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Yesterday i actually edited a photo that wasn't that old. I was taking breaks and hitting my inbox, oldest (from New Years) first.
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pecunium writes of a loss of images with an ache i understand.
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Oh fiddlesticks. I forgot to make Christine hot lemonade instead of the fruit tisane with hibiscus flowers. The surgeon has asked that she stop drinking the herbal teas because some ingredients are of concern. It seems hibiscus lowers blood pressure, which seems like a good thing, but we'll stop.
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Tonight we're meeting up with a couple we haven't seen for a while for a movie. Rango turned out to be the group's first pick, and i am intrigued by the mixed "fan" reviews. The negatives are "don't take the kids" reactions (omg, _DEATH_ is a continual topic) with a smattering of "boring," while the positives are utter raves. Ebert loves it.
I realize i do have some admiration for the contemporary western genera. Bad Day at Black Rock is a powerful and meaningful movie; Silverado quite entertaining and The Good, the Bad, the Weird even more riotously entertaining. Firefly nailed the frontier element that carries into science fiction.
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The abstract for a game theory paper ends with "Thus, paradoxically, the existence of destructive agents acting indiscriminately promotes cooperation." They introduce a "joker" character into games, and i find my mind skipping over to the role of Loki in Norse mythology and my own reflections on how destruction and loss that are indiscriminate (a fire, a flood, a drought) can cause reactions. I realize that cooperation fits into my imagined narrative. In my narrative of "the fall," i imagine a survivor of a painful, indiscriminate loss reacting with the resolve to insure that that pain Never Again felt. I don't think that's the universal reaction, but a powerful reaction. I've focussed on how i imagine this person would later react to a stranger in need: i believe the pain-triggered "Never Again" reaction creates a barrier to compassion, that one must remain open to future loss and pain to be compassionate. But it does seem even more universal that those who share the experience of the loss would rally together, that indiscriminate loss would cause cooperation by those who are already connected. I think now of the outpouring of support for various and sundry disasters.
Yet Haiti's condition and the civil war and strife in Colombia rise up in my mind as places where the global compassion falls short. We have an attender at Meeting who has a close relationship with a village on a mountain near the epicenter of the earthquake. She witnesses to the extreme disparity between our wealth and the life of those on the mountain.
pecunium writes of a loss of images with an ache i understand. --==∞==--
Oh fiddlesticks. I forgot to make Christine hot lemonade instead of the fruit tisane with hibiscus flowers. The surgeon has asked that she stop drinking the herbal teas because some ingredients are of concern. It seems hibiscus lowers blood pressure, which seems like a good thing, but we'll stop.
--==∞==--
Tonight we're meeting up with a couple we haven't seen for a while for a movie. Rango turned out to be the group's first pick, and i am intrigued by the mixed "fan" reviews. The negatives are "don't take the kids" reactions (omg, _DEATH_ is a continual topic) with a smattering of "boring," while the positives are utter raves. Ebert loves it.
I realize i do have some admiration for the contemporary western genera. Bad Day at Black Rock is a powerful and meaningful movie; Silverado quite entertaining and The Good, the Bad, the Weird even more riotously entertaining. Firefly nailed the frontier element that carries into science fiction.
--==∞==--
The abstract for a game theory paper ends with "Thus, paradoxically, the existence of destructive agents acting indiscriminately promotes cooperation." They introduce a "joker" character into games, and i find my mind skipping over to the role of Loki in Norse mythology and my own reflections on how destruction and loss that are indiscriminate (a fire, a flood, a drought) can cause reactions. I realize that cooperation fits into my imagined narrative. In my narrative of "the fall," i imagine a survivor of a painful, indiscriminate loss reacting with the resolve to insure that that pain Never Again felt. I don't think that's the universal reaction, but a powerful reaction. I've focussed on how i imagine this person would later react to a stranger in need: i believe the pain-triggered "Never Again" reaction creates a barrier to compassion, that one must remain open to future loss and pain to be compassionate. But it does seem even more universal that those who share the experience of the loss would rally together, that indiscriminate loss would cause cooperation by those who are already connected. I think now of the outpouring of support for various and sundry disasters.
Yet Haiti's condition and the civil war and strife in Colombia rise up in my mind as places where the global compassion falls short. We have an attender at Meeting who has a close relationship with a village on a mountain near the epicenter of the earthquake. She witnesses to the extreme disparity between our wealth and the life of those on the mountain.
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