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"People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer

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These could be significantly improved by superimposing them over pictures of cats.

I don't even now why I'm replying but to say, "I couldn't have said it better!!!" ;) where is the tiled animated cats background and the cute music?

I'm thinking blinking text and a few marquis tags thrown in for good measure. Now I have a headache.

Can one of the eight people who unmodded this explain themselves?

EDIT: No, no. Quit downmodding me and explain why you upmodded that website. I'm just curious. It seems really dumb and really offtopic, both.

You're probably being downmodded because you wrote "unmodded" instead of "upmodded", which sounds like it means "downmodded" - reversing the meaning of your question.

Anyway, this article probably looks good to people who are looking for Truth, but don't want to spend a lot of time thinking bout it, hence bite-size truthiness. It does intrigue me that they are alphabetised...

I don't get it either.

For those who aren't familiar with the name, Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist (so take these truisms with a grain of salt): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer

I was first introduced to Holzer's work when I found the "Green Table" in the corner of a courtyard at UC San Diego. It's engraved with the following statement:

"IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY"

The horror, the horror.

The freakin after-images...

If you need a quick fix for the terrible style, paste this in your address bar, or run it via firebug:

javascript: function f(){s=document.body.style;s.backgroundColor="white";s.color="black";s.fontSize="10pt";s.fontFamily="arial";}f();

Even better: Skip the site entirely.

I want those 38 seconds back.

I stopped reading after:

"a man can't know what it is to be a mother"

That's true at a precise level. But more valuable is:

"a man can know what it is to be a parent"

and I think that's a much more valuable statement.

I pretty much recall this exact discussion happening during the VP debate.

Good thing I type all day then.

Accept loss as a universal force.

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