Here are a few I was thinking of posting, but a few of them are dangerously close to self-parody
1: Summarize in one paragraph (sentence, 25 words, what-have-you) the most surreal night you've ever spent.
2: What does your mental model look like? That is, the model you've constructed that helps you understand human behavior, even if your model is irrational and incomplete. e.g. Id, Ego, Superego from your POV
3: Who's got the keys to my beamer?
4: Whyyyyy cahhhn't this be looove? And other songs you'd really like to be good so you don't feel bad singing them out loud in public.
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 5 August 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)
Re. #2 I even started the following write-up, but realized it was shit and undecipherable and looked mildly insane, so I stopped:
Simplifications, weird and unsubstantiated ideas, pointless conjectures welcome...
Freud's mental model was a taxonomic one: id, ego, superego.
Jung's mental model was typological: http://www.compilerpress.atfreeweb.com/1.%20Jungian%20Lexicon_files/image003.gif
Mine's something like a Venn diagram overlaying another Venn diagram overlaying a third Venn diagram. The lower (sub-rational) diagram may only be expressed in activity in the middle diagram, (staging, locus-of-consciousness) and the middle only finds expression and release through the upper and only directly accessible diagram (expressive) and the three are as follows:
1) Lower "sub-rational, raw brain" diagram.
(All circles in this lowest Venn-diagram overlap with all other circles, co-exist, and influence each other in a way that's organic and unknowable).
Circles: Instinct, self-preservation, semi-conscious and inacessible biological processes.
2) Middle "locus-of-consciousness"
(There are two sets of circles here: the emotional set and the intellectual set. They don't touch each other directly, though they're linked below, through the "sub-rational" diagram, and above through the directly accessible "expressive" diagram. )
Emotional set: two circles only. Independent emotion (big mass of jumbled emotional / behavioral cognitions, undifferentiated) and Emotional response (the knowledge to play-act emotion at certain cues).
Intellectual set: most raw ability, various aptitudes (musical, artistic, coordination, whatever the fuck you might have), your raw, unprocessed 'ability'
But I don't give a shit about that, I just want to read other people's shit discarded thread topics.
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 5 August 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Goddamnit, this next one was a good thread topic, but I never posted it on its own because I figured that it would just lead to (my girlfriend's ass on the bedpost as I plunge into it knuckle-deep) type responses:
1) Things that go bump in the night.
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)
Another two thread ideas, the latter which - barring anybody responding negatively - I'm gonna use:
1) Allowing one sentence for every hour, summarize the past N hours in reverse order. N may by doubled if there's good sex involved.
2) Tell me about The Man. Obviously he's a WASP, obviously he's a he, obviously he's got a receding hairline. What else? My inner soulful urban ninja (a.k.a. SUN) needs to know who to stick it to.
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)