Queen Bee's Random Thoughts

[Nonsense667]

We seriously need a thread to discuss the adds. I mean some go so far to straight up cuss you out into clicking them (not that I do). You know those "Why the fuck would you be watching porn?" ones. Anyone remember that awful looking "Gay MMO!" one a while back? That thing looked so terrible. XD And then there are the "Highly controversial words that INSTANTLY make ANY WOMAN CRAVE COCK." XD Good for a laugh if nothing else. I just find myself wondering if the site it will bring you to is at all related, or if it will just be viagra or something.

[Queen Bee]

Yeah, they need to get a deal with a better ad company.

 

Random thought of the day:

 

If humans had tails, would we wear them shaved, like women shave their legs, or would we grow out the hair long and style it? I don't know which one I'd do...

[thesapien]

Why does LL have an adult section when all members are supposedly over 18? The ads show up in non-adult areas. What are the adults sections for???

[Guest GingerTom]

Ohhhh hairless tail--sexy.

[windpl]

Why does LL have an adult section when all members are supposedly over 18? The ads show up in non-adult areas. What are the adults sections for???

 

Because one of main reasons why ppl come to LL is porn and would be really pissed, having go through non porn stuff?

[Queen Bee]

Why does LL have an adult section when all members are supposedly over 18? The ads show up in non-adult areas. What are the adults sections for???

 

Not every adult wants to see pornographic material. I respect that. The adult section is for those of us who want to work on, trade and discuss adult (ie pornographic) mods. The rest of the site is for adults who want to mod but don't want those mods to be pornographic in nature.

[thesapien]

Why does LL have an adult section when all members are supposedly over 18? The ads show up in non-adult areas. What are the adults sections for???

Because one of main reasons why ppl come to LL is porn and would be really pissed' date=' having go through non porn stuff?

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That actually makes a lot of sense to me! I'm like, ohhh... that's why.

Not every adult wants to see pornographic material. I respect that. The adult section is for those of us who want to work on' date=' trade and discuss adult (ie pornographic) mods. The rest of the site is for adults who want to mod but don't want those mods to be pornographic in nature.

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Combined with windpl's explanation, yeah. Otherwise, I'm still thinking the ads are everpresent (without ABP plugin), showing in your face porn.

[Queen Bee]

Yeah, not a fan of how in-your-face it is. But apparently these are what they're sticking with. But I'm sorry, mods, I'm not clicking. Put an ad on there I trust, I'll click on that.

[Guest GingerTom]

I can't see the ads but I would turn them on for sex toys. How about Ashal contacting some of the toy companies?

[Queen Bee]

Or legit translated hentai games for purchase! Oh, I'd so click on links like that!

[Guest GingerTom]

That's a good one also--there must be other advertisers he get who fit into an adult site. He could hire an advertising salesman to make phone calls/emails on commission. (Just some ideas to help the website.)

 

Any commission salesmen/woman on this site who would like to try?

[Queen Bee]

Random thought of the day:

 

If Norman Bates had a butler, would he call him Master Bates?

[Guest GingerTom]

No. He'd call him psycho--from a pay phone.

 

or

 

He'd just call him--from a pay phone.

 

or

 

He'd just call him 'Mother'.

 

(Did you really have to post this one? I can't stop now...help me...)

 

ZING! ZING! ZING!

[Queen Bee]

Random thought of the day:

 

Sometimes people are horrible and I wish our species would die. Can it be tomorrow already?

[Guest GingerTom]

We'll all get our wish around December 21st.

[thesapien]

Random thought of the day:

 

Sometimes people are horrible and I wish our species would die. Can it be tomorrow already?

 

I often have to remind myself that some people do actually think that about humans as a whole at times. It helps me understand why mass murders occur, war, and the like. Seriously, imagine someone thinking that but actually having a means to wipe some people off the planet. Funny or not, I can't even really argue against it since morality is based on shared agreements and experiences. I dunno, I'm just thinking out loud too.

[Queen Bee]

Random thought of the day:

 

Sometimes people are horrible and I wish our species would die. Can it be tomorrow already?

 

I often have to remind myself that some people do actually think that about humans as a whole at times. It helps me understand why mass murders occur' date=' war, and the like. Seriously, imagine someone thinking that but actually having a means to wipe some people off the planet. Funny or not, I can't even really argue against it since morality is based on shared agreements and experiences. I dunno, I'm just thinking out loud too.

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Except it's because of mass murders, wars and the like that I'm feeling like this. Sometimes I look at humanity and see no redeeming value. I start to think maybe it's time for nature to start over, maybe with a species less likely to be so utterly cruel to itself.

