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Old 9-Dec-2007   #7
Mindcrime
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Originally Posted by Vance Wood
Using your conclusion digs another open pit in the semantics war this discussion has taken us down for years; specifically what is aesthetics.

When I say aesthetics I mean things that are considered pleasing to the eye (wich of course is subject to change).

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Originally Posted by Vance Wood
In my opinion the "Official Ruling" that bonsai is not art is nothing more than the rubber stamping of an opposing opinion by a bone-headed-narrow-minded-bureaucrat with the authority assigned to him/her by a bone-headed-narrow-minded association of bone-headed-narrow-minded-bureaucrats who in keeping a "stiff upper lip" slobber all over everything they touch. Finding themselves with the same capability as a cat who continually licks its back side (because it can), they make arbitrary rulings because------they can. Finding that this is a comfortable way to make judgements, with heads firmly planted between their respective limbs, little effort is made to remove themselves from this warm and fuzzy environment and actually make a significant contribution. Instead they surface occasionally with some off the wall pontification filled with esoteric bovine scatology. They give the verbal equivalent of the one finger salute to the most concise eloquent argument and continue the way they always have; assigning legal status to their own personal opinions.

Kind of like what we are doing.....difference is we are right.
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