The Week of Randomness 2009

[NabMaster]

Nab approves of Phonox's Yoda talk day idea.

[Phonox]

Phonox thinks NG is egotistical because he tries to take credit for what others have said.

Phonox would also like to point out this to NG:

Josiah says that RP posts probably won't count since, as Phonox pointed out, most of them are always in third person

as Phonox pointed out, most of them are always in third person

Phonox pointed out most of them are always in third person

[Winters Rage]

AK would like to point out to Phonox that Josiah probably made a mistake with the name he put down, it's not impossible, so there is no need to be rude about it.

[Phonox]

Phonox face palms and asks NG to actually read his last post.

Phonox pointed out most of them are always in third person

Phonox would like to ask Josiah if RP posts count, for Rp posts are already in third person. At least, Phonox thinks that they should be in third person.

[Winters Rage]

Yes, but AK was the one to Point Out the answer to that originally!

AK doesn't think that today applies to RP's since you are already talking like that in RP's, but it would make an RP interesting... AK thinks it would definitely move a slowed down one really far ahead if you get points in it because then people would like to get as many easy points as possible :P AK will now go back to writing his story/plot line for his game/RP. Bye.

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[Saber Knight]

Saber thinks that it doesn't really matter, as long as it understood that RP posts do count.

Saber is also sad that there is no strikethrough on the forums, as she wanted to write "don't" and strike it through, to try and add a humerful effect that would probably not be quite so humerous, but it amuses her and that's all that matters. :D

[SuzuTitor]

Josiah says that RP posts probably won't count since, as Phonox pointed out, most of them are always in third person. Though Josiah might or might not count certain RP posts if he sees some that he thinks do an especially good job of following the theme.

Josiah also congratulates Colly for being the first to catch on to the origin of today's theme. Speaking about yourself in third person is something done by young Japanese children and by teenage girls who want to sound cute, innocent, and childlike.

CollyChan may end up talking like this here and there later on, but not to the point of annoyance of course.
It's just that CollyChan loves how this sounds~

[Winters Rage]

AK thinks that would get interesting he says he might even do that some times, along with talking in excruciation detail to the point where the attachments of bone, flesh and cartilage become numb from depressing keys on the thing know as a keyboard just to create things that are called posts and then slide the 'finger' across a heat sensor mouse for the computer to register as movement and correspondingly move the mouse allowing him to 'post' his sentences into things called threads for the other people that connect to the internet and come to the forums to have pleasure in reading extremely long posts which could have easily been typed in under 5 things known as sentences that contain things called words which too, contain something, they are known as letters.

(Translation: AK thinks that he might do that some times for the pleasure of other people to read)

[Silver]

Silver also likes the way it sounds, at least when CollyChan does it. ...Silver may just be biased.

Silver doesn't think anyone else's name sounds as cute.

[Winters Rage]

Aha! AK has done his first ninja!!! BEWARE his ninjaness!!! Muhahaha-cough sorry, AK just had his evil moment of the day ._.

*Edit, 12:15pm: Oh! I have some words that are going to be compiled into a thing called a question and direct it at the person who goes by the name of Josiah: [Erm, what does apathetic mean >> Here is my guess: be lazy and not care about anything Day, am I close?] Now I have closed the group of words that form a so-called question and ended it in the most usual of manners, by adding the appropriate mark of the question formed by depressing, for an expanded length of time, the 'shift' key then depressing the '/' key once making the mark of questions '?' appear to finish off my grouping of words for the person who goes by the name of Josiah.* ((Like I have said in other groupings of words put into 'threads', I will be the one who makes the longest posts with the longest explanations by depressing the largest number of keys with the letters of the English's language alphabet to form the most amount of sentences, which I will then compile into the most amount of threads that are sub-sections of sections of a thing called a 'Forum'.)) [None of you shall beat me >:D Muhahaha!

[Josiah]

To best descibe the many definitions and nuances of apathy, I think a quote from Wikipedia is appropriate. That and, due to the fact that I woke up late today due to reasons of which I am unsure, and want to play the final chapter of Tales of Monkey Island, and should probably work on my final projects as well, I simply don't want to take the time to type of the kind of detailed explanation that apathy deserves.

Apathy (also called impassivity or perfunctoriness) is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation and passion. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest or concern to emotional, social, or physical life. They may also exhibit an insensibility or sluggishness.

Often, apathy has been felt after witnessing horrific acts, such as the killing or maiming of people during a war. It is also known to be associated with many conditions, some of which are: depression, Alzheimer's disease, Chagas' disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, dementia, Korsakoff's Syndrome, excessive vitamin D, Hypothyroidism, general fatigue, Huntington's disease, Pick's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), schizophrenia, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and others. Some medications and the heavy use of drugs such as heroin may bring apathy as a side effect.

In positive psychology, apathy is described as a response to an easy challenge for which the subject has matched skills. The opposite of apathy is flow.[1]

The word "apathy" derives from the Greek ἀπάθεια (apatheia).[2] Also meaning "absence of passion", "apathy" or "insensibility" in Greek, the term apatheia was used by the Stoics to signify a (desirable) state of indifference towards events and things which lie outside one's control (that is, according to their philosophy, all things exterior, one being only responsible of his representations and judgments). Another way of characterizing the way that the Stoics saw apathy is as "the extinction of the passions (negative feelings) by the ascendency of reason".[3]

Many Christians believe that the concept was then reappropriated by early Christians, who adopted the term to express a contempt of all earthly concerns, a state of mortification, as the gospel prescribes.[citation needed] The word has been used since then among more devout writers. Clemens Alexandrinus, in particular, brought the term exceedingly in vogue, thinking hereby to draw the philosophers to Christianity, who aspired after such a sublime pitch of virtue.[1] Macaulay referred to "The apathy of despair." Prescott described "A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course."

The modern concept of apathy became more well-known after World War I, when it was called "shell shock". Soldiers who lived in the trenches amidst the bombing and machine gun fire, and who saw the battlefields strewn with dead and maimed comrades developed a sense of disconnected numbness and indifference to normal social interaction.

In 1950, US novelist John Dos Passos wrote that "Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension." US educational philosopher Robert Maynard Hutchins summarized the concerns about political indifference when he claimed that the "death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

[Winters Rage]

I knew it >.< There just had to be a 'be mean to NG day', even if it's in a mild-ish form >>
Eh, oh well, I guess I'll just try to be as apathetic as I can about that stuff as I can, usually I'm pretty apathetic in the real world just the same. :P

[Josiah]

It's impossible to be mean to anyone while being apathetic, because you just don't care enough to put in the effort or emotion required for such a demonstration. I'd also like to say that, to increase dramatic tension by keeping you in the dark longer than strictly neccessary and therefor make you overly curious. I will not be editing the first post in this thread today so I can use my keyboard and mouse to type up and submit the theme for Friday. Instead, I will save that task for tomorrow so as to keep you in suspense.

[Winters Rage]

The person who is posting this grouping of words guesses that the day of tomorrow will be having the theme of being suspenceful.

[Phonox]

Honestly, today I really don't feel like taking the time to push my keyboard keys down and type a long string of words. I am a bit tired to try and elongate my sentences by adding unecessary adjectives and pointing out the obvious. Honestly, I don't like the fact that I could soundly defeat other less often, high quality posters simply by posting in several topics with 50 semi decent theme posts. Yes, it's fair, but then the poster with the most time will win. Then again, all these competitions are just a way to encourage posting, so the rules are perfectly fine. That being said, will you quote and post some of the posts that you think were the best ones of that theme?

Anyway, I predict that the one who will win the competition will be NG because he is always online. Always.