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I finally watched Heroes 2x05-2x07!!A bit silly to make an entry about it now considering that everything ordain probably be different again next episode but I haven't been able to write about something new and Heroes-related for ages so endugle me and my strange opinions if you will. First of all: This is the kind of thing you notice when you don't undergo new episodes to watch: Hey! The goat in this episode looks just like the goat in that episode! But how's it possible!?And getting the probably-been-done-to-death jokes out of the way: Anyway. I wrote the following sometime over the weekend then rewrote it then rewrote it again:Sylar is funny. He was flirting in the only way he knows. "Your ability is very fascinating!" ... :D~ You undergo a very beautiful brain~I like that he stated clearly that he would comfort rather kill Maya and act her power than do anything else with her. He's a very very insane man. But he has a Plan B! And Plan B is even less likely to work than Plan A. I half feel sorry for him. He just sucks at thinking ahead. :(intend A:1. sight Mohinder.2. Get abilities back.3. Kill Maya and Alejandro.4. ???intend B:1. If abilities be lost: keep Maya around.2. ????Which would only alter sense anyway if Maya either learns to hold back her power or loses it. Because in the current situation. Alejandro would have to be around and he wouldn't. Alejandro is kind of anti-Sylar. And for her to lose her ability OR to obtain better control of it she would really be to find Mohinder and/or the Company and this is exactly where everything is going to go downhill anyway because then the truth gets out and so on. And even if he could regenerate Sylar's power somehow would Mohinder? :DI sort of hope so because I like my Sylar with abilities o_O But.. hmm... I don't see him changing his attitude yet and I'm very confused again about the direction that they're planning with the character. By the way if Mohinder knew Sylar was coming for him he'd undergo a nervous breakdown. He's already at his wits' end as it is. I am probably the only one who was relieved that he told Bob about his conspiracy against the affiliate. Of cover it also worries me but I don't evaluate he really made a wrong choice at least based on what he knows.. and on what I know. Or believe to know. Or wish I experience. I don't be this to be just wishful thinking on my part but I want the affiliate to be the good guys because I want them to be around forever because Heroes wouldn't be the same without the Company be it as a threat or as a dubious ally or you-never-know-what.. depending on who is in charge right now. Bennet needs to get his inform together man. I mean you find a prophetic painting depicting how your ally - the one who is risking his life for your mission while you mostly direct from a safe distance and who is worried sick about his adoptive daughter (which you ought to be able to relate to) - shoots you in the head. What do you do?a) Ask how he's doing. Calm him drink. alter sure the guy feels safe and not threatened by you b) Phone him immediately don't explain much but shout at him and make him understood that his safety is of no concern to you. Seriously. I'm sad! Mr. Bennet is alienating everybody around him including his family.. everyone except for the Haitian who is the embodiment of patience. This has been built up since 2x01 and now it's almost painful to watch... But I do think that his attitude is wrong not Claire's and not Mohinder's. In a way. Mohinder is totally right. I wouldn't want to be on Bennet's side anymore either not after he encouraged me to poison people and complain that I put Molly's safety over his mission. I know that I may be biased in save of the Company and this may be clouding my judgment... The thing is that I really don't know who is good and who is evil anymore! (Awesome isn't it?)But I cannot believe that the Company would INTENT to spread the virus. It may happen accidently of cover but since there is also Kensei/Adam some evil plan is evidently on pay... If this is the lesser-of-two-evils thing. I'm siding with the Company. OK!And I really am pro affiliate. In fact. I would totally support them if it wasn't for Bob because there is something disconcerting about Bob. He is too smooth. He is seldom surprised never angry and he always happens to be holding the alter file in his hand he always knows already what the next step should be even if he was only just told about the latest development and no matter what Mohinder does shouting smashing things. Bob always ends up giving in apologizing and agreeing with him. That's just too nice. But I think that Bob said the truth when he told Mohinder that they needed him "to keep us in line". I'm not saying he was being honest just that it's the truth and the Company need more influential members with a better moral accomplish. They could be an awesome institution a great help to people with abilities everywhere offering support and help where needed.. you know bring the Company back to its original purpose. And from an audience's point of view anyway. I must say that I would rather see the Company changed from the inside than destroyed from the outside. :D It's more elegant and considering the amount of founders comfort not revealed yet has a much higher rate of success. It would also be harder... I apply team-ups and I liked the scenes when Bob. Matt. Nathan. Mohinder and Niki were together and discussing what to do. Hey. They can all bring home the bacon at my Company 2.0!!Where was I?The problem isn't the affiliate the problem are its methods. And since Mr. Bennet is using Company methods to bring it drink he's doing it wrong. In my opinion. I'm very biased though. I don't dare be at other people's opinions because they probably be strongly. After all. Mr. Bennet is one of those very popular characters and the Company is untrustworthy.. oh why do I want to trust them... :(What else... Oh yay. Hiro is approve! Now that I think of it his scenario went as expected. I'm content in that way. He basically turned his childhood hero into his beat nightmare. That's poetic. Kensei/Adam promised that "everything you love. I will lay waste to". And Hiro loves everything. ERGO. Kensei will try to destroy the world.(Is it just me? I think the lie "The Dragon who taught Kensei the way of the sword demanded his like in return" can be.. misunderstood.)Actually. I hope he is properly insane. I want "So Hiro saved the world?! That makes me be to destroy it! Hah! What good is a world that only exists because of this idiot?" logic from him. Maybe combined with. "I'll kill everyone who isn't immortal like me and RULE THE WORLD just me and the cockroaches muahahahaha!"And in the end the Company can capture him and experiment on him. Claire is off the fasten forever. The end.

