From lojban+bncCK30vq5WENDr7uQEGgT1TfIM@googlegroups.com Thu Sep 23 13:17:37 2010 Received: from mail-pz0-f61.google.com ([209.85.210.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OysEY-0002bG-G6; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:37 -0700 Received: by pzk7 with SMTP id 7sf505083pzk.16 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:received:received :received:received-spf:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4PA7B+4lMyb+A7MIPOTJjrYI54JmRw0QZE2xrvBWyaQ=; b=fepbKDb6aA2dXdnjta6Y+fYncjpNf9bcwRkOutBxF1RRW9LEs5c6syDEqsah5q+VYb 7BlttVglaGiRH1n8V16y8g48VhPy188Ki7VxcnoBHJHaeqUQA4mX96TssUEjQTC1KnHa zx020YgXnJ2/2/uRtqqblOloi6XvagZ+ryjHk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding; b=xjHlvH2nP8/+xSIjRwWwKs8UfW1+4wegtsUKKuwZAvrQmw+mxQuhktLDEQfNkWk3Qp Btafs6VGKhm/83U4H9KWLygSzeS94b8qLqxQH2B+6GqhDhyFCzguDXwmPepjUP41WTv8 TQj35aW8eMNb4h1vWPROoxY7Ax4AXFPd7sOkA= Received: by 10.142.44.6 with SMTP id r6mr83736wfr.22.1285273040724; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.142.117.2 with SMTP id p2ls1505667wfc.1.p; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.128.13 with SMTP id a13mr407723wfd.5.1285273040198; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.128.13 with SMTP id a13mr407722wfd.5.1285273040180; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org (173-13-139-234-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.13.139.234]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id a8si1395619wfg.2.2010.09.23.13.17.20; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 173.13.139.234 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org) client-ip=173.13.139.234; Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OysEJ-0002bA-Br for lojban@googlegroups.com; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:19 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:19 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Alice - the xorlo version Message-ID: <20100923201719.GJ30871@digitalkingdom.org> References: <38be6f52-9655-414a-adbe-8eb94559fd5f@e34g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <20100923200001.GG30871@digitalkingdom.org> <20100923200644.GI30871@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Original-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 173.13.139.234 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org) smtp.mail=rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:15:08PM -0300, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > > > Certainly *exactly* the same thing over and over becomes > > un-interesting, but that doesn't feel like draining of a limited > > store of ability-to-be-interested at all. >=20 > It's not a draining of the ability to be interested in things in > general, just of the ability to be interested in that particular > thing. You start finding X boring when your interest in X has been > exhausted. You've run out of any "interest-in-X-ness" you may have > started with. That's really not how it feels to me at all. Things are generally interesting from the beginning, or not. -Robin --=20 http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegrou= ps.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= ?hl=3Den.