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Melo: It would be easy to be honest, if there was only Future. Unfortunately there is Past. Past means an enormous accumulated backlog of misinformation and misunderstanding with which new information has to compete. And that backlog is different for almost every person. Including ourselves.

That is why I am drawn to the arts as a means of communication because it allows a dynamic between people that is not based on 'logic', but the interplay of the senses and our individual interpretation of those senses. That is, the arts include and accept misinformation and misunderstanding.

The 'Dark Art' is in limboland - neither honest nor logical. And yet it IS an art, and it can have a certain honesty in that it exposes the frailties of mind. As I have said before: the hardest part of the communication path is the last 5 centimeters ;-)

Your and my life experiences are parallel, I feel, so I guess you'll understand what I am trying to say, even if I am saying it poorly. I am not sure everyone will understand. But I remain a committed ET member because I believe it is imperative to negotiate an exchange between 'facts' and 'feelings' in order to create change. As we did in the Sixties ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 24th, 2008 at 03:46:24 PM EST
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heh, hate the sin, love the sinner!

break the roolz kerrektly, sven, you know you can.

to sup with the devil, better use a long spoon, the wag said.

5 inches should give the sphenoid a good roll...

~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Jun 24th, 2008 at 04:42:59 PM EST
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I use a veeeery long spoon. My MO is always to do a detailed review of a company and their methods before I take them on. This is why I am poor ;-)

Or as the Finns say ' Väsynyt mutta onnellinen' - tired but happy.

I gave up consumer marketing a long time ago. Ugh! Now I specialize in B2B. Bastard to Bastard.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 24th, 2008 at 07:01:00 PM EST
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