," then discusses it and then gives me a list of words that behave like farmer, or bull...

Bob the journalist from sweden haunts my nightmares...!