Think outside the box

[KillerMuffin]

That means more than trying to get a socio-economic-political-scientific-education-yadayada profession shift in concensus of thought.

It also means to think outside of your own world and your own concerns.

The 'Net, and a BB like this, offer a great opportunity to do so. How many different kinds of people do we have represented here? Everyone across the spectrum. Well off, rich, poor, depressed, happy, lonely, satisfied, pissy, indignant, gay, straight, a bit of both, BDSMers, scaters, nillaers, democrats, labor party, EU, Bhuttoites, educated, uneducated, being educated, professionals, blue collar, burger flippers, non-native english speakers, and just about any race you can shake a rubber stick at just to name a very few. We're a microcosm of the world, only with more sex.

How do you relate to others? How do you see other people around you? Do you make assumptions based on the few things you see here and hold firm to that? Or do you assume that the people are like you? They have pain, suffering, and happiness just like you do? Or do you think they are different? They have no idea what it's like to be in your position so they can't know how injustice, prejudiced, entrapment, and discrimination feel?

Are your issues so intrinsic to your views that you color everyone's discussion with shades of those issues?

Can you think outside of your own box? Do you think you do? Do you think others do?

You may be surprised.

 

[Marxist]

How is that a real gun behind your back. It's pink right?

 

[KillerMuffin]

http://www.tanfoglio.it/sportandcompetition/ladyforce.htm

It's an Italian gun call the LadyForce. It's a dual action .45 that holds 7 rounds in the clip and one in the chamber. It's approximately 195 milimeters in length and weighs about 750 grams. Its plastic frame not only makes it lighter, but allows for the manufacture of colors. The pink color is meant to attract women to the gun.



The question is not how is real because it's pink, but how can I get one!

 

[morninggirl5]

The question that concerns me is who the first target will be once you do get one.

 

[KillerMuffin]

A square piece of paper attached to a piece of plywood attached to a mounting block standing in front of a deep and tall earthen embankment. What else is there to shoot at? Nothing for me. I just blow the living crap out of any piece of paper that gets down range from me! KillerMuffin, the Dreaded Paper Killer. I'm hiding out from detectives right now.

I leave home defense to the StudMuffin. He's more dangerous than a gun anyway. Incidentally, he can't think outside of the box.

 

[naudiz]

I'm not sure I have a box.

If I do, I think outside it so often I no longer recognize it.

 

[Lost Cause]

My life has been out of the box. I will give a stranger my last dollar if the need is just. I never ask for reward, it never enters my mind. I give my friendship with no strings attached, no conditions, and most of all...I don't try and run anyone's life!
I look into everyone's eyes, I go past the visual facade we all wear. The eyes are indeed the mirror of the soul!

 

[crystalhunting]

I allways make that attempt,don't allways succeed though.
What I don't get is why many cannot/will not even attempt,It's
like what the heck are they scared of?





CH

 

[Emeraldtryst]

I really can't see any reason to NOT try and broaden my horizons. Just talking to people makes me feel better about myself.

I like learning about the way that other people live and think. I'd like to think that I appreciate lots of other cultures outside of my own pseudo-culture. (Why is KinkyLove..or something the only representative that I've seen from the far east?)


It's simply magical that there are so many people from so many different walks of life on this board. I'm glad to have discovered this place.

And the sex rules too...it's like a bitchin' bonus

 

[Merelan]

Until I got here I thought I thought outside the box. but now, thanks to Literotica and all of you. I see so many different sides to issues and concerns. Not anything I could ever be exposed to in "real" life.
I live in a fairly diverse city, but being a white girl do not get to see the real side to other cultures. Yes, I know it isn't real here either. Don't start that argument. But reading your opinions, reactions, thoughts on all the things we talk about, helps me understand why some of the people I work and deal with react the way they do.
Did any of that make sense? Shaking head.

Here's a surprise for ya, I too am a paper killer. But my choice is a 22. I know, simple, but efficient and the only rifle we have II can leave set up for me. The others are to powerful and too expensive for me to screw up.

 

[StondTmplPilot]

all I ever think about is getting INSIDE the box!

 

[MacCortz]

what gun?

A square piece of paper attached to a piece of plywood attached to a mounting block standing in front of a deep and tall earthen embankment. What else is there to shoot at? Nothing for me. I just blow the living crap out of any piece of paper that gets down range from me! KillerMuffin, the Dreaded Paper Killer. I'm hiding out from detectives right now.

I leave home defense to the StudMuffin. He's more dangerous than a gun anyway. Incidentally, he can't think outside of the box.

What gun, isn't there a box on the other side of that magnificant ass. Gun? Just turn arround and show us the box...

What gun?

 

[gridiron]

Broadening horizons..

I'm currently taking a World History of the 20th Century course in college, and if you want to talk about thinking outside the box, a paradigm shift if you will, and broadening horizons in hopes of reducing racial tensions and misconceptions, then this is the class.. Before, I was like a lot of other people - ignorant and uneducated.. Now, before I go too far with this, I want to say that I'm not putting anyone down in this brief editorial, rather I'm trying to show you something and provide a tidbit of education. On the first day of class, my professor outlined his course goals, of which there are six. I will state them for you.

Cardinal Questions (Goals): Throughout the course, our discussion, or readings, and our activities will center on "answering" these six questions:

1) Does knowledge of world history broaden our perspectives ? (Point of view)

2) Does knowledge of world history increase tolerance for diversity ? (Differences)

3) Does knowledge of world history increase our awareness of world (plant, animal, human) interdependence ? (Our dependence on other things, whether they are plant, animal, or human.)

4) Are there single or multiple causes for successes and failures: wars, depressions, plagues, success, failures?

5) Are the events of world history isolated from today's world, or are they part of a continuum, a process of change and continuity?

6) To what extent do environment(topography and climate), affect the development of cultures and civilization?

Those are the goals that he laid out for us in our syllabus. Here are the answers that I've come up with thus far into the semester.

1) All people are of a common species, share a common adventure with a common home, and have a common destiny.

2) The world shares common problems (pollution, environment, peace) but views them through differing cultural value systems.

3) All citizens of planet Earth share a common, interconnected, and fragile biosphere.

4) All races, cultures, all creeds, and all colors have been "depositors and withdrawers at the world bank of knowledge."

5) Our world is increasingly, inexorably, and undeniably interdependent.

6) No one nation, people, region, or culture can unilateraly deal with contemporary problems: pollution, population, poverty, production, and peace.

What does all of this mean, you ask? It means this

1) We, the people of the world, are all related through a common DNA.

2) We, the people of the world, are all dealing with problems that affect our way of living.

3) We, the people of the world, are all responsible for preserving Earth.

4) We, the people of the world, have relied upon, and still rely upon, one another for the advancement and creation of technology.

5) We, the people of the world, all rely on other nations for goods and resources. One country alone does not have the means to produce everything they need.

6) We, the people of the world, cannot claim that we are 100% anything. There is no such thing. The American culture, for example, is made up of so many different things.

And lastly, I will end with this quote..

"Innovation is not so much discovered as it is borrowed.."
- MacNeil

 

[gridiron]

*Bump*

Seriously, people.. You should read this stuff.. It's important..