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- Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:26 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Christmas
- Replies: 372
- Views: 79576
bonfire
My wife and I have for some years, out of an atavistic, unknown urge, celebrated Solstice with a bonfire, on our home property which had 35 species of trees on it when we bought it nearly 30 yrs ago. [imghttp://www.shutterfly.com/lightbox/view.sfly?fid=66120bacc7f2fb8c6d9889752d9a603c][/img] http://...
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:15 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: solstice
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1074
solstice
We have had for a dozen or so years, bonfires to mark solstice here. Like to provide a ceremonial stick for anyone who wants to offer something to be purged or purified in the flame that keeps the sun for us while it turns the corner towards a new year. http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid...
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:49 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Christmas
- Replies: 372
- Views: 79576
- Tue Nov 26, 2013 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
Have not visited this thread in a while. I just want to point out that when I hear the meme people discuss natural selection, I think the key word I heard them use, (forgive my lack of a quote), to describe selection, way down on the cellular level, is "stable". What gets replicated is what is stabl...
- Fri Nov 01, 2013 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
- Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:09 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
- Wed Oct 30, 2013 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 5:22 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: Economics
- Replies: 243
- Views: 38727
"...The more the rich colleges accumulate millions and billions for their endowment funds, the more junk infrastructure they build, while raising tuition and forcing students to assume ungodly amounts of debt to pay for gaudy crap..." That is so happening at the big land grant U. near me. They figur...
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:47 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
A meme is anything at all that can be learned, and, here is the important part, repeated, ergo, replicated. Down here in the south US, all the good ole boys wear baseball caps with goatees. You can profile them all the way from diet to leisure activities to voting preferences based on that (IMHO) si...
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:27 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
Those who lecture and write about memetics appear to suggest that ideas have status as entities though they don't have physical form (except by their physical expression, as in knots). If quantum physics taught us that matter and energy are interchangeable, who is to say that ideas are not a form of...
- Sat Aug 10, 2013 10:02 pm
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
Cindy B, I appreciate your patient, repeated turning of my gaze back to Jung's ideas re collective unconscious and archetypes, as I still struggle with my grasp of those ideas. Of long concern to me has been the phenomenon of "mass mentality" that drives large-scale activity on the mass level, like...
- Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:35 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
Cindy B, I appreciate your patient, repeated turning of my gaze back to Jung's ideas re collective unconscious and archetypes, as I still struggle with my grasp of those ideas. Of long concern to me has been the phenomenon of "mass mentality" that drives large-scale activity on the mass level, like ...
- Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:23 am
- Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
- Topic: memetics
- Replies: 91
- Views: 19027
I have been slogging through Dawkins' book, mainly because I have never been able to really grasp Darwin's idea, even tho rationally I do think it is the way living things have developed. The great sweeps of time involve are just too much for my grasp. Here is what I understand him to say. (His use ...
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:45 am
- Forum: Mythos: For the Creative Community
- Topic: Arthurian Myth and Legend, Campbell and The Grail Quest
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5393