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Wolfslice
from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2008-10-06 09:42 [#02242798]
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seriously i have no idea.
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what is a skyfarmer?
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cx
from Norway on 2008-10-06 09:51 [#02242800]
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AN IDEA OR BEHAVIOR WHICH PASSES ON TO ANOTHER PERSON OR SEVERAL PERSONS VIA LEARNING OR IMITATION.
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Wolfslice
from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2008-10-06 09:53 [#02242801]
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also
(spam) Aqua Hop
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xceque
on 2008-10-06 09:55 [#02242802]
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what he said. coined by dickie dawkins circa 1976 in "the selfish gene". abused by internet users since 1989.
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Wolfslice
from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2008-10-06 09:56 [#02242803]
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Thank you both. I understand now.
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xceque
on 2008-10-06 09:56 [#02242804]
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a skyfarmer is a loose or ill-fitting garment worn around the penis.
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Drunken Mastah
from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-10-06 10:04 [#02242807]
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the opposite of a YOUYOU
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noseburger
on 2008-10-06 10:16 [#02242810]
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skyfarmer
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2008-10-06 10:32 [#02242816]
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Memes are worth a 4chan
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Zephyr Twin
from ΔΔΔ on 2008-10-06 10:42 [#02242821]
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this thread should just be an e-mail to w M w. He can recite an entire book on memes with his dick tied behind his tonsils.
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-10-06 21:54 [#02243105]
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The key concept is 'replicator' (with heredity). A fire replicates but it has no heredity; accumulating information is not transferred from generation to generation in fire like with the DNA/RNA/gene replicators. Memes started as a thought experiment searching for replicators other than genes that might be on earth. The question was what else replicates, and really 'memes' are basically 'culture', anything that is imitated from person to person. A meme doesn't have to be in a brain, it can lie temporarily dormant in a book or something. Meme vs. gene is an analogy so both don't necessarily behave the same, but the paradigm did allow some insights. Ex. a letter to your grandmother vs a chainletter. The latter has instructions for its own replication like 'OMG, this is SO TRUE u have to try it. copy & paste this letter to 10 OTHR PEEPL and u will receeve a kiss from someont u lov 4 REAL. I did it and it workd, and if you don't do it you will DIE, OMG'. The chain letter works like a virus hijacking the brain hardware to replicate itself. Replication is like that rare wolfram cellular automata rule that just happens to produce very complex results (life) since the population can vary due to mutations (and sex) so the most fit (best at replicating) get selected and bird wings and snail eyes and peni evolve. Technology is part of culture and you can kind of see it evolve though differently than dna because huge leaps are possible.
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-10-06 21:56 [#02243106]
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nice track
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Zephyr Twin
from ΔΔΔ on 2008-10-06 21:58 [#02243107]
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I meant that as a compliment, btw.
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Wolfslice
from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2008-10-06 22:58 [#02243110]
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That is very interesting. I wonder if there is potential for an Anti-meme. An idea or action so strikingly bad or non-sequitur that not only would it be impossible to replicate, it perhaps could shut down those very same processes through which memes breed.
The Jonestown mass suicides is my favorite meme.
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BoxBob-K23
from Finland on 2008-10-07 02:18 [#02243120]
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is darwinism a meme? and if so, what makes it different from religion?
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Monoid
from one source all things depend on 2008-10-07 02:22 [#02243121]
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Memes are an idealistic fantasy. There is no motion without moving things, right.
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-10-07 04:33 [#02243181]
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Darwinism and science in general would qualify as memes as defined by the theory (ideas that replicates from brain to brain) but science is distinguished by being based on evidence rather than faith (faith = belief without evidence). Really, human minds are primitive and religion can almost be healthy for some in a weird way.. for people like the 'crocodile people' for example maybe (who ritualistically inflict scars on their backs so they look like crocodiles who they have to share their river with). But mostly its corrupt L ron hubbard style viral manipulative stuff (saw a youtube where evangelical christians brought in a cardboard cutout of the US president for the kids to pray to wtf). But what is true and what is comforting are different.
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roygbivcore
from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2008-10-07 05:26 [#02243186]
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ive read there are over 9000 memes
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roygbivcore
from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2008-10-07 05:30 [#02243187]
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p.s. this should help you with memes more than anyone here can
href="http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Memes">http://encycl
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roygbivcore
from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2008-10-07 05:31 [#02243188]
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LOL I'M DOING IT WRONG
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Memes
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mookster
from Oxford (United Kingdom) on 2008-10-07 12:40 [#02243255]
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I heard you liek mudkips
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dave_g
from United Kingdom on 2008-10-07 12:45 [#02243256]
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I thought any mention of skyfarmer would result in an instant B7, B8, B12 from the Mr PhobiaZero-tolerance man????????
Standards have really slipped.
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