RapierFugue
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Joined: 3/16/2006 From: London, England Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: anniezz338 it would be funny as hell with all the bopping going on. And if you got a certain amount of bops, you would have to post "I am not smarter than a 5th grader" before you could post again....lol. There was a Russian (if memory serves) performance artist recently who wired himself into a machine that gave him ever increasing jolts of electricity but only if people voted to do so via his net site. The idea was (and I think I get what he's saying) that it's necessary to demonstrate to the world sometimes that people are basically good or basically bad, and that the internet desensitises people to the humanity of others; in other words not many people would punch someone in the face upon first meeting them, but there are many people who would be prepared to remotely electrocute someone via a mouse click. He did it for days, to the point it was felt to be potentially damaging to him. Some of the footage was quite disturbing. Don't really know why I posted that. I guess I just felt like it
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