Crazy processualists
Oh yeah, those guys are NUTS. I totally know who they are and what that word means, too.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Jessica - Aug 17, 2006 10:44:19 am PDT #921 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
AllAroundPsycho - Aug 17, 2006 10:44:56 am PDT #922 of 10001
If wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak.
I am Jessica.
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2006 10:45:23 am PDT #923 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have no idea what processualism is.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2006 10:49:12 am PDT #924 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::returns from Wikipedia::
I quite like the processualists. But I can see the weak points in their view.
::dives back for the definition of postmodern::
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2006 11:23:51 am PDT #925 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I quite like the processualists.
Yeah, I think it's an interesting idea.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 17, 2006 11:25:33 am PDT #926 of 10001
What is even happening?
I like percussionists.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 17, 2006 11:28:25 am PDT #927 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
ba-dump bump
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2006 11:40:51 am PDT #928 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I like pertussis toxin.
Typo Boy - Aug 17, 2006 12:09:07 pm PDT #929 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
But races do have a biological reality.
No. Race tends to be defined arbitrarily by culture based on more or less arbitrary characteristics. Sometimes that arbitrary definition coincides with actual genetic subgrops, which is why it is useful for medical purposes. But not always. For example take the racial grouping Asian - which includes Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, people from the Indian subcontinent (Indians and Pakistanis), and miscellaneious others as well. And by some definitions Arabs as well. Even if you don't include Arabs, does that give you medically useful commonalities? OK Black or people of African descent does give some useful stuff medically. Not just sickle cell, but bone density and a lot biological stuff that genetics plays a larger role in. But Jews have Say Tachs disease and number of other medical commonalities. Yet we are not considered a race. As I say "race" is an arbitrary social creation. It sometimes coincides with genetic subgroups which there are real medical reasons to pay attention to. But you can find plenty of genetic subgroups with as many medical reasons to pay attention to their comonalities (and their differences from other genetic subgroups) which are not defined as races.
Jars - Aug 17, 2006 12:45:48 pm PDT #930 of 10001
Oops, yeah, I think processualist and postprocessualist are just archaeology words that gets thrown around so much you assume everyone knows what it is. I assume every field has them. Anyone, Bueller?