Iriye
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Post by Iriye on Oct 19, 2004 21:28:47 GMT -5
Yeppers, and it's not like I've 'never' been tagged with being a gaijin nanban with ADD, has it? Riz
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Post by StrikeFerret on Oct 20, 2004 8:13:48 GMT -5
"Inner" Ferret? ;D
I like the movie because it's fun. I certainly don't rely on it for my Meiji knowledge, and I certainly don't use it for my Sengoku aspirations.
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Post by Iriye on Oct 20, 2004 13:26:38 GMT -5
I can understand how a historian can get twitchy, though. The costumers often get shut down because the director wants a 'look'....... the storyline gets conflict and drama, not accuracy. Actors get a bigger paycheck than 'historical re-enactment participants'. TLS would have then shown on the History Channel and not at Cineplex with 55 other movies.
The same thing happens with fiction writers; the emphasis is not on accuracy. The disinformation of partial accuracy spreads throughout the entertainment industry.
I get twitchy about medical stuff. And I don't watch the documentary medical shows because I am 'there' in the thick of it for a living. Once in a great while I'll catch something on forensic medicine. Now that CSci has some good eye candy on, it's tough to walk away, lol, and go sew. Sigh.
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Re: visual learning.... it works best for me to 'lay on the hands', and handle stuff ..... it's kind of creepy, in a way, to most people.... somehow I feel like the 'spirit' of the item flows into my consciousness, and I 'know'. That same energy flow happens especially when I handle animals, and frequently with non-verbal humans... the very young, the very old, the very broken-to-pieces trauma victims, the very ill. I had some interesting conversations with a Native American medicine woman, who taught me a few other things, too. She thought it important that while I've been encouraged, since childhood, to listen to my intuition, I also have Native American ancestors.
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How 'bout those Red Sox, eh?
Rizii
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Oct 20, 2004 16:19:18 GMT -5
Re: visual learning.... it works best for me to 'lay on the hands', and handle stuff ..... it's kind of creepy, in a way, to most people.... somehow I feel like the 'spirit' of the item flows into my consciousness, and I 'know'. That same energy flow happens especially when I handle animals, and frequently with non-verbal humans... the very young, the very old, the very broken-to-pieces trauma victims, the very ill. I had some interesting conversations with a Native American medicine woman, who taught me a few other things, too. She thought it important that while I've been encouraged, since childhood, to listen to my intuition, I also have Native American ancestors. Hands-on learning doesn't necessarily have anything to do with "spirit." It DOES have a lot to do with paying attention to the gestalt of the thing, be it communicating with animals or non-verbal humans or figuring out how a material object is constructed. My New Age pagan roommate is fond of saying that I have no "Elvis" in me. I am deaf to "magic" or what ever you want to call it. That does not mean I couldn't engage in sophisticated nonverbal communication with animals or learn how to make something or how a thing works by examining it in some detail. I'm not saying that your approach is not valid, I just know how TEXT process information. Twenty years of teaching people of various ages how to ride horses has taught me to think about how TEXT people process information, because if they didn't understand what I was telling them to do, I had to come up with a different way to tell them until the lightbulb finally went on. Teaching someone to visualize something is an interesting exercise. Finding the right image for that person to identify with is the key. Everybody learns differently - and that's OK. If we're lucky, we find teachers on the way who understand that and know how to speak to the way our minds work. Makiwara
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Post by Iriye on Oct 20, 2004 17:11:29 GMT -5
Makiwara-dono---
My hat goes off to you as a teacher. Indeed, to all effective teachers. In all ages of this world, it is the teachers, by whatever name or credential, who have kept the flow of knowledge passing from generation to generation. There are people who lecture, but simply disseminate information; There are people who find the way to facilitate comprehension in another --- regardless of the subject, that, to me, is the true teacher.
Gestalt or spirit, I think we are speaking to the ability to take in minutae of observation without being directly conscious of doing so, or directing our consciousness to do so. I think we are all capable of this on some level; some of us have had more encouragement, some active discouragement; mostly it is just ignored.
-------- Inner Turtle (patience & persistence) speaks to Ferret ( gotta do it all, today!): maybe you might think of making some very kewl garb for someone in exchange for armor.......... perhaps home-brew some sake? All you gotta do is let that stuff sit and fiddle with it once in awhile, y'know.....
Ferret (raising a bushy little eyebrow)...... Ya.... but..... (this)..... ya but (that).....
Turtle (drawing back into shell): Quiet, kid, you're giving me a migraine. Don't come whining to me when you burn yourself out........
Ferret (raises the other bushy little eyebrow).... you know what Neil Young sez? 'It's better to burn out than rust out....'
Turtle (muffled from inside shell) : I'm not listening..... I'm not listening.....
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Back to 'real' fans a sec...... If I'm going to take the short route for now and either buy a finished fan or decorate my own, does anyone have a resource for tasteful fans? Actually making one can wait (really).
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Thanks for playing, Rizii
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Post by raito on Oct 20, 2004 17:49:59 GMT -5
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Oct 20, 2004 19:06:19 GMT -5
Makiwara-dono--- My hat goes off to you as a teacher. I can but try. The day I think I know it all, smack me, please. The day I stop wanting to learn, grab a shovel because it's time to bury me. ;D Back to 'real' fans a sec...... If I'm going to take the short route for now and either buy a finished fan or decorate my own, does anyone have a resource for tasteful fans? Actually making one can wait (really). "It's sticks, it's paper, how hard can it be?" What a can of worms THAT opened up. The good news is I recently acquired a digital camera. As soon as time permits (I'm in the midst of a frantic job hunt), I will get photos as I construct prototype 4 and web instructions on how to make a TEXT type fan, using materials and tools you can get at a local craft store. Promise! Makiwara '
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Oct 20, 2004 19:07:49 GMT -5
What the ---- That should read "kawahori" type fan. M.
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Post by Iriye on Oct 21, 2004 0:33:20 GMT -5
Ah, Raito-dono ----- bless you! I will bow to the four winds that you become the Heir on Saturday. What a fount of information....... what a den of shopping opportunities..... __________ "It's sticks, it's paper, how hard can it be?" LoL, yeah. Been there, too! __________ How 'bout those Red Sox! Rizii
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Post by Otagiri Tatsuzou on Sept 23, 2005 10:27:58 GMT -5
:happy anniversary:
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