The "One-Million-Views" Thread

[LadyArae]

Thats kinda what I was getting. Whatsa meme?


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[Lady Neptune]

i'm still stuck on fraggle rock, how awesome!... used to watch it EVERY day lolol

[mojo5040]

i'm kinda done here....

[Cusp_Child]

*cuddles mojo* what exactly is baklava?

[Grandma Lola]

Layer upon layer of thin phyllo dough each one buttered individually, about half way through the dough, it's filled with nuts and sugar ( I also make some with chocolate and nutella), then the rest of the layers of Phyllo each buttered until you fill a baking dish.

Cut in to diamond shape...Then it's baked to a fine light crispness and doused with a homemade syrup of water sugar and lemon...until dripping with flaky nutty sweetness that nothing I have found compares to.

[fred aus indo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

A meme ( /ˈmiːm/) is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. While genes transmit biological information, memes are said to transmit ideas and belief information.

A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.

The word "meme" is a shortening (modeled on "gene") of mimeme (from Ancient Greek μίμημα Greek pronunciation: [mǐːmɛːma] mīmēma, "something imitated", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, "to imitate", from μῖμος mimos "mime"), together with a pun on the French word même ("same"). It was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, fashion and the technology of building arches.[6]

Advocates of the meme idea say that memes may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition and inheritance, each of which influence a meme's reproductive success.

Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success. Some memes may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.

A field of study called memetics arose in the 1990s to explore the concepts and transmission of memes in terms of an evolutionary model. Criticism from a variety of fronts has challenged the notion that scholarship can examine memes empirically. Developments in neuroimaging may however make empirical study possible.[9] Some commentators[who?] question the idea that one can meaningfully categorize culture in terms of discrete units.

[Blacksheep]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

A meme ( /ˈmiːm/) is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. While genes transmit biological information, memes are said to transmit ideas and belief information.

A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.

The word "meme" is a shortening (modeled on "gene") of mimeme (from Ancient Greek μίμημα Greek pronunciation: [mǐːmɛːma] mīmēma, "something imitated", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, "to imitate", from μῖμος mimos "mime"), together with a pun on the French word même ("same"). It was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, fashion and the technology of building arches.[6]

Advocates of the meme idea say that memes may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition and inheritance, each of which influence a meme's reproductive success.

Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success. Some memes may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.

A field of study called memetics arose in the 1990s to explore the concepts and transmission of memes in terms of an evolutionary model. Criticism from a variety of fronts has challenged the notion that scholarship can examine memes empirically. Developments in neuroimaging may however make empirical study possible.[9] Some commentators[who?] question the idea that one can meaningfully categorize culture in terms of discrete units.

Thats interesting. I've seen the term meme alot lately. Ididn't no that mainstream culture had a grip on the fact that cultures are exactlly like a living thing thats acts as a host for our flesh.

Culture definitlely behaves like a biological organism, generally the transmission of ideas and behaviour between cultures is called cultural assimilation and cultural difusement.

Sort of like when the media feeds us entertainment we mechanicahlly assimilate the big hits and think we are excersiscing freedom of choice and expressing our taste. That is an exploitation of that faculty. We assimilate what the ruling culture diffuses into our culture from theirs.

But I guess meme's would be the same thing but on a person to person level within the culture rather then culture to culture.

The pomo indians have an expression for what happened when Indians assimilated white cultures values etc. They called it the "white poison", like a sickness that could be transmitted, you might not know that a certain indian was a carrier of the white poison but you could catch the disease without knowing it if you interacted with them. pretty soon you'd be over sexxed, greedy or generally untrustworthy like a white person.

I guess those would be memes.

[Aris_G.o.w.]

[Aris_G.o.w.]

[GenericIndigo]

DUDE Aris... LOL I just saw this... F'in humorous lookit the facial expressions LOL

[GenericIndigo]

LOL I think this thread here: http://indigosociety.com/showthread....-reunion-style

has got a better chance of hitting 1-million-views first

yet both serve absolutely no purpose, as it seems.

[Lady Neptune]

LOL I think this thread here: http://indigosociety.com/showthread....-reunion-style

has got a better chance of hitting 1-million-views first

yet both serve absolutely no purpose, as it seems.

hahahaaa you crack me up

awww they both have a purpose GI, not everyone can see it yet...

(hint : the purpose writes itself)

[GenericIndigo]

hahahaaa you crack me up

awww they both have a purpose GI, not everyone can see it yet...

(hint : the purpose writes itself)

ahhh okie dokie that makes sense...

[Lady Neptune]

i'm watching the dark knight now

just needed to get that out i freakin love this movie

kthxbi

[Lady Neptune]

[pebble]

*NEWSFLASH*
This just in...

An announcement has been made in the aethers that the world as we know it will neither end nor ascend until GI gets his one million views...HURRY UP PEOPLES

=P

[Lady Neptune]

"waiting for the sun..............
waiting for you to come along
waiting for you to hear my song
waiting for you to come along
waiting for you to tell me what went wrong
this is the strangest life
i've ever known...."

[Lady Neptune]

"I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words."

"One person's craziness is another person's reality."

"I always liked strange characters."

- Tim Burton

[pebble]

smiley faces should not have an angle

[GenericIndigo]

"I always liked strange characters."

- Tim Burton

haha nice-- i knew I had a lot in common with him after walking through his gallery. It was like a schizo's DisneyLand.