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THE GOOD MOUNTAIN PRESS DIGEST #3, August 2000 Archived Digests
Table of Contents1. New Orleans Schedule for Doyletics Interview Broadcast
2. Honored Readers for August
3. On a Personal Note
4. Cajun Story (new feature of Digest)
5. Doyletics.com Additions for August
6. Check Out the World-wide Doyletics List:
7. Reviews and Articles Added for August:8. “Yesterday” – old song, new lyrics for Database users
- ARJ2: Descartes’ Error by Antonio R. Damasio
- ARJ2: ruth and Knowledge by Rudolf Steiner
- ARJ2: Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age by Rudolf Steiner
- ARJ2: Travels in a Stone Canoe by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall
- ARJ2: Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
9. Closing Notes - our mailing list, locating books, unsubscribing to Digest
10. Paying the Bills
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2000: INAUGURAL YEAR: June #1 July #2, August #3, September #4, October #5, November #6, December #7,
On June 19, 2000 I was a guest on Dr. Roméo Di Benedetto’s interview show at El Paso Community College. In the first half hour interview we focused on the background, basic theory, and application of the nascent doyletics. In the second half hour interview we gave a summary of doyletics and a live demonstration of two speed traces by Lorena Castro, a graduate sociologist from the University of Texas.
These interviews will be broadcast in the New Orleans Metropolitan area in August on Cox Cable Channels 8 and 10. An up-to-date schedule of the broadcast is available on this webpage: http://www.doyletics.com/tvbrintv.htm
NOTE: the interview is still available, but the schedule has been removed. May 9, 2007
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2. HONORED READERS FOR August:
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Each month we take time to thank two of our good readers of Good Mountain Press Digest, books and reviews. Here's our two worthy Honored Readers for this month. One of their names will be in the TO: address line of your email Digest notification. Our Honored Readers for August are:
Daniel Gilliland in El Paso, Texas
Sam Di Chiera in Australia
Congratulations, Daniel and Sam !
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3. ON A PERSONAL NOTE:
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In July, Del and I celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary and the advent of a new decade for me when I turned 60 on July 20, 2000. (I wonder how 60 can be the start of a new decade, and still some folks dare to insist that 2000 is not the start of the new millennium. “That is a pedantry up with which I will not put.” I say that about this foolishness, but Winston Churchill said that, when askied about the propriety of ending a sentence with a preposition.)
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Descartes’ Error by Antonio R. Damasio
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4. CAJUN STORY:
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Here’s one I first heard from Justin Wilson, the great Cajun chef and humorist:
Gabe [pronounced GAH BEE] goes to the lumberyard, walks up to the counter, looks up at the clerk and says, “Mistah Landry, mah papa wants t’ree dozen of dem four-by-two’s.”
[Note: one theme of Cajun jokes is illuminated by this story – ambiguities in their non-native language, English. My grandmother Dessee Himel Babin spoke Cajun French until her children were forced by Louisiana law c. 1910 to begin speaking only English in school. She taught herself English by learning it from her children as they learned it themselves. By the time my mom was born eight years later, Grandmah’ no longer spoke French to her children, and my mom only learned a few words – same as I did, a generation later. Lacking an “sk” phoneme in French, the common word “ask” is often heard pronounced in South Louisiana today as “axe.” The use of “t’ree” for “three” is not as illiterate as it sounds, but simply using the Cajun French pronunciation, which has no “th” sound in it. My pater familia, Johann Adam Matern, apparently got his name changed by a well-meaning Cajun when he registered at the Hahnville courthouse in St. Charles Parish in 1721. All his children have the name, Matherne, which is still pronounced by Cajuns today as “Matern.” I have an Anglicized, Frenchicized, German name, and since I’m an Anglicized, Frenchicized, German man, it seems very appropriate to me. ]
“Mais, Gabe, how long yo’ papa wants dem four-by-two’s?”
“Mais, Ah don’ know. I’ll axe him.”
