User:Solcoves

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 * Is this supposed to be a sandbox?
 * Not Quite...it's supposed to be my home. And I occasionally let guests roam as they please. --Solcoves 08:23, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * This is an us- thing. Though I think anybody should respond to our questions, Ross, if they feel like it/ sign their name - MEY
 * Yes, if any of you feel like participating in a conversation, feel free. I am Ross. --Solcoves 08:23, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Question
Can forgiveness play a role in current events? -RCK

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Ross Koepke vs. Meg Young

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Game 2

 * Marge's Turn

Romanticism

 * Can Romanticism be perpetually self-sustaining? -RCK
 * i think romantics have trouble maintaining romanticism in the world. i think it is impossible for it to sustain itself when confronted with the tragic nature of life. -margaret elizabeth young
 * Romantic artists have covered a huge range of tragic emotions, so I'm not sure it's out of touch with the tragic nature of life in the first place. I think though it is possible that Romanticism could lead one to become out of touch with the rational (or pragmatic?) nature of society. -Ross Cameron Koepke
 * "Dr. Ludwig found that roughly 20 percent of eminent poets had committed suicide, compared with a suicide rate of 4 percent for all the professions he examined. The suicide rate in the general United States population is around 1 percent, he said."
 * -New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9A01E4D7153AF937A15757C0A9629C8B63
 * "Mental illness is not the price people pay for their creative gifts... creative people who are mentally ill find themselves, almost by default, in the arts rather than in business or the other sciences." - Arthur M. Ludwig, The Price of Greatness: Resolving the Creativity and Madness Controversy (1995)

YOZ

 * What does YOZ mean? -RCK
 * YOZ (imperative) 1. Emphatic contraction of "yours" (yo's), spelled with the letter 'z' for street credit. -MEY

FO'GIVENESS

 * Can forgiveness play a role in current events? - RCK
 * I think the middle east could use some. - MEY
 * I'm sure Nusrat (current iTunes playlist) would agree...but I was wondering about current events in the Deuce. -RCK
 * Does the Deuce have current events? Annarborpublicschools.org is funny but doesn't count.
 * When I go to check on my life's current events I check news.google.com third and Ann Arbor News fourth. I care a lot more about friends. Those kinds of current events. -RCK
 * Can forgiveness play a role in friendships? - RCK
 * I don't think I have a friend who hasn't had to forgive me for something. I am a screwup. -MEY
 * I totally disagree that you're a screwup because all your friend have had to forgive you. I think it's proof of your character that people want to forgive you. Most people just don't categorize the things you do under "Screwups"...they see them more as "other people being retarded". Then they burn all the bridges to that person so they don't have to worry about it. Maybe you screw up because you try to keep all the bridges in the best condition possible? (or you just feel more responsible when something goes wrong?) -RCK
 * "Maybe you screw up cause you try to keep the bridges in the best condition possible" on first reading that didnt make much sense because i am not sure what 'burning bridges' is, in fact, but I am sure that this applies to more than one friendship. Tonight I was talking on the phone with someone and realized that it is hard for me to be totally honest with someone who doesn't match my values. -MEY

VALUES
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 * Is it hard for you to be honest with someone who holds different values than yourself? - MEY
 * For me? Yes, with exceptions. - RCK
 * Yes, those things, but also these things, real examples (order from how little I say to how much)
 * I. My girlfriend isn't comfortable with dating around a lot? I just ask her more questions and tell her less about what I'm up to.
 * II. Somebody does a lot of pot? Hard to tell them how not sexy I find it and how retarded I find the pot-culture, like when I saw a documentary on Amsterdam.
 * III. Die hard atheist? I have been honest but I feel so weird saying, after hearing how ignorant religious people are, that I can't thelp believing in God, etc.