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reply posted on 4-1-2009 @ 03:08 PM by badmedia
Originally posted by deepred
Thank you for your insight to the OP.

As was shown in the second half of the post BLEEP does not always mean what many would perceive it to mean.

It was intended to be a dramatic method of pointing out how we sometimes assume we understand the meaning of a word when we do not.

BTW what words did you substitute for the BLEEPS while you were reading the first half of the post?


Yeah I understand. I am somewhat torn on it. I get and seen your point - and generally agree with the premise. But at the same time, I can't help but realize that you are also playing on peoples perceptions - as if there wasn't a valid reason why peoples perceptions were that way.

I don't think the example really fits for me. By the time I got to your post, it was on the front page(isn't now, but was for a minute), had a couple of stars and such. Plus, I have 1900X1200 resolution, so I could see the top of the "real" one. So I didn't really replace each individual word etc. I figured something must be up for the other reasons. However, no doubt if I had come across only the top portion without all that I would have also replaced them with bad words.

In reality, people are just looking for the correct perception to apply to things, and I do believe in this case the correct perception for the bleeps would have normally been with bad words. Bleep is another word for censored.

If anything, it's a good example of how censorship and not giving all the facts on something will lead to people filling in the blanks and how the person who does these things are the ones to blame for what people fill into those blanks for leaving them blank in the first place. Kind of like how things are placed onto things the government does in secrecy. I don't blame people for what they fill into the blanks, I blame the secrecy for creating the blanks.

The very act of doing these things is an attempt to hide the truth from those who can't figure it out on their own, and so you can only blame yourself for the reactions. If the truth was told from the start, rather than secrecy on these things, then the misconceptions wouldn't exist to begin with. Just as if your OP had been the 2nd part without the censors, no problem would have existed in this thread.




[edit on 4-1-2009 by badmedia]


reply posted on 4-1-2009 @ 03:09 PM by deepred
Originally posted by encinoman
reply to post by deepred


Thank you for this thread.

I have been working on a research project and this might just have helped me a bit.

BTW the project is: " What is the validity of religious texts(Bible & Qur'an)? Who wrote them, when and why? What makes them valid or not valid as communication from a supreme being?"

It might just be that the validity is not with the material itself but with how the reader perceives it thus making it valid for some and not for others

Thanks again
S&F


Good luck with your project.

It makes me wonder if mis-perception sometimes leads to conflct.

A friend of mine was using my garage to work on his truck he assured me he would have the truck out of the garage at a certain time.

When he ran far past the time he said he would have the truck out of the garage I yelled across the garage at him and said "get the truck out of here"

He seemed a bit upset and I later learned that he had heard what I said as "get the (replace the "TR" in truck with an "F") out of here"



[edit on 4-1-2009 by deepred]


reply posted on 4-1-2009 @ 03:19 PM by Elijio
reply to post by gimme_some_truth


Calm down, I'm not trying to act cool. I have been fooled before, just wasn't this time.
After I read the Bleeped part or most of it. I was scrolling down wholly expecting to find an explanation for the thread title etc. You seriously thought someone went off on ATS of all places?
I know this is looked down upon here but "lol".
In fact I almost didn't click on this thread because I suspected it was someone trying to be clever.
I am as surprised at your disbelief as you seem to be at my level of perception.
No worries though.


reply posted on 4-1-2009 @ 03:24 PM by Stormdancer777
reply to post by Elijio




You seriously thought someone went off on ATS of all places?


sadly no, one could not post a rant such as this without it being removed.


reply posted on 4-1-2009 @ 03:32 PM by Elijio
reply to post by intrepid

Touche.
Your a clever fellow aren't you I mean, you are a fellow right? If not I apologize, it's just
that your avatar leads me to percei...ah crap.
Seriously though, where are the others who "perceived" the thread the same way I did?
C'mon BLEEPers I can't be the only one on the blue team.

Okay, just saw stormdancer's post.
I feel better now.

[edit on 4-1-2009 by Elijio]



reply posted on 4-1-2009 @ 03:43 PM by Siren
reply to post by deepred


Great!!! You almost had me. Thanks, it will keep me on my toes.
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