Random Thoughts Thread

[Gl❀w]

Implying that it is my goal to be nice. "True" and "nice" are not synonymous, honey.

what you've put forth thus far is neither.


a word of advice: resorting to cheap, condescending terms of 'endearment' as a means to devalue another in conversation only serves to delegitimize yourself.

[Zurvan]

Laugh with me megas, taking this conversation serious is only for true

idiots

geniuses

[Mujaya]

what you've put forth thus far is neither.


a word of advice: resorting to cheap, condescending terms of 'endearment' as a means to devalue another in conversation only serves to delegitimize yourself.

Under what circumstance am I attempting to devalue you? I respect you just like I respect everyone else on this website, even if you're wrong. You may be taking this debate a little bit too seriously if that tiny little quip registered as a genuine insult. I apologize if I insulted your character.

[Megas]

Under what circumstance am I attempting to devalue you? I respect you just like I respect everyone else on this website, even if you're wrong. You may be taking this debate a little bit too seriously if that tiny little quip registered as a genuine insult. I apologize if I insulted your character.

[Nikiri]

i can't take this serious but it's because my attention span is lately bad

[Snow]

That it is subjective is an inevitability. What is foolish is the attempt to make things entirely subjective to the degree that they are not held to standards. To say that something bears no objective characteristics is to say that it doesn't have a point. And that's the absurdity of your claim. There are objectives to art.
1. To be a successful artist
2. To express art successfully
3. To produce successful art.
And many beyond that. It's not obvious to me that art exists solely for human expression.
What is poor about modern art is that it's bad and bears either no meaning, or that meaning which is vile. A majority of fine art nowadays is predicated upon the examination of a social context and the goal of many artists is to perpetuate pejorative views and demean artistic standards for the sake of artistic rebelliousness. I am aware that artists bear a great propensity to be left-leaning, and that's fine and dandy because anybody who knows anything about personality psychology knows that artists tend to be high in openness to experience, which is a left-leaning trait.



I have immersed myself in the context. I have immersed myself in many different contexts and derived a multitude of perspectives from those experiences. I was a communist, very much like you are, and I was retarded. What art in modern times speaks to me is either an illness or neurosis. These people who cast away good things like values and standards in spite have hearts filled with tumors and bad cholesterol. There's nothing bad about examining someone or something. What is poor is viewing a pathology as a virtue.


Brutalism was an appalling artistic movement. The goal of architecture as art is to breathe life into a landscape. There's nothing beautiful about haplessly designing a concrete prison and making your tenants feel one year closer to 1984.

1) You didn't answer my questions on brutalism

2) Refrain from using pejoratives and slurs on this forum

3) idk what three is I'm not even sure you read my post lmao

4) is your room clean?

[SpoonyViking]

The real tragedy is that beauty has been subjectivized. I know that there are things in this world that bear incalculable beauty and many of them are much, much older than you are and have been abandoned because they had "standards". Nihilists and subjectivists are incapable of producing anything beautiful, and it's my objective as an intellectual and artist help to return these standards to light.

You may be an artist (though whether you're a good one, much less one capable of upholding any standards at all, is a different topic), but judging your statements here, you aren't an intellectual.
Let me try and offer you one piece of constructive advice: a good artist experiences more than they produce, and they also try and experience many different styles, ideas and worldviews exactly so as to broaden their mind.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

CODES!

*screams up to the sky*

COOOOOOOODDDDDDDDESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Megas]

CODES!

*screams up to the sky*

COOOOOOOODDDDDDDDESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

....you know I still have yet to play unlimited codes.

I sometimes like to watch recorded arcade matches though

[Strife ❤️]

I regret to inform you there are multiple Republicans on this site actually

Only spiritually, I’m too far away

[just Beamu]

I was more referring to Mac and Leo unless they've changed while I've been away but you also count in spirit

[SeiKeo]

I’ve never voted Republican.

[Snow]

I'm a Vatican Republican

[Megas]

I've moved from center left to relatively far left by American standards over the last decade or so.

I've voted for a few Republicans over time but never for anything higher than local level.

[Gl❀w]

for a second i thought megas was mac and hoo boy was that a weird post

[Huitante]

i can't take this serious but it's because my attention span is lately bad

Same.
Though I caught out a concern that my approach to art is extremely egotistic, I never bother thinking about feelings of an author of a particular piece and concentrate only on my own emotions and thoughts, and if it, by chance, does not evoke any I immediately forget about it. It's probably not a good thing.

