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Started by Don Coyote, September 18, 2011, 06:39:55 PM

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Don Coyote

Lately I've been questioning everything I've been watching and reading.

Questioning the real reason why those words were chosen, and to what end.

I watched Contagion, and it left me afraid of the message "the government will solve things even if it scrambling. it will solve the problems. All you have to do it wait while things collapse and then you will get a shot and barcode to show you got the shot and all will be alright"

I've been watching the G1 Transformers knowing that is designed to sell toys, and it doesn't scare me. I already know the angle. It says "look at how cool this guy is. Buy his toy."

I watch Ghost in the Shell and wonder what kind of society would make all those cybernetic implants so wide spread among normal people. What did they do to be given them.

I watched Kingdom of Heaven, and have to dismiss everything. There is too much 21th century in it. I see the message of "organized religion makes people crazy" and it is a good one, but is that all?

I'm rambling. I just spat this out.

Coyote, overthinking things maybe.

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Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 06:39:55 PM
Lately I've been questioning everything I've been watching and reading.

Questioning the real reason why those words were chosen, and to what end.

How would you know you've found the real reason?

And what makes you think there is only one purpose at play?
P E R   A S P E R A   A D   A S T R A

Don Coyote

Quote from: Net on September 19, 2011, 04:26:59 AM
Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 06:39:55 PM
Lately I've been questioning everything I've been watching and reading.

Questioning the real reason why those words were chosen, and to what end.

How would you know you've found the real reason?

And what makes you think there is only one purpose at play?

Oh and that too. Thanks for reminding me.

Reeducation

I've been questioning everything so much, that I think I'm going to dissappear at any second.
You know, like I'm too close at finding out something BIG.

Like let's take this "reality" we are living in. What the fuck is this shit?
Nobody knows.
Where is it? What is outside?
Am I really doing this thinking or is consciousness just a tool for the brain to double-check it's own actions?

Thought has to have a form BEFORE you can be aware of having that thought and that kind of stuff. On and on. I can't even stop thinking and that is quite scary sometimes. Because if YOU are the thinker, then how can't you stop thinking?

Who is the thinker? It can't be me, because I'm just observing here.
What if, at some point, I discover that I do not actually exist? That I'm just an illusion projected by the brain? Would that divide me by zero?

Sometimes I don't like questions. But that only makes me think: Why?
I am very calm

Cramulus

Quote from: Donald Coyote on September 18, 2011, 06:39:55 PM
I watch Ghost in the Shell and wonder what kind of society would make all those cybernetic implants so wide spread among normal people. What did they do to be given them.

what I recall from Ghost in the Shell is that people had to lease their implants from the government. Then they'd spend their extended longevity paying off the debt.

Once the civilization has reached the pace where you need cybernetic implants to compete in the job market, people will be pushing each other out of the way for them.


Doktor Howl

Quote from: Cramulus on September 19, 2011, 05:46:44 PM
Once the civilization has reached the pace where you need cybernetic implants to compete in the job market, people will be pushing each other out of the way for them.

This.  In the 80s, people scrambled to obtain cell phones, so that they would never, ever be left alone again.  Now they carry "smart" phones, so that they can be pestered by email 24/7.  Woe unto mankind when his phone is smarter than he...But I am a bit of a Luddite in that fashion.  I still believe that a person should be able to enjoy a bit of solitude without a ringtone shattering the moment.

RUN,  YOU FUCKING LEMMINGS!  RUN!  Gotta get the newest fastest sexiest best-ever.  Gotta chase that electronic rabbit, without ever considering what happens to the greyhounds at the track when they get too old to run.  Gotta DO, there's no time to BE. 

A wise old Spag once said, "There's more to life than increasing its speed."  I agree with him (except when it comes to driving), and I won't be getting any "implants".  I may be saddled with two cell phones, but I can "accidentally" leave them at home, or just inside, while I sit out back with a cheap cigar and a cup of chai...Which I presume I would be unable to do with some cheap gizmo actually embedded in my flesh.

This Future™ is a techie's heaven and a Holy Man's™ hell.

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I, for one, can hardly wait to be a robot.

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Iptuous on September 19, 2011, 06:44:32 PM
I, for one, can hardly wait to be a robot.

That's why we have American Idol.
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Elder Iptuous


Cramulus

I am down with becoming a robot.

Right now they've got science which can help the blind see. Within our lifetimes, they will have technology that will help the blind see better than us. We'll be jealous of their glowing LED-eyes, their thermal vision, their informative optical readouts....

Thing is, we're already robots ... and if you can manage it, it kicks ass. Many can't. To them, the technology seems like this wasteful decadence. Or an obstacle.

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Iptuous on September 19, 2011, 06:52:21 PM
i don't follow.


S'okay.  I was just riffing.  Nothing to see here.
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Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 19, 2011, 05:54:09 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on September 19, 2011, 05:46:44 PM
Once the civilization has reached the pace where you need cybernetic implants to compete in the job market, people will be pushing each other out of the way for them.

