Comments on: Eye Vey Zmeer http://danyaruttenberg.net/2006/11/29/eye-vey-zmir/ Danya Ruttenberg's website Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:04:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Kate http://danyaruttenberg.net/2006/11/29/eye-vey-zmir/#comment-12241 Kate Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:28:43 +0000 http://danyaruttenberg.net/2006/11/29/eye-vey-zmir/#comment-12241 To be all physiology-nerdy about it, it's not so surprising that lots of learning leads to more severe myopia: doing lots of close work (reading, writing, embroidery, etc) trains the muscles around the eye to position the lens for near vision, which in turn can cause distance vision to deteriorate. To be all physiology-nerdy about it, it’s not so surprising that lots of learning leads to more severe myopia: doing lots of close work (reading, writing, embroidery, etc) trains the muscles around the eye to position the lens for near vision, which in turn can cause distance vision to deteriorate.

]]> By: danya http://danyaruttenberg.net/2006/11/29/eye-vey-zmir/#comment-11997 danya Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:17:07 +0000 http://danyaruttenberg.net/2006/11/29/eye-vey-zmir/#comment-11997 Hey, Uri-- It's a nice drash, but I don't buy it. At least not from my subjectve (hmm postmodern: "lived," "embodied") experience of it, anyway. I still prefer talking to people without. Hey, Uri–

It’s a nice drash, but I don’t buy it. At least not from my subjectve (hmm postmodern: “lived,” “embodied”) experience of it, anyway. I still prefer talking to people without.

]]> By: Uri Cohen http://danyaruttenberg.net/2006/11/29/eye-vey-zmir/#comment-11995 Uri Cohen Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:59:43 +0000 http://danyaruttenberg.net/2006/11/29/eye-vey-zmir/#comment-11995 It doesn't bother me that "there's a filter between me and the rest of the world." Look at it this way -- our inescapable subjectivity puts a mental filter up anyway. So having a physical filter can be a reminder that we're not objective (despite what it may seem), and that everything we say deserves a qualifier -- at least to ourselves -- that "This is just my point of view." Or, in the immortal words of Dennis Miller, "Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." This concludes my postmodern perspective on glasses. Take it or leave it. It's just my point of view. Kol Tuv, Uri It doesn’t bother me that “there’s a filter between me and the rest of the world.” Look at it this way — our inescapable subjectivity puts a mental filter up anyway. So having a physical filter can be a reminder that we’re not objective (despite what it may seem), and that everything we say deserves a qualifier — at least to ourselves — that “This is just my point of view.” Or, in the immortal words of Dennis Miller, “Of course, that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.”

This concludes my postmodern perspective on glasses. Take it or leave it. It’s just my point of view.

Kol Tuv,
Uri

]]> By: Will http://danyaruttenberg.net/2006/11/29/eye-vey-zmir/#comment-11948 Will Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:00:58 +0000 http://danyaruttenberg.net/2006/11/29/eye-vey-zmir/#comment-11948 "I was interested to note that despite recent years of squinting at Rashi script and badly xeroxed teeny tiny print of the Rishonim that get crammed into the back and side commentaries, only my distance vision has gotten worse. I wonder what that's about." I never needed glasses until after my first year of learning full-time in Israel -- for distance! (The eye doctor I went to here in the US, after testing my vision, cast me a worried look and said: "Oh my, I hope you're not driving!") When I mentioned what I'd been up that had caused my vision to deteriorate, she nodded and said something entirely reasonable about why reading small print should cause distance vision to deteroriate, but I can't for the life of me remember it. That was helpful, wasn't it? ;-) “I was interested to note that despite recent years of squinting at Rashi script and badly xeroxed teeny tiny print of the Rishonim that get crammed into the back and side commentaries, only my distance vision has gotten worse. I wonder what that’s about.”

I never needed glasses until after my first year of learning full-time in Israel — for distance! (The eye doctor I went to here in the US, after testing my vision, cast me a worried look and said: “Oh my, I hope you’re not driving!”) When I mentioned what I’d been up that had caused my vision to deteriorate, she nodded and said something entirely reasonable about why reading small print should cause distance vision to deteroriate, but I can’t for the life of me remember it. That was helpful, wasn’t it? ;-)

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