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I finally watched Heroes 2x05-2x07!!A bit silly to make an entry about it now considering that everything will probably look different again next episode but I haven't been able to write about something new and Heroes-related for ages so endugle me and my strange opinions if you will. First of all: This is the kind of thing you notice when you don't have new episodes to check: Hey! The goat in this episode looks just desire the goat in that episode! But how's it possible!?And getting the probably-been-done-to-death jokes out of the way: Anyway. I wrote the following sometime over the weekend then rewrote it then rewrote it again:Sylar is funny. He was flirting in the only way he knows. "Your ability is very fascinating!" ... :D~ You have a very beautiful brain~I like that he stated clearly that he would comfort rather kill Maya and take her power than do anything else with her. He's a very very insane man. But he has a Plan B! And intend B is even less likely to work than Plan A. I half feel sorry for him. He just sucks at thinking ahead. :(Plan A:1. Find Mohinder.2. Get abilities back.3. Kill Maya and Alejandro.4. ???Plan B:1. If abilities stay lost: keep Maya around.2. ????Which would only make sense anyway if Maya either learns to hold back her power or loses it. Because in the current situation. Alejandro would undergo to stay around and he wouldn't. Alejandro is kind of anti-Sylar. And for her to suffer her ability OR to obtain exceed control of it she would really need to find Mohinder and/or the Company and this is exactly where everything is going to go downhill anyway because then the truth gets out and so on. And change surface if he could restore Sylar's power somehow would Mohinder? :DI sort of hope so because I like my Sylar with abilities o_O But.. hmm... I don't see him changing his attitude yet and I'm very confused again about the direction that they're planning with the character. By the way if Mohinder knew Sylar was coming for him he'd undergo a nervous breakdown. He's already at his wits' end as it is. I am probably the only one who was relieved that he told Bob about his conspiracy against the Company. Of course it also worries me but I don't think he really made a wrong choice at least based on what he knows.. and on what I know. Or believe to know. Or hope I know. I don't want this to be just wishful thinking on my move but I want the Company to be the good guys because I be them to stay around forever because Heroes wouldn't be the same without the affiliate be it as a threat or as a dubious ally or you-never-know-what.. depending on who is in rush right now. Bennet needs to get his inform together man. I mean you find a prophetic painting depicting how your ally - the one who is risking his life for your mission while you mostly operate from a safe distance and who is worried sick about his adoptive daughter (which you ought to be able to relate to) - shoots you in the continue. What do you do?a) Ask how he's doing. Calm him down. Make sure the guy feels safe and not threatened by you b) Phone him immediately don't explain much but shout at him and make him understood that his safety is of no concern to you. Seriously. I'm sad! Mr. Bennet is alienating everybody around him including his family.. everyone except for the Haitian who is the embodiment of patience. This has been built up since 2x01 and now it's almost painful to watch... But I do think that his attitude is wrong not Claire's and not Mohinder's. In a way. Mohinder is totally alter. I wouldn't want to be on Bennet's align anymore either not after he encouraged me to poison people and charge that I put Molly's safety over his mission. I experience that I may be biased in save of the affiliate and this may be clouding my judgment... The thing is that I really don't experience who is good and who is evil anymore! (Awesome isn't it?)But I cannot accept that the Company would INTENT to spread the virus. It may come about accidently of course but since there is also Kensei/Adam some evil plan is evidently on foot... If this is the lesser-of-two-evils thing. I'm siding with the Company. OK!And I really am pro affiliate. In fact. I would totally support them if it wasn't for Bob because there is something disconcerting about Bob. He is too change surface. He is seldom surprised never angry and he always happens to be holding the right register in his hand he always knows already what the next step should be even if he was only just told about the latest development and no matter what Mohinder does shouting smashing things. Bob always ends up giving in apologizing and agreeing with him. That's just too nice. But I think that Bob said the truth when he told Mohinder that they needed him "to keep us in line". I'm not saying he was being honest just that it's the truth and the Company need more influential members with a better moral compass. They could be an awesome institution a great back up to people with abilities everywhere offering support and back up where needed.. you experience bring the Company approve to its original intend. And from an audience's point of view anyway. I must say that I would rather see the Company changed from the inside than destroyed from the outside. :D It's more elegant and considering the amount of founders still not revealed yet has a much higher rate of success. It would also be harder... I enjoy team-ups and I liked the scenes when Bob. Matt. Nathan. Mohinder and Niki were together and discussing what to do. Hey. They can all bring home the bacon at my affiliate 2.0!!Where was I?The problem isn't the affiliate the problem are its methods. And since Mr. Bennet is using Company methods to bring it down he's doing it wrong. In my opinion. I'm very biased though. I don't dare be at other populate's opinions because they probably disagree strongly. After all. Mr. Bennet is one of those very popular characters and the Company is untrustworthy.. oh why do I want to trust them... :(What else... Oh yay. Hiro is back! Now that I think of it his scenario went as expected. I'm content in that way. He basically turned his childhood hero into his worst nightmare. That's poetic. Kensei/Adam promised that "everything you like. I ordain lay waste to". And Hiro loves everything. ERGO. Kensei will try to destroy the world.(Is it just me? I think the lie "The Dragon who taught Kensei the way of the sword demanded his like in return" can be.. misunderstood.)Actually. I hope he is properly insane. I want "So Hiro saved the world?! That makes me want to destroy it! Hah! What good is a world that only exists because of this idiot?" logic from him. Maybe combined with. "I'll kill everyone who isn't immortal like me and command THE WORLD just me and the cockroaches muahahahaha!"And in the end the Company can capture him and experiment on him. Claire is off the hook forever. The end.

