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TheSchwA
United States248 Posts
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Creationism
China505 Posts
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MK
United States496 Posts
Game is fun. | ||
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KurtistheTurtle
United States1966 Posts
This 11 year olds comment really has people who play games up in flames? Video games really aren't a help to greater humanity. By "help" I mean advancement, but all these words and ideas are really murky by nature. On an individual level, they unite people and bring the victory/defeat feelings with them. Widescale, they take brainpower and countless hours away from pursuits that could better the lives of other people. I don't know him, and this next paragraph is my guess. He's been really lucky to gain an intellect and the background to use it. He wants to be a service to humanity (he's 11 years old. I'm sure more than one of us remembers the time when they wanted to change the world in a big way). With an intellect that large at an age that young, he has a uniquely clean filter that he can view the world through. We all realize this to some degree which give his words status and credibility. He says that what some people devote their lives to is a waste of time. But at the same time, he is 11. He can't understand some things yet. This all boils down to a debate about whether or not "having fun" is an acceptable way to spend so much time, and this reduces even further to worldwide cultural values that haven't had a reason to change yet. I've seen a couple different types of responses in this thread. To the ones who are putting down this 11 year old, why do you have to justify that gaming ISN'T a waste of time to yourself? This boy just insulted something you appreciate and the immediate anger + offense of the responses (however subtle) is telling of self-conditioning. Just because you've spent a lot of time doing something, abandoning it isn't a waste as long as you retain the lessons and skills you've gained from it. E-sports and video games have their place and serve a purpose for people. Even 4chan compared video games to other, accepted mediums of human ideas. We're at a generational bridge with the recent advent of video games. They serve little other purposes than entertainment right now, and have yet to be accepted by older generations. The problem with games is that they are so relatively unbalancing in time in energy to a great deal of people. This tells again of those deep underlying values the world shares right now, but I can't do that justice in the 10 minutes I've spent on this post because I've only just thought about it. But what do I really know about all this stuff, I'm a willing participant in it. Well anyway these are my thoughts on the matter. | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On June 10 2009 23:28 Hawk wrote: Most people also don't graduate from college at fucking 11 years old you idiot. When you're able to do something that most of your peers aren't doing for another decade, then you get to have your time in the spotlight too, ok? Because graduating from college at age 11 clearly means your opinion about what benefits humanity or how to educate children is worth something? They're entirely unrelated. It's like saying that winning the Nobel Prize in physics qualifies you to tell other guys how to approach women. They're unrelated topics and just because you're an absolute genius in one area does not mean your knowledge in another is just as good. | ||
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cz
United States3249 Posts
I wouldn't care what some guy who just graduated college at 22 said, so I don't necessarily care any more what this guy said. Except he has less life experience. | ||
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ShmotZ
United States581 Posts
Jk give that boy a starcraft cd | ||
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Biochemist
United States1008 Posts
On June 12 2009 07:52 ShmotZ wrote: next michael jackson o.o?+ Show Spoiler + Jk give that boy a starcraft cd I'm reasonably sure that his parents wouldn't allow him to use it  And he seems content not to question their decisions and opinions just yet. This gets me thinking though. In college you run into a lot of very opinionated professors, especially in fields like, say, political science. Is it a good idea to expose your super impressionable youngster to all these ideas before they've developed good critical thinking and reasoning skills? | ||
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