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Rovers - He Or She? |
Jun 21 2005, 07:41 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
I'm still confused about the gender of Spirit and Oppy! What the consent about? If Spirit female (so I think) then make it sense to keep quiet about her age and make she younger
No kidding! I would like to know which personal pronoun (she, her or he, his etc.) I have to use by Spirit's and Oppy's gender definitely? -------------------- |
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Jun 22 2005, 09:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Trigaux said "..... Some among the greatest scientists were interested in poetry, peace, spirituality, etc..."
Decades ago, C.P. <I think> Snow wrote about the "2 Cultures" of the arts and sciences and the deep divide between them. Others have pointed out repeatedly that scientists are frequently deeply interested in the arts (I *don't* know about engineers...). MIT has a pretty damnfine symphony orchestra. I doubt *any* musical conservatories, at least in the US, have chemistry labs or minors in astronomy. The divide is far wider on one side than the other. |
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Jun 22 2005, 05:19 PM
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QUOTE (edstrick @ Jun 22 2005, 09:24 AM) Decades ago, C.P. <I think> Snow wrote about the "2 Cultures" of the arts and sciences and the deep divide between them. Others have pointed out repeatedly that scientists are frequently deeply interested in the arts (I *don't* know about engineers...). What I think is that there is only one life, and one universe, and various aspects of it to explore by different means. Arts and science are nothing but two means to explore different parts of the universe, our inner spirit with music, the outer world with science. So I think anybody really interested in one will at least have some casual interest in the other. Of course, if one choose to be a scientist just because he is good in math, he can become a good scientist and even make discoveries, but never become a visionary genius like Leonardo da Vinci, one of the rare to be a genius in both science and arts. If I understood well, the Freudian concept of libido is not just what we usually understand with this word: it encompasses anny desire to explore the universe and to experience all its aspects. I have tears in my eyes when I hear beautiful music, and also when I see Saturn moons and Titan ground. QUOTE (edstrick @ Jun 22 2005, 09:24 AM) MIT has a pretty damnfine symphony orchestra. I doubt *any* musical conservatories, at least in the US, have chemistry labs or minors in astronomy. The divide is far wider on one side than the other. Alas this remark is true. In ancient times it was not, for instance the Gaelic druids were a group of art, music and technology studiers, there was no "domains". Today we put too many divisions, science would be "serious" and art "leisure", or on the countrary art would be "good" and science only "materialistic". Worse, since some tens of years, at least in my country France, there is a "stalinism" of intellectual art, with heavy state buying of "modern art" and a regular shunning of popular art, progressist art, etc. Of course these persons are proud to declare science "intellectual" or things like that, and it is, I think, the main reason why the divide is larger on one side. But if you look among true artists, you will find persons interested in science. Same for spirituality. Real culture is not divided. |
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