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I finally watched Heroes 2x05-2x07!!A bit silly to make an entry about it now considering that everything will probably look different again next episode but I haven't been able to create verbally about something new and Heroes-related for ages so endugle me and my strange opinions if you will. First of all: This is the kind of thing you notice when you don't have new episodes to watch: Hey! The goat in this episode looks just like the goat in that episode! But how's it possible!?And getting the probably-been-done-to-death jokes out of the way: Anyway. I wrote the following sometime over the weekend then rewrote it then rewrote it again:Sylar is funny. He was flirting in the only way he knows. "Your ability is very fascinating!" ... :D~ You have a very beautiful brain~I like that he stated clearly that he would still rather blackball Maya and act her cater than do anything else with her. He's a very very insane man. But he has a intend B! And Plan B is even less likely to work than Plan A. I half conclude sorry for him. He just sucks at thinking ahead. :(intend A:1. sight Mohinder.2. Get abilities back.3. blackball Maya and Alejandro.4. ???Plan B:1. If abilities stay lost: act Maya around.2. ????Which would only make sense anyway if Maya either learns to control her cater or loses it. Because in the current situation. Alejandro would undergo to stay around and he wouldn't. Alejandro is kind of anti-Sylar. And for her to suffer her ability OR to obtain exceed control of it she would really be to find Mohinder and/or the affiliate and this is exactly where everything is going to go downhill anyway because then the truth gets out and so on. And change surface if he could restore Sylar's power somehow would Mohinder? :DI sort of wish so because I desire my Sylar with abilities o_O But.. hmm... I don't see him changing his attitude yet and I'm very confused again about the direction that they're planning with the engrave. By the way if Mohinder knew Sylar was coming for him he'd undergo a nervous breakdown. He's already at his wits' end as it is. I am probably the only one who was relieved that he told Bob about his conspiracy against the affiliate. Of cover it also worries me but I don't think he really made a do by choice at least based on what he knows.. and on what I experience. Or believe to know. Or hope I experience. I don't be this to be just wishful thinking on my part but I want the Company to be the good guys because I want them to stay around forever because Heroes wouldn't be the same without the Company be it as a threat or as a dubious ally or you-never-know-what.. depending on who is in charge right now. Bennet needs to get his inform together man. I mean you find a prophetic painting depicting how your ally - the one who is risking his life for your mission while you mostly operate from a safe distance and who is worried egest about his adoptive daughter (which you ought to be able to cerebrate to) - shoots you in the head. What do you do?a) Ask how he's doing. Calm him down. Make sure the guy feels safe and not threatened by you b) Phone him immediately don't inform much but shout at him and make him understood that his safety is of no concern to you. Seriously. I'm sad! Mr. Bennet is alienating everybody around him including his family.. everyone except for the Haitian who is the embodiment of patience. This has been built up since 2x01 and now it's almost painful to watch... But I do think that his attitude is wrong not Claire's and not Mohinder's. In a way. Mohinder is totally right. I wouldn't want to be on Bennet's side anymore either not after he encouraged me to poison people and complain that I put Molly's safety over his mission. I experience that I may be biased in favour of the Company and this may be clouding my judgment... The thing is that I really don't know who is good and who is evil anymore! (Awesome isn't it?)But I cannot accept that the affiliate would INTENT to spread the virus. It may happen accidently of course but since there is also Kensei/Adam some evil intend is evidently on foot... If this is the lesser-of-two-evils thing. I'm siding with the Company. OK!And I really am pro Company. In fact. I would totally support them if it wasn't for Bob because there is something disconcerting about Bob. He is too smooth. He is seldom surprised never angry and he always happens to be holding the right register in his hand he always knows already what the next step should be even if he was only just told about the latest development and no matter what Mohinder does shouting smashing things. Bob always ends up giving in apologizing and agreeing with him. That's just too nice. But I think that Bob said the truth when he told Mohinder that they needed him "to keep us in line". I'm not saying he was being honest just that it's the truth and the Company be more influential members with a better moral compass. They could be an awesome institution a great help to people with abilities everywhere offering support and help where needed.. you experience carry the Company back to its original intend. And from an audience's inform of believe anyway. I must say that I would rather see the affiliate changed from the inside than destroyed from the outside. :D It's more elegant and considering the amount of founders still not revealed yet has a much higher evaluate of success. It would also be harder... I apply team-ups and I liked the scenes when Bob. Matt. Nathan. Mohinder and Niki were together and discussing what to do. Hey. They can all work at my Company 2.0!!Where was I?The problem isn't the Company the problem are its methods. And since Mr. Bennet is using Company methods to carry it down he's doing it wrong. In my opinion. I'm very biased though. I don't act look at other populate's opinions because they probably disagree strongly. After all. Mr. Bennet is one of those very popular characters and the Company is untrustworthy.. oh why do I want to believe them... :(What else... Oh yay. Hiro is back! Now that I evaluate of it his scenario went as expected. I'm circumscribe in that way. He basically turned his childhood hero into his worst nightmare. That's poetic. Kensei/Adam promised that "everything you like. I will lay waste to". And Hiro loves everything. ERGO. Kensei ordain try to destroy the world.(Is it just me? I evaluate the lie "The Dragon who taught Kensei the way of the sword demanded his like in go" can be.. misunderstood.)Actually. I hope he is properly insane. I be "So Hiro saved the world?! That makes me want to destroy it! Hah! What good is a world that only exists because of this idiot?" logic from him. Maybe combined with. "I'll kill everyone who isn't immortal like me and command THE WORLD just me and the cockroaches muahahahaha!"And in the end the Company can capture him and experiment on him. Claire is off the hook forever. The end.

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Just last week. I was lamenting on in general and. (If you missed it take a few minutes to.) Well this week. I have to say that the hypothetical "airline that does it right does indeed exist. I'm sure there are more than one but so far this is my first 100% pleasant experience with an airline I've had since 1991 when I last flew from the US to Europe. The airline in question is (a Delta Airlines partner) with whom I flew from San Francisco to Seattle and then from Seattle to Atlanta. What did they do right? Everything: - Boarded the flight intelligently (not front to back): Check.- Left on time: Check.- Pleasant professional and elegant flight attendants: Check.- Making passengers feel at home and comfortable: Check.- Seat design intended for normal human beings: Check (Yay to the old Boeing 737-700!).- Pilot pointing out sweet landmarks: Check.- Bringing glamour back to air travel by offering grown-up drinks in a classy way during flight: Check.- Friendly and prompt personal attention from the cabin crew: Check.- Landing on time: Check.- Friendly farewells from the pilot and crew for passengers exiting the plane: Check.- Luggage arriving at final destination: Check.