A few minutes later Gabe comes back to the counter.
“So, Gabe, how long yo papa wants dem four-by-two’s?”
“Mistah Landry, mah papa wants to build a house wit’ dem four-by-two’s. He says he wants dem for a long time!”
5. Doyletics.com Additions for August:
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Okay, here’s another unabashed essay on doyletics in the vesture of a book review. This is a fine book by a Professor of Neurology who is struggling to understand many of the things that are made clear and simple by the nascent science of doyletics. Here’s a quote from the book:
[page 179] The critical formative set of stimuli to somatic pairings is, no doubt, acquired in childhood and adolescence.
In that sentence, he is saying, in effect, that doyles can be stored well up into adolescence. The body of evidence we have accumulated in doyletics provides empirical evidence that no doyles are stored past the age of about five. But he gets many things right and those interested in the neurological underpinnings of doyletics would do well to read the book.
Read the Review at:
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/dervw.htm
2.) ARJ2: ruth and Knowledge by Rudolf Steiner
Steiner clearly states that his aim of his essay is to remedy a lack in Kant’s philosophy:[page 11] The aim of the following inquiry is to remedy the lack described above. Unlike Kant, the purpose here is not to show what our faculty of knowledge cannot do, but rather to show what it is really able to achieve.He engages Kant in a philosophical arm-wrestling bout, and the Reader is left to judge who wins hands down. If you have a known allergy to epistemology, you are excused from reading this review; if, on the other hand, you don’t know a thing about episte. . . what? – by all means read it.
Read the Review at:
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/takrvw.htm
3.) ARJ2: Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age by Rudolf Steiner
Are the names Giordano Bruno, Paracelsus, Nicolas of Cusa, Jacob Boehme, Angelus Silesius, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Valentine Wiegel unknown to you? Want to keep it that way? Don’t read the review of this book. In these Michaelmas lectures from 1900 Rudolf Steiner gives a splendid synopsis of the works of these Renaissance men and how what they did is so important to us today. He tells us, “I hope to have shown in my work that one can be a faithful follower of the scientific philosophy and still seek out the paths to the soul into which mysticism, properly understood, leads.” Scientifically minded skeptics are duly warned to stay away from this review, without a doubt.
Read the Review at:
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/mdmarvw.htm
4.) ARJ2: Travels in a Stone Canoe by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall
“Travels in a Stone Canoe” by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall In this book the two authors of The Wisdomkeepers give us the story behind their travels across the country into the holy places of the native American tribes to interview their revered medicine men and healers.
May cause you to wonder where the sacred places of your tribe are.
Read the Review at:
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/tscrvw.htm
5.) ARJ2: Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
This is an intriguing novel by the author of “Generation X” – who loves phrases that buzz of the younger generations like “all cities have gone random” or “dust in the wind” or “just another brick in the wall.” Matherne’s Rule #25 will come to mind when you read this novel, hopefully before it is made into a movie: “What is the power of an unanswered question?”
Read the Review at:
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I hear often from my Good Readers that they have bought books after reading my book reviews. Keep reading, folks! As I like to remind you, to obtain more information on what's in these books, buy and read the books — for less information, read the reviews.
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8. “YESTERDAY” – OLD SONG, NEW LYRICS:
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All of us have heard about the three most important things in real estate: Location, Location, Location. But how many of you have heard what the three most important things in a database are? And, if you use a computer just for reading emails, those emails you want to save constitute a real, live data base! So, what are those three most important things about using a database? Backup, Backup, Backup.Now to the rescue to help us remember this comes my friend at Scuttlebutt, Nick Baker, with this musical reminder. Thanks, Nick! ! ! ( published with Nick’s permission, who said to be sure that I give credit to the person who sent it to him: Vicki Felmlee. Thanks, Vicki! )
Sing Loudly to the Tune of the old Beatles’s Song, “Yesterday”
Yesterday,All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a deadline hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.
I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.
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