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I don't have a problem with dogs using symbols. Language starts long before verbal and written communication. It's not just speaking and writing. And symbols are more than icons. How is body language communicated? In what form does the information exist while it's travelling from the...

And what about XXL size shirts, and the X games? Oh, and Malcolm X.

What about when people write thanx?

Children today live in a unique environment. They have pressures we can't imagine. We know that evolution sometime happens in jerks rather than always being a smooth, slow process. I'm not sure if the indigo kids are a jerk ahead, or if it's the cultural environment that's leaped ahead.

Hi lunamoth. I think that we are constantly engaged in an effort to create the personal mythology of our selves. It's a kind of heroic poetry of the self that's also a set of mnemonic devices to remind ourselves of important, intangible, archetypal connections with processes larger than...

Campbellites? "Follow your bliss brother." "And you." Followed by the secret bliss handshake or something.!

I don't think that Campbell intended to propose a monomyth. I think one could get that impression if one were limited to his enormously popular television series with Bill Moyers, and The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Campbell has been sort of stuffed, posthumously, into a new agey role. His...

Hi In Love! I would say that the value of language, that is the agreed upon set of meanings, floats in a way similar to how the value of currencies float on the international market. It is constantly negotiated. And language, nowadays, is self-referential like money. That is, it's value...

Thanks for the welcomes!:) I don't know much about Christianity proper, so you probably won't hear much from me on this board. Sunny

NIV for me. The King James is hard to read, and I read that it wasn't very accurate. Don't know for sure.

Language can be exchanged for concepts the way money is exchanged for goods. It is essentially the currency of concepts. Language creates a codex of symbols which allows concepts to be compressed, standardized, recorded, and exchanged.

Can you show me the shine of your Japan, the sparkle in your China?

That's an excellent point! In so many ways culture is all about a cult of identity, whether it's sexual identity, national identity, ethnic identity...You could draw the same distinction between being a man who is American, and an American man. The essential fact of humanity should come...