am not concerned to apportion blame to anyone. I never suggested you don't read books. I don't think much of social attitude surveys, with which I have had...
heard that "gringo" comes from "green grow the the rushes o", which US soldiers used to sing when they went to battle agaisnt the Mexicans. I like the story,...
've been having a time getting this posted, as yahoo is up to its old tricks. At any rate, I haven't heard that explanation of the term before. The explanation...
rouble replying to the message I want to reply to. <br><br><br> When I was in Mexico I found that I<br> was not necessarily a gringo. I could<br> say I was...
haven't had any problems in Mexico re any anti-American sentiments, but the places I've been to have all been coastal touristy areas, and being their bread and...
'll try to polish my reaction - obviously the former was too defensive. I didn't feel blamed. <br><br>Never thought of tolerance as part of a conformist ...
Newer values (and<br> cultures if you like) are always better than ones they replace. Who really<br> wants to live in the past?"<br><br>I think this is an ...
think a national culture is comprised of each of the three things you listed: shared values, traditions, and the organization of the country. All of these work...
truly succinct comment on the ongoing debate between the Marc the Dutchman and the johnstewartBrit, but Yahoo refused to accept it, and it was lost in the...
es, Yahoo can be infuriating at times. I almost want to save a copy of my posts as insurance before I submit them, for it never fails that the long, ...
tend to see culture as a set of values, shared by a group of people. Or maybe we could borrow the word "memes" from Richard Dawkins: a culture could be seen as...
awkins I find very irritating both personally and intellectually. I don't find his concept of memes useful or illuminating. For what is wrong with the English...
ro a long message, write it in word first, then copy it and paste it into your reply. Try preview before post. If it deosn't work try replying to a different...
erhaps there is a moral to this story, perhaps not. A few years ago my wife's sister was visiting from Holland and I thought I might introduce her to two of my...
m now taking my second english composition and rhetoric course in college, and the current topics are the arguments presented in More's Utopia. at the moment...
wonder if greed and possesiveness are traits that we learn from our enviroment, or if our genes have "learned" them through evolution. If given the money, we...
et us suppose that the Shroud of Turin is in fact the burial shroud of none other than Jesus Christ, aka Yeshua Ben Yosef. <br><br>Let us assume that we could...
o return to Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. The point is that there are many different possible patterns a primitive culture might take. The Melanesian ...
atricash, when More asked why people spend our time chasing a commodity? Well like Nietzsche says<br>"living a miserable existence" meaning working jobs we ...
oo many unacceptable suppositions in this Tootesque provocation to make it really interesting. But supposing we did clone Jesus, perhaps the theologically ...
eophagy (or should I say, theophagy) is at best a difficult proposition. Why do you use the word "Tootesque" are you referring to myfiend, aka Dr. Toot, or the...
n my experience people without certain necessary things, such as money, tend towards a sort of "sour grapes" rationalization, viz, "I don't have this, ...
urely only protestants think it is metaphorical? I was brought up in the Church of England, which tries to have it all ways.<br>Wars have been fought on the...
hat I meant was that when they laid Jesus to rest in the tomb (a scene not well described in the Bible), the apostles did not cut him up with knives and maybe...
s what the Lutherans are supposed to believe. Even on this theory it is really Jesus's flesh that is eaten, and his blood that is drunk, at communion, only in...
s the heresy that Jesus was 100% divine. But to try to get back on topic, what would he have been like to have been humanly perfect? How would he have differed...
he question of humanly perfection and how this would apply to Jesus implies an obvious problem. As Nietzsche noted the "Gestalt" of Jesus was only possible ...
