Another word

Jul 23, 2006 14:02

Or rather, set of words. Possessive pronouns. "My", "Your", "Mine", "Yours", "His", etc. You get the picture ( Read more... )

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goteam July 23 2006, 21:16:45 UTC
Have you read The Dispossessed? LeGuin's fictional anarchist society uses a language without possessive pronouns: the best examples I'm coming up with right now is that it's dedicated "To the partner" and a small child offering the protagonist, "You can use the handkerchief that I use" as opposed to "You can use my handkerchief".

Also, your most recent posts have reminded me of your monkey_duality project, but whatever. I'm glad to read and discuss these thoughts in whatever forum they appear.

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goteam July 23 2006, 21:25:36 UTC
P.S. Now I have the Johnny Cash version of "Hurt" alternating with TMBG's "I Can't Hide From My Mind" in my head. Woo!

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foolmonkey July 23 2006, 22:21:29 UTC
With regards to the former, no, but that's awesome. Perhaps will read it soon.

With regards to the latter, well, in a sense, yes. The monkey duality stuff was specifically philosophical and emotional with regards to a lot of what seemed to be opposites. Duals of each other. I have since gained significant tools to address such polarities, specifically through a philosophical structure called Creative Systems Theory. While I still find the things I wanted to address in that journal interesting, most of them have the same sorts of answer. I'll probably talk more about that at some point. It is good stuff.

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amoken August 1 2006, 23:42:21 UTC
I love that book.

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niire July 23 2006, 23:57:59 UTC
Perhaps "you" are none of them -

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nobodobodon July 24 2006, 01:38:57 UTC
You are what you eat?

I always say "my" means "that which corresponds to me". But at that point, we've left real philosophizing and degenerated into mere wordplay.

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kismets July 24 2006, 05:20:16 UTC
My mind says "no" but my heart says "yes".

This is my every day pattern.

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