Comments on: Filters http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/filters Where Words Meet Sat, 17 May 2008 06:39:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Robert Jones http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/filters#comment-10597 Robert Jones Mon, 05 May 2008 15:21:26 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/filters#comment-10597 Gerard, you have directed attention to a critical area of writing that can enhance the life-likeness of individual characters and undrscore differences between all resident characters. Fine piece. Dave, your reference to the fundamentalist school reminds me of how many times I have heard someone on TV stating most emphatically that there is not one shred of evidence that supports the theory of evolution. And those who attempt to quash such theories as being JUST A THEORY, have apparently filtered out the scientific definition of a theory. RCJ Gerard, you have directed attention to a critical area of writing that can enhance the life-likeness of individual characters and undrscore differences between all resident characters. Fine piece.

Dave, your reference to the fundamentalist school reminds me of how many times I have heard someone on TV stating most emphatically that there is not one shred of evidence that supports the theory of evolution. And those who attempt to quash such theories as being JUST A THEORY, have apparently filtered out the scientific definition of a theory.
RCJ

]]> By: Dave Wilson http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/filters#comment-10585 Dave Wilson Mon, 05 May 2008 02:49:18 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/filters#comment-10585 I have to assume it's because it's Sunday that no one has responded much to this...this is such an important thing. You see people every day ignoring obvious things so that they won't break the mold of the world they live in - try the filter, for example, of a fundamentalist Christian school teaching kids that the world is only 6000 years old...and using their filters to remove centuries of evidence and fact...or politicians who believe they can filter the reality of their lives by a series of commercials...and succeeding. This is a WONDERFUL topic to make us all think... I have to assume it’s because it’s Sunday that no one has responded much to this…this is such an important thing. You see people every day ignoring obvious things so that they won’t break the mold of the world they live in - try the filter, for example, of a fundamentalist Christian school teaching kids that the world is only 6000 years old…and using their filters to remove centuries of evidence and fact…or politicians who believe they can filter the reality of their lives by a series of commercials…and succeeding.

This is a WONDERFUL topic to make us all think…

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/filters#comment-10580 Thomas Sullivan Sun, 04 May 2008 21:30:30 +0000 http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/filters#comment-10580 This one really bakes my bread. Meaty stuff. Hmmm. Bread...meaty -- call it a hero sandwich, given your focus on character. The word that came to mind for me was "prism," BTW. You cover a lot of ground from caricature to archetype. Maybe it caught me up because I just finished my next column dealing with some of the same elements. Naw. I would have been fascinated by this anyway. This one is a primer and advanced philosophy all in one. Thanks, ink bro. -- Sully This one really bakes my bread. Meaty stuff. Hmmm. Bread…meaty — call it a hero sandwich, given your focus on character. The word that came to mind for me was “prism,” BTW. You cover a lot of ground from caricature to archetype. Maybe it caught me up because I just finished my next column dealing with some of the same elements. Naw. I would have been fascinated by this anyway. This one is a primer and advanced philosophy all in one. Thanks, ink bro.

– Sully

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