[SeiKeo]

Same.
Though I caught out a concern that my approach to art is extremely egotistic, I never bother thinking about feelings of an author of a particular piece and concentrate only on my own emotions and thoughts, and if it, by chance, does not evoke any I immediately forget about it. It's probably not a good thing.

Right thoughts, ethical thoughts.

[Snow]

It's a good approach.

[Mujaya]

1) You didn't answer my questions on brutalism

Just to clarify, you're an architect, and you obviously know more than I do about architecture. We aren't discussing that. I'll re-answer your question step by step instead of attempting to generalize

Also, what do you think brutalism is, exactly?

I am paraphrasing here. To put it simply, brutalism is a style said to have been created by Le Cobusier and popularized by British architects in the mid-20th century. It's a style that places an emphasis more on a building's function and form; making it more "economically sensible and modest" and involving raw concrete, similar to the term: "Beton Brut" from which "Brutalism" is derived. However, not all concrete buildings are brutalist, and not all brutalist buildings are made of concrete.

What does the name mean, how did the definition come into being and what does it describe?

The term "Brutalism" is derived from the French term "beton brut" which means "raw concrete". Alternatively, "Brutalism" is said to derive from the term "brute" which means:
1archaic : typical of beasts : animal
: suitable to one who lacks intelligence, sensitivity, or compassion : befitting a brute:
a : grossly ruthless or unfeelin
b : cruel, cold-blooded
c : harsh, severe
d : unpleasantly accurate and incisive
e : very bad or unpleasant

I regret to inform you that 'brutalism', in the context you're using it in, is a shorthand. It's a buzzword, aesthetic junkfood par excellence. It is useful only when all parties involved know it for what it is. Using it to seriously discuss architecture is the equivalent of defining something as 'bathroomtileism' or 'shingleroofism'.

Fair enough; I'll attempt to refrain from -isms if we require specifics to engage in a serious discussion about aesthetics

2) Refrain from using pejoratives and slurs on this forum

No problem.

3) idk what three is I'm not even sure you read my post lmao

If i didn't, please elaborate. (again) I've studied works of philosophy and literature. I have delved into the hearts of many different people from my experiences, and I have many more things to experience. I'm pretty well versed on the existentialist philosophers, Nietzche to the greatest degree. I've been to plenty of art museums and done research on artists of different disciplines ranging from Francis Bacon to Virgil to Francisco Goya, as I've stated. I go both to modern art museums and classical art museums and research the subjects from time to time. You were questioning my knowledge of the characters of artists that I've gained from my experiences of art and I've seen people who are both venerable and dismal. I have done exactly that. Do you want me to understand socialists and leftists and communists? I understand them because I was one of them. They have serious issues.

4) is your room clean?

I'm a bucko that has to clean it very often

[just Beamu]

A man at my workplace has burned his dick attempting to fuck a steak at home and I can't express how dumb this man is

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That it is subjective is an inevitability. What is foolish is the attempt to make things entirely subjective to the degree that they are not held to standards. To say that something bears no objective characteristics is to say that it doesn't have a point. And that's the absurdity of your claim. There are objectives to art.
1. To be a successful artist
2. To express art successfully
3. To produce successful art.
And many beyond that. It's not obvious to me that art exists solely for human expression.
What is poor about modern art is that it's bad and bears either no meaning, or that meaning which is vile. A majority of fine art nowadays is predicated upon the examination of a social context and the goal of many artists is to perpetuate pejorative views and demean artistic standards for the sake of artistic rebelliousness. I am aware that artists bear a great propensity to be left-leaning, and that's fine and dandy because anybody who knows anything about personality psychology knows that artists tend to be high in openness to experience, which is a left-leaning trait.



I have immersed myself in the context. I have immersed myself in many different contexts and derived a multitude of perspectives from those experiences. I was a communist, very much like you are, and I was retarded. What art in modern times speaks to me is either an illness or neurosis. These people who cast away good things like values and standards in spite have hearts filled with tumors and bad cholesterol. There's nothing bad about examining someone or something. What is poor is viewing a pathology as a virtue.


Brutalism was an appalling artistic movement. The goal of architecture as art is to breathe life into a landscape. There's nothing beautiful about haplessly designing a concrete prison and making your tenants feel one year closer to 1984.

Oh you're the kind of person to consider anything left of Republicans communism aren't you