"Sunday, April 27, 2008.
Today's words for the wise (or otherwise). . .
Never try to teach a pig to sing--it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Quote of the day:

The notion of primitive man possessing some inner peace which we civilized people have somehow lost, and need to regain, is a lot of nonsense. Your average New Guinea native lives not only in fear of his enemies, but in terror-struck dread of the unknown.
- Gordon Linsley

And the same is true of the contention that we need to return to medieval beliefs. - Remi "

Does that make you an avant garde 1800s Darwinian dreamy-eyed "romantic" then, Remi?

How DO those National Geographic photographers get the naked natives to smile, then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism

"Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.[1] It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant_garde