Male and Female Imponderables - You & Me & the Bottle Makes Three
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UPDATED: Friday, January 12, 2007 13:59
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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
Perhaps the better question to ask is this: With the historical, continued technological advancement of the human race, are we equally capable of advancing ourselves socially fast enough to keep up with the pace of technology in order to preserve the best (i.e., idealized, beneficial) parts of ourselves as a species?
Sadly, I'm afraid the answer is no...
We spend so much time, money, and energy finding new and exciting ways to kill people. Instead of trying to understand people, we just hate and destroy. I feel the future is not a happy one...
Clowns to the left of me…
...Jokers to the right...
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One where we don’t blame video games and music for violent school shootings.
Thank you for this! It really pisses me off when people have to be all like "Oh they did this and this due to all the violent media they've been exposed to," But really, everyone in our country has been exposed to the exact same stuff!!! I mean for example, just because I watch Firefly doesn't mean I want to be like Jayne or Mal and just shoot people! But some people do that stuff whether or not they watch stuff with violence, and that shows that it is a violent person, not a violent society that causes that stuff.
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people no longer truly wish to invest the time to interact with people
This really bothers me too. Some people I know talk to their friends more on Myspace or on text messaging than in person. Then there are the people who just don't try. They might study relationships of people and whatnot, but not actually have any themselves.
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The question is, will anyone read mine?
The answer is yes!
You don't have to hide!!
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Firstly, MSG, while I appreciate the sentament and the cliche, it's really creepy cause "this too shall pass" is exactly, word for word what my 9th grade english teacher said to me for the same basic question.
Anyways...
Video games: argh, I play them but only as a substitution for human contact. If I could hang out with people all day (which during tech rehearsals, i essentially can) I would. but alas, not so much. So it's something to do i guess, and i do find adventure games at least an entertaining storytelling medium.
technology: yeah, this is true, we're as babes in this world, but somehow I don't really care. I have the greatest respect for the simpler skills, but as people never care whats gonna happen until it does, I dont really want to learn them. I figure, in the next 50 years humanity will either destroy itself (global war over the last of oil, global warming, etc) or save itself (new forms of energy, new inventions)... and either way technology will be a factor. We'll just have to see.
And my own silly problems: Odd day I had... for one thing, the ASB stalled my Firefly Club again, but this time its my fault: they were all set for me to present, and then I didnt show up because THEY DIDNT TELL ME... apparently they give you passes back to class, not passes TO the meeting... but since the ASB is about as reliable as jumping off a cliff and expecting to fly, I'm not going to risk cutting class to be told "nope, no meeting for you"... and besides, looks like they SHOULD have sent me a message or something and they didnt. I. Hate. Beuraucracy.
And then in yonder English, the annoying guy on ASB who informed me of much of the above was on my mind, and I combined what I was thinking about A Doll's House with him, and it came out rather insulting. What followed was an exchange between myself and my teacher, and could have been pulled from any high school drama... I was covering for myself, I was avoiding what I'd felt, all for the sake of the authority structure presented in front of me. For the first time (or at least it feels like it) I really felt like I didn't belong, that this life I lead, this school stuff is stifling my existance. Which ties nicely into my comment earlier: waiting around for my life to start.
And if anyone read this inane babble, I thank you.
/rant over
"But, these strong women characters?"
"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.
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Originally posted by yinyang:
I read it. The question is, will anyone read mine?
::feels like going to hide, too::
YES.
And I will have to get back to it. I'm so tired now, I can barely keep my eyes open. (We could always hide together, I guess.)
Quote:AAaaaand... I'm gonna have to get back to this, too, cuz, for the most part, I think I disagree.
Originally posted by Penguin:Quote:Sadly, I'm afraid the answer is no...
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
Perhaps the better question to ask is this: With the historical, continued technological advancement of the human race, are we equally capable of advancing ourselves socially fast enough to keep up with the pace of technology in order to preserve the best (i.e., idealized, beneficial) parts of ourselves as a species?
My bed is shouting sweet nothings at me. It apparently abandoned the subtlety involved in whispering, which means, along with this particular ramble, I ought to sleep now.
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Good night HK! Sleep well up north!
*goes to bed to dream of ninjas*
Clowns to the left of me… ...Jokers to the right...
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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:Quote:
Originally posted by yinyang:
I read it. The question is, will anyone read mine?
::feels like going to hide, too::
YES.
And I will have to get back to it. I'm so tired now, I can barely keep my eyes open. (We could always hide together, I guess.)
Have fun at the nighty-night place! Get lots of deep sleep now. And may your pillow be extra soft!
