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Cheeks this is not a healthy way to be fulfilling your weekend. Get a girlfriend or a hobby. With your engineering background you should be able to build some killer sex machines to lure some in.
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Originally Posted by Drewbacca
IronPlant, I like this thread. It's an interesting thought but ends a bit nebulous, making it hard to come up with a response. Maybe some example ideas from you to get the ball rolling and give a better idea of what ou're looking for.
Also, your anticipation of hostile responses has turned you hostile. Debate and argument shouldn't be combative, and you not only anticipated hostility but essentially instigated it. I'm not accusing you or using this as a basis to insult you, we're homies, just pointing out that maybe part of the reason no one responds positively to threads of yours is because you expect it and lay down the foundation for people to jump right off topic.
Nah. I've tried making simple threads before and if it is about *this* kind of topic, the same five people troll it. And normally in the manner I put at the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkRyan
It is a pretty horrible thread. I might have been drinking when I made it, and did a pretty poor job of setting the topic up.
I like it though. I think it is one of my favorites. The power of different perspectives is interesting. Perspective is such a huge part of who we are. If your perspective changes, you might act like a completely different person. And you might treat people completely different.
Like say, people going from the perspective that some people are animals and some are not, to everyone is a person and that means you deserve a unquestionable amount of respect just for being human.
Or how about literature? The Bible is an obvious one. There are dozens and dozens of different perspectives to take on how to read it. But what about something less controversial? Like the Merchant of Venice? People do not interpret that play the way it was originally performed. The portrayal of Jews and Jews as villains has continually changed in the past 100 years. Which makes popular media kind of odd, considering that Shylock is the protovillian for a lot of media. Cartoon villains still have facial hair, big noses, etc. But that imagery has been separated from society's concept of "jews."
Wikipedia has a much better write up on Shylock than I can deliver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shylock
And if the meaning of a play can change, that opens up other media to questions. How will people 100 years from now interpret our popular media? Like say machines become intelligent or we start using cybernetic body parts. People will probably look at our sci-fi very differently. Like I watched Short Circuit as a very interesting "what if" movie. 100 years from now, people (or robots) may look back at that movie and think of Johnny Five as a hideous retarded child being exploited, and ban the movie. Or if we start fixing up war vets with cybernetic parts, who is to say that Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker will become much more sympathetic characters to that audience? That they will relate to them in ways me and you do not?
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I know what you're thinking, "Grievous doesn't have a big nose" No, but he did have the hunched walk, the shrouded cape, the hunched over neck, and holy fuck do you remember how he walked around at the start of revenge of the sith? Asshole looked like he was all about tieing some women to a train track.
I wish I woke up early enough for Professor Buttcheek's class
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Originally Posted by MarkRyan
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