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There is no such thing as art         


Author: Psalm Nuclei
Date: Nov 27, 2007 10:29

There is only boredom.

All this "look at me" self righteous stuff really gets me.

How about doing something constructive and helpful for your species
like... hmm.. i dunno... figure out how to end world hunger, poverty,
etc. ?

Nah, that'd be asking too much from the fartsy artsy's. They'd only
complain that they couldn't get their tours booked, or their paintings
displayed, or their sculptures bought.

We have the power to do so much good, yet we waste it on idle
nonsense.

Art is nothing more than people with too much time on their hands.

Oh, and I enjoy creating art myself. And yes I am a hypocrite (i don't
do anything to help solve world hunger, poverty, etc.)
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Re: There is no such thing as art         


Author: John Jones
Date: Nov 27, 2007 11:21

On Nov 27, 6:29�pm, Psalm Nuclei gmail.com> wrote:
> There is only boredom.
>
> All this "look at me" self righteous stuff really gets me.
>
> How about doing something constructive and helpful for your species
> like... hmm.. i dunno... figure out how to end world hunger, poverty,
> etc. ?
>
> Nah, that'd be asking too much from the fartsy artsy's. They'd only
> complain that they couldn't get their tours booked, or their paintings
> displayed, or their sculptures bought.
>
> We have the power to do so much good, yet we waste it on idle
> nonsense.
>
> Art is nothing more than people with too much time on their hands.
>
> Oh, and I enjoy creating art myself. And yes I am a hypocrite (i don't
> do anything to help solve world hunger, poverty, etc.) ...
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Re: There is no such thing as art         


Date: Nov 27, 2007 11:34

"Psalm Nuclei" gmail.com> wrote in message
news:0ef13732-332f-4664-8d93-1318d0e1d51e@e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> There is only boredom.
>
> All this "look at me" self righteous stuff really gets me.

And then you go on to seek attention with your self-riteous bullshit.
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Re: There is no such thing as art         


Author: Immortalist
Date: Nov 27, 2007 21:28

On Nov 27, 10:29 am, Psalm Nuclei gmail.com> wrote:
> There is only boredom.
>
> All this "look at me" self righteous stuff really gets me.
>
> How about doing something constructive and helpful for your species
> like... hmm.. i dunno... figure out how to end world hunger, poverty,
> etc. ?
>
> Nah, that'd be asking too much from the fartsy artsy's. They'd only
> complain that they couldn't get their tours booked, or their paintings
> displayed, or their sculptures bought.
>
> We have the power to do so much good, yet we waste it on idle
> nonsense.
>
> Art is nothing more than people with too much time on their hands.
>
> Oh, and I enjoy creating art myself. And yes I am a hypocrite (i don't
> do anything to help solve world hunger, poverty, etc.) ...
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Re: There is no such thing as art         


Author: Ledraychere
Date: Nov 27, 2007 23:21

On Nov 28, 12:28 am, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 10:29 am, Psalm Nuclei gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>> There is only boredom.
>
>> All this "look at me" self righteous stuff really gets me.
>
>> How about doing something constructive and helpful for your species
>> like... hmm.. i dunno... figure out how to end world hunger, poverty,
>> etc. ?
>
>> Nah, that'd be asking too much from the fartsy artsy's. They'd only
>> complain that they couldn't get their tours booked, or their paintings
>> displayed, or their sculptures bought.
>
>> We have the power to do so much good, yet we waste it on idle ...
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Re: There is no such thing as art         


Date: Nov 28, 2007 05:56

"Immortalist" yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Nov 27, 10:29 am, Psalm Nuclei gmail.com> wrote:
>> We have the power to do so much good, yet we waste it on idle
>> nonsense.
>>
>> Art is nothing more than people with too much time on their hands.
>
> Can you provide a list of criteria which might help us devise a
> standard for determining how much art we should participate in and how
> much of anything else we should be doing? Maybe said in a way that
> could make a proposed ratio seem resonable.

Some US states have madates for public buildings' art. Minnesota allocates
between 1/2%% to 2%% of a public building's construction or reconstruction
budget goes to public art displayed as part of the building (sometimes as
part of the architecture, sometimes as traditionally 'hung' or installed
art.)

But regardless, trying to make a measure of what is appropriate, what is
'art' in the public sector defeats freedom.
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Re: There is no such thing as art         


Author: Psalm Nuclei
Date: Nov 28, 2007 09:30

i have no problem with people's freedoms at all.

i just really think that we have too much time on our hands, and all
that time, instead of creating art, could be better spent doing things
more constructive to be a better benefit to people, especially those
in need.
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Re: There is no such thing as art         


Author: Ledraychere
Date: Nov 28, 2007 13:46

On Nov 28, 12:30 pm, Psalm Nuclei gmail.com> wrote:
> i have no problem with people's freedoms at all.
>
> i just really think that we have too much time on our hands, and all
> that time, instead of creating art, could be better spent doing things
> more constructive to be a better benefit to people, especially those
> in need.

To Psalm :
Sometimes the need is Art .

Ledraychere
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Re: There is no such thing as art         


Author: ZerkonX
Date: Nov 29, 2007 06:39

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:29:46 -0800, Psalm Nuclei wrote:
> All this "look at me" self righteous stuff really gets me.

!!!!
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Re: There is no such thing as art         


Date: Nov 29, 2007 11:21

"Psalm Nuclei" gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4bcc7659-581b-48e1-a0c3-77f192343bf8@d61g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>i have no problem with people's freedoms at all.
>
> i just really think that we have too much time on our hands, and all
> that time, instead of creating art, could be better spent doing things
> more constructive to be a better benefit to people, especially those
> in need.

...oh, and World Peace.
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