Winning Words 1/16/09
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” (Picasso) Sometimes, that what I want…Answers! I have enough questions. The computer is my friend, in many ways, but what we all crave is a friend who will sit down with us and reflect in a human way. None of this, garbage in, garbage out, business. I’d like to sit down with Picasso and talk why he painted as he did. ;-) Jack
FROM PR J.S. IN MI: Computers are tools....just like a router and/or hammer. If you use them properly, you get something out of them. If you let them use you, you become a slave.
FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY: Even though computers are not substitute for friends, it does enable one to be in touch with those far away or inaccessible everyday. But they don't give me the answers I look for...in fact, sometimes they add to the questions!
FROM M.L. IN IL: that would be an interesting conversation. may i participate? as for computers, they make me feel very small, yet very connected. it's kinda like looking at the night sky.
FROM L.K. IN OH: Why don't we all sit down with God and thank him for the miracle of the Hudson. The occasional miracle gives rise to gratitude, acceptance, yet continued questioning.........yet who other than God can appear to be arbitrary and get away with it?
FROM R.I. IN BOSTON: A former associate where I worked, who didn't like computers, but pretended to know all about them, would always throw that phrase around, "garbage in, garbage out." He never got creative enough to try to put something better than "garbage" in. Regarding Picasso and why he painted as he did, that's one of the things you'll find out when "the veil is removed" (see yesterday's WW). FROM JACK: I think the "garbage" phrase simply means, you get out it what you put into it. That's like in general.
FROM MOLINER C.F.: Even Picasso didn't know why he painted the way
he did. He just did. It's called inspiration. So don't ask. (Doesn't the word DID look stupid? Who coined it? What was the reason? Sometimes we can drive ourselves crazy withh questions.)
FROM D.C. IN KANSAS: Did you know computers were human? Every so often you have to ask, "Are you saved?"
FROM P.H. IN MN: i love the story of how Picasso's home was robbed one day. he got a glimpse of the robbers. when the police came, he drew them a picture of the two robbers. the next day the police went out and arrested a bicycle and a sew machine!
FROM B.S. NEAR ORLANDO: I believe that knowing and interacting with anyone is clearly a positive.Going fishing with a brilliant person is far better than wasting time with a dumbkopt. Ya. Ya. Si,Si senor.
2 comments:
My understanding of why Picasso painted, in particular faces, the way he did (and I got this insight from reading what someone other than Picasso wrote) was that he was trying to get all the perspectives of the person's face on a flat surface. Particularly the nose and two eyeballs all one-dimensional instead of curving around the head. And then everything looks fragmented from the reality it represents. To me it seems like so much of our modern communication is all fragmented, my head really does begin to feel like a Picasso head, after a while nothing is in its regular place. The answer is in the feeling. Picasso's paintings are useless, they can only give me an answer about current life and cause me to wonder about exactly what kind of future is coming to us. Can I come sit down with you and Picasso, Pastor Freed, and find out why?
S.H. in MI
It was great to learn the answer that Picasso didn't know why he painted the way he did from one of your readers, Pastor Freed. That must mean we can all interpret for ourselves. I like his paintings because I don't have to go all around a person's head to see his/her other eye. Saves a lot of time. Also reading your WW on the computer each morning saves a lot of time--don't have to go over to your house at 5:30 or 6:00 to sit at the kitchen table and find out what the WW are for the day. I'm thinking maybe Picasso got his inspiration, put it on canvas, and then went on to his next one, the blue inspiration or something. Leaving us all to spend so much more time pondering him and his inspiration. I read your WW in about 12 seconds but then all day long they are moving in and out of my conscious thinking. The one-dimensional seeing is saving time, the computer visit is saving time but a whole lot of thinking time is being involved. No matter what style of communication, you can't change/stop people from being human beings and forming relationships.
Peace,
S.H. in MI
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