Humans' signal characteristic is that dead generations
communicate majorly with living generations through culture and
language. Our living generations stand on the shoulder of giant dead
generations.
Oh, that is just some dead academic putting words in your mouth.
More interesting to me is that
Thanks for your annual reminder, Jim Farmelant. The standing on the
shoulders of giants quote is one of my favorites. I consider it is a
clever encapsulation of the concept of culture in cultural
anthropology. Humans' signal characteristic is that dead generations
communicate majorly with living
Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest men,
whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us join in
toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on whose
shoulders he stood.
Jim Farmelant
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote:
Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest
men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us
join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on
Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest
men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us
join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on
whose shoulders he stood.
Jim Farmelant
Yes, once again we celebrate the life of our favorite religionist
(heretical), biblical scholar, occultist, prophet of the apocalypse,
and all around weird guy.
Can we find anyone else born on 25 December?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_newton#Religious_views
According to most scholars,
I nominate Rod Serling for our celebrated life. Certainly more
socially interesting than most of what I see on lists like LBO Squawk
or Marxmal or the A (sshole)-List.
CJ
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:02 PM, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, once again we celebrate the life of our favorite
Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest
men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us
join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on
whose shoulders he stood.
Jim Farmelant
