[ SECRET POST #2624 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2624 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Outlander]


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03.
[The Walking Dead]


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04.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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05.
[Twitch Plays Pokemon]


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06.
[Batman, Kill La Kill, Borderlands]


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07.
[Overlord]


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08.
[Red Dwarf]


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09.
[Paranatural]


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10.
[Pitch Perfect]


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11.
[Insidious: Chapter 2]


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Comments

[chardmonster]

I hate the whole "history" thing. It just seems disrespectful to the people who spend months or years being alive only to be told "no, what you meant for this to be about doesn't matter. It's not about this, and I don't care what you wrote in the newspaper." It doesn't seem right that this is a thing, that what dead people believed doesn't matter. I wish less* people believed that "history" bullshit.


*FEWER

[(Anonymous)]

Terrible analogy is terrible.

[chardmonster]

I hate the whole "terrible analogy" thing. It just seems disrespectful to the people who spend months or years comparing things only to be told "no, what you meant for this to be like doesn't matter. It's not about this, and you're going to get a bad score on the SAT Verbal." It doesn't seem right that this is a thing, that what people believe things are like doesn't matter. I wish less people believed in that "terrible analogy" bullshit.

[mautradutor]

I don't know what are these things you're saying. But I'm laughing a little to them now. If the humor was the goal, then you're winning.

[chardmonster]

It was.

Sorry other folks. I wasn't trying to start a real argument, I was just making a joke about my field. I'm a history grad student. You laugh so you don't cry.

[(Anonymous)]

*fewer

[riddian]

LOL IRL at the mention of the SAT Verbal.

[(Anonymous)]

what??

[feotakahari]

If that's supposed to be a strawman, it doesn't really work. You could legitimately argue that it's unfair when people apply modern values to times when those values didn't exist, just as you could argue that it's unfair to introduce, say, feminism into a story that's clearly not intended to say anything about or have anything to do with feminism. (I wouldn't fully agree, but it's at least reasonable.)

[(Anonymous)]

Meaning qua meaning emerges only after the facts of the story are settled. Interpretation cannot take place before things have drawn to a close; the opinions and views of the participants are a part of the story of history, not a valid judgment of it. It is in no sense unfair when people apply modern values to times when those values exist - how else are we to understand, analyze, talk about history? You can say that some people do it in a way that's short-sighted and wrong, but the fundamental principle is correct - we are the ones evaluating and looking into these things and we cannot use any other standards than our own, either for determining what factually happened, or for judging what actually happened.

[(Anonymous)]

Whatever you were going for, it failed.

[(Anonymous)]

Stay edgy, tryhard.

[(Anonymous)]

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F!S comments

[mautradutor]

I would like to much to paint in this space!

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Analogy is appropriate.

[(Anonymous)]

Someone hasn't studied much history. Finding out what people at the time thought was going on is an extremely significant part of it.

[arcadiaego]

Wow, lots of people who are new here in this thread.

[chardmonster]

I KNOW, RIGHT?

Again: this was a JOKE.

[duaedesigns]

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT GILGAMESH WAS A METAPHOR FOR THE DAMAGES OF OBAMACARE.

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR!