BREAKING: MAN CHANGES GLASS OF WATER INTO AN OAK TREE!

[Adios]

About the OP.

It's art, designed to elicit a response from the viewer. It elicited humor from me, and since art is viewed from a personal level I am not wrong.

[LMNO]

Marcel Duchamp's "this is not a pipe" piece succinctly draws our attention to that.

Heh.  That's one for the "Misattributed Quotes" thread.  Extra funny because the image url has "Magritte" in it.

Also,

[Jasper]

Apple apple farthing stamp?

I have changed your sentence into the following sentence:  FRANK ZAPPA IS A MUSICAL GENIUS AND I LOVES HIM DEARLY.

While you will notice that your original words have not changed, the entire content is now different.  You're welcome.

That made me laugh and want to punch a leukemia patient at the same time.

[Cramulus]

Marcel Duchamp's "this is not a pipe" piece succinctly draws our attention to that.

Heh.  That's one for the "Misattributed Quotes" thread.  Extra funny because the image url has "Magritte" in it.

d'oh! yeah I got my surrealists/dadaists mixed up thar 

Or they could just use a dictionary.  People who are too stupid to learn the definitions of the words they repeat deserve everything they get, good and hard.  Fact is, it's the demagogues that misuse these words in the same manner - basically speaking - as the OP that have caused half of these problems.  Deciding that words don't actually mean anything furthers their cause.

so no effort should be made to point out to people the ways that they are being manipulated? seems to play right into the evil Illuminati scheme, no?


I hope a skepticism of words is in people's minds as they wrestle with whether Julian Assange is a journalist or terrorist.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

About the OP.

It's art, designed to elicit a response from the viewer. It elicited humor from me, and since art is viewed from a personal level I am not wrong.

It made me want to punch a philosophy major, which is also not wrong.

[Adios]

About the OP.

It's art, designed to elicit a response from the viewer. It elicited humor from me, and since art is viewed from a personal level I am not wrong.

It made me want to punch a philosophy major, which is also not wrong.

It may even be more right! 

[Jasper]

Punching phil majors is NEVER wrong.

[hooplala]

Apple apple farthing stamp?

I have changed your sentence into the following sentence:  FRANK ZAPPA IS A MUSICAL GENIUS AND I LOVES HIM DEARLY.

While you will notice that your original words have not changed, the entire content is now different.  You're welcome.

That made me laugh and want to punch a leukemia patient at the same time.

Mission accomplished.

[AFK]

The OP made me want to buy them a better camera.  Or teach them how to use the focus function.  

[Requia ☣]

Hooray for René 

I find it absurd how much our brain just filters out as ''unimportant''.
As young infants we never did this. A conversation in this room was just as important as he dishwasher in the next. Sure before around 18-24 months we didn't have a measurable sense of self but our senses requiring outside input were superhuman. Yet if we experienced that sort of unfiltered input in adult life it'd fuck us up. Royally. It's a shame really. I'd love to experience that unfiltered input whist being self aware even if just for a moment. 

Who is by brain to make all these decisions as to what i am aware of at any one time? 

Because if it doesn't you get low functioning autism.

[Jasper]

Yup.

[Phox]

Or they could just use a dictionary.  People who are too stupid to learn the definitions of the words they repeat deserve everything they get, good and hard.  Fact is, it's the demagogues that misuse these words in the same manner - basically speaking - as the OP that have caused half of these problems.  Deciding that words don't actually mean anything furthers their cause.

so no effort should be made to point out to people the ways that they are being manipulated? seems to play right into the evil Illuminati scheme, no?


I hope a skepticism of words is in people's minds as they wrestle with whether Julian Assange is a journalist or terrorist.

I don't know about that, Cram. Words have specific meanings, and the words "terrorist" and "journalist" are no different. People shouldn't be wrestling with the meaning of the words, but the implications of Assange's actions, and whether they qualify as one or the other.

[hooplala]

Or they could just use a dictionary.  People who are too stupid to learn the definitions of the words they repeat deserve everything they get, good and hard.  Fact is, it's the demagogues that misuse these words in the same manner - basically speaking - as the OP that have caused half of these problems.  Deciding that words don't actually mean anything furthers their cause.

so no effort should be made to point out to people the ways that they are being manipulated? seems to play right into the evil Illuminati scheme, no?


I hope a skepticism of words is in people's minds as they wrestle with whether Julian Assange is a journalist or terrorist.

I don't know about that, Cram. Words have specific meanings, and the words "terrorist" and "journalist" are no different. People shouldn't be wrestling with the meaning of the words, but the implications of Assange's actions, and whether they qualify as one or the other.

That's the thing... a person can be both words at the same time.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

so no effort should be made to point out to people the ways that they are being manipulated? seems to play right into the evil Illuminati scheme, no?

When dealing with people like this - the bottom 40%¹ - you pretty much have to spell it out.

I hope a skepticism of words is in people's minds as they wrestle with whether Julian Assange is a journalist or terrorist.

No skepticism is required.  By any legal or literal definition, he's a journalist.  It's when you muddy up the language and the logic that he can be a "terrorist".

Same with stupid shit like "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".  It's apples and fucking oranges.  A freedom fighter is one who fights for freedom, regardless of means (the act of fighting for freedom, BTW, does not exonerate a person for crimes committed during that fight), and a terrorist is one who uses terror to attain his/her ends.  They can be the same person, but never the same thing from two different views.  It's like saying "one man's blue car is another man's fast car".

¹  "You know how stupid the average person is?  Well, by definition, half of them are dumber than THAT!"
- Orton Nenslo

[Phox]

Or they could just use a dictionary.  People who are too stupid to learn the definitions of the words they repeat deserve everything they get, good and hard.  Fact is, it's the demagogues that misuse these words in the same manner - basically speaking - as the OP that have caused half of these problems.  Deciding that words don't actually mean anything furthers their cause.

so no effort should be made to point out to people the ways that they are being manipulated? seems to play right into the evil Illuminati scheme, no?


I hope a skepticism of words is in people's minds as they wrestle with whether Julian Assange is a journalist or terrorist.

I don't know about that, Cram. Words have specific meanings, and the words "terrorist" and "journalist" are no different. People shouldn't be wrestling with the meaning of the words, but the implications of Assange's actions, and whether they qualify as one or the other.

That's the thing... a person can be both words at the same time.

Yes. That is true. But the meaning of the words isn't/shouldn't be the point of contention.