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Tue 14 Oct, 2008 04:48 pm
I have come across a strange phenomena in my time as an administrator, cataloguing items and books, particularly in the arts/education industry.
Often items (maybe cassettes or vinyls or scripts) are generated and utilized during compulsive (OCD) routines developed by their creators or owners. I assert that some items are produced or used after/during particular events/actions, often as forms of solace or entertainment. One might return from a restaurant and relax in a chair with a book or CD, or perhaps urinate for the first time in days and recline with some kind of puzzle or drawing.
I assert that such routine actions taken by the owner/creator manifest upon the item an aura which induces the handler of the item to engage in a specific activity (ie the activity which the creator/owner engaged in as part of a routine involving the item).
For example, designers who eat apples regularly and lunch on BLT sandwiches and drink 3 capuccinos, would in my mind be the causation of a compulsion in both the designer and the owner of the item to excrete.
The notion of dusty libraries full of books made by grandieuse academics, alcoholics and compulsive lunchers sends me into a rage. The experiments I've had with supermarket bread demonstrate that there are definitely some foods that do not induce a life lived away from the crap stool.
Is this an ethical debate, or one of lifestyle, or religion, or subjugation, or the product of the written word, or a mirage?
@Doobah47,
I'm going to have to go with subjugation.
@TickTockMan,
I'll admit I'm struggling with your core-message. But having said that, I'd say it's a 'lifestyle' that is influenced by/influences the 'written word'
*kheth aims, he shoots, he misses!*
@Doobah47,
I'm also going to have to go with subjugation. I'm not clearly understanding your message, but it seems that you're saying we are slaves to the concrete/non-living items we interact with... maybe?
@Doobah47,
I'm with the rest of them. This thread is not so clear but does tend to lean toward the bodily functions... is it necessary?
@Justin,
Curse you Doobah47! Upon reading your post, or handling it with my eyes as it were, I've become incontinent.
Oh, the tyranny of it all.
@Doobah47,
Doobah47 wrote:
I assert that such routine actions taken by the owner/creator manifest upon the item an aura which induces the handler of the item to engage in a specific activity (ie the activity which the creator/owner engaged in as part of a routine involving the item).
Existence precedes essence.
@TickTockMan,
TickTockMan;28004 wrote:Curse you Doobah47! Upon reading your post, or handling it with my eyes as it were, I've become incontinent.
Oh, the tyranny of it all.
I completely agree, and laughed.
@Doobah47,
Eh, I'm kinda uncertain what this thread is about.
@franc,
franc;30998 wrote:Existence precedes essence.
In this case, existence preceedes excretion!
:flowers:
@Doobah47,
I had no idea I bumped a 2 year old thread. Education forum goes by very slow.
@Doobah47,
Doobah47;27796 wrote:I assert that such routine actions taken by the owner/creator manifest upon the item an aura which induces the handler of the item to engage in a specific activity (ie the activity which the creator/owner engaged in as part of a routine involving the item).
For example, designers who eat apples regularly and lunch on BLT sandwiches and drink 3 capuccinos, would in my mind be the causation of a compulsion in both the designer and the owner of the item to excrete.
He's right! And a fate even worse than dirty doo-doos awaits all those who dare open the pages of the dread
Necronomicon, written by the mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, who did worse - oh, so much worse! - than eat apples and sandwiches and drink too many cappuccinos!