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Matias Kurovassi
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.12.17 11:56:01 -
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Jev North wrote: Have you read any good books, or seen a decent holo -- one that made you think, or at least engaged you for longer than the time it took to watch it? What was it about?
While neither a book or a holo, the poem, The Long March by the poet Sukkira Nuvolaini. It has been over six months since I read it and I am still often disquieted by the piece. Written while she was held prisoner without charge in a Provist prison and it could probably qualify as a modern epic at 2374 lines long entirely in blank verse.
Detailing the detention and trial of, "No-one but a black bag," The entire piece is told through the discussions of various jailors, lawyers and judges who continue to never explain the crimes or charges but only the harshest punishment for being imprisoned is proof enough of a crime according to them.
Absurd, surreal, and deeply allusory to traditional Raata and Oriyoni literature to paint a disjunct with life in the State. The final titular chapter of The Long March of the prisoner to their execution was probably the most disturbing thing I have read in a long time.
Besides corpses, what do you collect?
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Matias Kurovassi
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2017.01.02 02:40:08 -
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Valerie Valate wrote: So. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror, thought about all the things you've done as a capsuleer, and had a moment of clarity and thought you were a monster ? If so, what did you do about it ?
Sure.
I would say my previous work of fiction was an accurate portrayal of a monster. I do feel I played the part well of a woman who, having been convinced of the lack of value or meaning in existence lost herself in the usual nihilism of living a lifestyle granted too much power and privilege to indulge in her own dehumanization without fear of restraint... until it all became really quite banal playing the role because what's new in that regard?
Just the usual tale of individualism gone awry until all that's left is the vapid lifestyle of pointless violence; physical excess; callous disregard for human life; the pursuit of fame and popularity... overall trite pursuits enabled by the wealth and status of being a capsuleer. There was an irony in it all though.
As for myself being a monster? I think a little self-awareness does go a long way. Just as much as trying to find value, meaning and purpose in life how you can and with who you can. In a career that too often can be cynical, cruel, and unjust, it's the little moments of beauty and kindness that can remind me of life's worth.
If you could mix two genres of film to make a musical, what would you choose and what would it be about?
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Matias Kurovassi
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2017.01.02 11:07:25 -
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Jev North wrote:Matias Kurovassi wrote:I would say my previous work of fiction was an accurate portrayal of a monster. Mm. I'd say your current work of fiction is trying a little too hard to distance itself from her, though.
Absolution is nothing without the acceptance of consequences. If I wanted a complete break with the past I would have done so.
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Matias Kurovassi
science and trade institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2017.01.06 11:41:04 -
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Jason Galente wrote: On that note.. what is an invention that, in your opinion, stretches the limits of human decency? Let's get creative.
CRISPR/CasX systems used to conduct genetic attacks on human populations by re-writing cells, and especially reproductive germ cells based on racial or ethnic phenotypes or hereditary traits.
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Matias Kurovassi
science and trade institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2017.01.08 05:51:48 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote:
What color do you most associate with yourself, and why? (Not necessarily your favorite.)
Shades of grey; because it's neither black or white.
Do you consider self-identity as an infomorph critical to existence?
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Matias Kurovassi
science and trade institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2017.01.08 08:10:54 -
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Arrendis wrote: what's the ultimate question of the thread?
What is love?
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on it's back, it's belly baking in the hot sun, beating it's legs trying to turn it'self over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
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Matias Kurovassi
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2017.01.15 06:59:07 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote: Do you ever wonder whether the universe you arrive in at the other end of a warp or wormhole (including jumping) is the same universe, or just a very similar one? (After all, our methods of transportation get us around the usual rules about the speed of causality by dropping us out of the world in one place and sticking us back into it somewhere else. How sure are we that we're really bobbing back to the surface of the same world?)
Does it even matter?
No, because my warp drive makes use of the fact that space itself can move at any speed but that doesn't mean causality within that space is violated. However that does seem like a meta-physical question along the lines of: You are in a room with four walls and four doors and don't remember how you got there. If you open a door and enter an exact same room with four walls and four doors and don't remember how you got there is it a different room?
An outside observer might say yes, they're different rooms because they exist outside such a paradigm and can see the sequence of rooms but the for the person going through the rooms and not remembering how they got there they can only really observe that they've always existed in the exact same room.
So until there's evidence that using a warp-drive or jumping has caused an actual difference in the nature of causality and determinism in the universe before and after then no, it doesn't matter to me.
Most amusing clickbait you have seen other than: You won't believe these 10 Reasons Why The Federation Must Be Destroyed?
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Matias Kurovassi
Kurilaivonen
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Posted - 2017.01.16 06:43:14 -
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Jev North wrote: Let's turn that around - what generally held belief or cultural norm really annoys you?
That the pursuit of eradicating contradiction and ensuring consistency of thought in generally held beliefs annoys those who would consider it an act of dissent, treason, subversion, or heresy against the cultural norm of their ideology and politics.
I would say that at least could be considered a widely applicable annoyance.
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Matias Kurovassi
Kurilaivonen
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Posted - 2017.01.26 21:51:07 -
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Aria Jenneth wrote:
What is the world, to you?
A noumenon, a thing-in-itself that exists separate from my own perception and experience. As I seek to understand my own perception and experience of the world so must I also try to understand the perception and experience of others of the same as best I can.
What was a moment in your life you thought you could not do something, but did in the end?
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Matias Kurovassi
Kurilaivonen
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Posted - 2017.02.25 08:26:04 -
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Hetu Hegirin wrote: When was a time that you felt furthest from 'home', and was physical proximity a factor?
If home is where one feels most as oneself then I would say it was when I assumed an alternate identity for almost five years and found myself increasingly lost in my own legend, a work of fiction. The persona of a vociferous corporate lawyer turned violent functional psychopath became reality as the barriers between personality and memory blended into a gestalt form where irony was no longer ironic. There is something particularly disconcerting when you become essentially wetgraved in your own mind while a you-that-is-not-you decides to zip up an intern inside a piece of designer luggage and throw them into a pool during another bout of crash induced psychosis and nihilistic bacchanalia.
Honestly? Veikitamo Gesakaarin, not even once. Even if it did allow me some insight into a mind where a lack of moral and ethical limits led only to ever increasing depravity and hubris. My own little parable, I suppose.
I might ask the inverse: where and what makes you feel closest to home?
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