What makes us so different?

[Professor Mu-Chao]

I have begun to wonder if we truly ever 'switch to a new map', as opposed to simply bringing another map up in a tab and focusing on it. Do we ever discard older maps completely?

I don't think so - when you learn something new, I think that experience is colored by the map you are using at the moment. For example, as I said in another thread, Illuminatus is a young adult book. I'm sure there are exceptions, but the people I have met who truly love that book (or certain others, like many of Hesse's) read it before they were 25. Re-reading it now, I still enjoy it as much as I originally did, perhaps because my concept of that book was colored by those previous maps... but if I experienced it now for the first time, I doubt it would have the same profound effect on my life.

Maybe that disregards nostalgia and makes other unwarranted assumptions, but take another example like how you feel about a person you have met in the past that you disliked because they did something that you did not like or agree with - I'm sure we all have one. The next time you meet that person, you are going to carry that feeling with you whether you have a new map or not - whether you still think that what they did was wrong. That person can do something that changes your feelings about them, but all that does is update that small portion of the map you are using - the next time you meet them, using a different map, those residual beliefs about that person will stand unless overturned again.

[LHX]

i have no idea what specifically makes this place different


for me it was just process of elimination

other places made me feel not interested

plus - this forum has people with the skill to build their own forums - so in the instances where it turned into a piece of shit, the resourceful people bounced and set up shop elsewhere



1. its useful
2. nobody is obliged to stay
3. there is appreciation and acknowledgment of effort
4. there is a low tolerance for bullshit
5. humor
6. love



in retrospect tho - having been away from the forum for a while - i find it strange that this forum is mostly pale-skinned people, and i rarely get this caliber of discussion with white folk in the offline world

[Manta Obscura]

What, exactly, makes us so different than every other modern counter culture that thinks it figured something out the rest of the masses didn't?

We have you.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I think the reason that we're different is that we can't agree on why we're different, and indeed, whether or not we are different, and whether or not that's meaningful. And I think some of us are okay with that, except sometimes.

This thread is six pages long now. The more you all disagree with this interpretation, the more supporting evidence I have for it. Enjoy.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What, exactly, makes us so different than every other modern counter culture that thinks it figured something out the rest of the masses didn't?

We have you.

Shit, best answer ever.

[Manta Obscura]

What, exactly, makes us so different than every other modern counter culture that thinks it figured something out the rest of the masses didn't?

We have you.

Shit, best answer ever.

[Doktor Howl]

every reply so far has been empty posturing.

the answer is simple: it's because we are right, and they are wrong.

Remember this?

Ho ho!

Dok,
Agrees, of course.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

shit, i've backslidden.

[Doktor Howl]

shit, i've backslidden.

REPENT!  THERE'S STILL TIME!

[BadBeast]

Bump. Lest we forget.

[Requia ☣]

What, exactly, makes us so different than every other modern counter culture that thinks it figured something out the rest of the masses didn't?

We have you.

Shit, best answer ever.

I never really understood that answer.  Is it supposed to mean that we're willing to question ourselves, or is it some we're all unique as individuals thing?

[BadBeast]

I haven't got a clue. Maybe it's both of those things. And so much more besides. That's what I think anyway.

[Triple Zero]

What, exactly, makes us so different than every other modern counter culture that thinks it figured something out the rest of the masses didn't?

We have you.

Shit, best answer ever.

I never really understood that answer.  Is it supposed to mean that we're willing to question ourselves, or is it some we're all unique as individuals thing?

No. Sorry Requia ... it's not us. It's you.