I CONSTANTLY bump my appendages into walls because I'm walking and I don't realize that my hip/shoulder/hand is about to be in the same space as the doorframe/doorknob/etc.

I do this too. It's like I forget I have a body attached to the rest of what makes me me.

I CONSTANTLY bump my appendages into walls because I'm walking and I don't realize that my hip/shoulder/hand is about to be in the same space as the doorframe/doorknob/etc.

I'm terrified of doing this with Owen balanced on my hip. I've clocked him in the head once because I misjudged a corner and he leaned back at the same time.

It's like I forget I have a body attached to the rest of what makes me me.

Brain in a jar people. Pffft.

signed,
Irrational Monist Who Disdains The Mind Body Split As False

But surely if you look at your foot, you can tell what position it's in, right?

Not necessarily. It depends on the teacher. I she's saying "Point your toe" and I AM pointing my toe but she means "Point your toe in a direct line running from your knee down your shin", we have a problem.

Have you tried saying "pivot" in a different way? (I'm not there, I don't know.) It often happens to me that I think I'm doing what the teacher wants, but I've misunderstood the order.

The odd thing is that I don't have coordination problems when I focus on my body. It's just that I get distracted and forget that my body doesn't just phase out of existence when my brain goes elsewhere.

Have you tried saying "pivot" in a different way? (I'm not there, I don't know.)

Here's what I do: I say "When you do this technique, pivot your back foot." Then I do the technique and say "See how my heel is pointing towards the window? Pivot like that."

Then, if they do it wrong, I demonstrate again, just for them. If they do it wrong again, I then pivot their foot and say -- "Pivot to that position."

I'm getting less and less surprised, but there are people to whom I've done that who can still look down at an unpivoted foot and tell me they've pivoted.

*I* understood the pivot the first time.

t /false smugness

For me, it's just the facts...but you know, brain-damaged. I once read about a para chick who could come from her knees, but that never happened to me.

I once read about a para chick who could come from her knees, but that never happened to me.

From...rubbing them together like a grasshopper? Am I on the wrong kind of "come"?

And it's been driving me batshit that the loudest advocate for forcing Terry to keep living on my reading list is a same-sex marriage advocate. Has no idea that she's hoping for some of those rights she's fighting for will be eroded if this goes too far.

I find it oddly comforting when people aren't playing with the obvious team, on every political position. It frustrates me when, for example, all the pro-lifers are on one side and all the pro-choicers are on the other side of an issue like this.

It makes me wonder how many of the people out there agitating (I mean people who are literally involved in an issue like this, one way or another, not just people weighing in, during a convo.) is paying attention to particulars. I was delighted to come across some evangelical people taking the position that people in a PVS are no longer living, because they're no longer living imago deus, even though I don't happen to believe humans have a right (from the religious pov that is) to make such a judgment.