Comments on: Pumpkins and Pagans http://www.mothersky.com/2009/10/pumpkins-and-pagans/ Skywatch and Blog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:21:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Cynthia http://www.mothersky.com/2009/10/pumpkins-and-pagans/comment-page-1/#comment-847 Cynthia Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:15:39 +0000 http://mothersky.tod0.com/?p=854#comment-847 Thank you for this perennating insight. (I think am in love.) Even read at another time of year, I am amazed. Thank you for this perennating insight. (I think am in love.) Even read at another time of year, I am amazed.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.mothersky.com/2009/10/pumpkins-and-pagans/comment-page-1/#comment-423 Anonymous Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:02:42 +0000 http://mothersky.tod0.com/?p=854#comment-423 This subject needs a lot of exposure. People in America are subject to so much propaganda that we cannot see the forest for the billboards broadcasting distortion.<br /><br />We are a symbol-illiterate society; the power factions know this and broadcast subliminal messages through ancient (powerful) symbols. We can see this in the prevalent use of the Saturn symbology in corporate logos, for one example.<br /><br />Just as words are powerful in entrenching concepts and ideas into a civilization, so are graphic symbols. Walmart introduced it's solar logo in blue (trust) and is now switching it to the more powerful yellow (knowledge). Americans (and world citizens now) are exposed to these symbolic "elicitors" on a continually-repeating basis without the knowledge of the meaning behind the symbols.<br /><br />Candyce This subject needs a lot of exposure. People in America are subject to so much propaganda that we cannot see the forest for the billboards broadcasting distortion.

We are a symbol-illiterate society; the power factions know this and broadcast subliminal messages through ancient (powerful) symbols. We can see this in the prevalent use of the Saturn symbology in corporate logos, for one example.

Just as words are powerful in entrenching concepts and ideas into a civilization, so are graphic symbols. Walmart introduced it's solar logo in blue (trust) and is now switching it to the more powerful yellow (knowledge). Americans (and world citizens now) are exposed to these symbolic "elicitors" on a continually-repeating basis without the knowledge of the meaning behind the symbols.

Candyce

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.mothersky.com/2009/10/pumpkins-and-pagans/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Anonymous Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:07:05 +0000 http://mothersky.tod0.com/?p=854#comment-422 Thanks for this beautiful entry. Thanks for this beautiful entry.

]]> By: Jessica Murray http://www.mothersky.com/2009/10/pumpkins-and-pagans/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Jessica Murray Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:44:28 +0000 http://mothersky.tod0.com/?p=854#comment-421 Anne,<br />True. We are constantly being snookered by this limitation of language, and goes so deep that it shapes our perceptions (cf. the linguistic Sapir/Whorf premise).<br />Jessica Anne,
True. We are constantly being snookered by this limitation of language, and goes so deep that it shapes our perceptions (cf. the linguistic Sapir/Whorf premise).
Jessica

]]> By: Anne1Texas http://www.mothersky.com/2009/10/pumpkins-and-pagans/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Anne1Texas Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:59:56 +0000 http://mothersky.tod0.com/?p=854#comment-420 Thanks for this. I think, also, we must consider the influence of Aristotelian logic in further entrenching the polarization of Western 'thought.' The English language has become the seat of comfort for those who can only think in opposites--only poetry tries to escape the trap. Anne Thanks for this. I think, also, we must consider the influence of Aristotelian logic in further entrenching the polarization of Western 'thought.' The English language has become the seat of comfort for those who can only think in opposites–only poetry tries to escape the trap. Anne

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