tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post1186396616990571059..comments2023-09-07T04:24:11.648-06:00Comments on y-intercept blog: Mindfarting Blog Sitesy-intercepthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-70486081261309495712007-02-19T08:44:00.000-07:002007-02-19T08:44:00.000-07:00"Our jobs as living people is to keeping the hater...<I>"Our jobs as living people is to keeping the haters of the world from taking these things away."</I><BR/><BR/>Powerful words. And a big, but worthwhile job.Scott Hinrichshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-75419650771933708242007-02-18T13:08:00.000-07:002007-02-18T13:08:00.000-07:00I linked to Natalie's page because I agree with a ...I linked to Natalie's page because I agree with a good amount of what she says, and disagree with other parts. <BR/><BR/>As for the fact that parts of my post really don't relate to other parts ... This is the whole point of the post. Our minds are always making connections between this, that and the next thing. The majority of links are tenuous. <BR/><BR/>I suspect that when Natalie first heard about the shootings it was in the context of the superiority of the Mormon culture. Her mind jumped to the best known atrocity of the Mormon culture.<BR/><BR/>Other than the fact that both events were manifestations of the ideas held by the perpetrator of the events, there is no real link between the two things.<BR/><BR/>On hearing of the shooting, my mind links to the piles and piles of revolutionary literature I read as a youth.<BR/><BR/>As you have probably guessed, I really seriously and truly dislike Marxism and revolutionary. After both 9/11 and the Trolley Square shootings, my mind falls into a mode of trying to keep the praxis from having the desired effect of ruling our lives. I find myself wanting to break all links we make with the events.<BR/><BR/>The whole point of a mind fart style blog is to test links between ideas. Yeah, most of the links we make in our minds are loose. I am not too worried about that since the point of this blog is about loose connections.y-intercepthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-1017157381270287152007-02-18T12:23:00.000-07:002007-02-18T12:23:00.000-07:00I don't really disagree with your point about avoi...I don't really disagree with your point about avoiding falling into the action/reaction mode. Of course, as a frequent traveler, I am reminded of the mindless action/reaction of banning gels and liquids aboard airplanes because some group in the <BR/>UK talked about trying to use them to build a bomb. That's a praxis too.<BR/><BR/>It seems to me, however, that the blog entry on "Trapped by the Mormons" that you linked to has much less to do with revolutionary praxis than with one person's distaste for the Mormon religion.Charles Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975241234146573609noreply@blogger.com