JTony Loves Brains / Texts
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Hi BU,
I didn't care that they did it the first day of the task. I thought that was cool. What I cared about was that the spirit of the task was asking the taskers to skip school or work, which is kind of hard to do on a Sunday unless you work on a Sunday.
The spirit of the task, it seems to me, is about what you do with the skipping. It is about Ferris Bueller and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, about ditching your socialized responsibilities for a time to do something... different. I saw nothing about that in this praxis, so I posed the question. That’s it. Posed the question. No flag, no nasty "This praxis sucks" comments. Just. A. Question.
I didn't post my question anywhere else because there were only a few folks who had posted this task at the time. Lincoln, for instance. And Lincoln skipped work he was scheduled to do on a Sunday, which met the criteria of the task.
And I think the temple is totally cool, really amazing, and I want to know more about it (was it a kit, scratch built, is it of a real temple, what's it made of, is it really edible?), and I wish there was more praxis here to satisfy those questions.
But all I did was post a question, which I do whenever I see someone posting something I'm not sure meets the criteria (and you can't say these taskers don't do the same... a little notoriety goes a long way).
And what's not constructive about asking a question?
I said spirit of the task, this task in particular. The idea behind it, that we break away from the ties of work and school, Ferris Bueller like.
I did not say spirit of tasking. Different, bigger, and not within the scope of my question.
I'm not having any problem about when it was posted.... more about what timeframe it is discussing? Were you doing the task on Sunday?
The reason I ask is that MOST people work or go to school on Monday through Friday. So my second question would be when do YOU normally work/school?
If both answers are Sunday, then great! You did awesomely!
If the first answer is Sunday but the second answer is Weekdays.... it at the very least doesn't fit the spirit of the task, and so I'd see failure on the near horizon.
Um... when did you do this? It looks, from your praxis, you did it on Sunday Sept. 21. Is this correct?
Super Friends!!!!!
Okay, okay. I don't mean to be a downer. This just feels like so many things Dax has already done, and it just feels divisive. I want to unite us, rather than divide us, and making this about points is just nausiating.
Ok, I'll crawl back into my corner now and play with my blocks again. Carry on with the battle if you must, but it feels a whole lot like "Billy the Shakes" and "Wild Bill Faulkner"'s "Sound and Fury" than anything significant enough.
I like shiny things, too.....
Ooohhhh, Shiiinnyyy!!!
It's easy to condemn conflict when you're the one with the riches.
So, by that are you saying that Chicago is some how has less "riches" than San Francisco? or that I, because I live in San Francisco am more rich than you, who live in Chicago?
If that's true, Shame on you. Chicago is a wonderful town, and I have often said that if I hadn't found my home here in SF, I'd be living there, wandering the streets at 3am taking photos of the Wrigley building and the fountain behind the Art Institute (talk about night photography) and the Water Tower in late night traffic. Chicago is full of riches.
What saddens me about this most is the idea that this is San Francisco vs. (place city name here). There are so many things alike about our cities, so many ways we can join each other to celebrate them together.
For instance, look at San Francisco. We have this medium sized object known as Lotta's Fountain. It was a meeting place because of its location in the middle of market street for years. Then it was a survivor of the earthquake, and because of that other earthquake survivors met there and it became a symbol of our survival of the quake of 1906.
And Chicago has the Water Tower. I don't remember all of its history, but isn't it basically the same thing, a survivor of the great fires and thereby a symbol of Chicago's survival? Don't these symbols join us somehow, rather than pitting us against each other, like one city is better because they have more... points? Blah!
You get my first vote of this era, Myrna. These pictures made my day!