Thread: Technology's effects on society

i feel that morale is nature... and that it cannot be changed... [if you are familiar with my online persona then you'd probably understand why i feel this better...] it makes me feel lucky to have been reprocessed in this lyfe to be in a realization such...

but others say it's nurture... why is that? i'd like to find out whether or not there is a corelation between a beings purpose and a beings predisposition to reality... in a continuing lyfe-stream which extends over tyme, the predisposition does not exist [since tyme is arbitrary]... but rather if one is called such, it is refreshed at each renewal...

to doubleanti:
it's ok, we're not flaming each other, you don't need to change the subject. its a lively debate.
gotta sleep.................

oh, well good night, and sorry i inadvertently changed the subject...

speaking of which, where's garfield? he was the religious guy, and he would have a definitive declination to my belief that time is arbitrary wouldn't he?

Ok...first of all I realize that I have probably come accross diffrently than I feel so I should probably try and clear that up.

I do not dislike the technology, on he conrary I think it is all a wonderful thing and I wouldn't give it up. The problem I have with it is simply how fast we've chosen to move with it. Essentially our lives, and the way we get information, have sped up at the same rate as processors have, and that I believe to be very bad.

I misunderstood what you were saying about PDA's, you are totally right they are awsome! lol I want one.

A blank expression could mean anything, like suprise, shock, fear, excitement, etc. I don't know what the 7-year-old kid was thinking at the time. I believe that kids are desensitized to TV/movie violence. Movie makers try to make their movie as realistic as possible to compensate. But violence on the screen doesn't necessarily mean real violence.

(yes Saving Private Ryan violence levels, along with some 3 Kings gut shot to boot)

You're right the kid could've been thinking anything, and he probably was desensitized to it. But this exact thing is the problem I think. In our fast paced world we have learned to take our cues from TV on how we should act. And while many kids may know the diffrence there will always be those who don't.

As fo MTV: #1 I totally agree way over sexed etc.

#2

Kids are more influenced by each other than by some tv show. If a funny moment on 'Daria' helps get a conversation started, why not?

You're totally right they are much more influenced by other kids, but they are also heavily influenced b those slightly older than they are.

Change your example, instead of Daria, what are kids going to think about say MTV Spring Break which will run non-stop for a month coming up soon? A show that is nothing but sex, sex, a little music, sex, jerry springer, and then sex. (In my personal unbaised lol opinion) Kids do start taking cues from this. I have been around a lot of kids, and I will see kids the same age (11-12), one of which wants to sit alone and talk about sex and making out constantly and to whom a major issue was when some of his friends were smoking and he yelled at them for it, but they got mad at him for yelling and kept smoking, and a second kid who only cared about goofying around and playing sports.

Prehaps I am over reacting. And I do truely beleieve that the positives of technology are incredable, I wouldn't knowhow to program if I didn't. However, I think that we have allowed technology to speed our own lives up to the point that we allow TV, MTV, Movies and video games to teach our kids instead of the good ol'baseball dimond and playing with other kids.

I think the technology is great, we just use it improperly. Prehaps given time to adjust to this high paced world we will do better. For now though I think the rapid movement puts a strain on us all, from fast food because parents are overstressed, to the stockbroker who can't stop because so much happens in so little time now, we are simply overloaded but informations and prehaps we just need to stop and smell the roses.

>but... people do

hmmm... that is very true... i guess that's a kink in my plan then eh? perhaps it is that there is a resolution that you ultimately arrive at, and that every lifetime has it's resolution... but, since time is arbitrary, how can you say that resolutions are delimited by the extent of lifetimes?

status: thynking...

i meant rather, that if one's standing in a life is static throughout that person's lifetime, that would mean that their karma is refreshed at the end of the old life and the beginning of the new... which can't be because people change, and time is arbitrary...

Wow, this sounds an awful lot like what we (aran elus, davidp, ken, and I) were discussing earlier tonight

Anyways... After only skimming the arguments... I think that kids are influenced quite a bit by pop culture in general (not just MTV), quite a bit by other kids, and quite a bit more by older kids. I know that when my brother was younger, he sure tried to emulate me, and still does (no, this isn't an ego-trip... It's the truth - younger siblings tend to emulate or copy their older ones). However, there's also other things that influence them - family, church, etc.... Basically, I agree with the webmaster's fine muppet....

However, as I was talking about with David, do you think it's right to hide things away just because they're more violent? I mean - yes, Saving Private Ryan was extremely graphic, and it sounds like the same can be said for Blackhawk Down. The thing is, these are both based on actual events. The worst scenes in Private Ryan (the DDay landing) were actually that bloody. I'm sure it's the same situation in BHD. Is it right to hide these things from kids just because they're graphic, or should the material just be presented in a different way, so kids wouldn't be desensitized to it?

One more thing:
E i F x 65, please type like a human being - are is not r, you is not u, what is not wut, your/you're is not ur...

Also - kermi, was the movie any good (disregarding the kids in there)?

static-style list - forgive my ramblings - it's 2 in the morning and I can't sleep...

Being that your posts are in the middle of the thread, it's kinda difficult. Why's it so damn hard for people to type right?

However, as I was talking about with David, do you think it's right to hide things away just because they're more violent?

I agree it's not right to hide things, however it is a fine line, because I believe kids do need a chance to be kids. You know time to learn from playing, fights on the playground, games etc.

Also - kermi, was the movie any good (disregarding the kids in there)?

Yes awsome movie, recomend it to everyone, just be prepared for Saving Private Ryan level gore. But definatley worth the $6!