(ok, I have to get some crazy shit off my chest; beware!)
The medium is the message. The age old saying of "it's not what you say, it's how you say it". The way in which something i's presented means more than the actual presentation itself. What's that? Preposterous? Ah, but not so, observe the following simple question:
Why would you want to do that?
Simple question, to which there i's probably a simple answer, nothing complicated, just a simple plea for understanding. However, now observe the exact same sentence, with a slight change in tone:
Why would you want to do that?
See what that did? Exactly the same question, but suddenly seven letters and a question mark are now tilted fourty five degrees to the right. All of a sudden the question i's now given a snobbish personal tone: it i's no longer a general wish for understanding, but a personal slight against the person being asked. I didn't even actually change how it was spoken. I just changed how it was presented.
Let's take another example. I decide, for whatever weird reason, to buy you something you've wanted your entire life (I didn't say we was using reality here, just go wit it). It gets wrapped up nice, you receive it, you feel happy, everythings ok. But let's say instead I had put it in an old box, burried it, dug it up later, then gave it to you (but somehow it's still in perfect condition inside said box). Suddenly you're grossed put. You don't even want to know what'd inside the box anymore; you're just super mad at me for giving you an old stinky box. The way in which something is delivered means more than what i's being delivered.
This ties back to what kind of clothes we wear, how we talk, how we act: who or what we are pales in comparison to if we can look like those things, if we can act and look like we know what we're doing, then if we really are barely matters! Most of our entire society i's based on this simple fact.
And that i's one of the simple reasons why me and society don't mix. I simply don't cover things up with a nice bow or pretty tinsel or a kind lie, or "dress nicely" or change my life to fit the rest of the populace when me and those around me couldn't Care less; I am who I am, and youre gonna hear what I really think, not what you wanna hear (and those my social life goes down from there). If you can't take that, then fine. Don't ask my opinion... Or talk to me in general... Or ask me to change to become "better", Cause all you're gonna get i's pure blunt honesty.
(whoo, ok, got that off my chest, thx to those who stayed wit me thus far. I don't know where that came from, I just had to say it XP perhaps I shoulda put this in rants... Oops
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Edit: hth did a thumbs up get on this thread?
The medium is the message. The age old saying of "it's not what you say, it's how you say it". The way in which something i's presented means more than the actual presentation itself. What's that? Preposterous? Ah, but not so, observe the following simple question:
Why would you want to do that?
Simple question, to which there i's probably a simple answer, nothing complicated, just a simple plea for understanding. However, now observe the exact same sentence, with a slight change in tone:
Why would you want to do that?
See what that did? Exactly the same question, but suddenly seven letters and a question mark are now tilted fourty five degrees to the right. All of a sudden the question i's now given a snobbish personal tone: it i's no longer a general wish for understanding, but a personal slight against the person being asked. I didn't even actually change how it was spoken. I just changed how it was presented.
Let's take another example. I decide, for whatever weird reason, to buy you something you've wanted your entire life (I didn't say we was using reality here, just go wit it). It gets wrapped up nice, you receive it, you feel happy, everythings ok. But let's say instead I had put it in an old box, burried it, dug it up later, then gave it to you (but somehow it's still in perfect condition inside said box). Suddenly you're grossed put. You don't even want to know what'd inside the box anymore; you're just super mad at me for giving you an old stinky box. The way in which something is delivered means more than what i's being delivered.
This ties back to what kind of clothes we wear, how we talk, how we act: who or what we are pales in comparison to if we can look like those things, if we can act and look like we know what we're doing, then if we really are barely matters! Most of our entire society i's based on this simple fact.
And that i's one of the simple reasons why me and society don't mix. I simply don't cover things up with a nice bow or pretty tinsel or a kind lie, or "dress nicely" or change my life to fit the rest of the populace when me and those around me couldn't Care less; I am who I am, and youre gonna hear what I really think, not what you wanna hear (and those my social life goes down from there). If you can't take that, then fine. Don't ask my opinion... Or talk to me in general... Or ask me to change to become "better", Cause all you're gonna get i's pure blunt honesty.
(whoo, ok, got that off my chest, thx to those who stayed wit me thus far. I don't know where that came from, I just had to say it XP perhaps I shoulda put this in rants... Oops
)Edit: hth did a thumbs up get on this thread?
The most dangerous phrase ever uttered in all of minecraftia: "/give honeydew 46 64"
Imaginato disciplinis cognoscere modum; sciam quid et ingenii?
My learning and imagination know no bounds; why should my knowledge and abilities?
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Alchemy: [from the Moon to] Scorpio to man to eagle to the phoenix (female) [to the sun] back to Her consciousness outside the box she created.
Imaginato disciplinis cognoscere modum; sciam quid et ingenii?
My learning and imagination know no bounds; why should my knowledge and abilities?
Alchemy: [from the Moon to] Scorpio to man to eagle to the phoenix (female) [to the sun] back to Her consciousness outside the box she created.
