I live in a modern house, but in a historic village. I have a killer view out of my back door, including beautiful sunsets in Winter and Summer. Despite all this, the row of houses where I live has NO atmosphere what so ever. The rest of the village with its subtle aura, its cobbled streets and quaint shops ( sorry that should be SHOP ! ) does not penetrate, or rub off on my cul de sac. Inside my house is the same. I have by cramming in various items I like, managed to force a little character into my surroundings.
Things do however change when I go to work. When I reach the farm, then its atmosphere overload. As my parents house was built in the 1700's ( instead of the 1990's like mine ) there is an overwhelming presence always. I guess travelling to and thro between the two makes this painfully obvious to me. A modern house will never feel like an ancient one, but that does not excuse the extent to which my newer house lacks any aura at all. This is starting to disturb me more as time goes by. Odd.
Tuesday, January 6
Saturday, January 3
10 Jokes Only An Acedemic Will Understand
Er, yes, that's the title of an acidic little post I found on an in -laws fb page recently. It wouldn't be so bad if its intention had been humorous, but I sensed a mis-calculated intention to portray an elitist image to anyone reading. It was basically a nasty side swipe at those who had not had the same education as he had. Had someone else posted this I may well have laughed though.
There were 10 no doubt very funny jokes, and if I had studied the people or philosophies that made up the jokes ingredients, then I would have by all accounts been laughing, but I haven't. However I had a good stab at working out maybe what these ideas or theories were that made the jokes funny, by trying to figure out what was " missing " due to my educational short comings. A kind of mental algebra I guess. By doing this I think I got the jist of a few of them.
Just like a person I read about recently who turned their hand very successfully to a job of which they had no previous training, I used my intuition. This is a true sign of intelligence. It requires imagination and thinking outside the box. A stale rigid mindset using only what has previously been learnt is of absolutely no use here. A rigid mind set full of pigeon holes would have been of very little use here. You can only judge someones intellect if you can watch how they face a task that they have never experienced, or one outside their usual comfort zone. This is not something I expect the man who posted this collection of jokes would have understood either, funnily enough !
There were 10 no doubt very funny jokes, and if I had studied the people or philosophies that made up the jokes ingredients, then I would have by all accounts been laughing, but I haven't. However I had a good stab at working out maybe what these ideas or theories were that made the jokes funny, by trying to figure out what was " missing " due to my educational short comings. A kind of mental algebra I guess. By doing this I think I got the jist of a few of them.
Just like a person I read about recently who turned their hand very successfully to a job of which they had no previous training, I used my intuition. This is a true sign of intelligence. It requires imagination and thinking outside the box. A stale rigid mindset using only what has previously been learnt is of absolutely no use here. A rigid mind set full of pigeon holes would have been of very little use here. You can only judge someones intellect if you can watch how they face a task that they have never experienced, or one outside their usual comfort zone. This is not something I expect the man who posted this collection of jokes would have understood either, funnily enough !
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