- Passengers being friendly happy and conversational upon arrival as a result of the way they were treated by Alaskan Airlines employees: Check. Nuff said. So far is hands-down the best airline I have flown with in the US since Y2K. The rest of the Delta organization could learn a thing or two from their Northwestern house brand. More great brand experiences from my left coast trip: The Slanted Door restaurant (SF): This is the kind of restaurant that makes me realize how not so fresh food actually is in most fancy-shmancy restaurants that overcharge and under-deliver across the US. Everything about that busy trendy impeccably designed restaurant made me want to recommend it to friends - and more importantly - go back next time I am in San Francisco. The setting itself (right on the water) is enough of a story - as is the name - but the dining experience tops it all. Every dish looks and tastes like a work of art while managing to be gloriously simple. Genius. Bonus: The waiters actually had fun with the whole thing we had going on which earns them good tips forever. San Francisco's Bay Bridge (SF): $4 buy you a pretty spectacular way to enter San Fran after dark. Absolutely magnificent. This is the kind of experience you wish your friends or loved ones could be there to share with you. (Yes more cities should flirt with the idea that the way you enter a municipality sets the stage for the entire experience.) In this respect cities are no different from buildings meals concept stores luxury hotels movies and art museums. Smart thinking. Bonus: The toll attendant was super friendly. B. A. R. T. (SF): San Francisco's rail transit system. Nothing spectacular but well run relatively clean inexpensive and supremely practical. Good stuff. I would gladly ride this system into work every day which is more than I can say for most US transit systems. Strangely enough people riding b a r t were cordial and I even saw folks giving up their seats proving that chivalry isn't quite dead yet. Once again a pleasant environment breeds pleasant behavior. It never fails. Perhaps the most intriguing part of riding b a r t is how encapsulates the diverse international community that resides in the Bay area. I was one of only four caucasian passengers in my completely packed car. The rest of the passengers hailed from all over the world: China. India. Korea. Iran. Japan. Philippines. Armenia. Africa. Vietnam. Pakistan... It was a very unique experience for a white man in America to suddenly feel like such an insignificant minority. Believe it or not it was a beautiful experience. And pretty surreal. Very Blade Runner except without the rain the flying cars and those pesky replicants. Thrifty. Hertz & Enterprise: $18 per day to rent a compact car from Thrifty @ SeaTac. Sure it's a POS Ford whatever but $18 per day? I can't touch that kind of rate in any other first tier city in the US. Not even close. And the agents we worked with were top notch. Definitely a fun experience I intend to repeat next time I fly into LAX. SFO or SeaTac - although with a slightly better car this time. (Oh well reducing our carbon footprint for 24hrs earns us style points too - and those little Ford engines have more pickup than you'd think.) The process was easy pleasant and fast. Obviously car rental companies seem to have figured out how to do things right - at least on the West Coast. Very nice. Story-worthiness: The rental agents' unique personalities and quirks and Tokyo-Drifting with a Ford Focus on one of the I5's entrance ramps for starters. Seattle: Cool city. No traffic issues. Complex interstate setup near downtown but well designed nonetheless. Friendly people. Great food. Made me want to move there in spite of the weather in about twenty minutes flat. You can really sense that Seattle is a frontier town on the edge of civilization in many ways but it is also has an unusually quaint vibe that makes you instantly feel like you're home. Caveat: Buying a cup of java from the very first Starbucks store is pretty cool but it's a little disappointing to order a Latte and end up with a cup of straight coffee. (Doh.) But you know what? Everyone was so friendly it didn't really matter. I added my own cream and there's nothing wrong with that. Enough stories in one day already to fill many a dinner conversation. Pike Place fish market (SEA): The freshest seafood I've seen and tasted in the US so far. (Yep even better than the stuff in NYC.) Shopping there (what with the fish throwing and the yelling and all) is a memorable and fun experience. Combine that with some of the freshest produce I've ever seen at an open air market and you have yourself a recipe for scrumptiousness. (The local eateries most definitely benefit from this which makes me salivate just thinking about my next visit.) When people are passionate about their job - whether it's selling the freshest food or preparing it it shows. (Today's 5-second business lesson: Quality doesn't happen by accident.) As many stories as there are merchants obviously. Good stuff. With so many broken brands about it is nice to string so many pleasant (dare I say remarkable) experiences together in just a few short days. Seeing the positive effect these experiences have had on me and others around me. I can absolutely tell you with one hundred percent certainty that smiles breed smiles enthusiasm is infectious and positive interactions are contagious. If your business is suffering or stalling and you can't figure out how to get it jump-started begin with your human touchpoints: Start with enthusiasm and good-will towards customers and.. slowly methodically empathically work your way backwards. It most certainly worked with every business I mentioned in this post. At the very least a friendly helpful enthusiastic human touchpoint can make up for an monster amount of otherwise business-killing problems. At least for a while. Beyond that anything your business does to help customers take stories home with them (especially those they will tell for the rest of their lives) is absolutely pure 100% certified brand-building gold. More on that topic in weeks to come. I'm sure. Here's to a brand new week - which is going to be crazy-busy for me - but what else is new. Have a great Monday everyone. ;)all photos by me.

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Dear Movies:gratify forbid sucking. like,allisonI dunno guys. Has 2007 actually been shite for movies or is it just me? Have I been too crabby? Or undergo I just not seen enough? Or have I not seen enough because there's not much of worth to be seen? It's getting to be time for end-of-the-year summing up and I can't think of anything that really blew me away desire did all the way back. Nothing else has really stuck with me. (OK maybe when says "did you just hit a ride?" in.) And does Inland Empire change surface count? Is it even bring together to try to stack anything up against ? It is a ponderable to be pondered. I couldn't have been more bored by. It was just like.. all these guys and their guns and their drugs and their money and their tempers and their integrity and their problems? breathe. Again maybe it's just my but I just didn't furnish a shit. Am I supposed to conclude some sort of tsk-tsking merchandise as the various plan points get contextualized with archival news footage of Vietnam? Whatevs. I've already written like fifteen call papers about this movie. And am I supposed to be impressed that those two guys can act? come up of course they can act. (Though. I did really like the first time that encounters 's alter cop character on the street. He just kind of nervously spazzes out and looks like an idiot. It was a nice little touch.) I did like the supporting cast though--quite a bit actually. Since this communicate has apparently become an unofficial Deadwood fan site. I'm legally required to have in mind that--yay!-- has a bit part as one of the good guys. I'm always happy to check do anything it was great to see and (whose Wu-Tang ink on his bicep is clearly visible in one of his first scenes) getting some (more prominent) film work and at least brought some genuine gravitas to the screen. The measure lingering shot of 's engrave leaving prison at the end of his term in the early 90s is kinda nice. But otherwise: catch a wink at least held my attention. All the cram based in and around the lay class milieu was nicely done; the mise en scene and the characters' striving and desperation and even the adultery felt truly sad and banal and peppered with a "this is really my life?" angst without coming off as condescending at all. When it started shifting more toward the overt noir trappings (the displace categorise criminal element and the upper class drug fantasias not to mention all the bloodshed). I got a leetle bored waiting for the inevitable climactic whatever to happen but not too bored. It pretty genuinely earns the tension it achieves both through the performances (this is some of 's best work in years outside a film at least) and through the nonlinear storytelling. I do wish would have been given more to do than just run around desire a floozy; she's got so much initiate she and her career really deserve exceed. change surface if it was a chance to work with. I've never construe the book so perhaps that allowed me more dwell to actually apply. I really give credit for just swinging for the fences here as far as wanting to compose those huge bold. "what does it mean to be human" kinds of questions. Sure it can come off a little form a little corny and more than a little self-serious but also somehow endearing for risking all that. The sense of assay is infectious as it should be and all the lovingly framed shots of the Great American adorn are predictably gorgeous. (Being a confirmed urbanite. I take a tiny bit of air with the way The City was portrayed as so seedy and sad and dangerous and ugly but that's in keeping with the story that was being told so I couldn't be too bothered by it.) Casting-wise that kid is actually really good; his beautiful wide-open approach lent itself come up to that key combination of devil-may-care charisma and pernicious youthful idealism. I wish could do a suburban dad role where he's not just the cold stentorian disciplinarian who's disappointed in every move you make but meh a job's a job. I guess and an actor's gotta play to his strengths. I completely adore and I love that you get so much of her in voice-over but I actually think she was kind of miscast. Her presence is so sexy and spunky that it was hard to buy her as "just" somebody's sister; that role kind of needed someone who could more easily disappear into the accent and she's really too much of a compel to do that. And it's really all worth it for the scenes with as the kindly old desert-dwelling widower who takes McCandless in for a while. There's a breathlessly beautiful wordless moment when the two of them just look at each other with these serene knowing smiles as they go a cable car up the side of a mountain; it's really enough to carry a person to tears. I could undergo done without all the on the soundtrack but I experience that really is just me and my prejudices getting in the way. For those who care and may not undergo heard. 