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http://www.answers.com/topic/trobriand-islands
"The language of the Trobriand peoples is Kilivila, though various different dialects of it are spoken amongst each different tribe. It is an Austronesian language, although has the distinction of having a complex system for classifing nouns. Foreign languages are less commonly spoken, although by the 1980s at least, Melanesian pidgin and English was occasionally spoken by Trobrianders. The term "Trobriand" itself is not Kilivilan, it was instead devised by French explorers.[3]
Drawing upon earlier work by Bronisław Malinowski, Dorothy D. Lee's scholarly writings refer to "non-lineal codifications of reality." In such a linguistic system, the concept of linear progress of time, geometric shapes, and even conventional methods of description are lost altogether or altered. In her example of a specific indigenous yam, Lee explains that when the yam moves from a state of sprouting to ripeness to over-ripeness, the name for each object in a specific state changes entirely. This is because the description of the object at different states of development are perceived as wholly different objects. Ripeness is considered a "defining ingredient" and thus once it becomes over-ripe, it is a new object altogether. The same perception pertains to time and geometric shapes."
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Eschewing object permenance at the community level - I like that. Yesterday I had a yam, but I don't anymore. Today I. Have a puddle of mush, and why should the one have any bearing on the other?
And why just objects, what about people?
Am I the same person today that I was yesterday? Who might I be tomorrow?
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They use yams as currency and give them as gifts! This may be my long lost home.
I could eat yams at every meal and it wouldn't seem weird to them.
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by the way, you weren't the same person yesterday.
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yeah, i_know_right?
we're all just_spermutations of the same lil dots, freaky quarky atoms and whatnot. you're your design_ation like each sequence is a combination locked into the identity of the qualities made manifest by that exact arrangement of stuff.
a_t_h_e_nd_oft_i'me
will not everything
have combined every
kind of permutation?
still_though what_of_soul? I_YAM_THAT_I_YAM is the transient, "Y".. because the spirit_that_moves_through_all_things can temporary identify with the YAM but is not stuck as it. "i'm_afraid", our normal Good_Order_Discipline language is stuck somewhere between tomorrow's_leftovers and past_lives of the unripened.
it_is_what_it_is
know_translation
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perhaps they are on to something
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"...cultures who have no concept of past present and future"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5QNuSPzAKQ&feature=related
Time Technology & Research 31-01-2010 Art Bell Doctor David Lewis Anderson Coast to Coast AM Part 5
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"...complex world of space_time physics" (Art) "boils down to algebra"
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Artist
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Only a fool boils down art.
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true but i do both... im after the resonance, the oscillation. it's the decimation and the recalibration into
thesEYEssence says the into great ation
art_and_science is chasing each_other, a play in hard_to_get
call mine a thing apex
up_here's to me
a common all i tie it together
neither superior.
one make one female
together_timeless
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*one male one female
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