Henry Quirk must be shut down

[henry quirk]

We were saber rattlin'. We -- Sculptor and me -- don't particularly like one another, don't have much respect for each other. We clash. Since we're not face to face and can't whup up on each other, we throw insults.

[BardoXV]

Henry don't stop posting, you are the one poster that I look for.

[henry quirk]

Henry don't stop posting, you are the one poster that I look for.

Man, your standards are way too low...

[Nick_A]

Henry don't stop posting, you are the one poster that I look for.

Alas, Henry's time may soon be limited. Even now plans are being made to bring Henry in front of the Official Board of Educated Elite and face charges for being intolerably politically incorrect. If judged guilty he will be sent off to Timbuktu for reeducation so as to become an example of right thinking through education.

[henry quirk]

Henry don't stop posting, you are the one poster that I look for.

Alas, Henry's time may soon be limited. Even now plans are being made to bring Henry in front of the Official Board of Educated Elite and face charges for being intolerably politically incorrect. If judged guilty he will be sent off to Timbuktu for reeducation so as to become an example of right thinking through education.

They gots to catch me first.

Hey! OBEE bastids!

[BardoXV]

Official Board of Educated Elite and face charges for being intolerably politically incorrect.

Henry, and you thought my standards were low.

[henry quirk]

Official Board of Educated Elite and face charges for being intolerably politically incorrect.

Henry, and you thought my standards were low.

HA!

[BardoXV]

I'm probably one of the educated elite, and I can't stand being politically correct. I taught Jr. HS shop metal and graphic arts and was qualified to teach wood, electricity, and drafting. When I left teaching I worked in a machine shop and a drafting room, at different times, and I found that almost everything I learned in college was wrong.

[henry quirk]

I'm probably one of the educated elite,

Mebbe, but you're one of the good ones.

[Nick_A]

I'm probably one of the educated elite, and I can't stand being politically correct. I taught Jr. HS shop metal and graphic arts and was qualified to teach wood, electricity, and drafting. When I left teaching I worked in a machine shop and a drafting room, at different times, and I found that almost everything I learned in college was wrong.

You probably learned it was wrong because you were able to work with your hands. The hands don't lie while the heart as the justifier of emotional BS does. Unfortunately it governs government controlled education.

[henry quirk]

I'm probably one of the educated elite, and I can't stand being politically correct. I taught Jr. HS shop metal and graphic arts and was qualified to teach wood, electricity, and drafting. When I left teaching I worked in a machine shop and a drafting room, at different times, and I found that almost everything I learned in college was wrong.

You probably learned it was wrong because you were able to work with your hands. The hands don't lie while the heart as the justifier of emotional BS does. Unfortunately it governs government controlled education.

That's a good point: some of my most clarifying thinkin' happens when I'm bein' handy, am laboring (tapping on a keyboard doesn't count, but scribblin' with a pencil does).

[Nick_A]

I'm probably one of the educated elite, and I can't stand being politically correct. I taught Jr. HS shop metal and graphic arts and was qualified to teach wood, electricity, and drafting. When I left teaching I worked in a machine shop and a drafting room, at different times, and I found that almost everything I learned in college was wrong.

You probably learned it was wrong because you were able to work with your hands. The hands don't lie while the heart as the justifier of emotional BS does. Unfortunately it governs government controlled education.

That's a good point: some of my most clarifying thinkin' happens when I'm bein' handy, am laboring (tapping on a keyboard doesn't count, but scribblin' with a pencil does).

I agree Henry. The spirituality of work IMO is underestimated as a human value now that the world has been taken over by computers. Simone Weil wrote:

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

The benefits of conscious work as opposed to all the emotional reactions normally associated with work is largely unknown in the West

[henry quirk]

"The benefits of conscious work as opposed to all the emotional reactions normally associated with work is largely unknown in the West"

Yep. Working is good for the soul (and the body).

[Arising_uk]

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I agree Henry. The spirituality of work IMO is underestimated as a human value now that the world has been taken over by computers. Simone Weil wrote:

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

The benefits of conscious work as opposed to all the emotional reactions normally associated with work is largely unknown in the West

What do you do for a job Nick?

[BardoXV]

You probably learned it was wrong because you were able to work with your hands. The hands don't lie while the heart as the justifier of emotional BS does. Unfortunately it governs government controlled education.

I learned very quick that my teachers in HS and my professors in college didn't understand most of what they thought they knew.