new blog post - the venn diagram of where you're from and who you are

[dull boy]

I like cheese.

[Certain]

Originally Posted by dull boy

I like cheese.

I liked your original post and dislike this form of cowardice. Say what you think.

Open Mic posts are little more than that, anyway. We're not changing the world. We're thinking about it and hoping to expand our own horizons through those thoughts.

[dull boy]

Say what you think lol I think all manner of things, and not saying them has nothing to do with cowardice. Criticism is good, but I didn't care for how it came off, mostly because I tried to be somewhat interesting as opposed to diplomatic or something like that.

K?

Sorry. Saying k was mean. I'm gonna edit it out. K?

[Certain]

Diplomacy is irrelevant here. We're all assholes.

[dull boy]

Also, I mostly dislike cheese.

[Certain]

Yeah, I'm not that big a fan of cheese, either.

[dull boy]

I disagree yet again. Our personas and personalities here influence all who come in contact with them and I'd prefer to promote good over interesting. Real over entertaining.

But entertaining often gets the best of me when I'm making sentences for people to look at.

[veritas]

Describe.

[oats]

I'm confused. @dull boy I would genuinely appreciate any insight and feedback you have, regardless of how diplomatic it comes across as. I love cheese tbh.

[veritas]

Cheese is mere subterfuge at this point. He plays chess whilst you play checkers.

[dull boy]

It's nothing. I said something that had little to do with your piece directly and was more about how we write to masturbate and I called your writing masturbation, which was overly harsh, and by saying that I don't mean you're too pussy to handle it, but that it was just more crass than I wanted to project. I'm laying in bed thinking about how nearly all new literature or anything we see really was generally made with a purpose of consumption. We have thoughts and ideas, which are best at inception, and only muddled by our attempts to feed them to others. I think maybe our packaging of ideas and thoughts take away from personal revelations that could build ourselves into better ideas of ourselves for those we directly impact. Our maybe that's just me and I'm projecting. I hate how the internet used to be a world that existed at a desk in a corner that only existed when you were at that desk, and now it's constantly in my pocket. Leave me alone, I need to sleep.

[dull boy]

All of that is poorly constructed for public consumption. Half thoughts you'll only half get if you're in my brain. I mean, if someone has an eye on public review then the idea becomes one influenced by pride and all sorts of other nonsense. Whereas personal thought not concerned with anything is better and that giving our ideas to everyone only waters them down. There's too much of that these days. Too much in the sense that the balance is out of wack and I'm afraid of it's impact. I guess everything changes, tho, and this is the new normal and one day it will be old and some young kid from now will be talking then about how they're afraid of this or that and how it will impact yadayada.

Seriously. Stop. I need to sleep.

[oats]

Originally Posted by dull boy

It's nothing. I said something that had little to do with your piece directly and was more about how we write to masturbate and I called your writing masturbation, which was overly harsh, and by saying that I don't mean you're too pussy to handle it, but that it was just more crass than I wanted to project. I'm laying in bed thinking about how nearly all new literature or anything we see really was generally made with a purpose of consumption. We have thoughts and ideas, which are best at inception, and only muddled by our attempts to feed them to others. I think maybe our packaging of ideas and thoughts take away from personal revelations that could build ourselves into better ideas of ourselves for those we directly impact. Our maybe that's just me and I'm projecting. I hate how the internet used to be a world that existed at a desk in a corner that only existed when you were at that desk, and now it's constantly in my pocket. Leave me alone, I need to sleep.

I'm gonna write a post about this. No joke. Not because it's ironic to do so, but those are thoughts I've grappled with before, since my ultimate ambition is to write fiction for a living. Hard to avoid that mental teeter totter of whether or not your writing loses value when you push for it to be read (inorganically, like posting links on a message board).

I appreciate and respect your thoughts. I don't want people to read my shit and say yay you're awesome good job. I want discussion sparked, thoughts provoked, etc. Crass or not (I tend to think not), your input is excellent.

[big baby]

fucking gone @ everybody ignoring v. This nigga is seriously stupid. "HES PLAYING CHESS AND U R PLAYING CHESCKERKS" stfu dude. Smart people are conversing,a nd you're just not that smart, v. dumb ass nigga.

[dull boy]

http://www.iflscience.com/space/our-...s-map-and-name

The internet won't leave me alone.

I'm gonna write a story about it, so everyone can be like, 'yeah!' And they'll laugh 'cause it'll be funny, 'cause I'll talk to the internet like it's my wife in bed and she likes kicks me and shit or nags me about things wives nag Joe Blow guy I want to relate to me about. They'll be like, 'this guy has insight and I find his personality appealing' and then I'll become part of him and influence the people he influences sorta and it'll be all fucking life altering in some butterfly effect kinda deal. Shit yeah. Changing people. It's my life source. Be more like me 'cause I'm better than you, but only because I'm smarter and shit or something. Fuck.

[Certain]

dull boy, you sound a bit like Kurt Cobain. No one makes you share your music with the world. It's a choice. The hope is that the consumers, who must consume in order to be consumers, will relate and find meaning in your words. That's what oats attempted to do here, to put his own identity questions on the table for a further discussion or even internalized thought for those who read them. In doing so, he's opening up and getting that masturbatorial release but also allow others to see what they're missing.

Masturbating is healthy.

[dull boy]

Yeah.

I'm not saying it to say he shouldn't do it, or that's not what my initial thought was before I started getting all entertainery. I was more talking about, and what I'm usually talking about, is whether or not it's good for us as a culture/society/species to more often than not have our thoughts being produced (by ourselves) into something for others to hear and understand. I know that's just basic communication, but sometimes I wonder about our language and how we need to learn telepathy or something, but not so much in that we can hear our each other's thoughts, because that's still language, but feel each other's feels... lol

[dull boy]

I really just don't enjoy how we are. I think it's counter productive. Or maybe it isn't, and I'm just in the future. Or maybe I'm part of the productivity, naturally.

Mental illness be running rampant.

[Certain]

But is the exercise to convey our thoughts to the consumers or to enable the consumers to create their own thoughts?

[dull boy]

I'm falling asleep. Maybe tomorrow.