Miscellaneous Topics
by Robert Hedges
©
Miscellaneous Topics
by Robert Hedges
©
Truth in heart - Strength in Arm - Honesty in Speech - Celts
to St Patrick
Irish have a pagan heart and a christian soul
Men do not wear body-revealing clothes because they associate them with
submissiveness and powerlessness. Women who love shoes have a closet full of
phallic symbols.
"When you are talking about people's bodies and clothes related to the
body, you're talking about sexuality, " says Valarie Steele. Leather . . . is associated with hyper-masculinity and power. It's like a
kind of armor. Your Armani suit is definitely a power uniform. Your Chanel
suit is a power uniform. It doesn't have to be a latex or leather. It just has
to make you feel more in control.
And there are those who are trying desperately to dress as if their
clothing has no significance. " I think many politicians are wearing this kind
of camouflage, Steele says. Their clothes say " I am Mr. Normal. I am Mr.
Average" . . . More and more they're dressing like spies. . .
Robin D. Givhan - The Washington Post - Courier Journal Sunday
31 December 1995 -H3 - edited by R Hedges - FETISH -
A man who wears nothing but nondescript dark suits is trying to hide his
sexuality. A woman who constantly changes her hair-style is subconsciously
flaunting her sexuality.
In her fashion
book, "Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power" Steele studies such items as vinyl
catsuits, high heels black leather jackets and women's lingerie to try to
understand how sexual power is conveyed through clothing.
"In a sense
everybody has their own kind of fetish. Everyone has certain body parts and
certain kinds of clothes that they find attractive, " Steele says. "That is
perfectly normal."
"Any article of clothing can be fetishized, " says
Steele, a cultural historian and professor at the Fashion Institute of
Technology. The feeling can generally range from a minor fixation to intense
need. But the line between a fetishist and a normalist is really quite
permeable.
Everyone doesn't necessarily get a little sexual rush from a
push-up bra or a pair of jodhpurs. Fetishism, Steele writes, " needs to be
conceptualized along a continuum of intensities. "
Some men are attracted
to women who wear high heels. Some men are attracted only to women who wear
high heels. Some men need women to wear high heels during intercourse. And
some men just need the high heels.
Ultimately, one of the main reasons we
look at fetishism, Steele says, is because it's an extreme form of power
clothing. Fetishism, she says, simply highlights things that are ubiquitous in
ordinary clothes.
Rates of professional individuals.
What is a professional farm/land developer manager worth in
comparison ?
STRESS : THE BADGES ARE :
Psysiological Reactions:
The past belongs to those who control the present - George
Orwell
hell is the impossibility of reason - Charlie Sheen in Platoon
The bitter pill of low connections is well gilded - comment of a poor titled
mother whose daughter married into the trades to get new money, with which to
enjoy the noble lifestyle.
speculation, in which the veracity or generosity of some are not very
conspicuous, being ever on the watch to take advantage of the ignorance or
innocence of the stranger. . . Richard Butler, commenting on Louisville, KY in
1786.
Never acribe to providence those events achieved by the approach of men to
the gates of the penitentary.
The last deviation from the truth is multiplied later
The shield may be as important to victory as the sword
What you don't see w/ your eyes, don't invent w/ your tongue. To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the popularity of dogs. He who overvalues himself will undervalue others; and he who undervalues
others will oppress them.
No institution can be long preserved, but by frequent recurrence
to those maxims on which it was formed. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no
culture comparable to that of the garden.
to be angry is easy, but to be angry at the right person, to the right
degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is
not easy. Aristotle - Nicomacean Ethics.
injustice will never be eradicated until those not effected by
it are as outraged as those who are
The road to hell is paved with self-righteous intentions. Those
religious fanatics and political utopians who set out to annhilate evil, once
and for all, are only the devil's reproductive system -
N=R(4)* F(p)* N(p)* F(L)* F(i)* F(c)* L N= number of technical civilizations
BAD . . . .this word has no literary or cognitive meaning
Irish
proverb
Aldous
Huxley
Samuel Johnson
yesterday this day's madness did prepare
tomorrows silence,
triumph or dispair;
drink, for you know not whence you came, nor why;
drink, for you know not why you go, nor where.
Omar Khayyam, 12th
Century
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Hate does more for the solidarity and confidence of the embattled,
insecure groups than love, - hate mobilizes, galvanizes, and defines. Demonizing
an enemy or oppressor gives courage to the vulnerable and a sense of power to
the powerless -
Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a
fury like a woman scorned.
English Dramatists William Congreve - 1697
Satan was a heavenly
functionary- in charge of obstructing human purpose when it suited God's
purposes to do so. He was conflated with the title, Lucifer - Chief of the
Fallen Angels; -(See Isaah - Fallen Babylonian King) - demonizing was the next
logical step.
satan = greed , lust, vengence, ego, reptilian responses
evil is containment of the human spirit - thus good seeks the expansion of
the human spirit
66 % believe in Beelzebub
66% of the above 66% see his
effects in their real life.
The ability of any state agency to maintain confidentiality is
based on the individual employees. Social worker turnover by state employees
recently was :
The yearly average was 22.9%, on about 1000 state
social worker employees. Can this group who seeks more money really maintain
confidentiality. ?
4% of 30,000 patients were harmed in NY hospitals. 14% of
the 4% died. This extrapolates to 100,000 deaths per year due to malpractice.
Can psychiatry be much better ?
Dr Luvcian Leape, 1990 Harvard Medical
Malpractice study.
Life in space is more than a little likely - it is sure-
R* - average no of stars per year of star formation
F(p) the fraction of
stars w/ planets
N(p) number of suitable planets per planetary system
F(L)
- fraction w/ life starts
F(i) evolves intelligence
F(c) to develop means
to communicate
L = longevity in years of the technological phase of such a
society
N = 100,000 - 1 Million
1 Million out of 200 Billion
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only emotive meaning is allowed it. It is a mere expression of disapproval.
Playing on emotions (emotive) as a method of distorting truth.