Hey, I never really understood that quote "He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" -Dr. Johnson
So just wondering, what does it mean in your eyes? Discuss.
"He who makes a beast of himself.."
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Inhumane actions that desensitize you to everything, et voila
You succumb to your baser instincts so you don't have worry about emotion.
It relates to the hit book series and following TV show "Animorphs", the characters would often escape their own existance to become a beast to bury their teenage angst (or pain).
Moving your mindset to one of a simpler creature (i.e. the Beast) stops all the woes of being fully sentient (bad feelings concerning love, justice, guilt, relationships, prestige, reputation, etc.)
A wordier way of saying 'ignorance is bliss', albeit applied to a more specific theme.
Hehe so a simply way to say it would be "Going Berserk?"
Thinking of it, it's just like Anonymous and what they do. A normal human would be shocked and offended beyond belief at some of the actions of Anonymous, because he is still a man. But the practices of Anonymous, bestial though they may seem, remove human emotions other than that quality known as "lulz" from the equation, allowing Anon to perform his trolling duties without feeling emotions for his target.
It means that if you inject yourself with animal DNA, you gain an extreme tolerance for pain.
At 5/8/08 11:28 PM, Electric-Bla wrote: He was a were-doctor.
Seems more appropriate.
What was that one play about the man who was seen as a gorilla by society, and finds himself in the cage at the zoo with the gorilla at the end, and the gorilla strangles him?
At 5/8/08 11:27 PM, LiL-ReEpEr-SnIpEr wrote: Hey, I never really understood that quote "He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" -Dr. Johnson
So just wondering, what does it mean in your eyes? Discuss.
he fucked your mom
HARD
NEVER FORGET
I am not familiar with this Dr. Johnson....
Did he deliver that quote in a book? speech?
The connotation of beast is commonly used to denote 'wild instinct'
But at the same time it is a bit contradictory, because pain is one of man's most primitive sensory's - long before emotion was ever crafted
HD
Anthony Mundine has pink gloves.... best FNR4 (PS3) punching bag ever!
9 out of 10 scientists agree that the 10th scientist is a complete ass hole. Go figure.
I somewhat understand it as a "go crazy" form or something.
wut
It's a shift of responsibility. Identify yourself as a beast, and you no longer need to uphold yourself to human values.
I'd say it's a hyperbole. What do you avoid under the doctrine of your identity?
At 5/8/08 11:27 PM, LiL-ReEpEr-SnIpEr wrote: So just wondering, what does it mean in your eyes? Discuss.
You throw away all responsability and moral and just live without looking back, simple.
