Emotional Semantics and Emotional Semiotics
Edited by Oct 22, 2005 12:26 pm
Barsoom Tork reaches for his bible, Anguish in Taunt and Reaction, by Essenem Hayacaca. Barsoom opens his biblical tome, which presents the latest theological insights into the emerging field of Emotional Semantics and Emotional Semiotics. Barsoom turns to one of the bookmarked hymns toward the back of the book.
Montana Mouse, decked out in his trademark porkpie hat and red neckerchief, accompanies Barsoom on the banjo...
Barsoom's gonna show you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird don't sing,
Barsoom's gonna turn to a poetry fling.
And if that poetry turns out crass
Barsoom's gonna hold up a looking glass.
And if that looking glass gets broke,
Barsoom's gonna bring in a flying goat.
And if that flying goat won't act,
Barsoom's gonna read you a scholarly tract.
And if that scholarly tract don't work,
Barsoom's gonna look like a stupid jerk.
And if that stupid jerk's a bore
Barsoom's gonna gin up a verbal war.
And if that anguish makes you frown,
You'll still be the cutest little robot in town.
So hush, little Belabot, don't you cry
Barsoom's gonna fix us some nice stir fry.
CopyClef 2001 by Yugo Gurl and Essenem Hayacaca.
Performed by Barsoom Tork and Montana Mouse.
(301 previous messages)klaatu - Jun 29, 2008 2:31 pm (#302 of 314)
It never worked.
- Jun 29, 2008 6:38 pm (#303 of 314)
As both of you have learned, it works too well, for your purposes.
I dunno, Moulton, but it seems my earliest observations about your forum behavior have been proven correct again and again. Your recent exit from Wikipedia is merely the latest case in point.
At any rate you don't have to self-implode at all these online communities. But perhaps you like composing dirges.
klaatu - Jun 29, 2008 7:12 pm (#304 of 314)
Such goofy hypocrisy.
- Jun 29, 2008 11:47 pm (#305 of 314)
New York Times Op-Ed Article
More at the link.Your Brain Lies to You
By SAM WANG and SANDRA AAMODT
Published: June 27, 2008
FALSE beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim. The Obama campaign has created a Web site to dispel misinformation. But this effort may be more difficult than it seems, thanks to the quirky way in which our brains store memories — and mislead us along the way.
The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer’s hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man’s curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this re-storage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is separated from the context in which it was originally learned. For example, you know that the capital of California is Sacramento, but you probably don’t remember how you learned it.
This phenomenon, known as source amnesia, can also lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true.
With time, this misremembering only gets worse. A false statement from a noncredible source that is at first not believed can gain credibility during the months it takes to reprocess memories from short-term hippocampal storage to longer-term cortical storage. As the source is forgotten, the message and its implications gain strength. This could explain why, during the 2004 presidential campaign, it took some weeks for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Senator John Kerry to have an effect on his standing in the polls.
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In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Supreme Court wrote that “the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.” Holmes erroneously assumed that ideas are more likely to spread if they are honest. Our brains do not naturally obey this admirable dictum, but by better understanding the mechanisms of memory perhaps we can move closer to Holmes’s ideal.Sam Wang, an associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton, and Sandra Aamodt, a former editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, are the authors of “Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life.”
klaatu - Jun 30, 2008 8:51 am (#306 of 314)
Bela relies on that phenomenon, that he who lies first wins.
- Jun 30, 2008 10:17 pm (#307 of 314)
nice article, Moulton.
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Klatu--you lie first, you lie most frequently, and you lie most shamelessly.
fortunately for my amusement your lies are also clumsy, transparent, and easily disproved.
- Jul 1, 2008 2:24 am (#308 of 314)
Far be it from me to usufruct such tumid balderdash.
klaatu - Jul 1, 2008 7:43 am (#309 of 314)
We know your bullshit, Bela, so don't waste your time trying to convince us you are the innocent victim and everybody else is trash. Save it for the yahoos.
- Jul 1, 2008 7:57 pm (#310 of 314)
do you speak for Moulton now?
who is this 'us', Klatu?
klaatu - Jul 2, 2008 7:17 am (#311 of 314)
No one disagrees with what I said, bozo. Go sell your fake concern elsewhere.
- Jul 2, 2008 9:42 pm (#312 of 314)
No one disagrees with what I said, bozo.
No one, eh?
How many people are you speaking for?
You know full well that most people think you are a transparent liar and a total fruitcake. If you want references, i can post links.
As you know.
- Jul 3, 2008 4:01 am (#313 of 314)
A WorldCrossing Folk Anthem
Slouching to the Darker Side
CopyClef 2005 Darth Sidious and Barsoom Tork Associates.
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"At North Amurcan Bupkis, we gleefully dick around with jerks like Bela Z. Bov."
klaatu - Jul 3, 2008 8:46 am (#314 of 314)
i can post links.
You've posted that same crap many times before and there was no sale. It would prove nothing except that there are many assholes in the world very like you who use the same insults and crappy thinking, you're far from being unique. There are a lot of them on Wikipedia.
Get a life.
Emotional Semantics and Emotional Semiotics