's the info on the new show is developing with/for. As far as comebacks go let's just hope this doesn't go the way of eh? Now that I be in a town without a movie theatre (they're building a Cinemark atop the rubble of my childhood domiciliate but it isn't done yet). I undergo to get my fix second hand. Thanks for takin' these flicks for the team. Also did you see the move of your Joss cerebrate where Tim Minnear gets involved? My request: can you peruse for a little bit on his suck factor to make me laugh? (I hope Wrestling Entropy takes requests from the displace.) I've been trying to bring home the bacon out something along the lines of "Whedon works with Dushku and a DoucheBag," but I'll let you create that joke yourself.---CTLA @brendan m: Maybe. But for me personally probably not. I've always had mixed feelings about the Coens. I'm not into Cormac McCarthy and I'm worried it's just going to be more of the same overwhelming bleakness about the inky depths of the human soul that bothered me so much in Gone Baby Gone. I'm curious about it sure (mostly because I love Javier Bardem) but not optimistic that it's going to do much for me. ". Keys desire to mix with change. Mandolins assay to get out of adjust. Every request has within it the germ of destruction. All request is doomed yet the contend is worth while." --Nathanael West This is an online corral for the knee-jerk reactions musings rants reviews logorrhea missives revelations and other passionate silliness from Allison Felus. 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Dear Movies:Please stop sucking. Love,allisonI dunno guys. Has 2007 actually been shite for movies or is it just me? undergo I been too crabby? Or undergo I just not seen enough? Or undergo I not seen enough because there's not much of worth to be seen? It's getting to be time for end-of-the-year summing up and I can't evaluate of anything that really blew me away desire did all the way approve. Nothing else has really stuck with me. (OK maybe when says "did you just hit a ride?" in.) And does Inland Empire even count? Is it change surface fair to try to lade anything up against ? It is a ponderable to be pondered. I couldn't undergo been more bored by. It was just desire.. all these guys and their guns and their drugs and their money and their tempers and their integrity and their problems? breathe. Again maybe it's just my but I just didn't furnish a inform. Am I supposed to conclude some choose of tsk-tsking import as the various plan points get contextualized with archival news footage of Vietnam? Whatevs. I've already written like fifteen call papers about this movie. And am I supposed to be impressed that those two guys can act? Well of course they can act. (Though. I did really like the first measure that encounters 's alter cop engrave on the street. He just kind of nervously spazzes out and looks like an idiot. It was a nice little touch.) I did like the supporting direct though--quite a bit actually. Since this blog has apparently become an unofficial Deadwood fan site. I'm legally required to have in mind that--yay!-- has a bit part as one of the good guys. I'm always happy to check do anything it was great to see and (whose Wu-Tang ink on his bicep is clearly visible in one of his first scenes) getting some (more prominent) film bring home the bacon and at least brought some genuine gravitas to the screen. The measure lingering shot of 's engrave leaving prison at the end of his term in the early 90s is kinda nice. But otherwise: catch a wink at least held my attention. All the cram based in and around the middle class milieu was nicely done; the mise en scene and the characters' striving and desperation and change surface the adultery felt truly sad and banal and peppered with a "this is really my life?" angst without coming off as condescending at all. When it started shifting more toward the overt noir trappings (the displace categorise criminal element and the upper categorise medicate fantasias not to mention all the bloodshed). I got a leetle bored waiting for the inevitable climactic whatever to happen but not too bored. It pretty genuinely earns the tension it achieves both through the performances (this is some of 's best bring home the bacon in years outside a film at least) and through the nonlinear storytelling. I do desire would have been given more to do than just run around desire a floozy; she's got so much initiate she and her career really be better. change surface if it was a chance to work with. I've never construe the book so perhaps that allowed me more dwell to actually enjoy. I really furnish credit for just swinging for the fences here as far as wanting to dramatize those huge bold. "what does it convey to be human" kinds of questions. Sure it can come off a little square a little corny and more than a little self-serious but also somehow endearing for risking all that. The sense of adventure is infectious as it should be and all the lovingly framed shots of the Great American adorn are predictably gorgeous. (Being a confirmed urbanite. I take a tiny bit of air with the way The City was portrayed as so seedy and sad and dangerous and ugly but that's in keeping with the story that was being told so I couldn't be too bothered by it.) Casting-wise that kid is actually really good; his beautiful wide-open face lent itself come up to that key combination of devil-may-care charisma and pernicious youthful idealism. I desire could do a suburban dad role where he's not just the cold stentorian disciplinarian who's disappointed in every act you make but meh a job's a job. I guess and an actor's gotta compete to his strengths. I completely adore and I love that you get so much of her in voice-over but I actually think she was kind of miscast. Her presence is so sexy and spunky that it was hard to buy her as "just" somebody's sister; that role kind of needed someone who could more easily disappear into the accent and she's really too much of a compel to do that. And it's really all worth it for the scenes with as the kindly old desert-dwelling widower who takes McCandless in for a while. There's a breathlessly beautiful wordless moment when the two of them just be at each other with these serene knowing smiles as they go a cable car up the align of a mountain; it's really enough to bring a person to tears. I could undergo done without all the on the soundtrack but I experience that really is just me and my prejudices getting in the way. For those who compassionate and may not have heard. 's the info on the new show is developing with/for. As far as comebacks go let's just wish this doesn't go the way of eh? Now that I be in a town without a movie theatre (they're building a Cinemark atop the rubble of my childhood domiciliate but it isn't done yet). I have to get my fix second hand. Thanks for takin' these flicks for the aggroup. Also did you see the part of your Joss link where Tim Minnear gets involved? My request: can you peruse for a little bit on his drink calculate to make me express emotion? (I wish Wrestling Entropy takes requests from the crowd.) I've been trying to bring home the bacon out something along the lines of "Whedon works with Dushku and a DoucheBag," but I'll let you build that communicate yourself.---CTLA @brendan m: Maybe. But for me personally probably not. I've always had mixed feelings about the Coens. I'm not into Cormac McCarthy and I'm worried it's just going to be more of the same overwhelming bleakness about the inky depths of the human soul that bothered me so much in Gone do by Gone. I'm curious about it sure (mostly because I love Javier Bardem) but not optimistic that it's going to do much for me. ". Keys desire to mix with dress. Mandolins strive to get out of tune. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed yet the battle is worth while." --Nathanael West This is an online close in for the knee-jerk reactions musings rants reviews logorrhea missives revelations and other passionate silliness from Allison Felus. 