Do you imply that when women take complete
control over the world that "Fahrenheit 451"
will be at our doorstep?
Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy HPTraderOnline [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 3:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Global Warming Called 'Fairy Tale'
>
>
> Lou,
>
> If you are interested in the science of how learning happens, it might
> interest you to read, "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess : The Conflict
> Between Word and Image" by Leonard Shlain
> In the Editorial Review on Amazon.com they say,
>
> "Literacy has promoted the subjugation of women by men
> throughout all but
> the very recent history of the West," writes Leonard Shlain.
> "Misogyny and
> patriarchy rise and fall with the fortunes of the alphabetic
> written word."
> That's a pretty audacious claim, one that The Alphabet Versus
> the Goddess
> provides extensive historical and cultural correlations to
> support. Shlain's
> thesis takes readers from the evolutionary steps that
> distinguish the human
> brain from that of the primates to the development of the
> Internet. The very
> act of learning written language, he argues, exercises the
> human brain's
> left hemisphere--the half that handles linear, abstract thought--and
> enforces its dominance over the right hemisphere, which
> thinks holistically
> and visually. If you accept the idea that linear abstraction
> is a masculine
> trait, and that holistic visualization is feminine, the rest
> of the theory
> falls into place.
>
> He says in the book, that studying small print over
> stimulates the left
> (male, linear) brain. Soon the right (feminine, holistic)
> brain gives up.
>
> The children of our middle east extremists read nothing but
> the Koran (The
> sacred text of Islam) and look what they are capable of believing.
>
> Guy Avenell
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lou Cook" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 11:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Global Warming Called 'Fairy Tale'
>
>
> > Guy,
> >
> > They had the light from the first day of creation.
> >
> > Lou
> >
> >
> >
> > Extend creation out as many days or years as you want. How
> long would
> > plants (created on day 3) survive until sunlight (day 4) came along?
> >
> > Guy Avenell
> >
> >
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