Author Topic: Emergence of Social Classes (Read 17436 times)

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #75 on:** March 01, 2004, 01:41:47 PM »

On the same idea, I find a lot of people tend to confuse being close minded and not changing your opinion when they want you to, and they always try to use it as leverage against you.

manunited4eva22 · « **Reply #76 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:10:44 PM »

Perhaps you are talking about your sister?

On another note, god do I need a spell checker.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #77 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:26:44 PM »

My sister made me think of it, yes. For those who don't know, my sister, who became a Jesus freak not too long ago, emailed me saying that she saw The Passion of the Christ and said that it changed her life and brought her closer to Jesus, and that she thought it could do the same for me. I politely replied that I had no spiritual interest in the movie and that if I saw it it would be purely for the historical backround. She responded with the claim that I was being close minded, to which I said I wasn't being closeminded, I had merely made up my mind on the issue. She again called me close minded, this time with the defense that I haven't read the Bible so I couldn't make an accurate opinion (although that's a very hypocritical statement since she hasn't read the Tora or the Koran and yet obviously chose Christianity over Judaism and Islam). I finally told her that all that should matter is that I'm as happy as I can be and my life is going great- whether or not I'm a Christian shouldn't affect anything. She's my sister, and I love her, and if being a devout Christian makes her happy, then that's great- but one thing I can't stand is when people try to push their beliefs on me.

In any case, I've gotten entirely off subject. Sorry.

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #78 on:** March 01, 2004, 02:50:36 PM »

Uh oh.......the girl in my class wore the "I

nerds" shirt again but I just happened to overhear a conversation she had that day during a fire-drill. It turns out her whole shirt is pretty much a joke. ;___;

Damn her to hell, I say.

We, I guess that doesn't really thro out what we've been saying (or what we started to say). Even if it is joke, it still shows that in my age grou, similar if not the same as the one MC first mentioned, there are different social classes like nerds and the like.

odifiend · « **Reply #79 on:** March 01, 2004, 03:10:07 PM »

Honestly I think the "I

nerds" shirt is completely selfish. It is a conspiracy to lure unsuspecting nerds to ask the owner of the shirt out so that the owner can coldly reject him in front of her friends or other "popular' people and feel better about herself. Well at least she won't resort to bolemia or anorexia.

to the "I

nerds" shirt.

girlfriends require money to keep them happy, therefore women = $$$
$$$ is the root of all evil. Therefore women are the root of all evil by identity. (A friend of mine did the proof better but I can't remember it all)

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #80 on:** March 01, 2004, 05:32:15 PM »

KnowsNothing: I think wearing the shirt as a joke implies even more social development than otherwise.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #81 on:** March 01, 2004, 05:40:46 PM »

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Originally posted by: odifiend
Therefore women are the root of all evil by identity. (A friend of mine did the proof better but I can't remember it all)

Yeah, guys are sooooooo much better!

^_^

odifiend · « **Reply #82 on:** March 01, 2004, 07:29:09 PM »

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KnowsNothing: I think wearing the shirt as a joke implies even more social development than otherwise.

Unless she's just following the A&F crowd (they make the shirt, right?). I think like everything this is a gray area. Maybe the girl M_C saw was socially conscious and likes knowing that somewhere on a video game forum, nerds are talking about her but likely she is a mindless drone who went, "Hey that manequin is wearing the shirt. The manequin is so beautiful. I can be beautiful too (or however else girls get fashion ideas)." Or she's in on the conspiracy.

P.S. if this thread every gets to 1000 posts, I call the 1000th which will be something to the effect of the t-shirt that launched a thousand posts.

Ms.Pikmin · « **Reply #83 on:** March 01, 2004, 08:02:47 PM »

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Originally posted by: odifiend

girlfriends require money to keep them happy, therefore women = $$$
$$$ is the root of all evil. Therefore women are the root of all evil by identity.

In honor of this quote I give you, sir, the one finger salute.

ThePerm · « **Reply #84 on:** March 01, 2004, 08:12:21 PM »

i havnt spent a dime on my girlfriend..but she doenst seem to care..i offer to get her stuff but she says no.

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #85 on:** March 02, 2004, 01:06:42 AM »

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i havnt spent a dime on my girlfriend..but she doenst seem to care..i offer to get her stuff but she says no.

