The Lord of the Flies - Child AVs and the Nursery Syndrome

Isn't the key word there OLD

OLD POSTS

OLD

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As in, not new.

Do you still believe and ascribe to everything you said and did when you were 18? Do you never change your mind about something? Are you that rigid?

Cause most of us aren't.

I don't see how that's relevant if both the new and old posts reflect the same thinking.

I don't know how that works. All I know that is what was said to me.

I have that T-shirt too, but I don't feel the need to keep wearing it.

I'd presume it works, cause you never WERE a man, so you can't have any 'man memories'. However, you WERE once a child, so you do have child memories. As you said, can't tweak what you never had, but perhaps can tweak what you did have, and didn't like the first time around?

I guess it's how much you get into your avatar.

And to Sable, too--sure, these things are bound to be different for different people. I don't question that.

For some of us, though, using a child avatar would NOT create 'memories of being a child', but instead, memories of....sitting in front of a keyboard, etc. I know that this is obvious to those of us who feel this way, but it might not be so obvious to those whose identification with their avatar is more extreme.

It's an interesting theory, and in general, everything to do with the human mind is pretty darned interesting.

Identity is less cut-and-dried than we prefer to believe, probably.

To you, I said this is what THEY told me. OK. I did not no way mean to imply it is applicable to everyone else. gessssh....

Isn't that what I said, too?

You seem to be objecting to something I wrote, but I'm puzzled as to what it is.

I am totally stealing that

I said some very stupid things in the internetz back in 1988, and again a few years later... and had somebody chase after me with it through the last half of the 90s...

So I'm very sensitive to people getting hounded over things they said in the past - regardless of whether I agree or disagree with what those people are presently saying. I try really hard (but sometimes fail) to hold people to what they're saying now, and not keep a grudge over what they might have said before.

This is a good attitude. Instead of becoming an internet bounty hunter.

I must say Gavin Hird proved this by not taking the opportunity to attack the messenger, stay on topic and respond to the message instead of rehashing old disagreements. Some people get it.

that is not what this thread is about. please try to stay on topic.


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FWIW my RL kitty has a big bushy tail. Not all cats have thin tails.

I'm talking about this thread, for instance:

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which is from August 2 of this year.

Is that so "old old old" as to be irrelevant? Her other threads, including the ones against dancing and marriage, are from about the same time.

Of course I don't ascribe to all the things I believed when I was 18, but I could still sign my name to things I said last month.

And yes, Jig could have changed her mind since then, but if she had, I would expect her to say something different, which she is not. It is the same BS with a different color ribbon. Take a look at the opening post of the thread I've mentioned and tell me she's changed her mind.

She says she has nothing against child avatars "per se" -- meaning, they are fine as long as no one uses them.

Jig's says she wants a dialog, but she wants the dialog to be about how wrong other people are.

Haven't you realised yet that Jig can change her mind between the start of a post and the end of it?

Pep (Assuming she had thought about what she thought in the first place?)

I suppose. Some of her OPs are a bit confusing.

I should know better than to step into threads like these, and yet I do, so I can't pretend to be any smarter.

Off-topic but on-title, I just wanted to feel smug about:
William Golding was a teacher at my senior school when he wrote 'The Lord Of The Flies' and the 'schoolboys' in the book were based on my predecessors. While I was at school I used to do my research and homework in the library, at the desk, where he used to write. Lol - I have to assume the chair had broken by then or that would be on the list too.

Its a different thread, so it belongs to itself, and not here.

That's interesting. Did the boys at the school seem to be aware of what Golding was saying about...well, human nature, but the human nature of public-school boys in particular? Was there self-consciousness about behaving in cruel or mob-like ways?

(Not that it's any of my business, but one can't help wondering.)

As one of the school's claims to fame "Lord Of The Flies" was sometimes, but not often, used as an example for whatever point was being made. Yes, generally, we were made 'aware' of what it meant but it was no big thing. I think we were too busy being teenagers to worry about mob rule Please also note that Bishop Wordsworth's school is state-run, not private.

PS: In this picture on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Headmastersoffice.JPG) the Carpenter library, where Fielding wrote the book (and I did my homework), is the ground-floor bay window.

A common misconception. A male Witch is a Witch, not a warlock.

I think you can blame an American sit-com from the 1960s for that one.

Wow...your state-run schools are certainly more atmospheric than our (American) state-run schools!

(I guess I'd made that false assumption, that it was 'a public school', out of a vague and uninformed conviction that Golding would have attended only such a school.)