Post by Fred A Stover"blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles
be come in" (Rom 11:25)
They can see it now, but they won't believe it until He returns (Zech 12:10,
Obad 1:17-21, Rev 14:1.13).
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Post by Fred A Stoverthis is an old story that I posted elsewhere but in light of your recent
bent on philosophical debate you will understand it as well as I did even
though 8 years later I still don't
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Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: Pig story - very old and very OT
But socialist governments have commonly used force to ensure that no one
rises above the herd.
but pigs don't really travel in herd do they
(trimmed previous persons comments about pork and stuff which
results
with the following sentence...and repost)
this part is me and an accurate account of an actual conversation I
had
with our 52 year old enrolled in college part time employee
. Well the first part is about the
disastrous day I had trying to cook without ingredients that I thought
I
had on hand. hope you enjoy it
I tried to make an thai type salad today with grilled prok. BUT. It
is a hundred degrees in my house, and, once again, I forgot to put
away the lettuce and bean sprouts. This is not attractive to the
gustatory senses when cooked by house. Fortunately, I still had a red
pepper another bag of lettuce and cucumber that I put away. And yes,
the prok was in the fridge.
I did remember to put the ginger and garlic away, but I bet that was
not a necessity. The oil was not warm either.
Today I had a conversation with an employee which was probably a lot
wackier than you are.
I am not her supervisor but she wanted to ask me the possibility of
getting another part time job with us. She has a masters in
literature from an allegedly famous University specializing in Famous
Literary Wannabes. [she also has many years experience in an HR
department of a major accounting firm]. She cannot arrange files
alphabetically. [perhaps in accounting they file by....client
investment
amount? instead]
After a long conversation, [which included an explanation that she MUST
apply for jobs Under A VERY SPECIFIC RIGAMAROLE otherwise no one will
make the inference
on her behalf; and a discussion that a temporary appointment does not
mean she gets to work the hours she chooses, but that the job is at
will
for only the time of the appointment. She must work forty hours a
week and
does not get to decide not to come in while she drafts the great
american
novel. We also covered such issues as the fact that there actually
has to
be an employment opportunity allocated before I can offer her a job
and that even if there
were a temporary appointment available, I would have filled it
already]. I
made it clear that our office will\
probably increase automation and that many jobs may be phased out.
She drew a long breath, and then gave me this I R an intellectual
look, and grinned maniacally as she told me that this trend towards
automation was creating slave labor. If she were standing, she would
have hands akimbo doing that you know I am right pose.
Privately, I wondered if she were perhaps Cobb Anderson's niece in
disguise or something. [Cobb Anderson was a character in the book I was
reading , "Wetware", who was considered the father of the
robots featured in the novel. His robots caused a revolution, because
they
claimed that we were treating them like slaves. They took over the
moon]
I asked her to explain. She said that life is not fair because people
who are not mathematically inclined have difficulty understanding
computers.
Hmmm. I thought. She is a literary person. I am sure that if she has
a masters in literature, she must be inclined to the linguistic arts.
So....I said....computers are easier to learn than French.
No she said, COmputers and French are very hard to learn.
I wondered why someone with an advanced liberal arts degree would
conclude that a language was outside of their grasp.
She answered that French is very hard because it is just like
math. I raised my eyebrow, wordlessly, and she persisted....that
many people
she knows say that French is just like math.
While I might at first agree that everything is just language, and
that language is just symbolism for what twirls in our heads....
I though I might just check the reasoning here...I asked WHAT ABOUT
SPANISH???
She said, no Spanish is easy it is nothing like math.
Needless to say, she doesn't know Spanish either. But she does
use a computer every day in her job. Does anyone know anyone who
thinks French is just like math???
here are some of the funnier responses I got
"Um.I bet a french teacher on a teevee show could bring up measurable
responses"--dramar ankalle
"french is the langauge of math. spanish is the language of geometry.
but italian, italian is the langauge of phys ed"--ranjit bhatnagar
"Computers are hard because they ask you for money for food but you
KNOW they are buying liquor and going gambling with it! CURSE YOU,
LAWLESS RIVERBOATS!!! I have witnessed my own computers cavorting
with bifurcated girls! Of course, you can't say anything to them or
they'll order up MORE aluminium siding that turns out to be
VINYL....French is to math as
choco-bar is to cumbus?"--CRGRE
When I started learning Spanish in high school, I was already a
trombonist. As everyone knows, music is just like math! And when I
started
learning Spanish in high school, I thought, "Gosh, as this becomes more
natural, and I stop translating word-for-word, instead thinking in the
Spanish is
just like playing music, and music is just like math. SPANISH IS JUST
LIKE
MATH!
You will have to teach me French before I agree that French is just
like
math, however."--BlakXXJack
http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/dec98/0008.html"
--Matt McIrvin