 

I'm just feeling really shitty, is all. Which is why Queen Bee needs to sleep. Things usually look better in the morning.

[thesapien]

I hear you. There are many things sick and wrong about us and probably only an equal amount healthy and right. I don't think you're "wrong". Logic can't decide such things. I can't justify why I tend to focus on the more positive aspects over the negative other than saying I prefer feeling the way I do. Really, I think it's not just humans though but all of nature. It's how the world is. Whatever replaced us at the top of the food chain would have good and evil elements, too. It's like you said, when you're feeling tired and down, maybe kind of beaten by life, that we have the more down attitude. But, I swear, if the the homo sapien race suicides itself, I'm out. I'll just start calling myself The NeoSapien or something.

 

Ever wonder though, it's interesting just how common it is to focus on these negative aspects of ourselves, so self critical, so much that we say stuff like humans are a virus on the planet and movie after movie shows a post-apocalyptic future or not apocalyptic then it's still some 1985 or Brave New World government fascism or something. If so many of us see our own failures and problems, that can't be so bad, right? I'm just saying I've known a lot of people who say things similar to what you said and that means we're not all just blindly lost in superficial entertainment or gun ho about war.

 

Yeah, I'm tired and drinking wine and probably rambling in the exact opposite manner.

[Guest GingerTom]

This is one of the reasons I TRY to be funny or amusing or even shocking sometimes. I find humans a disappointment as a species and have my days when I wish we could all start over with a new 'Adam and Eve'--they sure couldn't do any worse than this.

[Kashked]

Killing (both "criminal murder" and "legal war") is at an all time low, as are most of other kinds of violent criminality (rape etc.), standards of living are at an all time high and getting better, a majority of the worlds population is now living under an elected goverement, torture is outlawed in every country in the world (although some states don't follow their own laws...), much of the world has outlawed the death-pentalty, it is unlawful to discriminate people for their race/gender/class/caste/sexual preferences/whatever in most parts of the world, although there are still exceptions and these kind of laws can sometimes be hard to prove.

 

Despite having had the capacity for over 50 years we haven't nuked the hell out of the planet or had any global conflicts involving the planets great powers since the Korean War. Overall, there is peace pretty much everywhere. Contrast the number of international wars going on at the moment, which is 0, with any year within historic times. Granted, there are a whole bunch of rebellions, insurgencies and civil wars, but all the nations of the world (except Sudan and South Sudan, although I'm not sure if that is an actual declared war or not) are at peace with one another.

 

Basically we live in an golden age where technological, economic and cultural growth is unprecedented in human history. Now that doesn't mean that people can't be horrible, or feel horrible, on a personal level, but collectivly, as a species, we are on the right track.

 

And I'm saying this as a general pessimist. When you look at the actual statistics, and don't get caught up in the media image of the world (which as a rule only reports the negative) the world looks a lot different.

 

I would recomend Steven Pinker's "The better angels of our nature", haven't read it myself, but have heard talks by the author, or to check out some lectures by professor Hans Rosling (availible on Youtube) when you need an injection of belief in the human race.

 

Ever wonder though, it's interesting just how common it is to focus on these negative aspects of ourselves, so self critical, so much that we say stuff like humans are a virus on the planet and movie after movie shows a post-apocalyptic future or not apocalyptic then it's still some 1985 or Brave New World government fascism or something.

 

I think that has to do with the genre-conventions of science fiction. Any good sci-fi projects the fears and hopes of the present and sets it in a futuristic world where one can study the implications of different philosophies. Or that is atleast how I like my sci-fi.

[windpl]

Random thought of the day:

 

Sometimes people are horrible and I wish our species would die. Can it be tomorrow already?

 

I often have to remind myself that some people do actually think that about humans as a whole at times. It helps me understand why mass murders occur' date=' war, and the like. Seriously, imagine someone thinking that but actually having a means to wipe some people off the planet. Funny or not, I can't even really argue against it since morality is based on shared agreements and experiences. I dunno, I'm just thinking out loud too.

[/quote']

 

Except it's because of mass murders, wars and the like that I'm feeling like this. Sometimes I look at humanity and see no redeeming value. I start to think maybe it's time for nature to start over, maybe with a species less likely to be so utterly cruel to itself.

 

I'm just feeling really shitty, is all. Which is why Queen Bee needs to sleep. Things usually look better in the morning.

 

Sorry but "Nature" is not better.

