David-on-the-Lake has put up a post elevating the dot.
I'd like to point out some inconsistencies in his post, and then do my own variation.
1) He claims that the dot is perfectly round. Look at your screens, guys and gals. Many times, it is perfectly square. Perhaps his vision needs checking.
2) Not all the heavenly spheres are perfectly round. The stars and sun are in the plasma state, and as such, are quite different than a solid.
3) Yes, a dot signals finality, but multiple dots indicate lack of words on the part of the writer. (Yes, I'm to blame for this, too.)
4) Why would one want to bring long, awesome, beautiful words to a halt? Continue on, I say!
And with that, I bring you...
THE SMILE!
:)
Lots more cheerful than a simple dot.
Doesn't bring things to a grinding halt, but rather, keeps one going throughout the day.
Never final - it always suggests more.
Comes in many different varieties.
C'mon, who doesn't love a smile?
And best of all, it's perfectly round on the outside.
Most of the time.
:)
15 comments:
:) lol
you guys are hilarious
Wow, Dreamer, you've been posting up a storm!
I completely disagree with your critique of the dot post. It's the concept of dottiness that's at stake here, not the technical realities of today.
But the smile post redeems it. :)
Where to begin??
1) The dot preceded the pixelated world of screens by thousands of years and just because your creen might warp it a bit doesn;t take away from its fundamentaly perfect form.
2) The dot doesn not either have to be perfectly round to be a dot.
The fact is the world is an Olam Hamisgalgel...constantly in motion..nothing stays still..from rushing water..to spinning planets to living things..to decomposing matter..and nothing symbolizes movement more than the circle. Take any object and spin it for thousands of years and it'll become round..
So the dot is the perfect microcosm of this world..
Another manifestation is the fact that it DOES bring long and beautiful things to an end. We know that the world was expanding during Creation until Hashem Omal L'olumo Dai..Told the world enough. This world is an olam hatzimtzum..nothing is forever and so the dot performs the same function.
3) Multiple dots do not signal a lack of words..rather a bridge of sorts from my words to your mind...prodding you to think on..
The smile of which you're so fond of is just meant to conjure up an image of a real smile..and so it's true place is not in pixel or ink form..
Whereas the dot exists entirely on paper and screen and has no outside representation thus making it more perfect in its context.
Smiles are not meant to go on and on either..at least not while we're in galus...everything is in moderation.
And besides what good is a smiley face without dots
-)
Long live the dot!
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very interesting! Bring it on dreamer! you go girl!
Go David! That was perfect; exactly what I meant to say except I didn't want to risk boring people with my long dissertations again. But no one ever gets bored of DOTL. Hey, David On The Lake = DOT L! There must be something going on beyond the surface here...
-) to you, too. LOL.
(Dreamer- it's nothing personal. Really. But you did predestine us to disagree, so this is your fault. -P)
This reminds me of Shloime Gertner's song "Shmeychel" on his new release. It's a great, light song.
bm - hey, allow me a bit of fun, will ya? it's still adar!
DOT-L -
1) thousands of years? where did you grow up?
and even on the written paper, the dot is not perfectly round.
so there.
2) I know it doesn't have to be perfectly round. you were the one who made a whole deal about that!
3) prodding me to think on.... and you to stop thinking. it's actually not grammatically correct, especially in the middle of a sentence.
4) conjuring up images of smiles is a good thing. much better than conjuring up images of dots.
5) even in golus, we're to be happy. in adar, we're marbim b'simchah. in av, we're mimatim besimchah. still, we always have simcha. just depends how much.
and especcially when one's around people - hevei mikabel es kol adam bisever panim yafos.
the though the dots do add eyes to the smile, it still remains a smile without.
:)
L'chaim!
chaverah - thanks.
bm - i always knew you loved me.
:P
IAGN - didn't listen to that CD yet. besides, my yiddish is not that good.
Bas Melech...
you dont know how many people I've put to sleep with my dissertation there..
as for you dreamer...I will allow you 1 more week of fun..
lol
as for DOT-L purely coincidental...
I'm definitely for the smile!
dot.l - I don't believe in coincidence.
prag - glad SOMEBODY'S with me.
:)
and david - I think (not sure about this, though) that things were meant to go on. Kodem Hachet, adam and chava were supposed to live on. disobeying G-d's word brought death to the world, and that is when things stopped. as a matter of fact, shabbos only came after the chet.
just my thoughts on the matter...
I'm not sure about that..
We do find that the world was expanding..and Hashem held it back..before Adam..
At the same time we also find that the Midda of Yirah is always Tzimitzum..a holding back..and Chessed is an expansion..limitless...which is why they had to be apired together..
Bt originally Hashem wanted to use just Yirah..so that seems to contradict the first thing I brought down.
I dont know.
as i said, those were just my thoughts. don't know, either.
:)
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