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Originally posted by Whitefall:
Which ties nicely into my comment earlier: waiting around for my life to start.
And if anyone read this inane babble, I thank you.
Don't feel bad, it's not your fault, but you just reminded me of that horrible new (?) John Mayer song, "Waiting on the World to Change." Although it doesn't really apply, and I'm pretty much in the same boat as far as it goes (if school would just end so I could get on with my life!), that's what it reminded me of.
Sorry you are having difficulties with the Firefly club and the bureaucracy.
I wish there was a Firefly club at my school... but, that would involve people... meeting at lunch (the most sacred of times because it's pretty much all the social interaction I can handle for a day, give or take)...
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This really bothers me too. Some people I know talk to their friends more on Myspace or on text messaging than in person. Then there are the people who just don't try. They might study relationships of people and whatnot, but not actually have any themselves.
My locker partner stays up until ridiculous hours to talk to her boyfriend on her cell phone. They hang out, too (although they go to different schools, as long as she's still dating the same one), but...
I don't know where I'm going with this. Thank you to all who did read or will read my stumblings and such. I'm going to go eat.
Oh, and this one's for all the troubled folk:
Toodles until tomorrow's ridiculously lengthy thread!
Can you tell I'm addlepated?
Edit: And, yo homies, Nathan Fillion has buzzed in on our technology Impoderable:
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The iPhone has been announced. Jodie Foster was right, "So beautiful. Should have sent a poet." I had no idea until yesterday how empty my life has been. I am but a husk, a brittle shell of a man desitined for mediocrity and speling mistakes. I am incomplete. iPhone, (sotto) you complete me. Two megapixels? Desktop class OS? One button merge calling? Point and pick voicemail? Leave it to the Brainiac 12's at Apple to give us scolling that is reminiscent of The Price is Right's big wheel. You princes of silicon, who first brought me the gift of drag and drop, now give unto me "the pinch". Oh, Apple. You had me at "slide to unlock".
Now, I really am leaving. (Right... <.< >.>)
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G'night YinYang and HK...
I think I'll hafta be headin' off for tonight as well. See y'all tomorrow, hopefully. 
EDIT: Hah, Nathan Fillion is discussing the same stuff as us....weird.
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HK, YinYang, Whitefall, Asorta, and Penguin,
I read every word. I enjoyed your comments. I am a night owl, and there are very few people that I know that are up at this time of the evening. It's nice to feel the technological connection to real people even if you are all a great distance away from me. I even feel connected to those day people that have posted earlier during the day. It doesn't replace the real life connections that I have, but it helps when they aren't awake. 
I don't think technology is the problem, but it's the commercialization that tries to convince people that they have to purchase an item in order to be happy. You have some good points, YinYang.
Most of us grew up with electronic things that had only one function. We have progressed to a point where every techno item has become a Swiss army knife. We have TVs that can broadcast network and cable shows, play and record - DVDs and VCR tapes, search the net, text message, and I'm sure soon to make phone calls. We have computers that do everything that a TV, phone, tape recorder, camera, video camera can do as well as all of the computer stull. We have cars that do so many techno features that I don't think I can list all of them. Do we need an iPhone? No. Will people buy them? Yes. Why? It's the army knife of phones.
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Originally posted by asortafairytale:
Hah, Nathan Fillion is discussing the same stuff as us....weird.
Yes, I started that topic because I am secretly Nathan Fillion...okay, not really. I knew he'd get a kick out of the iPhone though because his profile on Myspace states that he loves gadgets and the iPhone fits the bill.
Well, I'm going to follow suit and go to bed. New thread tomorrow? I look forward to it.
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First thoughts before diving in (in other words I ain't read nuthin' yet but gots to get this out before I go on.):
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Originally posted by JamesTheDark:
Technology: I have rudimentary understanding of sewing, cooking, and carpentry. If (when) the Zombie Apocalypse(tm) occurs, I'm fairly sure I'll be able to survive, if not comfortably. Still, that said, out of five people asked, usually only one has all five skills at any level. We are a society utterly dependant upon technologies we have no comprehension of the workings of. It's sad, and a bit dangerous. The amount of damage an EMP explosion would cause in an urban center is almost too much to concieve. Moreover, more widescale application of the same could cause starvation on a scale never before seen in history, as (in my estimation) 80% of the current population of North America hasn't the foggiest conception on how to feed themselves if the underpinnings of their society were to suddenly give way.
Don't be afraid, HK, I've got you.
Then again...
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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
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Oh and welcome YinYang to the Hopelessly Longwinded Support Group.
"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"
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