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I'm doing an experiment.
« on: September 27, 2008, 09:59:45 PM »
Starting after this post, I will only post on Intensity in either images or Youtube videos to express what I am trying to say for the next week.
I came to this world with nothing
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everything else is just borrowed.

Fuck it, we'll do it live.

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2008, 10:02:01 PM »
Starting after this post, I will only post on Intensity in either images or Youtube videos to express what I am trying to say for the next week.

Why, have you forgotten how to type?

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2008, 10:04:08 PM »
Starting after this post, I will only post on Intensity in either images or Youtube videos to express what I am trying to say for the next week.

Why, have you forgotten how to type?

:smarty:
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everything else is just borrowed.

Fuck it, we'll do it live.

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2008, 11:59:45 PM »
:laugh:

stick with the images - i can't always be bothered with several minutes of vids.  ;)

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2008, 12:06:01 AM »
:laugh:

stick with the images - i can't always be bothered with several minutes of vids.  ;)
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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2008, 12:25:07 AM »
:laugh:

i'm going to love this thread.   :thumbup:

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2008, 06:50:10 AM »
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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2008, 09:57:28 AM »
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stick with the images - i can't always be bothered with several minutes of vids.  ;)

What she said.

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2008, 10:01:33 AM »
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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2008, 10:23:06 AM »
 :lol:  :good: :welcome:

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2008, 11:17:45 AM »
I'm blonde and I inhaled in high school, pictures help somedays.  :lol:




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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2008, 02:28:58 PM »
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stick with the images - i can't always be bothered with several minutes of vids.  ;)

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2008, 09:08:07 AM »
Well, its been over a week.  The experiment has been fun.  It's interesting trying to find a good image to express the things I want to express.  I've also realized the difficulty of trying to express complex thoughts when speaking only in pictures.  I've always been a very visual thinker, and thinking in pictures is supposedly an attribute that we Aspies posses.  Expressing my emotions have been easier with the pictures actually.  However, trying to convey the fact that I had a date with the "super cute girl" was near on impossible.  I realized some time back, that when I have an emotion, it's a mental image that flashes in my brain, I see it clearly.  I feel it of course, but it's in the conveyance that things become muddled.  For example, when I'm really happy, this is the image I get in my head:



I see myself dancing like an idiot.  How the hell are you supposed to convey that to other people, without just showing them the video.  Today, I feel like the opening scene of The Matrix Reloaded, when Neo kneels down, puts his hand toward the ground, and shoots up into the sky leaving a wave on the earth behind.  It's crazy, I know.  Nicola Tesla supposedly thought like this, hence my obsession with him.

What does all this mean though?  I don't know.  Language has made our species what we are...  I can only assume that the picture thinking is the more primal version... a gazelle doesn't think to itself, "Oh shit, a lion."  It sees a lion, sees death, and gets the fuck out of there.  And, if a picture truly is worth a thousand words, then our complex language isn't so complex after all...  are we just failing miserably to express the pictures in our heads?  What if you could easily convey the pictures in your head to another person, would it make for a much more meaningful and deep conversation?  I suppose it would depend on the way people perceive the pictures.  A lion to a gazelle is "Oh shit!" but a lion to another lion is "Who the fuck are you?"

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everything else is just borrowed.

Fuck it, we'll do it live.

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2008, 11:56:35 AM »
dunno about the more profound analysis of your experiment, but it was entertaining, amusing and thought-provoking, so  :thumbup: from me.

 :plus:

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Re: I'm doing an experiment.
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2008, 09:18:44 PM »
Well, its been over a week.  The experiment has been fun.  It's interesting trying to find a good image to express the things I want to express.  I've also realized the difficulty of trying to express complex thoughts when speaking only in pictures.  I've always been a very visual thinker, and thinking in pictures is supposedly an attribute that we Aspies posses.  Expressing my emotions have been easier with the pictures actually.  However, trying to convey the fact that I had a date with the "super cute girl" was near on impossible.  I realized some time back, that when I have an emotion, it's a mental image that flashes in my brain, I see it clearly.  I feel it of course, but it's in the conveyance that things become muddled.  For example, when I'm really happy, this is the image I get in my head:



I see myself dancing like an idiot.  How the hell are you supposed to convey that to other people, without just showing them the video.  Today, I feel like the opening scene of The Matrix Reloaded, when Neo kneels down, puts his hand toward the ground, and shoots up into the sky leaving a wave on the earth behind.  It's crazy, I know.  Nicola Tesla supposedly thought like this, hence my obsession with him.

What does all this mean though?  I don't know.  Language has made our species what we are...  I can only assume that the picture thinking is the more primal version... a gazelle doesn't think to itself, "Oh shit, a lion."  It sees a lion, sees death, and gets the fuck out of there.  And, if a picture truly is worth a thousand words, then our complex language isn't so complex after all...  are we just failing miserably to express the pictures in our heads?  What if you could easily convey the pictures in your head to another person, would it make for a much more meaningful and deep conversation?  I suppose it would depend on the way people perceive the pictures.  A lion to a gazelle is "Oh shit!" but a lion to another lion is "Who the fuck are you?"



Don't Stop, for some reason, this video makes my emotions come to the surface.   when  I first saw it I was by myself and it was killing me because even if I had been with someone else at the time, they wouldn't have had the same emotional connection that I did and I would have felt even more alone.   This is definitely a video that I can enjoy by myself. Thanks for posting.   
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