As you may have guessed, I was just having fun with
the absurd on THAT one.

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy HPTraderOnline [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> 
> I don't imply that, nor does the book.  From what I read 
> though, there was a
> "Fahrenheit 451"
> as far as women's input to religion when the scriptures were 
> put into print
> instead of being taught in the oral tradition.  Small print 
> stimulates the
> left (male dominate) brain through the rod cells of the eye. Glyphs,
> pictures (mental or physical, and icons, stimulate the 
> feminine aspects of
> the brain.  Why do women play such a minor role in today's scripted
> religions?
> If Carley can make it to CEO, surely a woman could deliver Communion.
> Laugh all you want until you read it.
> I asked a friend once why women couldn't be priests in his 
> religion.  He
> pointed to scripture that said something to the effect that 
> you had to be a
> man with one wife.  So then I said that meant then that 
> priests had to be
> married, and he said, "No, not at all."  He was using 
> scripture to defend
> one example when it denied another.
> 
> Guy Avenell
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 12:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Global Warming Called 'Fairy Tale'
> 
> 
> 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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