tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22267600.post115756857703155534..comments2023-07-20T10:30:43.820-05:00Comments on Musings of a Minor Mennonite: My Pal GandhiDan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08387429717617727003noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22267600.post-1158690608219968452006-09-19T13:30:00.000-05:002006-09-19T13:30:00.000-05:00Allow me to expand on my earlier comment. "Excreme...Allow me to expand on my earlier comment. <BR/><BR/>"Excrement" came to my mind first, only as a quote of Robin Williams' in "The Dead Poet's Society," when after listening to a rather pedantic essay by the author of the class textbook, commenting on how one might "graph" a poem's greatness and importance to reveal its total worth, he responded thus.<BR/><BR/>"Excerement" was his initial and most resounding thought. As it was mine, though I did borrow it.<BR/><BR/>Yes! I heartily protest! Graphing people as though we (or they, or whoever) are machines or real numbers or functions of mathematics, or that we can or should be "tucked neatly into little boxes" lessens us, and reminds me of things I don't here have the room to expand upon and which I am afraid might bring you great personal distress if I were to do so.<BR/><BR/>Hence: "Excrement"<BR/><BR/>I shall leave it at that and bid you, <BR/><BR/>Namárië!browniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354905880188521976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22267600.post-1158689026986270952006-09-19T13:03:00.000-05:002006-09-19T13:03:00.000-05:00Excrement.Excrement.browniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354905880188521976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22267600.post-1157591022256427382006-09-06T20:03:00.000-05:002006-09-06T20:03:00.000-05:00Piglet? Gee, thanks. I'll stick with the Dalai, ...Piglet? Gee, thanks. I'll stick with the Dalai, thank you very much.<BR/><BR/>If you are on Mandela's dot, then I predict either prison or a presidency in your future.Dan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08387429717617727003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22267600.post-1157579749137994302006-09-06T16:55:00.000-05:002006-09-06T16:55:00.000-05:00Hey Dan; I took the quiz. I am -5.13 (left)Economi...Hey Dan; I took the quiz. I am -5.13 (left)Economic and -2.92 (down/left) Social Libertarian/Authoritarian. Looks like I land proudly on Nelson Mandela's dot, near the dot on Gandhi's forehead. I feel liberated now in a democratic way. That would make me a Liberal Democrat? Perhaps your next corny quiz blog will answer that question. By the way; I would say your more a piglet than an Eeyore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com