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From: Kenneth Van Oost <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
To: <kennethvanoost@myrealbox.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:03 PM
Subject: Fw: memetics-digest V1 #1011
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kenneth Van Oost <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
> To: <Kennethvanoost@myrealbox.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 9:50 PM
> Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #1011
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>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> > > On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 04:33 , Jarmo Pystynen wrote:
> > > > "Have you ever realized that in the perfect state of observation
you,
> > > > the observer, you the thinker, the center cease to exist?"
> > >
> > > And I wrote not three days ago, to another, a concerningly similar-
> > >
> > > "The true act of observation is done in silence- no thoughts impede-
it
> > > is a totally receptive state. And, within this state, what flows in
the
> > > mind, and what processes congeal and form to bring sense to this
> > > silence, is the creative process, and, it works as well upon the field
> > > of science (and as validly) as it does upon the field of art and
poetry,
> > > each with their own tools and experiences and cultures and
technologies
> > > and practitioners and traditions. But it is where one takes the fruits
> > > of this silence that determines what is to be next- science or poetry.
> > > Facts or feelings."
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I say,
> >
> > In the beginning there was the word !
> > No !! In the beginning there was the emotion !
> >
> > Words are just recent phenomenons, they replace the emotion, like the
> > trot replaced the gallop, while the gallop is the natural way of the
> horse.
> > People learn it to trot. [ They] removed people from the emotional
poetry
> > by letting him reason, that is to say, by letting him chatter, isn 't it
> !?
> >
> > Louis- Ferdinand Céline
> >
> > A lovely way to describe what ' memes ' actually do, don 't you think !?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
>
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