What do you assign to Mordor?

[Orominuialwen]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

I'd like to assign a modern world where a five year old is so accustomed to certain situations that she would ask me without second thought if another five year old I was talking to at her school was my daughter.

What's even worse is that when I was in 9th grade I had a 4th grader ask me if my brother (who was in 6th grade at the time) was my son! I know I look older than I am and he looks younger than he is, but not by that much. it was even creepier when a year or so later an adult thought the same thing!

Originally Posted by Formendacil

On a similar topic, I assign to Mordor anybody who think that families of more than two children are "huge" and a "potential threat of overpopulation". In Canada, at least, the only reason the population is growing is immigrants. Having a family of seven is not going to overstrain the world's resources... Furthermore, it's a lot cooler being the oldest of seven than being "the older of two". ~An oldest of seven, and proud of it~

I've always wished I had more than just one sibiling. Let that be a lesson to all of you--don't do what my parents did and not start having kids until your late 30's (granted, they didn't even meet until they were in their mid 30's). Your family will end up very small, and sibilings are a wonderful thing to have when growing up!


I assign dandruff to Mordor. It makes you feel all dirty and unwashed even when you've just taken a shower earlier in the day.

Patina that doesn't work should also go to Mordor. It was supposed to turn my piece for jewelry class black, but instead it worked less and less each time I tried it. The only parts it turned properly black were the ones I was going to have to sand anyway because I didn't want them to be black. Very, very frustrating.

[Kath]

Therefore I assign the word "pianist". *snicker*

Watch out Fea or TGWBS will be on here sending denial about 'pianist' envy to Mordor!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Kath

Watch out Fea or TGWBS will be on here sending denial about 'pianist' envy to Mordor!

In this case, I'll head off the problem before it arrives by sending Sigmund Freud. Oedipus and Electra complexes my foot.

[Lalaith]

ah, I missed Kath's post. That would have solved my quandry....

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by Fea

In this case, I'll head off the problem before it arrives by sending Sigmund Freud. Oedipus and Electra complexes my foot.

I've only been studying Psych for a few months, but didn't Freud more or less invent the entire concept of psychology? Which means that, by sending him to Mordor, you also send psychiatrists, psychiatric wards, and mental care, as well as indirect effects of the discovery of psychology, such as maternity leave and parents being allowed to visit hospitals with children?

Just a thought.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

I've only been studying Psych for a few months, but didn't Freud more or less invent the entire concept of psychology?

No, no, no... You're thinking of fantastic people like Plato (with his concept that knowledge is innate and that reality is what you think it is), Aristotle (with his idea that knowledge can only be gained through experience and that the only true reality is that which is concrete in our world), Descartes (cogito, ergo sum), Hobbes (monoism), Lock (agreed with Aristotle)... And in the 18th century, people like Hume and Kant. Then you had guys like Wundt and James, and then finally you get Freud, who was the father of psychoanalysis and his work was sort of the turning point in psychology that made it what it is today, but his fascination with psychosexual everything has been challenged or changed by so many people that it's annoying. Even my professor told us that we're only learning about him because we have to and that we'll hear far more about him in writing courses discussing psychoanalytic theory. A literary theory I also send to Mordor. Basically, the only Freudian concept still commonly in use, as explained to me by my professor, is that early experiences mold who you become later in life.

So by sending Freud to Mordor, I'm sending only his crackpot theories with him. The good ones can stay.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

As a pianist, I'm not quite sure - is it only the word that gets sent to Mordor, or pianists in general? I don't think I want to play there...

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

I've only been studying Psych for a few months, but didn't Freud more or less invent the entire concept of psychology? Which means that, by sending him to Mordor, you also send psychiatrists, psychiatric wards, and mental care, as well as indirect effects of the discovery of psychology, such as maternity leave and parents being allowed to visit hospitals with children?

Just a thought.

Hmm. Psychiatrists, psychiatric wards and bureaucratic hospitals all together in Mordor. I think I like the potential complications of this scene.

[Lhunardawen]

Alternating sun and rain within a day. Mordor residents should love playing in the rain and chasing frogs one moment then sunbathing and sipping iced tea the next.

No, I'm not sending frogs and iced tea to Mordor. They'll have to buy them from a stand that I'll be putting up near the Black Gate.