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From: Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
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Subject: Re: Quit Shopping For Fun
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 15:43:50 -0300
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Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:

> On 2024-05-18, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted:
>>>Quit Shopping For Fun
>>>Learn A Language
>>>Learn To Program
>>
>>   The acquisition of possessions is but vanity.
>>
>>   The study of tongues doth also prove vain in the end.
>>
>>   Even the mastery of the languages by which we instruct
>>   machines bringeth only a vapor that swiftly dissipates. 
>>
>>   All is vanity and grasping for the wind!
>
> Use it or lose it.  True learning is fun and playful and improves
> quality of life while we still have it.  If it were mere aquisition
> of mental possessions, i would quickly become bored with it.

That's pretty tricky as might be quite aware.  I think Stefan Ram is
precisely talking about True Learning.  Intellectual acquisition, I'm
afraid, is no different from other kinds of acquisition.  All is
grasping for the wind!