[MD] Time IS runnin' out

Thu Oct 29 10:10:22 PDT 2009

Oh wow ... now that is intriguing ...
(Searched Google-Maps , didn't think of Wikipedia.)
OK - some reading to do ....
Thanks John
Regards Ian

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:06 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lessee?  Did I miss something in my search-cut-paste?    For the place in
> question, there's a wiki page
>
> DQ University <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DQ_University>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Ian Glendinning
> <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Oh no, I'm in short sharp response mode, sorry about the chatter folks
>> .... but you got me intrigued again ...
>>
>> I agree with Mark ... the DQ University thread looks like a seam worth
>> mining ...
>> But why didn't I get the reference to the place name "Lessee" ?
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:39 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > DQ University, Ian.  An actual place in Northern California that I drive
>> > past to visit my two younger daughters attending prep school and my one
>> > older daughter in her first year of college - a small abandoned desolate
>> > place with an intriguing name which troubles my dreams.
>> >
>> > Lessee, I had a heckuva time finding it.  I started the thread under
>> > "imaginings" which I didn't remember and wasn't much conducive to
>> searching
>> > old archives... but I found it at last.
>> >
>> > Reposted for your pleasure; more follow-up in the ongoing thread that
>> > stemmed from this beginning, if you're interested.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:59 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > "Civilization sends us out here to solve a great problem: i.e., how two
>> > races and cultures can be accommodated side by side.  And we fall to
>> > stock-speculation and wheat-raising and leave the problem to the
>> political
>> > hack and the strong-lunged agitator."
>> >
>> >
>> > Letter of Royce, in 1870, to chancellor of brand new Berkely, complaining
>> of
>> > California, but his point could be made about America today.
>> >
>> >
>> > But Platt asks a question: how?  We may talk of utopian better ways, but
>> > baby, you know we'd love to see the plan...    besides whining, what
>> points
>> > can be made?
>> >
>> >
>> > I responded thus to Platt before, but more mention is needed of DQ
>> > University.
>> >
>> >
>> > The dream part imagining is whereby we communally design a curriculum for
>> > such.
>> >
>> >
>> > The dream continues in that those who currently are in charge of the
>> actual
>> > DQ University, would be overwhelmed by the comprehensive Quality of our
>> > curriculum and would adopt it and begin training young people today in
>> the
>> > ideas of yesterday we're going to need tomorrow.
>> >
>> >
>> > egad.  I'm already writing like an administrator.
>> >
>> >
>> > Of course its far-reaching and beyond any man's grasp.  But it's a good
>> > idea, and good ideas deserve an outworking of their ramifications.  So...
>> I
>> > will get the ball rolling with some ideas for classes at DQ University.
>> >
>> >
>> > We start with Metaphysics 101.  This is because you need to understand
>> the
>> > ground upon which your education is based.  This should be the first
>> thing
>> > all students learn and the fact that it is not is only due to the
>> > status-quo, powers-that-be-in-charge, having a vested interest in
>> covering
>> > up and hiding.  Not so at DQ University - which carries the principle of
>> > openness and honesty to a seemingly ridiculous degree.
>> >
>> >
>> > Metaphysics 101 will be conducted by a teacher reading to a class, with
>> > pauses for questions when anybody needs to ask a question.  The class
>> will
>> > be as long as the students need to get through the required reading, with
>> no
>> > set time limit.   The grades will be pass or fail.  If you persist in
>> > sticking with the class and reaching the communal consensus of
>> > understanding, you are ready to move on.  If you fail, you have to keep
>> > playing until you succeed or drop out or do something different.  I think
>> > all classes should be like that.
>> >
>> > After a firm grounding in Metaphysics, the student will choose a track of
>> > education in harmony with their taste and inclination, but to
>> successfully
>> > graduate from DQ University, every student must have absorbed and
>> > demonstrated the knowledge of  mastery of all levels of their being - in
>> a
>> > natural progression from the biological arts of agriculture and shelter
>> > creation to the high intellectual pursuits of art and politics.
>> >
>> >
>> > In fact, the school grounds should be themselves an ideal demonstration
>> of
>> > proper principles put in practice.  Designed in a circle with enough food
>> > for all and gardened according to the wisest minds in a holistic pattern.
>> >
>> >
>> > And archery.  Every student should learn how to hit the target with a
>> bow.
>> >  For your doctorate, you have to get it in the bulls eye.
>> >
>> >
>> > There.  I have a plan.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ian Glendinning
>> > <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm intrigued John/ Mark ... which "university thread" did I miss ?
>> >> Regards
>> >> Ian
>> >> (PS my favourite song is "TIRO" - but not that one, another completely
>> >> different one by Muse)
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:49 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Good Timing squonk,
>> >> >
>> >> > As it so happens, there is this guy I'm hoping to see today who might
>> be
>> >> > helpful.  He's a friend of my mom's and unexpectedly showed up from
>> >> Alaska
>> >> > this week... he is a leader of his people and has many contacts from
>> his
>> >> > years as a represenative of native americans to the UN.  Last year he
>> >> spent
>> >> > a lot of time in Moscow and Siberia at some sort of world leadership
>> >> forum
>> >> > and he wants to get together and discuss his passion - self-sufficient
>> >> > community.  So with congruent interests and all I figure if there's
>> >> anybody
>> >> > in the world who can offer advice on off-the-wall ideas about Indian
>> >> > Community, this is the guy.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'll let you know how it goes.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:31 AM, <mark_maxwell at talktalk.net> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Please re-introduce your University thread John?
>> >> >> If only more contributors would help.
>> >> >
>> >> >>
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