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qwertyuiop keyboard
Yes, I believe it is true.
For evidence, I point out that on that keyboard, the two most used letters, e and t,
are more difficult for touch typing to reach than lesser used letters such as j and k.
Kermit
posted by
Kermit1941
on August 30, 2011 at 5:54 PM
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Re: Re: Traditional way of doing things
Heheh... I have heard versions of that story... And do you know why the qwertyuop keyboard was designed that way, back when typewriters were invented?
It is not because it uses some formula of finger strength and deftness to increase speed, but in fact, just the opposite. Early clunky typewriters were slower that typists, and the keys would get jammed up, so the system was designed to slow down the typists.
So I've heard...
posted by
Ciel
on August 30, 2011 at 3:15 PM
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Re: Traditional way of doing things
Hello Ciel.
Good points.
> so that things became necessary to do for no other reasons than That Is How We Do
> Things.
Reminds me of a story.
Dan asked his wife, "Why do you trim off so much of the meat before you put it in the oven?
His wife replied, "That's the way it's always been done in our home. That's the way my mom taught me to do it."
One day, Dan and his wife were visiting her mom. Dan asked his mother in law, "Why do you trim off so much of the meat before you put it in the over?"
She replied, "That's the way it's always been done in our home. That's the way my mom taught me to do it."
Much later Dan and his wife were visiting her mom's mom. Dan asked his mother in law's mother, "Why do you trim off so much of the meat before you put it in the over?"
She replied, "Oh, I haven't done that for a very long time now. I haven't needed to because I got a larger oven."
posted by
Kermit1941
on August 30, 2011 at 11:07 AM
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Re: Why wear clothes...?
It may once have been a necessity of warmth, but we make other things necessary to our other needs: a dominant individual might have marked that dominance by throwing a kill's skin over his/her shoulder, or simply liked the look of it... inventing status and vanity at the same time.
A long time later it became unthinkable to appear to others without such symbols. And then there were rules, based on what was familiar, or done by predecessors, so that things became necessary to do for no other reasons than That Is How We Do Things.
posted by
Ciel
on August 29, 2011 at 2:56 PM
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Why wear clothes...?
posted by
Ciel
on August 29, 2011 at 2:51 PM
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Addition to your concept of Eden
:) Your concept of Eden as the world of the hominid apes suggested an additional scene for Eden.
It is presumed that human primate ancestors originated in Africa, where is is sufficiently warm that clothes are unnecessary. As the human ancestors migrated to colder climates, they had to wear artificial coverings to keep warm. They had to invent clothes.
Eden is Africa.
Of course for this explanation to be complete we should figure out why people insist that customs they learn from their parents as necessities are still insisted on in situations where those customs are not necessities.
Why does the necessity of wearing clothes in the cold arctic winter make it necessary to also wear clothes in the tropic zone?
Kermit
posted by
Kermit1941
on August 29, 2011 at 10:23 AM
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Kermit, I like your take on Eden.
I have a concept not entirely out of synch with your Eden.
I believe 'Eden' was the world of the hominid apes up until the mind developed sufficiently to come up with the concept of 'naked' vs 'clothed' which is not unlike the classic anthropological distinction observed by, I think, Levi-Strauss, that some early cultures have defined the difference between animal and human as 'raw' vs 'cooked.'
The eating from the Tree of Knowledge is the metaphoric symbol for the epiphanous moment when hominid apes made the distinction between being instinct-driven animals, completely at the mercy of Nature and God, and human beings who could mess with Nature and try to influence God, and be in that way more powerful, and closer to God, than animals could be.
The serpent is Curiosity, Need to Know: Prometheus demanding the secret of Fire, despite the advice of the Gods: Leave that to Us, don't you bother your pretty little heads about it... you will be so much happier letting Us take care of all that... Be the Children, be powerless, be dependent and reliant on Us.
posted by
Ciel
on August 27, 2011 at 5:25 PM
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Re: Words carry a load of miscomprehension, emotional overtone and baggage.
Hello Ciel.
I would like to discuss this more with you.
I certainly do wish to avoid mis-comprehensions and emotional baggage.
I agree with you that the "Original sin" is not a ticket to damnation.
A few weeks ago, I made up the short story,
Re-interpretation of the Garden of Eden story:
God spoke to Adam and Eve.
"I see that my overzealous servant has persuaded you to eat of the fruit of knowledge. Since you are now too wise for this kindergarten, I will close it, and promote you to first grade."
Kermit
posted by
Kermit1941
on August 25, 2011 at 4:20 PM
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Words carry a load of miscomprehension, emotional overtone and baggage.
If you go back to the origins, sometimes it changes perspective: the original sin... so to speak... was simply, a stumbling block. Not a ticket to damnation.
posted by
Ciel
on August 24, 2011 at 2:25 PM
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