OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!

I guess not. What I remember is the one little song. "Mein Heut It Hat Drie Echen" or however the thing is spelled. To make a long story short, I was in classes for "academically talented" students from the 3-7 grades. Along the way there were occasional bouts of foreign language including French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portugese, Esperanto and what not. Typically the teachers would introduce songs with a translation as an example of learning from context. These were not seriously recieved by the students and were taken as vacation time. By contrast hundreds of hours were spent on sentence decomposition and structure diagramming. I did rather well in those areas, but the two dimensional schema did not properly represent many things I wanted to say. I was "larned proper grammer" and went along for the sake of a good grade.....

[Puke]

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Originally posted by LCC:
I learned a song in childhood which would be translated into English as "My hat has three corners" more or less.

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i always thought that three cornered hats (and three cornered things in general) were well styled. a shame they are not more popular in modern anglo saxon culture.

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Originally posted by LCC:
Yet I have never heard anyone mention the obvious interpretation, paraphrased by Heinlein as "Thou Art God". The Holy trinity is [me,myself,I].

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After careful consideration, i have decided that altough slightly louder than myself, that you are a man after my own heart. If the average human could take a more educated view of the world, i think that accepted modern philosophy would have far more Nietzschean flavour to it.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

http://legacy.sheltonbbs.com/~jmauk/sh134.html

Zero, one, two, three, four, five, six......

A very flexible ditty that one....

Another tune I recall somewhat :

Oh where have you been Billy Boy Billy Boy, oh where have you been Charming Billy ?

I have been to see my wife shes the joy of my life shes a young thing and can not leave her mother.

How old is she Billy Boy Billy Boy, how old is she Charming Billy ?

Four times six and five times seven forty eight and eleven, shes a young thing and cannot leave her mother.

The net is full of surprises :
http://pagan.drak.net/pagancentral/index.htm

You might recally that on cue long ago I mentioned red pebbly triangles that fart......

[WendellM]

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Originally posted by Puke:
i always thought that three cornered hats (and three cornered things in general) were well styled.

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Oh, yes, I concur. Those hats were one of the best features of the 18th century!

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If the average human could take a more educated view of the world, i think that accepted modern philosophy would have far more Nietzschean flavour to it.

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You're undoubtedly right. I've only recently discovered Nietzsche (Zarathustra is amazing) - it's unreal how badly misunderstood the man is - the common view has him as some sort of proto-Nazi when he's actually the opposite. I truly feel that his spirit could do much to make the world more livable....


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Wendell
Everyday gamer most of the time; advisor as needed