I was going to say something sarcastic but then you said she talks.

jk...

Anyway, yeah, we're talking about close-mindedness now?

It's not about listening to or accepting new ideas, it's about considering them.

Jale · « **Reply #86 on:** March 02, 2004, 08:25:28 AM »

Close Mindedness. I know about somebody who was very narrow minded. He was a famous physicist who decades ago anounced that everybody should stop doing physics because everything had been discovered. This was before Quantum Mechanics, splitting the atom and a whole other load of stuff. Now that was narrow minded.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #87 on:** March 02, 2004, 10:22:55 AM »

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Unless she's just following the A&F crowd (they make the shirt, right?).

Not exactly- I believe Abercrombie and Fitch owns Hot Topic, but Hot Topic puts out the shirt itself.

Jale: I heard a very similar story- in the 1880's, I believe, the head of the US Patents Office resigned, saying everything that can be invented already has. This was before the car, computers, airplanes, etc, etc.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #88 on:** March 02, 2004, 04:16:32 PM »

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I was going to say something sarcastic but then you said she talks

Dis made me giggle.

Girls are awesome (especially you, Ms. Pikmin

). . . but I don't even technically have a girlfriend and they're already a pain in the ass. I'm sort of playing between two girls right now, something I never intended to happen, and though it's nice to be liked, I preferred it when no one seemed to like me.
One of the relationships is long distance, though, and we generally only ever talk over ze internet (didn't meet there, but yeah), and the other lives around here. I'm hoping the whole deal will work itself out, but I've got this feeling that it's going to end up in a big freaking mess.

Oh well. *goes and plays Nintendo*

The Omen · « **Reply #89 on:** March 03, 2004, 02:34:50 PM »

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I'm hoping the whole deal will work itself out, but I've got this feeling that it's going to end up in a big freaking mess.

It always does.......it always does.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #90 on:** April 04, 2004, 01:58:14 PM »

I hate to bring this back, but I just had something very interesting to add. I have a cousin who, by the descriptions I've heard from my entire family, is a full blown goth. As in black hair, black clothes, black lipstick, etc- interesting thing is, she's not even 12 and half yet (she'll be 13 in November). I'm not quite sure where she fits into this study of sorts, but I felt I had to bring it up.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #91 on:** April 04, 2004, 03:18:36 PM »

Is she fat? Goths are so funny.

Yeah, I've changed a whole lot since then, but I had already basically decided what sort of people I wanted to be around. I don't know if goths think in any way like me, or if they even think, but that may be the sort of position she's in.

Sorry for making fun of goths, but. . . too bad. Ha, goth.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #92 on:** April 04, 2004, 03:20:52 PM »

She's a vegetarian, too- bleck. I don't hate vegetarians, I just strongly disagree with any way of life that will not allow you to eat meat.

That just throws a bigger wrench in the system because, as I hear it, my cousin is serious about being a vegetarian, which I think is something that a kid even in high school wouldn't be apt to make.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #93 on:** April 04, 2004, 03:38:35 PM »

You need to act more like you look, Mr. Hippy...

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #94 on:** April 05, 2004, 03:49:13 PM »

My good friend is a vegetarian, and stuck with it from seventh grade until now, if not earlier. I heartily disagree with it, for about the same reason as mouse_clicker, but he certainly did it.

I enjoy. . . consuming meat products. . . had to word that carefully.

Berny · « **Reply #95 on:** April 06, 2004, 07:30:01 PM »

My school is like the pinnacle of vegan life. Seriously, I'm surpirsed the cafeteria still serves meat products. So many people who won't even drink milk.

*eats a massive slab of ham and washes it down with cheese*

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #96 on:** April 07, 2004, 08:42:21 AM »

**shudders at the thought of drinking cheese**

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #97 on:** April 07, 2004, 11:06:19 AM »

I was vegan for Lent...

You'd think there would be plenty of vegan restaurants in Berkeley, but they're not that many and all the vegan food is expensive... $5 for a salad, for heaven's sake.

I'd never be a vegan willingly for the retarded reasons they give. I couldn't care less if I kill animals in the most brutal manner imaginable.

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Author Topic: Emergence of Social Classes (Read 17436 times)