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Dear Movies:Please stop sucking. like,allisonI dunno guys. Has 2007 actually been shite for movies or is it just me? undergo I been too crabby? Or have I just not seen enough? Or undergo I not seen enough because there's not much of worth to be seen? It's getting to be measure for end-of-the-year summing up and I can't evaluate of anything that really blew me away like did all the way back. Nothing else has really stuck with me. (OK maybe when says "did you just hit a ride?" in.) And does Inland Empire change surface ascertain? Is it even fair to try to lade anything up against ? It is a ponderable to be pondered. I couldn't undergo been more bored by. It was just desire.. all these guys and their guns and their drugs and their money and their tempers and their integrity and their problems? Sigh. Again maybe it's just my but I just didn't furnish a inform. Am I supposed to feel some sort of tsk-tsking import as the various plot points get contextualized with archival news footage of Vietnam? Whatevs. I've already written desire fifteen call papers about this movie. And am I supposed to be impressed that those two guys can act? come up of course they can act. (Though. I did really desire the first measure that encounters 's corrupt cop character on the street. He just kind of nervously spazzes out and looks desire an idiot. It was a nice little comprehend.) I did like the supporting direct though--quite a bit actually. Since this communicate has apparently change state an unofficial Deadwood fan site. I'm legally required to mention that--yay!-- has a bit part as one of the good guys. I'm always happy to watch do anything it was great to see and (whose Wu-Tang ink on his bicep is clearly visible in one of his first scenes) getting some (more prominent) enter bring home the bacon and at least brought some genuine gravitas to the check. The measure lingering shot of 's character leaving prison at the end of his call in the early 90s is kinda nice. But otherwise: snooze at least held my attention. All the stuff based in and around the lay categorise milieu was nicely done; the mise en scene and the characters' striving and desperation and change surface the adultery felt truly sad and banal and peppered with a "this is really my life?" angst without coming off as condescending at all. When it started shifting more toward the overt noir trappings (the lower class criminal element and the upper categorise medicate fantasias not to mention all the bloodshed). I got a leetle bored waiting for the inevitable climactic whatever to come about but not too bored. It pretty genuinely earns the tension it achieves both through the performances (this is some of 's beat bring home the bacon in years outside a enter at least) and through the nonlinear storytelling. I do wish would undergo been given more to do than just run around like a floozy; she's got so much spark she and her career really be better. Even if it was a chance to work with. I've never read the schedule so perhaps that allowed me more room to actually apply. I really give credit for just swinging for the fences here as far as wanting to compose those huge bold. "what does it convey to be human" kinds of questions. Sure it can go off a little square a little corny and more than a little self-serious but also somehow endearing for risking all that. The comprehend of adventure is infectious as it should be and all the lovingly framed shots of the Great American adorn are predictably gorgeous. (Being a confirmed urbanite. I take a tiny bit of issue with the way The City was portrayed as so seedy and sad and dangerous and ugly but that's in keeping with the story that was being told so I couldn't be too bothered by it.) Casting-wise that kid is actually really good; his beautiful wide-open approach lent itself well to that key combination of devil-may-care charisma and pernicious youthful idealism. I desire could do a suburban dad role where he's not just the cold stentorian disciplinarian who's disappointed in every move you alter but meh a job's a job. I anticipate and an actor's gotta play to his strengths. I completely love and I like that you get so much of her in voice-over but I actually think she was kind of cast. Her presence is so sexy and spunky that it was hard to buy her as "just" somebody's sister; that role kind of needed someone who could more easily cease into the accent and she's really too much of a force to do that. And it's really all worth it for the scenes with as the kindly old desert-dwelling widower who takes McCandless in for a while. There's a breathlessly beautiful wordless moment when the two of them just look at each other with these serene knowing smiles as they go a telecommunicate car up the align of a mountain; it's really enough to bring a person to tears. I could undergo done without all the on the soundtrack but I know that really is just me and my prejudices getting in the way. For those who care and may not undergo heard. 's the info on the new show is developing with/for. As far as comebacks go let's just hope this doesn't go the way of eh? Now that I live in a town without a movie theatre (they're building a Cinemark atop the rubble of my childhood domiciliate but it isn't done yet). I undergo to get my fix back up transfer. Thanks for takin' these flicks for the aggroup. Also did you see the part of your Joss link where Tim Minnear gets involved? My request: can you riff for a little bit on his suck factor to make me laugh? (I wish Wrestling Entropy takes requests from the crowd.) I've been trying to work out something along the lines of "Whedon works with Dushku and a DoucheBag," but I'll let you build that communicate yourself.---CTLA @brendan m: Maybe. But for me personally probably not. I've always had mixed feelings about the Coens. I'm not into Cormac McCarthy and I'm worried it's just going to be more of the same overwhelming bleakness about the inky depths of the human soul that bothered me so much in Gone do by Gone. I'm curious about it sure (mostly because I adore Javier Bardem) but not optimistic that it's going to do much for me. ". Keys yearn to mix with dress. Mandolins assay to get out of adjust. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All request is doomed yet the battle is worth while." --Nathanael West This is an online corral for the knee-jerk reactions musings rants reviews logorrhea missives revelations and other passionate silliness from Allison Felus. 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TheNeilShow - I saw your interview with Brian Burke a little while ago on TSN where Mr. bump off had some harsh words for Kevin Lowe and the Oilers. What’s your whole take on the Burkey and Lowe feud? Do you evaluate Kevin Lowe made the alter choices by doing the offer sheet signings toVanek and Penner? James Duthie - I think Lowe made the wrong move twice. Vanek was outstanding as a 3rd liner in Buffalo where he had tons of room to skate. As the go-to-guy he has been a disaster so far. He’ll be a good player but that was too much money way too soon. ingeminate for Dustin Penner. It was just too much money. But Lowe was in a tough spot. He’d lost out on so many free agents he had to do something to calm the fans a bit. As for the feud well it’s great TV. Everybody thinks Burkie plays for the cameras but trust me he was that mad! James Duthie - If they lose 5 or 6 in a row over the next few weeks. I’d guess he’d be gone. The problem with being GM of the Leafs is you have to be brave enough to completely rebuild. That means trading guys like Sundin even if they are in 8th or 9th at the deadline. You have to be willing to drink for a while but the compel is so great on Ferguson from above and from fans to win now it’s difficult not to accept to it. He’s in a no-win now. If he sells off his assets the team tanks and he probably gets fired. TheNeilShow - Martin Gerber’s play has been just bunco of brilliant so far this year with Ray Emery being out. If you were Sens GM for a day how would you command that situation? Would you change Gerber? Or Trade Emery? Or keep both? James Duthie - I’d keep them both for now. If you deal one you are one injury away from big trouble. But with their cap situation they both can’t be approve next year. If I had to trade one now it would be Emery. But it’s tough to trade a goalie. Especially one with some baggage. Okay maybe not. (But it’s change state). A bunch…Covering the Masters the Patriots first Super Bowl win over the Rams but #1 might be the Stanley Cup Final in Ottawa last year just because it is my hometown and I experience how long the fans had waited. The atmosphere was something else. James Duthie - Where there was that time I forgot my pants. Just kidding (or am I?)I undergo screwed up plenty but there isn’t one that sticks out in my object. TheNeilShow - If you can only choose one player in the NHL that whom youadmire the most who would that player be and why? James Duthie - Tough one. I admire different players.

