Use your imagination, Barry, instead of relying on me to explain every word I write. You know the intent of what is written. If you are truly having a problem understanding "semi-like-minded" we shouldn't be having this discussion.Barry writes -
"Why you would infer this..."
"Did you mean to say "one" and "they" in the same sentence?"
"And the "semi-like-minded" part is difficult to puzzle out as well."
I'm not impressed. Are you?Barry -
I am who I am. I do what I do.
Energy and The Evolution of Culture was a text book I used in 1972 at U of MD college park.I said it.
<center>Cutting and pasting</center>EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE MAY BE Described in terms of energy. Galaxies, stars, molecules and atoms may be regarded as organizations of energy. Living organisms may be looked upon as engines which operate by means of energy derived directly or indirectly from the sun. The civilizations, or cultures of mankind, also, may be regarded as a form of organization of energy. Culture is an organization of phenomena-material objects, bodily acts, ideas, and sentiments which consists of or is dependent upon the use of symbols. Man, being the only animal capable of symbol-behavior, is the only creature to possess culture. Culture is a kind of behavior. And behavior, whether of man, mule, plant, comet or molecule, may be treated as a manifestation of energy. Thus we see, on all levels of reality, that phenomena lend themselves to description and interpretation in terms of energy. Cultural anthropology is that branch of natural science which deals with matter-and-motion, i.e., energy, phenomena in cultural form, as biology deals with them in cellular, and physics in atomic, form.
The purpose of culture is to serve the needs of man. These needs are of two kinds: (1) those which can be served or satisfied by drawing upon resources within the human organism alone. Singing, dancing, myth-making, forming clubs or associations for the sake of companionship, etc., illustrate this kind of needs and ways of satisfying them. (2) The second class of needs can be satisfied only by drawing upon the resources of the external world, outside the human organism. Man must get his food from the external world. The tools, weapons, and other materials with which man provides himself with food, shelter from the elements, protection from his enemies, must likewise come from the external world. The satisfaction of spiritual and aesthetic needs through singing, dancing, myth-making, etc., is possible, however, only if man's bodily needs for food, shelter, and defense are met. Thus the whole cultural structure depends upon the material, mechanical means with which man articulates himself with the earth. Furthermore, the satisfaction of human needs from "inner resources" may be regarded as a constant,° the satisfaction of needs from the outer resources a variable. Therefore, in our discussion of cultural development we may omit consideration of the constant factor and deal only with the variable-the material, mechanical means with which man exploits the resources of nature.
It kind of ties in with what cecil was saying about every government would do the same and also what nazz is saying about the real reasons for the war. I was not trying to sucker punch mark by starting a thread here. At least I don't think so. I have so much respect for him as a writer. I suppose I was calling him out on it. But without malice of forethought.All living beings struggle to live, to perpetuate their respective kinds. In the human species the struggle for survival assumes the cultural form. The human struggle for existence expresses itself in a never-ending attempt to make of culture a more effective instrument with which to provide security of life and survival of the species. And one of the ways of making culture a more powerful instrument is to harness and to put to work within it more energy per capita per year. Thus, wind, and water and fire are harnessed; animals are domesticated, plants cultivated; steam engines are built. The other way of improving culture as an instrument of adjustment and control is to invent new and better tools and improve old ones. Thus energy for culture-living and culture-building is augmented in quantity, is expended more efficiently, and culture advances.
Thus we know, not only how culture evolves, but why, as well. The urge, inherent in all living species, to live, to make life more secure, more rich, more full, to insure the perpetuation of the species, seizes upon, when it does not produce, better (i.e., more effective) means of living and surviving. In the case of man, the biological urge to live, the power to invent and to discover, the ability to select and use the better of two tools or ways of doing something-these are the factors of cultural evolution. Darwin could tell us the consequences of variations, but he could not tell us how these variations were produced. We know the motive force as well as the means of cultural evolution. The culturologist knows more about cultural evolution than the biologist, even today, knows about biological evolution.
ibid
Barry you use such violent metaphors
you accuse me of abusing you
you say to me
"you sucker punched me:
"go ahead and kick me in the balls"
makes me wonder
did I ever accuse you of anything?
Not sure what I have done to earn your enmity
Just my karma
I can live with that.
I reap the whirlwind of my own past acts and words of violence against others I suppose.
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You don't like Barry because he's a handsome guy with a smiling face? You don't like his avatar?I look at his smiling face and feel the bones breaking and taste the blood.
stilltrucking wrote:Cecil doesn't know who you are
But you know who I am, dont you barry?
I know who you are barry, I recognize you from your smiling face you are the guy who sucker punched me in astoria oregon in 1976. go ahead barry kick me in the balls
tell me barry what don't you want to hear
go ahead delete this
Barry what is it that you don't want to hear?
Barry you use such violent metaphors
you accuse me of abusing you
you say to me
"you sucker punched me:
"go ahead and kick me in the balls"
makes me wonder
did I ever accuse you of anything?
Not sure what I have done to earn your enmity
Just my karma
I can live with that.
I reap the whirlwind of my own past acts and words of violence against others I suppose.
http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=17724
Cecil I try to remember your comment about us being well oiled. But maybe if he would change his avatar I might be able to move on.
I am sorry doreen have I hajacked my own thread again? just delete this or move it to creative complaints if you think it best. I am not being snide
I got my own little case of ptsd with him, I let him meme me. I look at his smiling face and feel the bones breaking and taste the blood.
For a peaceful guy he uses such violent metaphors.
I want to be the change
that I want to see in the world
it starts in my own heart
"lord help me jesus
I know what I am"
Barry wrote:
I rest my case.
They're always gonna be around.
The discontented, trying to mess up other people's shit.
Peace,
Barry
What do you mean? Was it ME who said that?
OK.. so I'm disoriented. Just messing with your shit.
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