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WCDT: Independence Day Week (4 - 8 July, 1961-1965)
stoutfiles:
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--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 09 Jul 2011, 15:58 ---Just because YOU don't want them to debate doesn't mean you can belittle people having serious discussions.
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He wasn't belittling anyone, nor suggesting that the debate shouldn't continue - after all, as you point out yourself, he's contributed a lot (though I should remind you that the count includes any contributions to other parts of the forum as well). He was just pointing out that the level of seriousness has at times got too extreme in the last couple of days (which is the reason that I have had to step in to stop it getting too heated - please don't try to start that up again, which your personal remark is in danger of doing).
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I had interpreted it that he didn't approve of the conversation and was bashing them for taking the comic too seriously. Yes, it's just a comic, but one that everyone here reads daily and seems to take pretty seriously. I'll jump out of this thread though, my bad.
FrozenPeas:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 09 Jul 2011, 13:06 ---@FrozenPeas:
Thanks for the interesting thoughts. You are undoubtedly very close to the mark. A couple of random thoughts occurred to me while reading your post.
1. You can say: "It's just a webcomic" in so many ways - all depending. The objective could be a bona fide attempt to let the other person (or oneself) off the hook. We realize (been there /seen it many times) that a normally sane fellow forumite occasionally just can't let go a dearly held position. IOW it is a desperate attempt to find their reset button. It could also be a way to remind ourselves that contrary to the popular belief there is life outside QC. This does not necessarily contradict your interpretation, but whenever I say that (mostly to myself) it is always an act of worship to Jeph's storytelling. Narrativium at work?
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You’ve got an excellent point, here. Getting lost in the narrative is the other extreme, and that certainly doesn’t do anyone any good. If one never applies what one has learned, through interaction with the narrative, to one’s life, what good is the lesson? Everything in moderation and all that.
--- Quote --- 2. The back story of your research got me thinking. How can we be sure that we ('we' as in 'the posters of this forum') are not guinea pigs in your giant lab, now? Assuming that you're working towards your PhD. Or now that we're aware of our role as hamsters running inside a wheel, our usefulness as objects of research may be compromised? But, hey, we are saving you tons of money by giving you free research material! I will totally promise to be unaware of my labrat status, if you pay for beer and pizza at the end of the year party.
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Heh heh heh. I’m not actually doing my Ph.D. right now, but the work continues. Fear not, my research is confined to reading the work of others at this point, as I’ve recently started expanding my study into an entirely new area.
Anyhoo, rest assured, any mind games I decide to play are purely for my own amusement.
--- Quote from: wrwight on 09 Jul 2011, 13:24 ---I've gotten several times to the end of a reply, pointer hovering over the "Post" button, and decide what I have to say doesn't contribute to the discussion in a healthy manner, so I just delete it.
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I do that all the time, and I think it helps in the long run. An obnoxious side-effect of being human is that we don’t tend to really solidify our thoughts until we’ve expressed them, either through speech or writing—so if the deleted text helped me sort out my own thoughts, or see a fault that I hadn’t seen while the thought was floating around my head, then it’s done its job, even if no one else ever sees it.
jwhouk:
No, it was more that we all need to take a breather and remember to not take things so seriously.
And I'm gonna want Tuesday's comic as a framed original print for my birthday in October, thanks.
(My 44th birthday - do the math.)
Tova:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 09 Jul 2011, 17:50 ---And I'm gonna want Tuesday's comic as a framed original print for my birthday in October, thanks.
(My 44th birthday - do the math.)
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Mine will be Thursday's comic, but I think I'll wait to see what comic Jeph decides to do on that day before attaching any significance to it.
Method of Madness:
Mine'll be four weeks after J-dub's. (Not quite twenty years, though, mine is in late August)
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