1 posted on
01/05/2004 9:13:03 AM PST by
blam
To: farmfriend
Ping.
2 posted on
01/05/2004 9:13:30 AM PST by
blam
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To: blam
For an interesting take on this, see INCA GOLD by Clive Cussler ...
5 posted on
01/05/2004 9:18:24 AM PST by
BlueLancer
(Der Elite Møøsenspåånkængrüppen ØberKømmååndø (EMØØK))
To: blam
Professor should be ordered into sensitivity training. Anyone knows that they are now referred to as "strings of color" not colored strings.
6 posted on
01/05/2004 9:18:57 AM PST by
N. Theknow
(Be a glowworm, a glowworm's never glum, cuz how can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum.)
To: blam
Maybe they just liked pretty-colored strings.
7 posted on
01/05/2004 9:20:17 AM PST by
trebb
To: blam
read later.
9 posted on
01/05/2004 9:27:09 AM PST by
NotQuiteCricket
(~the FlexStand(tm) made it to TV today, & I'm happy)
To: blam
Why don't they just ask all those people who claimed they were reincarnated?
You know the type. The ones that always claimed they were ancient royalty instead of someone who swept the stables.
11 posted on
01/05/2004 9:35:37 AM PST by
Shooter 2.5
(Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
To: blam
Based on a selective and literal interpretation of colonial sources and a limited understanding of archaeological specimens, many scholars have argued that the khipu was not writing, but rather a mnemonic device similar to a rosary Errr, so is all writing and so are all symbols.
Writing is just ink squigles (to use an obsolete euphemisim ;)
We (or other intelligence entities that are able to postulate the context in which our symbols are created and used) are the ones who breath life and meaning into these symbols -- the conundrum is that this meaning is a floating crap game and is continously changing, and the "context" which we think we are agreeing on is an illusion -- there are at least subtle and often profound differences in the way we actually interpret words and symbols -- we just THINK we are "communicating with each other" with great precision...
12 posted on
01/05/2004 9:41:36 AM PST by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: blam
It is interesting to me that they were in contact with a culture with a written language but didn't even "borrow" it for their own uses. In other areas of the world this was common (ie: Pali and Chinese use in South and Southeast Asia / Chinese in Korea and Japan)
13 posted on
01/05/2004 9:42:57 AM PST by
JimSEA
To: blam
In fact, Brokaw says the first step in understanding the khipu is "to recognize that it was linked to genres of Andean discourse, powerful discursive paradigms" I though Postmodernism was dead. "Genres of discourse" -- I gotta pick some of that up at the store. It's on the shelf next to the "discursive paradigms".
14 posted on
01/05/2004 9:57:02 AM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(France delenda est)
To: Professional Engineer
ping
16 posted on
01/05/2004 8:13:53 PM PST by
msdrby
(US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
To: blam
"Every day, in every way, I am better and better."
To: blam
How many of my tax dollars are going to this lamness?
18 posted on
01/05/2004 8:46:15 PM PST by
Duckdog
(If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
24 posted on
08/11/2005 10:57:29 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
To: blam
25 posted on
11/27/2009 8:44:33 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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