The Show Your Face (Post your Pic Thread) - Page 47

On July 01 2005 12:50 FrozenArbiter wrote:

Hi.

On July 01 2005 13:26 Hot_Bid wrote:
word cambium, fight those statistics

On June 07 2005 18:00 SickofLife wrote:


I signed up for a myspace account to post on my friend's account. I really loathe the site. That's the picture I used for myself, though. Can you believe some fucktard gave THAT a 7?

On July 01 2005 12:50 FrozenArbiter wrote:

Hi.

On July 10 2005 01:08 Meta wrote:

OMFG no fucking way. i pictured you as much less of a badass looking fellow

On May 03 2005 14:21 MoltkeWarding wrote:


As far as the internet goes, standards of "appropriateness" do not exist. I was not even making a serious statement in my original post, I was simply rationalizing the good which may have resulted from my earlier post. Yes, it had elements of irony and seriousness to it, and also my characteristic insensitivity, but none of it was meant as an insult.

Because I have no stake in this, the issue is not really important enough for me to bother about, but since you want to make the case against me, I feel equally obliged to present my own point of view:
Read the comments on p. 35 and 38. And read trident's responses. I opine that 1) The majority of those responses do not come anywhere close to standards of decency that Tien would lead us to believe exists in this thread. 2) At the risk of presumption, trident takes obvious satisfaction in such comments, hence his eager willingness to "share" more of these photos.

The problem I have with this are:
1) Boasting by exhibiting your girlfriend through the internet is the basest form of vanity. Because
a) Vanity is always sinful as a rule, in this case propagating approbation which feeds one's self-esteem
b) He is boasting of merits which aren't his own
c) The merits, where they do exist in the eyes of certain posters, appeal to the basest carnal instincts
d) It shows a disturbing disinterest in privacy

Now, none of these things are improper, and indeed they are, here and there, fairly common things in post-modern society.
However you must excuse my own little dream world consisting of bourgeois values and outdated ideals. It is because I react against these things that I hold that unique point of view: just because they are not "inappropriate" and "common" does not make them right; on the contrary, they may be symptoms of things very wrong in our society. I am not questioning freedom of choice. But freedom of choice implies that they may be either good or evil, and good choices seem in short supply these days precisely because people, in Kiekegaard's words, demand freedom of speech as substitute for freedom of thought which they rarely exercise. You are wrong in stating that I think my opinion to be of such esteem that it deserves to be flaunted before the prestigious members of tl.net. I've always been of the mind that quality of opinion is a self-evident thing, if it does have merit, it does not deserve to be chastised out of suspicion for their motives.

As for the opinion thing, I do not care for it, but just to point out what you said:


Implication: "No one cares what you think. STFU." Apparently over the course of a good sleep you've had a change of heart and felt that I'm perfectly right to express myself, for which I can only thank providence.

On July 10 2005 01:08 Meta wrote:

OMFG no fucking way. i pictured you as much less of a badass looking fellow