--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Gena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It is the stories that we tell that are important. It is the attempt
> of one person trying to convey narrative to another. That has an
> spiritual value. It can have a base level one too.
>
> It doesn't matter if the stories are profound or silly. Meaning
> changes over time anyway. It is important that we communicate to those
> that come after us that we had a particular view of our world - "here
> it is, this is what I see."
>
> It is no different that the griots sitting around telling the tales of
> the ancestors or the cave paintings or the etchings in pottery. It is
> no different that what countless writers, artists and future-sighted
> people do.
>
> That is how we (humans) build communities - by knowing each others
> stories.
>
> Gena
> http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com
> http://voxmedia.org/wiki/Video
>
>
>
> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Shannon Noble" <shannon.sn@>
> wrote:
> >
> > You know,
> >
> > sometimes I look at my own expressions and the content of my work,
> as well
> > as many others here, and think how shallow and meaningless much of
> what we
> > do is. We put our own meaning on it as it really has none of it's
> own. It is
> > all enculturated. We make it up for or own selves to get what we
> want from
> > others. I feel that way when I look at something like this:
> >
> > http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/36871/ <panisset@>
> >
> > and ponder.
> >
> > -shannon
> >
>
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