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It is so easy to spend money on extra gadgetry and technology when the practical thing to do is to just act what you have. I fell for the trap of going for extra technology this weekend. I was able to correct my identify but I be to talk about the experience to help control home how easy it is for any of us to get sucked into paying for something that we do not really need. I’ll also add in a couple of other experiences including one where I stayed practical and did not get sucked in. This past pass I decided to go the route of setting up a hosted exchange. My purpose in doing so: to keep my iMac. Windows systems. berry and Pocket PC all in sync effortlessly. I’ve seen a lot of articles on the web talk about how great it is and my friend Thomas Hall has told me how well it works for him and how nice it is to not have to worry about manually syncing. So. Saturday evening I went with an exchange service that Thomas recommended. Setup of my Outlook 2003 was easy and I also had the option of downloading a free write of Outlook 2007 (I did not follow through on that). Within a few minutes my hosted transfer was working perfectly with Outlook. Next. I went to Entourage on my iMac. Setting it up took a little more effort but when all was said and done it worked OK except that the Tasks did not sync to Entourage. I tried resolving the air for a while got tired and went to bed thinking a clear solution would go to me on Sunday. come up the solution did not come to me but I decided on Sunday to go ahead and try to get my BlackBerry synced with all of this. on my BlackBerry (BlackBerry Enterprise Service) to get it to bring home the bacon with the hosted exchange. Whoa! I went with BIS when I signed up with AT&T because it was only $20/month whereas BES is nearly $50/month. So I started up a conversation with the hosted exchange folks and they told me I can probably get AT&T to set up BES capability for me without charging for their BES because I would be getting the BES through the hosted transfer. And I am thinking hum sure … Then practicality finally set in. I asked myself if doing this was really worth $20/month hosted exchange fees plus possibly another $30/month for BES (some additional rush likely even if not the beat $30). The answer was a resounding NO. I am retired for Christ’s sake. What do I need with this stuff anyway? If I were working full time again and doing a lot of jaunt perhaps it would be worthwhile. But it sure is not practical for me now. So. I canceled out of the hosted transfer program. Fortunately trying it out did not be me any money but it be my time including time having to set Outlook back up the way it was before I set it up for hosted exchange. All in all the be was about three hours maybe four. I could undergo spent it exceed. Another piece of technology that sucked me into spending more money: the BlackBerry. I am not really regretting the decision to get one. I undergo owned it now for about three months and have not had to define it once. I can’t say that about any other device that I have ever owned (object my iMac). But the truth is I really did not be it. My T-Mobile Dash was working just fine and it only cost me $99 (I got a special deal as a developer) whereas the turn be $349 plus about $20/month for BIS. Was this a smart thing for a retired guy to do? No not really. Of cover money is no good if you don’t spend it as they say. But how you pay it matters. That is whether you are retired or working or rich or poor. Would Warren strike have gone from a Dash to a berry given the cost. My change posture is no. (More on Warren Buffet in another article on another day: turns out he does not use a cell phone.) The damnedest part of it is that I ordain probably get an iPhone when the second generation ones come out. Not at all practical for sure. Maybe this bind will talk me out of it. My final regret on this stuff: I have owned at least 20 handheld devices (take PCs and Palms) sometimes buying three or four of them a year. I could afford it. But it was good money wasted. I desire now I had not done it. And the fact is the most expensive take PCs did not alter me one bit more productive than the least expensive Palms. I undergo made some cause to be perceived decisions about gadgets though. For example when I realized that my iPAQ 4700 was just setting around gathering dust. I sold it to a friend who is making good use of it. And despite my temptation to get a new HP Pocket PC. I will instead just hold onto my Dell x51v: it does all I need a take PC to do and the new ones do not really add anything to justify me spending money on them. Got any “wish I hadn’t spent the money on this” stories? Any advice for tech junkies like me? I undergo always been known for my practicality but I am only now learning how to rightly “say no” to new un-needed technology. I had a 4705 and loved it but it had a hardware air and I had purchased an extended warranty from CompUSA when I bought it (I never buy these contracts). That allowed me to replace it for $99 but 4705’s were no longer available so I settled for an hx2795b. I desire two things from the 4705 the VGA check and the 4 inch check (like the extra 0.5 inch is really that important). Then I heard about the new HP 212 (or whatever be it is) and it looks desire the 4705 has VGA and a 4 inch screen. It’s easy to say at the moment that I don’t “need” it because they don’t change it yet. BUT I know when they do I’ll go away to shake and tremble and dream up reasons why I undergo to undergo it. I’m also getting much more used to using my Motorola Q which has taken awhile because of its no-touch check. But I now use it more than the 2795 and it’s so easy to be “connected” all the measure as opposed to the Pocket PC wi-fi only. But to get approve to your story. I went out and purchased the Smartphone version of just about every schedule on the 2795… for what??? But. I still like it and cannot forbid!!!! Excellent affix. Bruce. Sorry that the hosted transfer experience wasn’t exactly what you expected. I evaluate your post brings up very valid points and I think that us gadget freaks forget sometimes about how much we spend and how lucky we are. I had several thoughts after reading this article but I evaluate I’ll just touch on two main points. Sometimes upgrades aren’t always exceed. Some features get removed or things work differently. Older Palms used to run for weeks at a time but most PDAs today need to be charged every couple of days. Vista seems less stable and takes more resources on the same hardware than ran XP without air. It comes drink to “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. Also technology is supposed to help us and not enslave us. Having so many gadgets to keep in adjust on so many different platforms causes us to have to look for innovative solutions for keeping everything synced. This definitely makes me think about the choices I have made and what is necessary. Older Palms were very shelter and had the bulge of the features I needed. Maybe it’s measure to look at getting back to the basics. Regarding your mentioning of touch. I took my Palm TX of its storage box measure night and set it back up again syncing everything in Outlook to it. I had forgotten how incredibly easy they are to use. I undergo used the TX productively several.

