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Specter

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  1. 14 minutes ago, Eliminature said:

    Yep. I do it! Go take a look at my experiences and photographs if you haven't already. 

    I'll be posting more soon. I've been photographed peeing a grand total of twice in my life. Both experiences are uploaded. More is coming soon! 

    I cannot express how much that impresses, titillates and inspires awe in me

  2. What pisses me off (well, not really 'pisses me off', more like just something I roll my eyes at) is that people treat me differently on the road depending on what car I drive. Sometimes I use my car, which is a Honda FK8 Type R (here's an example https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/new-honda-civic-type-r-2020-made-more-fast-and-furious-by-mugen-79599) and sometimes I use my dad's car, which is a 2018 Bentley Continental GT (https://www.caradvice.com.au/646251/2018-bentley-continental-gt-pricing/) and usually, people give way to me a lot more when I use mine as opposed to my dad's. I don't really understand why, but they like to cut me off and are less likely to let me get on with my life when I'm driving my father's car/accompanying him somewhere. Makes no damn sense to me lmao

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  3. 22 minutes ago, MasterDarcy said:

    No.

    Curiously aggressive. Perhaps some introspection would be beneficial on your end?

    26 minutes ago, MasterDarcy said:

    Bringing Tesla, Aristotle and Plato up? I think you may be confusing "honestly" with "questioning". Those three aforementioned genuises questioned the way that the world was and asked the question " What if?". If they weren't inquisitive, and just "honest", they would've just said "This is awful", and moved on without adding anything more constructive to the narrative.

    Innovation? When the world is run by the Kardashians, etc. In a World we're there's more celebrity than stars. In a world where people are still listening to music, watching movies, enjoying art, from an era that is far gone, where exactly is this modern innovation? Take out technology and medicine and I'd say that people have stagnated.

    I believe you're confusing my argument with my associated parallels. I'm merely stating that an environment which promotes uncalled for inquisitiveness will also be an environment promoting uncalled for honesty. I'm saying that one goes with the other, and both are useful for humanity as a whole. As for the Kardashians, I can assure you that people like them hold very little sway in the grand scheme of things, actually. Being from the younger generation myself, I have heard their names mentioned roughly three times since 2014. Your point about people enjoying things that were created long ago, specifically art-related things like music and movies, does not prove that innovation has stagnated at all. I don't know how that can be a valid argument at all, actually -- you're basically saying that art, a field dependent entirely on people's subjective tastes, has to evolve in a linear fashion like science or technology, which is categorically false. Art by nature does not have a time stamp or a sell-by date; ask any artist or, indeed, any person who appreciates any kind of art. "Take out technology and medicine" ...Well. Those are enormous fields, constantly growing, changing and yes, innovating, and you cannot just count them out like that. It's like me saying, "I'll take a cheeseburger, hold the cheese, meat and half the bread." Makes very little sense, doesn't it? Even if we aren't talking technology or medicine, what about things like mathematics? We're getting closer and closer to solving the Riemann Hypothesis, the Collatz Conjecture, the Twin-Prime Conjecture and so many others... if you really think the world is stagnating, I'd recommend a subscription to the Scientific American and probably the Economist. 

  4. Just now, MasterDarcy said:

    If you ask people what they think of you, fine, let the honesty begin. But if you aren't asking, then you aren't seeking an opinion. That's probably what rapists think "Oh. She wants it, even if she didn't ask for it or request it".

    Everyone has opinions, but only a small few are worthy of recognition, as social media proves.

     

    The reason I eschew the attitude of "only give opinions when you are asked for them specifically" is that I believe it fosters a sort of closed-mindedness that is quite counterintuitive for the progression of civilization as a whole. Nobody really asked Tesla to come up with AC, or Aristotle to reject Plato's Theory of Forms in favor of his own idea, but without these key contributions, we wouldn't be where we are now. Innovation shouldn't need prompting, and in the same vein, neither should the voicing of opinions. As for your example of rape -- it sucks (and I know this literally firsthand) but even so, I'd much prefer this version of society to one with a 0% crime rate but no innovations or freedom of speech/thought. I doubt we'll ever see eye to eye on this, though, so let's cease and desist before a moderator smites us into oblivion. 

  5. @MasterDarcy Well, personally, I'd rather know what people think of me, be it good or bad, than have it hidden behind some façade of kindness. Your statement also poses the question of when an opinion has to be made, because, as is human nature, different people will always have different views regarding that. 

  6. I'm not really looking to start a fight here, but I think the 'strawberry generation' outlook applies here more than the 'opinionated generation'. Someone making a negative comment should not be such a big thing that it stirs up this much trouble. I'd much rather live in a world where people are honest about what they feel than one where they keep everything not 'positive' to themselves.

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