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Re: OT: My Idea of an Internet Cafe

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From: John Larkin
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:29
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:44:16 -0800 (PST), GreenXenon
<glucegen1x@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mar 4, 9:29�am, John Larkin
><jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:01:19 -0800 (PST), GreenXenon
>>
>>
>>
>> <glucege...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >On Mar 4, 8:19 am, John Larkin
>> ><jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> What about the coffee? The pastries?
>>
>> >Yes. There's that too. Yum-Yums with an additional zing of anonymity
>> >to write whatever you want in chat rooms. What more could any warm-
>> >hearted, compassionate, fair, vulnerable outcast -- like me and many
>> >other geeks -- ask for?
>>
>> >I'm a social outcast because of the clothes I wear. My skin is very
>> >sensitive so I can't wear the stuff that society considers "cool". I
>> >cannot adapt to the discomfort, so I have to wear what I currently
>> >wear. I have a best friend who has tried his best to support me but
>> >society started insulting him for hanging out with me. As a result, he
>> >is forced to abandon me.
>>
>> >Because of what society does to my friend and me, I want to punish
>> >society by writing extremely taboo things in chat rooms -- without
>> >putting anyone [including myself] in harms way.
>>
>> Waste of time. Nobody will be discomforted by what you type, but you
>> could get arrested if you go too far.
>>
>>
>>
>> >My enemy [i.e. society] pisses me off. To be fair, I want to piss my
>> >enemy off.
>>
>> Juvenile. Society will always win this skirmish. Learn to adapt, and
>> to be happy. Apply your intelligence.
>>
>>
>>
>> >With this internet cafe, any social outcast could get on a chair, put
>> >on those goggles, get connected and pester society to their heart's
>> >content. It would be extremely difficult for society to figure out the
>> >who, what, when, where, why, and how of any social outcast venting
>> >their spleen via this cafe.
>>
>> >I have an Autism Spectrum Disorder called Aspergers. This contributes
>> >to my sensitivity to certain fabric. Until society accepts my
>> >"oddities" and treats me as an equal, I will continue to want to
>> >punish it.
>>
>> Have you seen the "Temple Grandin" movie? She's a full-blown autistic,
>> PhD, who used her intelligence to deal with her differences.
>>
>> You won't change society, so quit whining and change yourself.
>>
>> John
>
>
>You're right. I won't change society and I don't plan to. I just want
>to psychologically-scar my enemies to their very cores. I would like
>to do this by writing extremely explicit text in chat rooms. The stuff
>I'd like to write is so lewd, perverse, deviant, taboo, and
>unacceptable by the norms of society, that it will elicit an
>emotionally-charged and violent reaction from readers.

I hope you are a very good writer. You're up against some very tough
competition.

>
>Please note that I gain *no* pleasure, humor, or happiness from doing
>the above. I would, however, obtain a temporary but significant
>decrease in my frustration and anger against society.
>
>If I continually punish society via my textual attacks, I'm curious as
>to what will happen.

To three decimal places, nothing.

>
>My guess is that the media will get involved and there will be mass
>societal outrage. The streets will be filled with furious puritanical
>buttholes who will violently protest, throw rocks, pelt stones, and
>start fires. How cool!
>
>People in the chat rooms will go crazy. They'll start marching on the
>streets and violently protesting. They will demand that the government
>make new laws. New laws rendering the socially-unacceptable stuff I
>write illegal. These people will form lynch mobs forcing the enactment
>of new legislations and draconian penalties against the stuff I'd like
>to write in chat rooms [which currently don't violate any law].
>
>Am I right?

High marks for imagination.


John
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Subject: Re: OT: My Idea of an Internet Cafe
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