“Pulpo” springs to mind for the newborns I’ve seen; they look like they’re made out of stewed tomatoes. If the parents waited a few days, every baby would be named “Winston.”
We’re clearly operating on the same wavelength, Eldo, but I’m sticking with parallel facets rather than shared tangents (partly for the simple reason that I’ve been seeing them as such for about 10 years now). It may also be the difference between a perfect circle/sphere and a regular polygon/polyhedron with infinity-minus-one sides. An apple has color, flavor, and shape, but “red”, “sweet”, and “round” are discrete qualities, not points on a continuous arc.
(Besides, I don’t want any co-authors on my landmark treatise. You can be in the Acknowledgements, though, right after Umberto Eco.)
The Loops, of course, may be large or small, and may be regular or irregular. One thing I’m not sure I made clear earlier is that any “connections” are by no means necessarily causal, yet by no means are causal connections excluded, either. One key difference (as I see it) between F.I.A.T. and Jungian Synchronicity is that, while the connections are real and evident, there is no reason to ascribe to them any meaning (despite our brains’ tendency to do so). Coincidences are allowed to be, and in most cases ARE, purely coincidental.
alviebird almost 14 years ago
If I named my child (I’ve never had one) the first thing that comes to mind, it would be: Ohmygod Whathaveidone Bird
Aries1776 almost 14 years ago
First impression of my son;Aww he’s purple daughter:ohh I wish I’d been here eight hours ago (emergency c-section/ I was at work)
adhdsurviver almost 14 years ago
or spit-up, spit-up is one, maybe gerber, perhaps, squishyhuggablegrossandadorable allatthesametime merchant? maybe not..
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
“Pulpo” springs to mind for the newborns I’ve seen; they look like they’re made out of stewed tomatoes. If the parents waited a few days, every baby would be named “Winston.”
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
We’re clearly operating on the same wavelength, Eldo, but I’m sticking with parallel facets rather than shared tangents (partly for the simple reason that I’ve been seeing them as such for about 10 years now). It may also be the difference between a perfect circle/sphere and a regular polygon/polyhedron with infinity-minus-one sides. An apple has color, flavor, and shape, but “red”, “sweet”, and “round” are discrete qualities, not points on a continuous arc.
(Besides, I don’t want any co-authors on my landmark treatise. You can be in the Acknowledgements, though, right after Umberto Eco.)
The Loops, of course, may be large or small, and may be regular or irregular. One thing I’m not sure I made clear earlier is that any “connections” are by no means necessarily causal, yet by no means are causal connections excluded, either. One key difference (as I see it) between F.I.A.T. and Jungian Synchronicity is that, while the connections are real and evident, there is no reason to ascribe to them any meaning (despite our brains’ tendency to do so). Coincidences are allowed to be, and in most cases ARE, purely coincidental.