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Jun. 17th, 2007 02:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chu_totoro...I... talked. Online. For three hours. Having philosophical discussions. What is wrong with me. x_____X
It started with me and Venuti. Well, I guess it started with me and Melody. We were chatting idly about I don't even know what and touched on the subject of social ties and cliques (esp. @ Harker) and free-floatingness (that's me @ SHS haha) though it dwindled and died because she's still at Harker, obviously, and... still in a clique. Of sorts. Yeah.
So then I was thinking about how social ties define a person, because an achievement without acknowledgment just tastes sour in the mouth, and, well, is pretty empty, so I asked Venuti randomly as we were discussing the different types of cuteness as applied to foxes and coyotes and general coyote folktales (I forgot why)... what he thought defined a person's existence! And from there we went on. and on. and on. And it tied into Mao Tse Dong at some point at which we began discussing politics and the possible outcomes of the world and overpopulation, most of which we seem to agree on (the earth will never unite globally unless we have a common interplanetary enemy, and then only briefly), and tangent (colonization of other planets!) leads to tangent (if we ever make it) to tangent (possibility 2: mad struggle for resources and majority of humans die) and I remember covering a lot of WWII history and Thomas Malthus along with certain Modest Proposals and other stuff.
So that was about an hour. And it was past 12, and I was about to go to bed! Only then I happened to be talking to Joe, who asked me why I was still awake, so I tried to explain to him how philosophy turned into politics, and then suddenly we were dragged back to the philosophy part of the discussion all over again, because he had a decidedly different view, and we debated. Over factors that define human existence. For over an hour. We did come to some sort of agreement at the end, and also the additional agreement that the question was irrelevant in the long run, so then! We were going to bed. Only, in our coming to this conclusion we somehow touched on a different topic, going back to the cliques and the floating and the general idea of friends, and that went on until Louis asked me why I was staying up, and I was afraid I'd start getting into a discussion with him too and then it'd never end and I would never sleep. But at that point it was moving away from philosophy and more onto personal life, so it wasn't too bad, and we chatroomed for a bit before Joe finally left. For reals. After telling me about 20 times that he was about to go to bed. XD;
Still, 3 hours. That's pretty scary.
Oh well. A little healthy grinding of the brain never did anyone any harm. It forces you to think. Something a lot of people really need to do more of nowadays.
Whoever said you can't have serious discussions online doesn't fscking know what he's talking about.
It started with me and Venuti. Well, I guess it started with me and Melody. We were chatting idly about I don't even know what and touched on the subject of social ties and cliques (esp. @ Harker) and free-floatingness (that's me @ SHS haha) though it dwindled and died because she's still at Harker, obviously, and... still in a clique. Of sorts. Yeah.
So then I was thinking about how social ties define a person, because an achievement without acknowledgment just tastes sour in the mouth, and, well, is pretty empty, so I asked Venuti randomly as we were discussing the different types of cuteness as applied to foxes and coyotes and general coyote folktales (I forgot why)... what he thought defined a person's existence! And from there we went on. and on. and on. And it tied into Mao Tse Dong at some point at which we began discussing politics and the possible outcomes of the world and overpopulation, most of which we seem to agree on (the earth will never unite globally unless we have a common interplanetary enemy, and then only briefly), and tangent (colonization of other planets!) leads to tangent (if we ever make it) to tangent (possibility 2: mad struggle for resources and majority of humans die) and I remember covering a lot of WWII history and Thomas Malthus along with certain Modest Proposals and other stuff.
So that was about an hour. And it was past 12, and I was about to go to bed! Only then I happened to be talking to Joe, who asked me why I was still awake, so I tried to explain to him how philosophy turned into politics, and then suddenly we were dragged back to the philosophy part of the discussion all over again, because he had a decidedly different view, and we debated. Over factors that define human existence. For over an hour. We did come to some sort of agreement at the end, and also the additional agreement that the question was irrelevant in the long run, so then! We were going to bed. Only, in our coming to this conclusion we somehow touched on a different topic, going back to the cliques and the floating and the general idea of friends, and that went on until Louis asked me why I was staying up, and I was afraid I'd start getting into a discussion with him too and then it'd never end and I would never sleep. But at that point it was moving away from philosophy and more onto personal life, so it wasn't too bad, and we chatroomed for a bit before Joe finally left. For reals. After telling me about 20 times that he was about to go to bed. XD;
Still, 3 hours. That's pretty scary.
Oh well. A little healthy grinding of the brain never did anyone any harm. It forces you to think. Something a lot of people really need to do more of nowadays.
Whoever said you can't have serious discussions online doesn't fscking know what he's talking about.
