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but shouldn't the bottom line be "You may use your cellular device-"?


or should the whole sign be opposite
"CELL PHONE USAGE FORBIDDEN IN THIS ZONE"

 

Ha! You know me too well TZ!

let me remind you of 000's impression of you during the WOMP project A Fapcab Named Desire

Ratatosk's casting as LHX's comic relief sidekick in the Predicate ##### Gang, a renegade group of rebelling semantic subjectivists, was not only unfortunate as well as highly aggravating, spouting inane oneliners like a twelve year-old that just discovered the sentence-fragment "... that's what she said!":

LHX: "E-Prime, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!"
Ratatosk: ".. IN SOME SENSE!"
Cainad: "Dude .. I .. have a heart condition .."
Ratatosk: ".. MAYBE!"

[Here's a trailer of the Shining if it was a Feel Good movie:]

in case you haven't seen it,

Here's a trailer of the Shining if it was a Feel Good movie:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=e8CwuOIimYI

[Warning: Approaching Barstool Danger Zone]

I guess the way I see it is, no there is no One Objective Reality.  However, if we overlay our individual Reality Grids, to borrow from the PD, there is probably enough overlapping that we can safely say there is some actual territory that we are observing.  Again, clearly, not ALL of the territory.  Maybe not even a significant portion compared to the whole (whatever that may mean).  But there seems like there is some tangibility we can get our hands on.  Or maybe I'm being overly optimistic and idealistic.  

my point was, we might as well all be completely entirely wrong about the bit where our Grids overlap, or what i call theConsensus Reality, only one thing we can be certain about, is that this Consensus Reality is something that, for a long time, has worked Really Well.

Warning: Approaching Barstool Danger Zone

[CALVINBALL poster pack.]

It's been a while since we've had some new posters, no?



This is a brainstorm thread for the upcoming CALVINBALL poster pack.

The theme here is
-imposing / removing rules in public spaces
-creating the illusion (or reality!) that the reader is in the middle of a game

(we'll also include some miscellaneous meme bombs and fun stuff)

Please toss out any and all ideas. Discussion of ideas will lead to new and better ones. Then we'll make a sexy PDF.

(other calvinball comics located here, by the way)



[Official looking poster sporting a homeland security logo]
This is a designated area approved for cellular phone use



Do not step on cracks in this zone




You are being followed. Tag him before he tags you for +5 points.





If you stand in this spot long enough, you will see some very strange things.




Tell someone about this poster
+5 points




Congratulations! You've found Clue #3! The man in the green jacket will tell you what to do next.



Congradulations! You've found Clue #5! The man smoking a cigarette will tell you what to do next.



+5 points for putting up a new poster within 100 feet of this one






All the winners from the last game get to start off knowing this game's rules.
If you don't know the rules, do your best to figure them out.

'Our kinky games with Max Mosley': Girls tell of sex session with Grand Prix boss - but deny Nazi orgy

HAH!

I'm on it like vomit.

Nice work, Vex!

I dunno man, I think you might be grasping at straws here.

You address the archetypal trickster here, sniffing down a similar coyote trail to Lewis Hyde's musings.

But to spin Campbell into it - do you feel that the Trickster is just a mask for the Hero? Or is that irrelevant because everybody, even the trickster's dupes, are the Hero in some sense?

For people with a few minutes to kill:

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/Mirrorshots.jpg

Just Law of Fives, or on to something?

On to what?

The kid is on screen for mathmatically related durations and intervals?

I'm not quite sure what you're going for here.

Our progidal mod has returned, and bearing gifts!

I'm reminded of the talk in the Art of Memetics about the purpose of stress. Stress forces a group to stick together, move tightly, and form strong bonds. External threats (in hindsight) serve to strengthen a group and mortar them together.

Great stuff here, masked wanderer.

You Agents of Stife have a way of conceputalizing these things (like humor) as weapons to use in conflict. I think this piece is really useful to help conceptualize the oft-overlooked utility of humor. Good analysis, and very easy to read. Bravo!

Dunno... it seems to me that some aspects of personality might be genetic...

example?
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Asperger's Syndrome & Schizophrenia

I would like to state for the record, my firm belief that there is NO personality until the memes kick in. Don't believe me? Check out a newborn baby, maybe a week old or less, show me some personality traits that define it's character. Babies are pretty much just a clean slate on which the memeplex that becomes the person is scribbled. Once this starts it becomes self refining to a point but until you start giving a baby input it's nothing and it will grow up to be nothing until it gets input.

you're talking about Agency
(see also: Art of Memetics page 35)

and in general, I agree with you. At the core of a human being there's this sticky meme called "I Am", and there's just a bunch of garbage stuck to it. I don't subscribe to free will - I think people (read: a collection of shrapnel) do what their shrapnel tells them to do. If the bit of shrapnel which says "Be a good person" is lodged in my flesh, I'll act accordingly. but with no memes, there's no person. Which also means that you don't really have a will, just a bunch of influences and control mechanisms to choose from.

It sounds like it diminishes free will, but I don't see that as a threat to personal freedom. The AoM says that Freedom is just the ability to move within a network, even an internal one. And I can get behind that.

Without either shrapnel or scars there is no personality.

I'm not so sure.

I'm thinking of this kid I knew in high school who didn't have a TV in his house. He was certainly exposed to a lot less shrapnel than most. But it didn't seem to translate into having less personality.

Is there a way to live without being exposed to shrapnel? I mean, even if you're a monk who spends entire years copying the bible from inside your cell, (very few "scars") you still might have a sense of humor.

I think of poorly adjusted kids who spent their childhood in homeschool rather than socializing wiht peers... they weren't exposed to less shrapnel really, just different shrapnel.


To me, the relevant part of the shrapnel meme is
-we're exposed to all this crazy input (shrapnel) every minute of every day
-we also output all this crazy media (explode shrapnel) every time we talk to someone or react to something or even as just a face in the crowd
-so then I guess your scars are the overall effect that the shrapnel has had on you. The Odyssey hit the greeks pretty hard, and it scarred a lot of them. And Star Wars hit a lot of Americans. The war on terror has left a scar shaped like your opinion on the matter.


see I'm not sure that scars are a good extension. It makes sense because in the material world, explosions injure people. But I think that leaves us with a rather victim-like relationship with culture - that it's just constantly injuring us and leaving us battered, and we have to overcome. But it's kind of fatalistic. The majority of the shrapnel we're exposed to is benign. And it seems weird to classify even the good effects of shrapnel as "scars".

The shrapnel image (to me) implies that your internal state at any given time is this explosive, rapidly evolving soup of memes and ideas, history and fiction... The image of a scar is something that is permanent, unchanging, remaining forever.

I think certain bits of shrapnel leave scars (cultural imprinting, important life events), but ultimately you can change those things, right?