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[an email from Cody Herzog]

Poem Schema 1A

a lesson on writing poetry -
Obscurity and the Easy Way Out

I know I have more to say:
(Snippet of conversation)
(Bright metaphor)
(Expression of isolation)

Stanza two starts and ends.

Well worn words: (cliche)/(genuine emotion)
Not just literate but alliterate
Callous muse, don't you hear?
I need this; (The rest of the line)

Apparently not.

Was that another stanza?

Who am i asking?

I...forget it...forgot it...never knew

[Posted by MarchHare in a comment below]

Random entry of the [insert time period here]

The earliest inventions for harnessing nature were tools powered by human muscles. They revolutionized our ancestors situation, but they suffered from the limitation that they required continuous human attention and effort during every moment of their use. Subsequent technology overcame that limitation: human beings managed to domesticate certain animals and plants, turning the biological adaptations of those organisms to human ends. Thus the crops could grow, and the guard dogs could watch, even while the owners slept. Another new type of technology began when human beings went beyond merely exploiting existing adaptations (and existing non-biological phenomenon like fire), and created completely new adaptations in the form of pottery, bricks, wheels, metal artifacts, and machines. To do this they had to think about, and understand, the natural laws governing the world - including...not only its superficial aspects, but the underlying fabric of reality. There followed thousands of years of progress in this type of technology - harnessing some of the materials, forces, and energies of physics. In the twentieth century, information was added to this list when the invention of computers allowed complex information processing to be performed outside human brains. Quantum computation...is a distinct further step in this progression. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

[excerpt from 'The Fabric of Reality' by David Deutsch]

Survey IV. (Philosophical [Antinomies])

Please answer the following:

1) Take the following sentence: 'This sentence is false.' Is it true or false?

2) Take the set of all sets that don't contain themselves. Does this set contain itself?

3) Assume as true the following theory: 'We should formulate theories and critisize them as rigourously as possible in an effort to reject them.' This statement itself is a theory, and so it follows from itself that we should critisize it. If we end up rejecting the theory, what then happens? Can we consistently formulate and reject the theory which tells us to 'formulate and reject theories'? How does this antinomy differ from the previous two?

Survey III. (Pointless)

Please answer the following questions:

1) What is your favorite food?

2) If you had to be stuck on a desert island with Ben and J-lo, or just Gary Coleman (who would still be a security guard), which would you pick (warning: Gary may have legitimate jurisdiction over you, and Ben and J-lo don't have any of their money, and they hate each other)?

3) What is your favorite pointless question?

4) What is your favorite non-pointless question and how does it differ from a pointless one?

5) Are any of the above questions non-pointless?

6) What city do you wish you could have been born in?

7) If you had to have a terminal illness that would claim you in less than 5 years, what illness would it be (those who are terminally ill are exempt from this question)?

8) Boxers or briefs?

9) Is question #8 the paradigmatic pointless question of this lot, or is there another contender (#1?) for this position? Why?

10) If you had precient knowledge about the fact that the earth would soon temporarily start rotating about its axis at a speed three times greater than its current rate, what preparations would you make (It would spin up to the new speed during the first minute, maintain that speed for 40 minutes, and then spin down to the normal speed during the last minute)?

11) Must questions about pointless questions be themselves pointless?

Rumours of impending apocalypse jolt Iranian capital

Yahoo! News - Rumours of impending apocalypse jolt Iranian capital

Good thing lightning didn't hit a cleric.

Electronic Audio

Electronic audio

Survey II. (Political)

Please answer the following questions:

1) Do the American people understand the implications of war (innocent death, torture, geopolitical change (such as shifting global opinion), etc.)?

2) What are the motivations for America's invasion of Arab countries, and how do these motivations compare to the motivations purported by the American government?

Survey I. (Philosophical)

Answer the following questions:

1) What is more important: your perceptual experience of the world, or your conceptual understanding of it?

2) If a thing changes, then, after the change, the thing is no longer identical with itself, and thus it seems problematic to say that that thing has changed. How do we have to understand change in order for it to make sense that a thing changes, and yet preserves its identity?

3) Are there ethical truths, and if so, what kinds of truths are they? Are they analytic (or in any way neccessary) truths, like the truths of mathematics or logic, or are they synthetic 'truths', like the 'truths' of science (which, of course, are not really truths at all, rather, explanitory hypotheses).

4) What would it mean to say that an answer to a question here posted is right or correct?