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Started by Q. G. Pennyworth, July 13, 2015, 09:30:56 PM

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Freeky

Requia didn't leave and never come back.  She died and got reincarnated as PDS.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 15, 2015, 01:53:29 AM
Requia didn't leave and never come back.  She died and got reincarnated as PDS.

Except that Requia was more intelligent and less socially reprehensible.
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The Wizard Joseph

A marvelous observation and very well put!

I've noticed a certain trend with the rise of technology and human adaptation. We got used to each innovation within a generation and excel in each generation after as long as other factors allow the freedom to "play" with the new thing. Cars brought humans super land speed, for instance, and immediately after adoption of this Strange Thing the will and ability to use them accelerated swiftly indeed. We seem nearly unlimited in our adaptive capacity given a batch of young brought up in the newly changed environment. This, among other things, makes me truly wonder about our "limits" as adults and how much of it is self enforced by the notably "adult" traits like desiring comfort, stable routine, and giving ear to worry. ALL things that essentially encourage you to stay as and where you are. I think that we may often mistake this inertia for maturity and that this sort of "maturity" is partially responsible for much of our historical sorrows.

AND I THINK IT'S BREAKING AWAY FINALLY!!!

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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 15, 2015, 04:34:42 AM
A marvelous observation and very well put!

I've noticed a certain trend with the rise of technology and human adaptation. We got used to each innovation within a generation and excel in each generation after as long as other factors allow the freedom to "play" with the new thing. Cars brought humans super land speed, for instance, and immediately after adoption of this Strange Thing the will and ability to use them accelerated swiftly indeed. We seem nearly unlimited in our adaptive capacity given a batch of young brought up in the newly changed environment. This, among other things, makes me truly wonder about our "limits" as adults and how much of it is self enforced by the notably "adult" traits like desiring comfort, stable routine, and giving ear to worry. ALL things that essentially encourage you to stay as and where you are. I think that we may often mistake this inertia for maturity and that this sort of "maturity" is partially responsible for much of our historical sorrows.

AND I THINK IT'S BREAKING AWAY FINALLY!!!

:banana: :magick: :banana:
I LOVE THIS WIZARD ICON
DON'T JUDGE!

Agreed
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Quote from: Edward Longpork on July 14, 2015, 09:01:29 PM
Like, is there a point at which this neophilia stops being a good adaptation to the world?

No longer beneficial? Highly unlikely except in the even more unlikely event that we somehow reach a point where we've discovered literally everything.

No longer beneficent? It could potentially mutate into paleophobia; that's how I got a lot of my bad attitude.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


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Freeky

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 15, 2015, 02:26:32 AM
Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 15, 2015, 01:53:29 AM
Requia didn't leave and never come back.  She died and got reincarnated as PDS.

Except that Requia was more intelligent and less socially reprehensible.

I know, right?

P3nT4gR4m

Children have always been better at adapting to changes in the world than their parents. Probably at least part of the reason we're programmed to die after we've had them. Wasn't as noticable thousands of years ago when fuck all much changed from one century to the next. We hunted, we gathered, we slept in caves but, lately, the world is capable of becoming a completely different thing in the space of a couple of years. If it keeps going like this, sooner or later only babies are going to be able to function.

They'll just lie there, in their crib, calmly ordering a drone delivery of mushy apple sauce, online using a genetically engineered wifi organ while the rest of us walk around in a complete fucking future shocked daze. :lulz:

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Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on July 15, 2015, 01:47:08 PM
Children have always been better at adapting to changes in the world than their parents. Probably at least part of the reason we're programmed to die after we've had them. Wasn't as noticable thousands of years ago when fuck all much changed from one century to the next. We hunted, we gathered, we slept in caves but, lately, the world is capable of becoming a completely different thing in the space of a couple of years. If it keeps going like this, sooner or later only babies are going to be able to function.

They'll just lie there, in their crib, calmly ordering a drone delivery of mushy apple sauce, online using a genetically engineered wifi organ while the rest of us walk around in a complete fucking future shocked daze. :lulz:

:lulz: baby's first exo-suit, because if you're not walking by 5 months you're going to get left behind.
You can't get out backward.  You have to go forward to go back.. better press on! - Willie Wonka, PBUH

Life can be seen as a game with no reset button, no extra lives, and if the power goes out there is no restarting.  If that's all you see life as you are not long for this world, and never will get it.

"Ayn Rand never swung a hammer in her life and had serious dominance issues" - The Fountainhead

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation."
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality :lulz:

"You program the controller to do the thing, only it doesn't do the thing.  It does something else entirely, or nothing at all.  It's like voting."
- Billy, Aug 21st, 2019

"It's not even chaos anymore. It's BANAL."
- Doktor Hamish Howl

trippinprincezz13

Got caught up at work the other day and didn't get to finish reading this. So glad I came back to do so. That was fantastic! :mittens:
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This is great. It's occurred to me that I enjoy HPL in a totally different way than he would have been appreciated in his own time (or shortly after). This articulates that difference in perspective really well.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 15, 2015, 07:25:53 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 15, 2015, 02:26:32 AM
Quote from: Choppas an' Sluggas on July 15, 2015, 01:53:29 AM
Requia didn't leave and never come back.  She died and got reincarnated as PDS.

Except that Requia was more intelligent and less socially reprehensible.

I know, right?

I never said that racism wasn't bad or that Lovecraft himself wasn't racist or even that his narrators weren't racist; just that his narrators were demonstrably not only wrong but completely backwards. That's what the narrators are reacting to at the end, they're so racist that as much as anything else they're horrified hat the black or asian guy they encountered earlier in the story was right about something
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

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