This.  In the 80s, people scrambled to obtain cell phones, so that they would never, ever be left alone again.  Now they carry "smart" phones, so that they can be pestered by email 24/7.  Woe unto mankind when his phone is smarter than he...But I am a bit of a Luddite in that fashion.  I still believe that a person should be able to enjoy a bit of solitude without a ringtone shattering the moment.

RUN,  YOU FUCKING LEMMINGS!  RUN!  Gotta get the newest fastest sexiest best-ever.  Gotta chase that electronic rabbit, without ever considering what happens to the greyhounds at the track when they get too old to run.  Gotta DO, there's no time to BE. 

A wise old Spag once said, "There's more to life than increasing its speed."  I agree with him (except when it comes to driving), and I won't be getting any "implants".  I may be saddled with two cell phones, but I can "accidentally" leave them at home, or just inside, while I sit out back with a cheap cigar and a cup of chai...Which I presume I would be unable to do with some cheap gizmo actually embedded in my flesh.

This Future™ is a techie's heaven and a Holy Man's™ hell.



I've been having a gradually creeping longing to move into a dirt hut in the middle of nowhere. I mean, I remember living without TV, or internet, or cell phones, or central heating. It wasn't at all bad. Plus, there was nothing to do all day except read, garden, go for walks, and make stuff with your hands.

It was pretty awesome.
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Luna

Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 19, 2011, 05:54:09 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on September 19, 2011, 05:46:44 PM
Once the civilization has reached the pace where you need cybernetic implants to compete in the job market, people will be pushing each other out of the way for them.

This.  In the 80s, people scrambled to obtain cell phones, so that they would never, ever be left alone again.  Now they carry "smart" phones, so that they can be pestered by email 24/7.  Woe unto mankind when his phone is smarter than he...But I am a bit of a Luddite in that fashion.  I still believe that a person should be able to enjoy a bit of solitude without a ringtone shattering the moment.

RUN,  YOU FUCKING LEMMINGS!  RUN!  Gotta get the newest fastest sexiest best-ever.  Gotta chase that electronic rabbit, without ever considering what happens to the greyhounds at the track when they get too old to run.  Gotta DO, there's no time to BE. 

A wise old Spag once said, "There's more to life than increasing its speed."  I agree with him (except when it comes to driving), and I won't be getting any "implants".  I may be saddled with two cell phones, but I can "accidentally" leave them at home, or just inside, while I sit out back with a cheap cigar and a cup of chai...Which I presume I would be unable to do with some cheap gizmo actually embedded in my flesh.

This Future™ is a techie's heaven and a Holy Man's™ hell.



I got too used to being plugged in 24/7.  Been trying to cut back.  It's not easy, though...
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I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Nigel on September 19, 2011, 08:14:00 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 19, 2011, 05:54:09 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on September 19, 2011, 05:46:44 PM
Once the civilization has reached the pace where you need cybernetic implants to compete in the job market, people will be pushing each other out of the way for them.

This.  In the 80s, people scrambled to obtain cell phones, so that they would never, ever be left alone again.  Now they carry "smart" phones, so that they can be pestered by email 24/7.  Woe unto mankind when his phone is smarter than he...But I am a bit of a Luddite in that fashion.  I still believe that a person should be able to enjoy a bit of solitude without a ringtone shattering the moment.

RUN,  YOU FUCKING LEMMINGS!  RUN!  Gotta get the newest fastest sexiest best-ever.  Gotta chase that electronic rabbit, without ever considering what happens to the greyhounds at the track when they get too old to run.  Gotta DO, there's no time to BE. 

A wise old Spag once said, "There's more to life than increasing its speed."  I agree with him (except when it comes to driving), and I won't be getting any "implants".  I may be saddled with two cell phones, but I can "accidentally" leave them at home, or just inside, while I sit out back with a cheap cigar and a cup of chai...Which I presume I would be unable to do with some cheap gizmo actually embedded in my flesh.

This Future™ is a techie's heaven and a Holy Man's™ hell.



I've been having a gradually creeping longing to move into a dirt hut in the middle of nowhere. I mean, I remember living without TV, or internet, or cell phones, or central heating. It wasn't at all bad. Plus, there was nothing to do all day except read, garden, go for walks, and make stuff with your hands.

It was pretty awesome.

You can't turn back the clock, and you can't dial down the speed on the treadmill.  It's no use dreaming about when we all lived in the forest and nobody lived anywhere else...This is now, and we gotta run, run, run until we collapse like draft horses in the traces.  But don't worry yourself over the fate of The Machine™...There's always another horse.  Hell, we have so much disposable labor these days that it would be a CRIME to not treat 'em as sacrificial gears, right?

You gotta be TOMORROW.  Not now, not "living in the moment", but rather running full tilt, headlong until you cross the finish line and get your prize.
Molon Lube