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11 years ago
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Not until April 14th tho... I'm turning 21!
I am not a big drinker, but I guess for the first time I will be 21 for con season. Heck. This will be the first year I even attend more than one convention! ^=^' So maybe I will drink at those! Who knows?
Having been in this fandom for about 8 years, and on this site for most of that time, I was really accustomed to being on the much younger side of the spectrum in this fandom—and in general, but who cares about my non-furry life anyway?—but I suppose those days are numbered, if not over already.
21 is still pretty young, but I've come to realize that I have been around this fandom a fair bit longer than most by now, and the percentage of furs I know who are younger than me is going to start growing at some point, isn't it? Maybe. That will be weird.
I was thinking about doing a "year in review" thing, since a lot has happened to me at the age of 20, but I think I'll save it for my actual birthday.
Posting a journal about my birthday over a month in advance probably seems a bit shameless, doesn't it? I have certainly never done it before. I won't ask anyone for anything, especially because I already get more happiness from the people and things on this site than I could ever have dared to hope for! ^=^ However, I figured maybe one or two people might actually WANT to get me something, and I may as well give them the opportunity! ^^'; <3
Most of all, though, thank you to all my friends on this site, and to all the wondeful artists whose work I enjoy. Through a combined and usually indirect and unintentional effort, you guys make my day almost every day. What more could a flop-eared purplish fuzzy want? :3!
Love you,
~Dessy
I am not a big drinker, but I guess for the first time I will be 21 for con season. Heck. This will be the first year I even attend more than one convention! ^=^' So maybe I will drink at those! Who knows?
Having been in this fandom for about 8 years, and on this site for most of that time, I was really accustomed to being on the much younger side of the spectrum in this fandom—and in general, but who cares about my non-furry life anyway?—but I suppose those days are numbered, if not over already.
21 is still pretty young, but I've come to realize that I have been around this fandom a fair bit longer than most by now, and the percentage of furs I know who are younger than me is going to start growing at some point, isn't it? Maybe. That will be weird.
I was thinking about doing a "year in review" thing, since a lot has happened to me at the age of 20, but I think I'll save it for my actual birthday.
Posting a journal about my birthday over a month in advance probably seems a bit shameless, doesn't it? I have certainly never done it before. I won't ask anyone for anything, especially because I already get more happiness from the people and things on this site than I could ever have dared to hope for! ^=^ However, I figured maybe one or two people might actually WANT to get me something, and I may as well give them the opportunity! ^^'; <3
Most of all, though, thank you to all my friends on this site, and to all the wondeful artists whose work I enjoy. Through a combined and usually indirect and unintentional effort, you guys make my day almost every day. What more could a flop-eared purplish fuzzy want? :3!
Love you,
~Dessy
You Americans are just so cute :P
I'd wish you a happy birthday Dessy hon but that can wait until your actual birthday
Silly wox
Mine will be on the 31st of march. haven't thought much about it.
I'd say the phenomenon of cyberbalkinization or the "splinternet" is going to be a source of societal and social problems. The fact that the internet is full of little microcosms which serve as echo chambers for any type of person, even the crazy or deluded or hateful ones—it kind of counteracts the tendency of large social communities to suppress overtly harmful, dangerous, or negative opinions. x.=.x In this way the net might promote anti-social and unsocial behavjours. After all, since it's so easy to find people you get along with online, isn't it just a waste of time and effort to try and find such people IRL, where it's so much harder? >o> And while it's convenient for someone who thinks furries are cool to be able to find other people who do easily, the same technology can make it easy for people who think Jews don't deserve to live to find other people who feel similarly and by doing so find reassurance that their horrible, anti-social, and possibly dangerous thoughts and feelings are actually okay and completely right... x.o Y'know?
As far as I'm concerned, to each their own. People will believe anything with enough persuasion. I tend not to make a big deal of others' beliefs and doings, because I personally don't believe it's my business, until it becomes my business. :P
To answer your question, society is usually the one that tells you what is right and wrong. I think what most people believe is, why set your own value system when society makes one for you?
"I personally don't believe it's my business, until it becomes my business. :P"
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
A similar, albeit usually less dark scenario involves say a bully at school. The bystander who says nothing and witnesses someone being victimized is often said to be as guilty as the bully.
Of course it's subjective. All moral systems are subjective. I would say that most people think things like Genocide or, on a smaller scale: racist hate crimes and acts of terrorism are...bad.
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to argue. It's okay to let the Ku Klux Klan and groups like it run rampant and do as they please?
Your reply to my previous comment was less informative and more accusatory than I would have liked. I still am not sure I grasp whatever point you're trying to make.
Furthermore, although moral codes are subjective, and often culturally influenced, it can't be wrong to have one. Moral codes are the source of right and wrong; insinuating that it's wrong to project your morals onto things and behaviors is too meta in a silly way.
How do you know a country ruled by the KKK wouldn't be a better one? Are you certain? How do you know a country ruled by Nazis wouldn't be better? Grade school propaganda doesn't count. Be as objective as possible. You merely automatically reject these ideas because theyre 'obviously bad', without putting serious effort into their implications. I know your type, and you love to write off things that do not fit into your comfortable worldview.
That's why I urge you to reconsider what you consider 'good' or 'bad'; you don't understand how subjective they truly are until you've experienced as many perspectives as possible.
How do I know I would rather live in a society not ruled by Nazis or the KKK? Because I or many of my friends could easily have been born Jews or Black people. It's all happenstance whether you are born into a group like that. Why should anyone be persecuted/killed for factors entirely beyond their control? That's silly.
As for existentialism, nothing beats The Myth of Sisyphus. Terribly difficult book but my god, what a perspective-changer.
Are you planning to go to Furthemore?
I do plan to go to Fur the 'More! I sure want to. :3
but yeah, hehe, ive certainly seen a lot of change, people come and go, and such, since i started back in like 2007ish>? xD
..and to say now only to (maybe0 say latter again: Happy cake-n-booze day, D! ^.^
And I was sort of participating in the fandom before I realized on a couple of other sites that weren't directly furry-related. O:
Enjoy that first drink, critter. Enjoy the right of passage and get your fur wet. ;D