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Ideas and Concepts.
Topic Started: Aug 17 2011, 03:32 PM (8,767 Views)
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We all have cool ideas for things we'd love to do or make, art, novels, films and so on. But unless you actually have something to show us such as concept art or a first draft I think you should discuss it here so we don't have dozens of topics of people talking about their cool ideas.
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I'm terribly sorry, I was under the impression that human beings built cities, not nature. Well if cities are our natural environment, I guess we are the best at surviving. :rolleyes:
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Aug 29 2011, 03:24 PM
I'm terribly sorry, I was under the impression that human beings built cities, not nature. Well if cities are our natural environment, I guess we are the best at surviving. :rolleyes:
Cities are merely large villages.

Our nature is to mold the rest of nature to better suit our nature. I guess you could say we're the real life version of the Borg.
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Cities are made out of the natural world, just like a caddisfly case or a bird nest.

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well seeing as for the majority of humanities existence we've been nomadic, I would say that that is our 'natural' way of life. we haven't been building for very long in comparison to how long homo sapiens have been wandering around the world.
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I would hardly call 400 square miles of concrete, glass, and steel natural.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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'Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.'

We make buildings, it's made by a natural thing in a natural way, it's a phenomena of the Physical world that humans make machines to make other sh*t. Cities are nature by definition.

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Aug 30 2011, 01:06 AM
I would hardly call 400 square miles of concrete, glass, and steel natural.
Then neither are two story towers made of dirt and termite shit. Or bird nests. Or spider webs.

Face it Parasky, you are wrong for once.

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well seeing as for the majority of humanities existence we've been nomadic, I would say that that is our 'natural' way of life. we haven't been building for very long in comparison to how long homo sapiens have been wandering around the world.


Our nature is to manipulate things. Those things include home building material. We've just gotten good enough at making homes that we can stay in one place. I think we did that somewhere in the Stone Age.
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neolithic hunter gatherers did not build permanent dwellings... they way they gathered their food necessitated nomadism - except in environments with an abundance of resources, e.g. heart of the Amazon, fishing communities etc...

Not until the development of agriculture along the fertile crescent 10,000 years ago did man build permanent homes - and up until about 400 years ago - there were still whole continents where most of the population were subsistence level gatherers (truth be known, hunting is only ever a small part of the diet, most of it is "gathered" by the women folk in the form of tubers, grubs, small animals - e.g. if Aust Aboriginals had relied on the men to bring home big game, they'd have starved)...

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Aug 30 2011, 07:16 PM
neolithic hunter gatherers did not build permanent dwellings... they way they gathered their food necessitated nomadism - except in environments with an abundance of resources, e.g. heart of the Amazon, fishing communities etc...

Not until the development of agriculture along the fertile crescent 10,000 years ago did man build permanent homes - and up until about 400 years ago - there were still whole continents where most of the population were subsistence level gatherers (truth be known, hunting is only ever a small part of the diet, most of it is "gathered" by the women folk in the form of tubers, grubs, small animals - e.g. if Aust Aboriginals had relied on the men to bring home big game, they'd have starved)...

I was refering to the abundant resources. Those were pretty much the earliest villages.
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The point is that human beings are clearly not naturally suppossed to build cities, doesn't mean we can't, but its not something we evolved to do, we aren't termites or ants. still, as im one of the only people in this discussion who lives in an 'international city' it seems kind of hypocritical that im saying we aren't suppossed to live in cities, when I myself have never spent more than two weeks not living in a major city.
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Once again a thread dwindles into an argument over definitions... :/
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Yes, but even if humans were as nomadic as all that they still had tents and temporary shelters and so forth. I don't think any group of humans just lives outside.
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Aug 31 2011, 12:29 PM
Yes, but even if humans were as nomadic as all that they still had tents and temporary shelters and so forth. I don't think any group of humans just lives outside.
Obviously, Australians don't live in houses, seeing as both Sescorp and Magoo are disagreeing with us.

But anywho, back onto the matter of concepts, who else here has a fursona*?

*An avatar of a person, usually their favorite animal, but with unusual colors, human-like stance. They don't always have fur, seeing as birds are one of the more popular types of fursona.

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My fursona is actually a reptile with some human features, but is really more in-human than most others.

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theres a difference between a tent and a city lamna
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Both are artificial. Ah forget it, this is devolving into who gets the last word, we all think we are right. And though I obviously are, because you are unfortunately not me, you don't know that. So let's drop it.
Edited by lamna, Aug 31 2011, 04:47 PM.
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