Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me

[Ian Livingston]

Ignorance is suffering, discovery is bliss.


On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:24 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ignorance is Bliss
>
>
> On Saturday, March 16, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
>
>> WUNDERBAR. Bliss = grace on the face?
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Mar 16, 2013, at 6:51 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Some call sloth's look as "bliss."
>>
>> On Saturday, March 16, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>>
>>> I've seen a TV show of sloth orphans. They are very cuddly, cute, slow,
>>> and ALWAYS with an invisible shit-eating grin.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/too-cute/videos/too-cute-baby-sloths.htm
>>>
>>> On Saturday, March 16, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, you can all laugh at me and feel your deserved superiority because
>>>> you have all probably seen a sloth crawl across a 6-8 feet long
>>>> horizontal tree
>>>> branch but I did not until today.
>>>>
>>>> It is amazing, he says so articulately. if truth is movement captured
>>>> in film's 24 frames per
>>>> Second, then the upside-down sloth must be moving at 2-4 frames per sec,
>>>> Long arms in the slowest long arc motion you might ever see in real
>>>> life.
>>>>
>>>> I was transfixed and, of course, not ever really knowing by experience
>>>> How slowly a sloth moved, I did not think through the evolutionary
>>>> reason.
>>>>
>>>> To keep themselves " invisible" to predators!
>>>>
>>>> Slothrop. Not just another funny name.
>>>>
>>>> The webbed meanings of so many of TRP's key metaphors, such as this
>>>> one, keep astonishing.
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>
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