[thesapien]

Kashked, I spent years thinking and arguing that way. Interesting, those were also the years I liked Steven Pinker, tho before he'd written the book you reference. Then I had a brief slip thinking the opposite, maybe lasted a year. Now, I see both and think it depends on what filters we're using to judge history as well as how selectively we pick and chose what locations and time periods to focus on. Sometimes, I think that there might be some sort of actual progress and not just cycles, however, I also think that all progress brings both greater goods and greater bads. Do the two go hand in hand? The more capacity we have for good, the more capacity we also seem to have for evil. Can we have acts of good in the absence of evil?

 

Sometimes I picture the person who tries their best not to kill in order to survive, you know, the vegan who only eats fallen fruit so as to not even kill a living plant. But then they pick up that apple that is now being eaten by micro organisms and all those little critters die a horrible death inside the digestion track unseen by the person trying not to do harm. See no evil...

 

This is one of the reasons I TRY to be funny or amusing or even shocking sometimes. I find humans a disappointment as a species and have my days when I wish we could all start over with a new 'Adam and Eve'--they sure couldn't do any worse than this.

 

Sometimes I think we incorrectly group individuals together as a species and then judge them all. We see some killer whales playing with seals before a horrible death or get bit by a bear and this taints our view in a wash. Did you know that some crows, not most, just some, can do brilliant things like figure out how to drop coins into a slot to get food while some other crows who are watching can learn to mimic the first crow while other crows never seem to even learn how to copy the behavior? Some crows can also take a straight wire, bent it up into a hook, then fish for food in small places. Maybe we learned fishing from birds! Or maybe some of us are also smart in the same ways? I dunno, but maybe when you're feeling down on the species as a whole, maybe think of the mozarts among bird singers, among other species, and even the mozarts among humans? Or mother teresas? Plug favorite examples?

 

I once saw a roommate's cat named Dutches (she was always so sweet and timid (and afraid of Murphy, the big house dog)) do something heroic. My cat, Dante, was cornered in the backyard with a high fence all around as Murphy had him blocked and was coming at him. Dante was hissing and spitting but panicking and not getting away. Dutches came out of nowhere, dashing across the yard to swat Murphy on the butt, get his attention, then dash away as he chased her, freeing Dante!

[Guest GingerTom]

Quote thesapian: Can we have acts of good in the absence of evil?

 

I've been through all those and the answer is 'no'. You can't be happy is you don't know what sadness is.

 

If you have a billion dollars and so does everyone else? Then you're not rich. (You can't be rich if there is no such thing as poor.)

 

You can't be 'good' if there is not 'evil'.

 

In other words: You can't win.

[Kashked]

Now, I see both and think it depends on what filters we're using to judge history as well as how selectively we pick and chose what locations and time periods to focus on. Sometimes, I think that there might be some sort of actual progress and not just cycles, however, I also think that all progress brings both greater goods and greater bads.

 

Well, the difficulty in any discussion such as this is to define "good" and "evil". My entire reasoning falls to pieces if read by a person of a radicly different set of values. A person with ascetic beliefs might find the increase in living-conditions abhorrent. A person with the belief that the truely great in humanity is only 'relesed' during times of conflict will dislike the long peace, etc.

 

Sometimes I picture the person who tries their best not to kill in order to survive, you know, the vegan who only eats fallen fruit so as to not even kill a living plant. But then they pick up that apple that is now being eaten by micro organisms and all those little critters die a horrible death inside the digestion track unseen by the person trying not to do harm. See no evil...

 

I often find it amusing that the people who hold vegan/vegetarian beliefs are often the same people who say we should "live more naturally" or "closer to nature" or whatever. They must have missed the parts in the documentaries where the lion jumps the gazelle and then slowly strangles it or the wolf cuts the achilles tendon of a moose before ripping it's throat open... Or hell, why not the squirell who sneaks into birds nests to take the eggs... We atleast try to be humane when we slaughter our food... One thing I actually forgot on my list, over the last 50 years or so animals have actually gotten a whole lot of rights.

 

Oh yeah, we abolished that whole slavery-thing too. Mauretania was the last country with legal slavery, I think they abolished it in 1984.

 

So yeah, have some faith in the human species. Maybe we will turn out more Star Trek than Mad Max in the end...

[Queen Bee]

*comes home, checks thread on phone, wall of replies. Goes on computer to type long, complicated response. Can't because "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows/system32/config/system".*

 

Really? REALLY?

 

Excuse me, I'm going to go drown myself, and then find a copy of WinXP that I don't have.