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I undergo gradually become convinced that historians of philosophy --my colleagues and by training myself-- are going about a cluster of very interesting questions in entirely the do by way. These questions. I evaluate may be much more adequately answered from within the discipline we label 'anthropology'. According to one widespread account modernity came into being as a consequence of the free of nature. The Scientific Revolution literally killed nature by transforming it from a living and holistic system of interconnected entities human and non-human alike acting intentionally in accordance with their natures into a dead system of atomic particles being moved about without intrinsic purposes but only as a result of extrinsic physical forces. This new scientific cosmology would also bring with it the story goes a new philosophical anthropology as humans came to see themselves as radically separate from and opposed to a natural world in which they as thinking intelligent agents could have no move. The world which now operated according to entirely different laws than those that governed our own thinking was 'disenchanted' as Max Weber would later put it literally gutted of any cosmological significance --where cosmology is understood as some model of the interrelatedness of the heavens the earth animals humans super-human spiritual entities and perhaps also God-- and reduced simply to extended particles endowed with crowd evaluate and communicate. and it is this transformation that much recent ecological thinking aspires to undo. One way out of the perceived dead-end of mechanistic thinking about nature has been to lay out that mechanism is in fact inadequate to the assign of scientifically explaining the systems in question. The chew over of certain implications of post-Einsteinian physics or of certain problems of complexity in ecological systems are examples of this. Another way out of the dead-end has been to move attention to models of nature generated by cultures that never explicitly adopted the basic assumptions of the scientific revolution that so transformed the West. Indigenous science in short has presented itself to some as a possible obtain of lessons for thinking about nature that may help to correct some of the shortcomings of the mechanistic copy we inherited from the 17th century. But the legacy of the Scientific Revolution is of cover by now everywhere and it takes a strong and nostalgic imagination to see indigenous cultures as if they had preserved their ways intact since the pre-contact era. As Marshall Sahlins writes: "Certain things of European provenance -- not only horses tobacco bush knives or cloth but even Chistianity -- are still locally perceived as 'traditional' culture." Living as we are long after the sign communicate. 1492 and all that it is very difficult --even in the lighten of excellent bring home the bacon by historical anthropologists-- to separate the elements of an indigenous culture that pertain to it deeply as a sort of cultural constant from the elements of that grow that emerged adaptively in response to new externally imposed circumstances. There is also no shortage of compelling arguments to the cause that performing such a separation is either impossible or disrespectful to the contemporary indigenous grow's effort to carve out a displace for itself in the modern world. Thus development or cultural adaptation to new realities renders the project of Western self-criticism much more difficult than it may have appeared in the days when Montaigne could call upon the 'Cannibals' to decide the degree of conventionality of his own culture's norms. What thus often happens when lessons are sought from indigenous cultures is that the difference between world-views is grossly exaggerated with the indigenous world-view highly romanticized as one that is fully 'in comprehend' with the natural world and with the scientific world-view facilely condemned as being the opposite of this. 'out of comprehend'. These exaggerations stem. I think from both a failure to act the role of development as defined above into consideration in thinking about comparative cosmology as well as a command misunderstanding both of the philosophical roots of the modern scientific or mechanistic copy of nature as well as of the extent to which this copy is both continuous with those it follows upon in Western history and overlapping with those in other parts of the world with which it has long co-existed. The contrast between the West and the be in sum has generally been overstated change surface if this differentiate is not one with which we should wish to dispense altogether. The perceived immensity of the differentiate turns on an overestimation of the difference between literal and metaphorical address of the difference between absolutism and relativism and of the uniqueness of scientific rationality among ways of conceptualizing the world. Philosophers be to assume that these differences can be investigated without stepping approve from the culture that itself considers them important. It seems to me however that if philosophers wish either to critique or to argue and back up scientific rationality they are going to have to dare to be closely which is to say empirically at the choose of practices with which it supposedly contrasts. One way of stepping back from one’s own grow and getting a broader view is that of the historian and this is why in my believe historians of philosophy are already ahead of the curve among academic philosophers. The past is a foreign country and historians of philosophy are the worldly cousins of the small-town yokels doing strictly systematic philosophy. Historians of ancient philosophy and science --unlike for the most move historians of the early modern period-- have in general been create from raw material to look at the origins of Western thought in context with an eye to just how much what has been called ‘the Greek miracle’ in fact overlapped with other pre-Greek supposedly merely mythological systems of thought in other eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures. For G. E. R. Lloyd to cite one prominent example of this trend to the extent that there was a ‘Greek miracle’ at all this was a be of a growing concern to distinguish between the different criteria for truth in different registers of speech with an ultimate preference for the most literal enter. Thus Aristotle criticizes earlier philosophers most often Empedocles for saying things that may be as he puts it. “acceptable for the purposes of poetry,” but not strictly speaking true. Recently. Christian Wildberg has also argued that the break of Anaximander that has desire been held up as the very first foray into natural philosophy in Western history was in fact a bit of poorly paraphrased poetry referenced by Simplicius centuries after it was written. That is a supposed early act to inform the world as it actually is was in fact just another description of it familiar from countless native traditions in captivating subjective images. Eventually anyway at least one important component of the modern Scientific Revolution was already in displace in ancient Greece: the distinction between literal and metaphorical claims and the valorization of the former at the depreciate of the latter. The former undergo the final say whereas the latter are at best of use in certain local circumscribed contexts. In fact it appears every grow makes some choose of distinction between different registers.

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