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Thursday, January 17, 2008

होम

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there." - Elsie De Wolfe

"I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace." - Edward Weston

"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones." - Peter De Vries

"Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most." - Source Unknown

"One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge." - Mark Twain

"Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?" - Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

==The big debate for morons==
Lemme put it this way - is a hime somewhere you ''Live,'' or somewhere you ''stay?''
You can only choose one or the other. Answer below with your signature and on 25/12/2007 I'll check up the votes and see which wins! --[[User:Napster964Napster964]] ([[User talk:Napster964talk]]) 19:11, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
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Should that link be there?It almost seems like commercial.
What other relevant things are there to a home? --unsigned
Similarly, what else can be added to [[home]]? Ideas? [[User:GfloresGflores]] [[User Talk:GfloresTalk]] 21:54, 3 February 2006 (UTC):Actually I think it's a pretty weak article at present. There is a list of quotations which is not really informative and is necessarily arbitrary, because there are so many potential quotes which have the word "home" in them. Other than that, it's really just a dictionary definition, and most dictionaries do a better job of it, giving a wider range of meanings, for example. I was trying to think of how to improve it and wondered what someone would hope to find if they looked up "home" in an encyclopedia, but I couldn't really think of an occasion where they would want to! So, to answer the question, some ideas: a more complete dictionary definition with all the shades of meaning of home; or give up and relegate the article to Wictionary; or a more serious psychological/sociological/anthropological discussion about the concept of home; or describe Home in literature, poetry and song (which might sort out the quotes a bit, as examples). Not much help I'm afraid! [[User:BluewaveBluewave]] 17:38, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
==Better?==
I redid the article somewhat, not adding much information but taking out some irrelevant things like the off-topic [[South Park]] bit and making the article look nicer overall. Also added picture. --[[User:Ben TibbettsBen Tibbetts]] 02:44, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
*Maybe add that home is a place to sleep, rest and eat?*Maybe add that home is not only "where a person lives" but where many persons a family can live?*Would be good with a better picture (in PNG format), that is nicer and has windows, etc...:The microsoft paint picture makes it look like an [[Uncyclopedia]] entry to me.--[[User:IMFromKathleneIMFromKathlene]] 22:08, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
== Psychology ==
The article is self-contradictory: it says that the state of the home influences the behavior of the people in it and then says that the character of the people in the home influences the state of the home. Does the home influence its inhabitants or vice versa? Is there some sort of source for this? [[User:TheshibbolethTheshibboleth]] 08:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC):I would say a home influences its inhabitants '''while''' the inhabitants can modify the home as they see fit. Why must it be either/or? And no, I couldn't find a source for any of that stuff, but I would think at the least that it makes sense. Maybe I'll expand the psychology section with references if I have time... I'll put this on that pesky to-do list. [[Image:smile-tpvgames.gif]] [[User:Ben TibbettsBen Tibbetts]] 00:56, 27 June 2006 (UTC)::Update: While it is not a citing for the idea itself, adding an implied reference to ''[[Patch Adams (film)Patch Adams]]'' at least verifies the claim as being something other than original research. Now comes the question of whether it is POV or an accepted theory... I will look into this. [[User:Ben TibbettsBen Tibbetts]] 20:28, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
==Images==I vote for the deletion of the image - it lacks seriousness.--[[User:VsbVince]] 07:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
== Positive v Negative ==
It is a widely perceived idea that the word ‘home’ is always attached to the nice and safe things in ones life - of security, happiness and family orientation. However this may not always be the case. A woman whose partner is constantly beating her, a child who is being abused,a male who is having major marital problems may be fearful to go home and not subscribe to the safe and secure theory. Home can be a prison that people find themselves trapped in with no obvious way of escape except . . . homelessness. To develope this theory is this where the home influences the person? Does a child who is brought up under the abuse banner go on to use this on his or her children? Does a woman who suffers from domestic violence encourage her daughters to put up and shut up?
== none ==
this page is relatively as saccharine as dorothy in the wizard of oz. it would greatly benefit from a more anthropological and historical analysis of the term (etymology) and concept especially as it relates in the creation of places, nations, etc. structuralist (Levi-Strauss) and post-structuralist (Kristeva, Lyotard, Deleuze) thoughts must enter.:Yes, this page needs a lot of work. Care to improve it? Go right ahead. ~ [[User:ONUnicornONUnicorn]] ([[User talk:ONUnicornTalk]] / [[Special:Contributions/ONUnicornContribs]]) 22:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
== Shreshth91 ==
can we block this user? in his short life time, he's become such a gigantic asshole that i feel his wikipedia editing privlidges should be revoked. just read his bio- he's an arrogant ass!:Thank you for your frank appraisal of my self. I will try to improve myself. However, please try to cool down, and return after the block as a more mature person. --May the Force be with you! [[User:Shreshth91Shr]]e[[User talk:Shreshth91shth91]] 08:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
== Shouldn't we merge this with [[House]]? ==
I find it sort of awkward that Wikipedia has separate articles for [[House]] and [[Home]]. Should we merge this? —The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pagesunsigned]] comment was added by [[User:HighInAZHighInAZ]] ([[User talk:HighInAZtalk]] • [[Special:Contributions/HighInAZcontribs]]) 03:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC).:I think most people consider them to be two different things. A house is just a building. A home has many emotional concepts surrounding what it means to have one. --[[User:GeniacGeniac]] 08:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
== Other usages ==WRT use of 'home' by real-estate agents instead of 'house' - this is an empirical observation combined with a logical statement, it is not original research.[[User:EyedubyaEyedubya]] 21:08, 15 May 2007 (UTC):There's only one sentence in that portion that I really have a problem with, and that's
Clearly this is a marketing ploy, since a house that is for sale is either someone else's home (the vendor's or its sitting tenant's) or no-one's home, but not yet the home of a prospective purchaser.
Yes, it ''is'' an observation combined with a logical statement - but it's ''your'' observation and ''your'' logic, and while I agree with it completely, to me it is the very definition of [[WP:ORoriginal research]]. :As another example: [[Newton]] sat under an apple tree and saw that the apple fell towards the earth. He observed that the apple fell towards the center of the earth and from that proceeded to logically come up with a description of [[gravity]]. Had Wikipedia been around then, if he had come to Wikipedia and said "The apple falls. Clearly this is because of gravity." It would have been [[WP:OROriginal research]]. If, however, you can find something in a magazine, newspaper, book, or what-have-you that says that this is clearly a marketing ploy then you can quote that publication and source it and this article will be 1000x stronger. ~ ''[[User:ONUnicornONUnicorn]]''([[User talk:ONUnicornTalk]][[Special:Contributions/ONUnicornContribs]])[[WP:P&Sproblem solving]] 01:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

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