[ExI] utah: RE: Frank Jackson's brilliant color scientist Mary

[William Flynn Wallace]

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>  All I have are the two hemispheres.  One is filled with poetry, the
> other, equations.  It’s all I have.  I love my bride with equations and
> poetry.  All my heart does is beat.
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> Au contraire - you have a limbic system.  Don't you math guys love
> equations?  Limbic system.  Aren't some equations more elegant than
> others?  Limbic system.  How about sex (not gender). Limbic system. Great
> food.  LImbic system and so on.
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Pascal commented the heart knows reasons that reason knows not.   Limbic
system.  KNown to Hume - far ahead of his time.  Emotion more important
then reason.  Proved just recently in cortex studies.

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> As soon as I hear anyone argue that anything used to be better (with the
> possible exception of popular music) I already know that person is beyond
> reason.  In the olden days everything sucked compared to now (temporarily
> ignoring that awful hip-hop rap business, oy vey who the hell ordered that?)
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Fact - our musical tastes tend to gel around the age of 35.

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> >…  (LOL, they were saying all this fear mongering about china, while at
> the same time talking about how we can’t even force puny Afghanistan to
> adopt our form of government.)…
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Those people are about as far away from being ready for democracy as they
can get.  Tribalism is what they know.

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>  you must replace every single pronoun with he, she or it and his, her or
> its.  Oh that makes speech clumsy.  Then if you have a special peeve about
> people using “they” and “their” for the genderless singular, oh the
> suffering is intense.  What’s a poor grammar gestapo to do?  Shriek in
> pain?  Tried that, they won’t stop.  Cruel they are, callous, just
> relentlessly wicked, merciless.
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>  Using they etc. for the singular is as old as Shakespeare, who did it
> first.
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bill w

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