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Post by Gen Gravy on Feb 28, 2006 14:35:03 GMT -5
You cannot blame them, Kyle. Those smug philistines can't understand the true concept of an utopian society.
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Post by Kyle20 on Feb 28, 2006 16:27:40 GMT -5
(YES! YES YES YES YES YES!! I didn't think that long ass rant post made it on. It took me forever to type, and I didn't save or copy it. Then when I clicked Reply, the forum's server crashed....)
Cutter: They are through the ages of 11-13. I'm one of the youngest in my grade, and I always have been.Then again, I've always been the smartest in all of my grades, so it doesn't matter.
Gen: Hell yeah they don't know a utopian society. Those greedy, selfish, spoiled little bastards! I didn't actually see any of there grades, but I hope they failed. I wish, as a punishment, their family (including them) lived in their "utopia." Sure, they would enjoy it at first, but they would soon realize that their corrupted imagination would kill them. Then the children would learn a thing or too about leadership, and stop bragging!
Yes....I am the devil nerd...
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Post by Cutter on Feb 28, 2006 19:44:18 GMT -5
...11-13? Wow. There has to be something wrong with them, because usually 13-year olds aren't still watching Dragon Tales and Barney. What are those kids smoking?
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Post by Almightynam on Feb 28, 2006 20:09:08 GMT -5
The problem with letting 11-13 year olds design a perfect society is that they are just beginning to grasp the complexities of the modern world. They aren't yet capable of thinking in such a grand scale of how everything can be maintained and everything will be able to be run. They only see the idealism. So, I believe this excercise is nothing more than a way to get kids to think creatively and not concretely, like Kyle did. I had the exact same problem when I was in school, 'cause I was thinking too logically, and less creatively, and so, I didn't do that well...
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Post by Gen Gravy on Feb 28, 2006 20:13:29 GMT -5
In my 10A English class, we discussed what a true utopia would be. This was part of our Once and Future King unit. One twit said that a perfect utopia would have video games for free all day. Another said that making everyone phyiscally and mentally equal would stop all discrimination. The latter student should realize that Adolf Hitler had that same view, and it is just plain silly. It is our differences that make us unique, be it goth or jock, hair-lip or baldness.
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Post by Almightynam on Feb 28, 2006 20:37:30 GMT -5
Yeah... Utopia is in the eye of the beholder.
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Post by Kyle20 on Feb 28, 2006 20:38:05 GMT -5
Cutter: Yeah, trust me, I know. I thought one of the biggest things about Middle School was all of the different classes and friends you meet. It is, but, when you are in 6th Grade Honors for all classes, you are with the same people all day. THEY DRIVE ME NUTS!
Nam: Yeah, that seems like a good idea. If only the teacher, and other students had noticed and actually did the job of a critic! All of the kids in the class (including me) had to lie sometimes in the "has-to-be-positve comment section" because we couldn't think of anything good. I'm sure a lot of children thought mine was boring with no pets, no sports (for the most part) and no beaches, but they didn't tell me that. But trust me, some traits were boring to me too. But I made a "utopia."
Gen: Stupid spoiled children... Stupid communist children...
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Post by Gen Gravy on Feb 28, 2006 20:50:55 GMT -5
Kyle, Hitler was Nazi. Totally different from the Communists of the Soviet Union at the time.
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Post by Kyle20 on Feb 28, 2006 20:52:59 GMT -5
Damn...I was thinking Nazi.. "Nazi, right? No..wait...that was WW2. Was he in that? Or WW1? Hm...Nazi...Communist....Nazi? Nah..."
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Post by Gen Gravy on Feb 28, 2006 20:59:54 GMT -5
.... Dude, you need to either:
A) Play some Call of Duty B) Read a little about your country's past, city boy C) Go to Wikipedia
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Post by Kyle20 on Feb 28, 2006 21:12:17 GMT -5
When I rent Call of Duty, all I play is split screen and online. We're actually getting to that is Social Studies (or we will next year. It's in our textbook) I do, but only when websites I know have a website of their own like Urbandead and "Punks and Nerds"
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Post by Gen Gravy on Feb 28, 2006 21:21:52 GMT -5
And that is why you are so.. How should I put this... Ignorant.
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Post by Almightynam on Feb 28, 2006 21:43:23 GMT -5
Dude, he's the youngest out of all of us, and probably the least ignorant kid that isn't a genious in his grade.
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Post by Gen Gravy on Feb 28, 2006 21:45:57 GMT -5
Still, school standards are lowering if even he doesn't know the difference between a Nazi and Communist.
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Post by silos on Feb 28, 2006 22:04:09 GMT -5
Nazi=...if you don't know, google 'Hitler', for godsake.
Communist=The belief that no matter how much work anyone does, they should all get the same.
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