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Not at all, merely the preservation of our good name and quality.

You have no idea how immensely annoying it is when you're in the archive, racing the clock to reach a deadline on time, and get constantly interrupted by some (mostly) oldtimer who wants to look up his family history and wants some help. Then, when you explained him how to best do things, he just ignores whatever you told him and does it how he likes it, only to return later that he can't find anything.....

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I've been wondering about that by the way! What  exactly do Historians do for a living, you're rushing to beat a deadline, to what end? I always figured that when it comes to history, the time for deadlines is long past. tongue

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Not when you're at university wink

And that's a darn good question really. What do historians do? Most of them become teachers, journalists, authors, start working at a bank (apparently), work in musea, libraries or archives, some become diplomats, or politicians etc. Sadly enough, some don't even find a job, wich is why I plan on studying "restoration of art objects" after I graduated tongue

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Ah, the joys of education! How glad I am that I graduated two years ago. wink

How do you intend to combine those two studies? And if you would like to become a teacher, would that not require yet another education? tongue

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Nope, you can teach and do the educational program in 1 year.

And combining those two at that time is impossible as they're taught in 2 different cities and are full sized courses. Besides, when I started with history, I didn't know I wanted to do that course tongue I do combine history with an art-"minor" though...

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You'll probably go down in history yourself Wouter, as "that goddam belgian who used 21st century acrylics to 'restore' art" tongue

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acrylics are used in some cases tongue

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33 Reply by The Yell (edited by TheYell 11-Aug-2008 16:35:38)

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yikes

You got lower standards than my local Renfaire :roll:

Watch out for bodkin-wielding yanks in hand-stitched jerkins

Oh. Guess you would be wary of them anyhow

Do you use petroleum based glue too?

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Btw this is straight news

John edwards babymama told a friend she was voting for john edwards because he was willing to try new things

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Acrylics are sometimes used cause they don't change a lot in their shades of colour when they dry. And they're easy to remove. And no petroleum based glue is out of order.

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So you're a postmodernist art restorer. It's not whether it's an accurate reconstruction of the text, but the creation in the perception among observers of an apprehension of what they perceive to have been the original tongue

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Oh it is important to resemble the original one as good as possible, it's in that light we use acrylics. It's the perfect tool to show the artist's idea and at the same time, it's easy to remove and for experts to see where it's been patched up. It covers both needs of contemporary restorations: resembling the original, and easy distinctive and removable restorations.

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we better keep an eye on you before you "restore" Caravaggios with Smurf Blue Christs

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Einstein,
your list of jokes post was hilarious too! smile)

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Sure, I do Alan......

I thought not having enough "poo" to make a FINN is quite funny.

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OMG.....ALan, you WANT to be a teacher ??

Figures.  One year of additional Education.....then 5 years to Tenure.
Then you are safe in your socialist haven of higher indoctrination.

Wow.  Another member of academia to look ..............

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Then he has a lifetime of paintbynumber until he is fired for claiming to have found a Roman bath in Spa with a mural of dogs playing backgammon

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kinda loled deci

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this guy Einstein is like infatuated with obama lol

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"OMG.....ALan, you WANT to be a teacher ??
Figures.  One year of additional Education.....then 5 years to Tenure.
Then you are safe in your socialist haven of higher indoctrination.
Wow.  Another member of academia to look .............."

WTF? Have you even read what I said? I said history students end up teaching, but I think I made it clear I want to study restoration of art objects.. If you see even that as a socialist conspiracy you should defenatly seek some help, Mr. Joseph McCarthy.

BTW: I wanted to say that I think it's sad you can't take a joke on the marines and have to turn it around to make a finn joke out of it (wich won't work, europeans aren't that nationalistic tongue)

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I also have academic aspirations. I am planning to go in to political science with the strict intention of transforming it in to an empirical discipline, and introduce the light of reason to liberal arts academics by illustrating how the realist political approach is the right approach. I will devote my life to discrediting America's current consensus of things like natural rights, post-modernism, and anything normative (A state ought to do x). When America is intellectually healed and its politicians have a strictly goal orientated and empirical mind-set, our empire will be invincible for a long time. America is declining because it has too many intellectuals and powerful people committed to an ideology, and too few who are pragmatists. I shall save the Republic! I shall deliver us from the evil ideologues!

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an empirical approach is not valid for human-sciences, as you will see. The truth is always tainted by your vision on the subject. Positivism has been discredited for about 100 years now, and you won't be able to get it back. You even sound like Hitler in his "Mein Kampf"....

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> Alan Statham wrote:

> an empirical approach is not valid for human-sciences, as you will see. The truth is always tainted by your vision on the subject. Positivism has been discredited for about 100 years now, and you won't be able to get it back. You even sound like Hitler in his "Mein Kampf"....
I never said I was a positivist. I am actually a skeptic, but I can illustrate that the empirical method has a much higher probability of leading to a desired outcome than any other one. You can consider my epistemological beliefs to be close to Hume's. Oh, and epistemological skepticism != relativism.

As for positivism, I think you're off by at least 50 years. Positivism was pretty popular after WW2, thanks to inspiration by Bertrand Russell.

As for sounding like Hitler... for me national preservation justifies an imposing attitude.

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