Are scars cool?

Arcade Fire said:
I would imagine that most people get a negative diagnosis for Asperger's ;)
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three positive diagnoses before two negative. :)

I just have a few "aspergers-like mannerisms."

*n
 
Arcade Fire said:
Does it matter? Likes and dislikes can be completely arbitrary - there's no sense in looking for reasons in them!
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That's not neccessarily the case. Every social interaction you have has a purpose, everything you like or dislike can say soemthing about you.

Whether your reasoning is concious or unconcious is another matter. One idea that I love is that your unconcious mind is constantly in control of much of your body, and can give many things away. For example, try faking a smile.
You can only lie to people when they want to believe what you are saying


Penski and I have chatted on the subject of body mods before and he opened my mind to the subject, he's quite logical.
I now think it is a mixture of self-abuse and instinctual modification whereas before I thought it was just about self-abuse.
 
penski said:
I just have a few "aspergers-like mannerisms."
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Being a disagreeable spacko doesn't count as "aspergers-like". ;)

I really wouldn't be surprised if I tested positive for asperger's. I see a lot of the characteristics in myself. It seems obvious to me that it's not a case of 'positive' and 'negative' though. Like so many so-called diseases of the mind, these things run on a scale with many different shades of gray.
 
cleanbluesky said:
That's not neccessarily the case. Every social interaction you have has a purpose, everything you like or dislike can say soemthing about you.

Whether your reasoning is concious or unconcious is another matter. One idea that I love is that your unconcious mind is constantly in control of much of your body, and can give many things away.
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But if (some of) your likes and dislikes are dictated by your unconsciousness, which is something completely beyond your control, then what's the difference between that and a completely arbitrary like/dislike? We understand so little about the mind (despite what some psychologists would have us believe) that it's pointless to try and look for reasons and causes. For any observable phenomenon of the mind there are umpteen possible causal relations that we can't effectively distinguish between, which makes it pointless to theorize. At present, the mind is too complex for us to subject it to skeptical empiricism except in the most basic of cases.
 
Arcade Fire said:
But if (some of) your likes and dislikes are dictated by your unconsciousness, which is something completely beyond your control, then what's the difference between that and a completely arbitrary like/dislike?
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What's to say that there are arbitrary dislikes?

It may be the case that the arbitrary parts of our brain have nothing to do with our proclivities.
For example, Jung suggested that the arbitrary parts of our mind are unconcious and will influence our concious, but his work was around dreams and ideals rather than a direct and specific desire.

We understand so little about the mind (despite what some psychologists would have us believe) that it's pointless to try and look for reasons and causes. For any observable phenomenon of the mind there are umpteen possible causal relations that we can't effectively distinguish between, which makes it pointless to theorize.
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Yes and no. A lot of psychology is pap, but I am finding the ideas surrounding philosophy and psychotherapy increasingly accurate. Also, there is an intersting idea that the unconcious actually WANTS you to know what it hides, and wants others to know as well.

This is why we dream and this is why you can tell when a person lies.

At present, the mind is too complex for us to subject it to skeptical empiricism except in the most basic of cases.
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We can never see ourselves through ourselves, we must attempt to investigate subjectively rather than pretend that objective observation is possible.
 
penski said:
it is a valid reason but I always seek to find the reasoning behind the preference.

in this instance, I am trying to ascertain if the dislike is a general one due to a woman changing her appearance to something which falls outside Morba's 'scene' or whether the dislike is a specific one due to the nature of the change itself.

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in the context of the scarring, its the nature of the change. i dont have a scene or a preference of scene. i enjoy looking at all kinds of women be it size, colour or the way they dress.
 
Whoever posted this picture ^^^^ made me wanna throw up - so thanks v much. Please can people stop quoting it or a mod put on a shock warning on the thread title please. :mad:

I have a 6 inch scar on my back from when I had an op on my heart when I was a baby and they didn't have keyhole surgery (or couldn't use it because I was only a couple of days old) and they didn't want to go through the front of my chest so I could wear bikinis when I was older. :cool:

Scars are tattoos of the brave :) and Tesla :( what an awful thing to happen.

Might get the boyf to take a pic of it later - I often forget about it, till someone sees it and asks me.

BB x

PS Rushdie's wife - can't find a pic?
 
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BrightonBelle said:
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No need for a frowny face, it doesn't bother me or anyone I know. Doesn't really effect my day to day life either.

Imagine if the iron had landed on my face or in my lap or something, would have been far worse.
 
I have a decent scar across my chest where I cracked my sturnem and some ribs - gfs like it!

I also still have my "Smiley Face" shape mark on my chest as well - which hurt: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17568778&highlight=Bitten

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Quite a few on my right arm..

Some torture 'play' ;), one accident breaking into a friends car (he asked me to do it) and then lastly being attacked by a deranged female.

Oh and I experiment with cold burns, found a this neat metal logo and sprayed compressed air (upside) down onto it for about 10-15s then applied it to my arm, it's almost gone now.


Err... am I a masochist? :P
 
Tesla said:
No need for a frowny face, it doesn't bother me or anyone I know. Doesn't really effect my day to day life either.

Imagine if the iron had landed on my face or in my lap or something, would have been far worse.
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Thats good :) still a sad thing to happen to a kiddie though.

I am a woman!!! I am allowed to be emotional Godammit!!! :p

BB x
 
Tesla said:
I thought I would take a pic of mine seeing as a few others have.

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I am not that conscious of it, however when out on a night or shopping I usually take the change with my right, unscarred hand
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Never even noticed that Chris.


My other mate (his name is Chris too actually, he's not ginger though ;)) managed to pour a boiling how tea pot down his chest when he was 2 years old, the very bad scars still remain today. Although again I never notice them!
 
I burned my shoulder after touching it to my b16a header after a 11 hour drive. Was not pleasant at all and took about 1 year to heal..its still tender actually.
 
I have a few on my arm and hands, I will have to think of new stories to go behind them so I dont look like a knob. Some scars can be cool though :p
 
One on the side of my head where I fell on a barbed wire fence, that was fun. Another on my knee where I rolled over in bed and whacked my knee on the side of a shelf, and an faint acid burn on my arm, which I swear would have been fine if A&E hadn't put a neutralizing agent on it, as it didn't hurt until they did that. :p
 
I would quite like a perfect shark bite across my chest, but I wouldn't like getting it. A big-ass jelly fish sting across the chest would be quite cool as well but again, I wouldn't like to go through it.

My only major scar is on the fourth finger of my right hand.

Stabbing a pack of frozen bacon with a steak knife whilst wearing a wet latex glove is not to be recommended.

I was lucky really. Had the blade been facing the other direction, I would have cut my hand in half rather than taking the end of my finger off.

The scaring is from the surgery they did so I could continue to play the guitar without a stumpy finger.

Panzer
 
Scarfacé said:
Never even noticed that Chris.
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That's what I said above, it's not really noticeable.

We will have to go out in Bristol soon. I think some sort of OcUK bristol meet is coming up.
 
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