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John Link

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  1. Check out this link to learn how the Feldenkrais Method might be helpful to your grandfather: http://www.google.com/search?q=feldenkrais+parkinson&hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images

    Click this link to find a Feldenkrais practitioner near your grandfather: http://www.feldenkrais.com/practitioners/find/

    If you'll tell me where your grandfather lives I might be able to make specific referrals to some of my colleagues (I'm a Feldenkrais practitioner in New York City).

    Good luck,

    John Link

  2. I just called the White House at 202-456-1111 to express my disgust at Obama's willingness to sign NDAA 2012 which includes provisions for indefinite detention, and to urge him to VETO this unconstitutional bill. I was on hold for 10 minutes or so. I hope that means that many others are calling the White House for the same reason.

    I also emailed the White House here: Submit Questions & Comments | The White House

    If you care about your freedom, act now, because Obama intends to sign the bill into law.

  3. A lot has been said about the improvisational properties of jazz (whether it's artful or not?); but all improv is based off of progressions, melodies, and rhythms, and these are written on lead sheets.

    Much (probably most) jazz is organized that way, but not all.

  4. freestyle, I suggest that you've entirely missed the point of the cliche question "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?". I believe that that question is used to express the idea that a chicken came from an egg that came from a chicken that came from an egg..., and the question asks whether a chicken or an egg is at the beginning of that sequence. Or perhaps the question is rhetorical, and simply identifies what seems to be an infinite regress.

  5. I have two points:

    1) You said you chose to respond to the quote of Wittgenstein, but your essay hardly deals with the quote. Instead, in a few paragraphs, you attack his entire philosophy. I think the essay would be much better (more importantly, more in line with the assignment you were given) if you were to limit yourself to exploring the meaning of the quote. You express disdain for "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.", but you don't even say what you think it means, or doesn't mean. I could certainly find possible interpretations that would not lead one to the conclusion "What an awful world that must be!". Have you considered any such interpretations?

    2) I've never read Wittgenstein, so I don't know whether or not your claims about his ideas are true or false. What you've written does not support your claims or lead me to have confidence in their veracity, since you've included not a single quotation of his writing. As far as I can tell all you've done is regurgitated someone else's (Ayn Rand's?) ideas about Wittgenstein.

    John Link

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