Last Poster #8

[Wing Woo Gar]

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Wow! That’s a gorgeous view

 

[Gyakuto]

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I’m trying to understand the juxtaposition of a beautiful seascape and a knife stabbed into a wooden post. I think it’s a exposition of existential angst regarding the true meaning of nature and man’s position within it. Nature has the ability to be violent (like the knife) and also sublimely beautiful like the shape of the knife’s blade (marred, in this case, only by those awful G10 uncontoured scales - only a knife enthusiast would spot this - very subtle). One day the knife will rust and decay just as nature’s ‘fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.

Very deep, you’re very deep, drop bear.

 

[drop bear]

I’m trying to understand the juxtaposition of a beautiful seascape and a knife stabbed into a wooden post. I think it’s a exposition of existential angst regarding the true meaning of nature and man’s position within it. Nature has the ability to be violent (like the knife) and also sublimely beautiful like the shape of the knife’s blade (marred, in this case, only by those awful G10 uncontoured scales - only a knife enthusiast would spot this - very subtle). One day the knife will rust and decay just as nature’s ‘fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.

Very deep, you’re very deep, drop bear.

It makes its own quiet statement.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

I’m trying to understand the juxtaposition of a beautiful seascape and a knife stabbed into a wooden post. I think it’s a exposition of existential angst regarding the true meaning of nature and man’s position within it. Nature has the ability to be violent (like the knife) and also sublimely beautiful like the shape of the knife’s blade (marred, in this case, only by those awful G10 uncontoured scales - only a knife enthusiast would spot this - very subtle). One day the knife will rust and decay just as nature’s ‘fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.

Very deep, you’re very deep, drop

I see it more as a man making his stand against the absurd, saying to the cosmos 'here I am, and this is my knife'. Such a man is capable of anything, and the beauty of the landscape is incidental, though it serves to highlight the futility and heroism of his struggle.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Indeed, the artist's chosen name, drop bear, illustrates the banality of the absurd and the arbitrary nature of existence by means of a reference to antipodean fauna. He fights back, he mocks the absurd

 

[Prince_Alarming]

In a post foucaultian gesture of defiance, he questions the authority of nature to thwart him, underscoring his existential autonomy with a humble yet summative gesture

 

[Xue Sheng]

It makes its own quiet statement.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

In a post foucaultian gesture of defiance, he questions the authority of nature to thwart him, underscoring his existential autonomy with a humble yet summative gesture

Wow! Well said sir! You are made for the pulpit.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Wow! Well said sir! You are made for the pulpit.

That or the scaffold

 

[HighKick]

Well, dissertation is done, all criticisms and questions are over…. He got his PhD

HUGE congratulation. People who have never done just cannot appreciate the draining process.

 

[Buka]

I'm sick, but then you knew that anyway. What I mean is that I've pulled a sickie. Some of the people at the bible study group have some pretty shall we say old fashioned opinions, and I'm not good at dealing with that.

I’m curious. Wouldn’t people in a Bible study group naturally have old fashioned opinions?
It’s an old book.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Well...yeah, but you know what Jesus said about homosexuality? Absolutely nothing. And I refuse to believe that the son of God was either guilty of an oversight or intended Christians to persecute a certain group of people for no good reason.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

I mean, I know a fair amount of gay folk and if they want to solemise their relationship in the eyes of the lord I see no reason why they shouldn't. Maybe it's because I don't particularly care what other people do with their genitals, I don't know

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

Well...yeah, but you know what Jesus said about homosexuality? Absolutely nothing. And I refuse to believe that the son of God was either guilty of an oversight or intended Christians to persecute a certain group of people for no good reason.

It’s Old Testament bigotry and sexual violence to blame, supposedly revoked by the new covenant. Things like being stoned to death by your whole town for touching pig skin, or eating shellfish, or working on the Sabbath, etc.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Which, surely, is the kind of thing that the lord made himself flesh to prevent? I feel sure that christ had a more fulfilling aim in mind