From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #802 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 14 2008 Volume 16 : Number 802 Today's Subjects: ----------------- wordle [djini@voicenet.com] Re: wordle [Tom Clark ] Re: Darth Mercury in Taurus [James Dignan ] Re: wordle [Laura Dean Golias ] Recognize this lyric? ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: wordle ["Jeremy Osner" ] Saints alive! ["Jeremy Osner" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:48:04 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: wordle You know, a person could easily spend quite a bit a of time taking text from the Asking Tree and making wordles. The only thing lacking is the Thoth font. http://www.wordle.net/ Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:37:57 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: wordle On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:48 PM, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > You know, a person could easily spend quite a bit a of time taking > text from the Asking > Tree and making wordles. The only thing lacking is the Thoth font. > http://www.wordle.net/ > I did one with "Airscape" once. Came out nice. Here's The Authority Box: http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/383869/The_Authority_Box - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:18:11 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Darth Mercury in Taurus >On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:53 AM, kevin studyvin ><kstudyvin@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:29 AM, James Dignan ><grutness@slingshot.co.nz>wrote: > > >> > Dunno why people get so hung up on whether or not our fates are governed >>> by >>> > the movement of the heavens (what do you think?), when there's much >>> more to >>> > the subject than that - an amazing amount of very interesting >>> information >>> > tied-up in the astrological archetypes - the planets, the signs, the >>> houses >>> > for a start. Belief isn't a pre-requisite. There again, belief can be a >>> lot >>> > of >>> > fun, especially before breakfast..! >>> >>> >>> I would say that such baby as there is falls under a literary or >>> psychological/mythological heading rather than the usual claims re >>> personality types, influence, etc. After all, an orange held at arm's >>> length >>> exerts more gravitational force over me than most the stars...as would a >>> crab, a cone, or an overripe tomato. >>> >> > >Mmm, or it's a symbolic language based on the assumption that everything in >the universe is fundamentally connected, and that the same conditions >affecting the movement of the stars will affect the lives of mortals - from >which perspective heavenly bodies can be read more or less as indicator >lights which can give you an idea of your position, existentially, without >actually *ruling* yr destiny any more than the speedometer is determining >the speed of your car. > > >Fact remains that 99.9% of its practitioners and followers are >either incredibly gullible or ripoff artists... Oh, without doubt. >Of all the literally billions and billions of things in the universe >to establish objective correlatives with, why the stars? I mean, all >the same arguments mounted above would apply equally well to reading >the entrails of goats, parsing tea leaves, or reading the flights of >birds. > >Or of the stock market. except that, as I pointed out, there is likely to be a thin correlation between the time of year that a person is born and their personality, due largely to the weather/amount of light/amount of nutrition during their first years of life (and the time of the mother's pregnancy) - especially in ancient times before frozen food, air conditioning, and artificial light. What natural features would the ancients have seen that was constant at specific times of the year but changed depending on the time of the year, irrespective of whereabouts people were (remember that many ancient peoples were nomadic, especially in the Middle East, which is where much of our knowledge of the skies comes from)? The position of the stars. And as Kevin pointed out, it's cause and effect that's become added as time goes on. The ancients see people of a particular kind born when the tars are in a certain pattern, and they assume the relationship is causal. Humans can't affect what the stars do, so, they figure, it must be the other way round. You can't guarantee that the entrails of goats or flight of birds or tea leaves would remain constant in different places at the same time of the year, and I seriously doubt that the stock market- even if it had been invented then - would be the same each summer and the same (but different to summer) each winter. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:06:43 -0600 (CST) From: Laura Dean Golias Subject: Re: wordle I did one for Syd Barrett's "Word Song" http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/384844/Word_Song_by_Syd_Barrett I haven't tried any Robyn lyrics yet. Vair cool website. Laura Golias ldgolias1@verizon.net > You know, a person could easily spend quite a bit a of time taking text from the Asking > Tree and making wordles. The only thing lacking is the Thoth font. > http://www.wordle.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:10:17 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Recognize this lyric? Somebody came to my website (from Firenze, no less) via a Google search for the (unquoted) phrase, "I'm a lucky man and I think paranoid". You can see why such a search would get a lot of false positives -- the only real keywords in it are Lucky and Paranoid -- but it sounds to me like a real nice lyric. Does anybody know of a song with this line? J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:13:18 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: wordle wrote: > I did one for Syd Barrett's "Word Song" http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/384844/Word_Song_by_Syd_Barrett I Really nice. Look at http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/384948/It_is_Obvious while you listen to the like-titled song. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:02:26 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Saints alive! The Mexican edition of Playboy has picked their playmate of the month for December '08 -- it is Mary, Mother of God: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1094198/Mary-Christmas-readers--Mexican-Playboy-puts-nude-Virgin-Mary-cover.html J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #802 ********************************