anyone ever thought of this thing as the cheapening of human interaction? or of publishing? or maybe of both?
think about it.
any nancy boy or lady with a dream can go and publish and entire novel up here and someone will read it. no editing, no revising, no anything they don't want to do. just writing. proper punctuation optional. spelling check-ups optional. pretty much any formal writing style optional.
you can write about how much you hate it when your dog eats all of your chocolate even though she should know better. and then write about how you single-handedly polished off an entire bag of chips alone. the party sized bag.
you could write about the failings of american policy as a function of our failures in eating.
you could even write about a plan to oppress all the evangelicals.
whatever you want to write about it fair game and lent a sense of legitimacy by this site and others.
geezer, ever though about if that's a good thing or not? does nutella really need to be defamed like you did that one time? does the fart need to be elevated to the station of art in a sane world?
are you tired of the questions yet?!? hahaha.
just think on it for a bit, all.
and now, that is all.
think about it.
any nancy boy or lady with a dream can go and publish and entire novel up here and someone will read it. no editing, no revising, no anything they don't want to do. just writing. proper punctuation optional. spelling check-ups optional. pretty much any formal writing style optional.
you can write about how much you hate it when your dog eats all of your chocolate even though she should know better. and then write about how you single-handedly polished off an entire bag of chips alone. the party sized bag.
you could write about the failings of american policy as a function of our failures in eating.
you could even write about a plan to oppress all the evangelicals.
whatever you want to write about it fair game and lent a sense of legitimacy by this site and others.
geezer, ever though about if that's a good thing or not? does nutella really need to be defamed like you did that one time? does the fart need to be elevated to the station of art in a sane world?
are you tired of the questions yet?!? hahaha.
just think on it for a bit, all.
and now, that is all.
posted by Anonymous at
21:55
15 Comments:
you could be on to something there mystery/white hype.blogging has possibly cheapened literature as we know it.......
its probably the CIA trying to 'dumb' us up a bit more so we'll keep buying (their) cocaine.
the nutella incident......i know that photo will haunt me again one day.
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geezer squeezer!, at 11:51 AM
it haunts me still, lol.
but i really don't know what to think of this. it's really cool and all but the majority of what you see amounts to a public diary. or outlet for your stories. or a place to feel cool about you. while all of these are valid concerns and are great i don't know how this will affect publishing as we know it.
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Anonymous, at 12:00 PM
maybe.look,i love reading science fiction,issac asimov in particular.and regardless of how much banter i soak up on the internet,i return to these favourite books of mine like an addict.
but im 34.you could have a point with the latest generation.
BUT,my 15 year old internets all the time but when shes not,her heads in a book.maybe kids know that its babble/cheap quick entertainment?i used to think (stupidly) that kids were playing machines and didnt have an interesting thought between them.but the more that i interact with my daughter and her mates,the more im realising that that is a crock of plop.
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geezer squeezer!, at 12:39 PM
Well, it's better than reality tv!!!
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Maja, at 5:48 PM
amen to that, sister!!
i'm so sorry you guys have to deal with our frankenstinian creation.
at any rate, i am finding that a lot of sharp folks end up blogging to have a forum of ideas. however, i also see a lot of total crap blogs. ones about how great the partying lifestyle is. basically the kinds of blogs that come from people who haven't read a book outside of school and haven't watched pbs and LURVE reality programming.
it's a really mixed bag.
still, it's writing that really counts to i'd say that i'm going to have to modify my position.
blogging is good for developing writers to build their own mental pictures of how people really are but it's bad for established writers who will loose readership to the internet.
geezer, your girl is a smart thing and associates with her ilk. she's not going to be talking to dumb people- they would annoy her. so perhaps you haven't seen a good cross section. also, i've been seeing the dunces that the american school system has been putting out. the high school that i should have gone to doesn't fail many people. you literally have to make an effort to do badly. no effort is average and even a semblance of care will get you top marks. so that's probably making me bitter.
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Anonymous, at 12:36 PM
Yes...anything is better than reality TV! If there were a God (and there isn't!) that stuff wouldn't be on TV. So did I sound sufficiently convincing? I see Mr. GW Hype that you apparently have undergone some sort of change while my computer was off dancing with the nether-world. Hey...it's good to be missed...right back at you dude!
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sumo, at 6:40 PM
SUMO sumo! darlin,i once asked you if you were a 'god bother-er',and you said 'yes'.a god bother-er is someone who anoys the shit out of god by praying to him all the time.hence,believing in him (god).
but the above comment just made my day :)
haH! all this time i thought that you were religious.i found it confusing at times....
xoxox
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geezer squeezer!, at 1:43 AM
Geezer...I thought it meant the direct opposite...sorry. Yes that would be confusing. Uh...no sir...there is no religion in this heart...probably no blood either...heh heh heh!
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sumo, at 2:00 AM
yeah, only caffeine. precious, precious joe. lol.
now i really think that you all are nutters for not believing that there is something up there. there are just too many little random things in this world to not chalk them up to someone. little mistakes, too. like our last two elections. even so, you can't prove that any one god is THE one god. there could be a whole other society up there toying with us for all we know. all you can say is that, at some point, there was and is something up there.
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Anonymous, at 11:09 AM
i dont believe ANY of the bullshit religions that are around.
people couldnt explain 'stuff' and were soooooo superstisious.i find any of it hard to believe.
but i dont discount the fact that there could be something up there.just not the shit that were told is up there.
and also,the theory that we evolved from lumps of snot on a hot rock works for me too.
:)
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geezer squeezer!, at 12:13 PM
hehe. i love you but now i must destroy you!
go search for the probability of 54 nucleotides randomly assembling into a meaningful combination (aka a gene) and you will find that they are something in the range of five-billionths of a percent chance. basically it's zero. for 54. now think about the chances of 750,000 nucleotides or so- the smallest working genome we've found so far- AND have all of them ending up being meaningful, useful genes and parts of the genome and your chances drop to far, far below that. and that's just for your genes. that's not for the phospholipid bilayer or the nuclear membrane or the mitochondria or the lysosomes or the cytoplasm or anything else that that very first cell would need to have at the get-go. i'm inclined to say that we're here as a result of some other force acting on us.
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Anonymous, at 10:17 AM
'five-billionths of a percent chance.'
is still a chance....
;)
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geezer squeezer!, at 12:11 PM
I think you got a hold of some bad Mexican food sweetie. And Geezer...the snot on a hot rock killed me. There ain't nothing up there but atmosphere and void and run-amuck satelites. And some really bad ozone stuff going on.
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sumo, at 10:53 PM
sumo, at some point you do have to logically cede that we came from nothing. either the molecules in our bodies or ourselves directly. i'm not saying anything about the force involved other than that it is roughly the very first mention of the christian god, the muslim god, the hindu creation god and the rest: pure concentrated creation. past that first spark to start the big bang it may not have done anything else. but that matter did come from somewhere we can't even begin to explain.
and geezer, it's a chance but it's lower than your chance of waking up one day and suddenly being a chick with huge boobs. i mean, obviously you'd have nubbins!
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Anonymous, at 4:55 AM
and sumo, darlin, you blog won't load for me and hasn't for about a week. i don't know what's happening!!
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