The Day That Albert Einstein Feared Has Finally Arrived

[WildernessWildChild]

Still not got it. I thought we were friends I have you on my buddy-list and everything.

I shall ignore you now if we pass by on the street. I'll pretend to be busy with my phone.

Yep, sure became easier to snub people with the portable gadget. It's taken away from the fine art of glaring at someone with a look that turns them to stone (my preferred way of not taking to someone- lol).

 

[BrokenInside]

Still not got it. I thought we were friends I have you on my buddy-list and everything.

I shall ignore you now if we pass by on the street. I'll pretend to be busy with my phone.

Change your phone :club:

 

[LeaningIntoTheMuse]

A lot of people who own a smartphone aren't really that smart.

 

[EveWasFramed]

A lot of people who own a smartphone aren't really that smart.

Does the opposite hold true?

 

[MissGuided]

^I still use a 'dumb phone'. :/

 

[EveWasFramed]

^I still use a 'dumb phone'. :/

I would too if I wasnt an email/texting addict. lol

 

[perfanoff]

I know quite a few people that "are that smart" and there's plenty of them who don't use a smartphone. One I know of does not even own any cell phone, last thing I know of him was going off to a PhD program in Physics in his early 20s

 

[WildernessWildChild]

^I still use a 'dumb phone'. :/

Looks easy enough...

 

[MissGuided]

^Are you calling me, 'easy', BC?

 

[EveWasFramed]

He totally was. Beat him!

 

[WildernessWildChild]

^Are you calling me, 'easy', BC?

Ummmm.......er.....hmmmm.......
You can't be easy, you're in retirement.

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He totally was. Beat him!

You'd listen to someone who fed a kid to a tiger today?

 

[EveWasFramed]

^Are you calling me, 'easy', BC?

Ummmm.......er.....hmmmm.......
You can't be easy, you're in retirement.

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He totally was. Beat him!

You'd listen to someone who fed a kid to a tiger today?

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:club: I did NOT feed a kid to the tiger! However, the thought MIGHT have crossed my mind. (wary)

 

[MissGuided]

Ummmm.......er.....hmmmm.......
You can't be easy, you're in retirement.

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Good point.

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You'd listen to someone who fed a kid to a tiger today?

:club: I did NOT feed a kid to the tiger! However, the thought MIGHT have crossed my mind. (wary)

He needs way more clubbing than that, Eve. He's been asking for it all week long.

 

[EveWasFramed]

He needs way more clubbing than that, Eve. He's been asking for it all week long.

Gang ba.....errr....club?

:club: :club: :club:

 

[MissGuided]

^rofl - um, yes, absolutely!

 

[WildernessWildChild]

He needs way more clubbing than that, Eve. He's been asking for it all week long.

Gang ba.....errr....club?

:club: :club: :club:

I've died and gone to....where ever....my life is now complete!

 

[Phaedron]

This is the kind of post I would make... and that I'm glad to see. As the old saying goes "adversity makes men, decadence makes monsters."

Human interactions gradually fail in a world where people are distant, lonely, and taught to be out for themselves. Being the solitary hermit is a lot easier with technology. We are thus divided and conquered. It's one thing to have no friends or relationships, but it would be unbearable if there were nothing to do.

I've lived in 5 houses now, and we pretty much never associate with our neighbors until there's a blackout. Then people step outside and actually talk to one another.

Internet + Creative People = Infinite Entertainment.

This and having to fill out dozens of forms and take dozens of tests to get anywhere and you wind up with a situation where everyone is always too busy to care.

 

[defenestrate]

Are you a fan of Victor Hugo? His works have gained popularity since the recent film adaptation of Les Misérables directed by Tom Hooper. I like that phrase, "Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters." The phrase isn't a rigid truth, but I recognize each day how people struggle to appreciate each other's company. I can't help but notice how many people use cellphones these days. I'll be in a movie theatre, and there I'll find a bunch of kids sitting together buried into their iphones. It's like a self-induced form of autism.

Still not got it. I thought we were friends I have you on my buddy-list and everything.

I shall ignore you now if we pass by on the street. I'll pretend to be busy with my phone.

Yep, sure became easier to snub people with the portable gadget. It's taken away from the fine art of glaring at someone with a look that turns them to stone (my preferred way of not taking to someone- lol).

Cellphones are great for snubbing people. If you want to make things hard for yourself, give them the most confused look imaginable. Then talk to them in sign.

 

[PyramidHead]

That may be right, but I wonder if it really is the problem. I have the feeling that without communication technology, it would even be worse. Because it's not just damage, but it really helps some people too... so without it, I bet there would be way more lonely people, way more loveless relationships, way more break ups because of long distances, friends losing touch of each other...
Then again, what's the worst thing that could happen without?

*10 years later: Post apocalyptic world scenario, with lots of death and cruelty* Okay, didn't see that coming. :O

Gang ba.....

So now we went from the Big Bang Theory to the Gang Ba.... Theory ?

 

[jzinsky]

This reminds me of something....

Lister Wasn't it Descartes who said "I am what I am"?
Rimmer No, it was Popeye the Sailor Man