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Nature != Culture

Post by normal » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:36 pm

Everything that is not culture is nature, right?
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:38 pm

Normal wrote:Everything that is not culture is nature, right?
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Jay G » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:39 pm

Normal wrote:Everything that is not culture is nature, right?

Does that mean that TV is nature?
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by normal » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:40 pm

Society is culture. Farmed land is culture. Plastic is culture. Cigarettes are culture. Everything humans change/create is culture. It is of course derived from nature, and uses nature as building bricks. But it is not nature.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Jay G » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:41 pm

Normal wrote:Society is culture. Farmed land is culture. Plastic is culture. Cigarettes are culture. Everything humans change/create is culture. It is of course derived from nature, and uses nature as building bricks. But it is not nature.

I think it was a joke.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Animavore » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:42 pm

Is poo made from excessive Yorkie Bar consumption culture or nature?

It's a fuzzy area.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Jay G » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:43 pm

Animavore wrote:Is poo made from excessive Yorkie Bar consumption culture or nature?

It's a fuzzy area.

Poo is fuzzy?
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Animavore » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:44 pm

Jay G wrote:
Animavore wrote:Is poo made from excessive Yorkie Bar consumption culture or nature?

It's a fuzzy area.

Poo is fuzzy?
It can be. If you munch carpet.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Thinking Aloud » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:45 pm

Now I want a Yorkie.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Animavore » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:46 pm

My too. A honeycomb one.
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Jay G » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:47 pm

What's a Yorkie Bar? :dono:
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:48 pm

Jay G wrote:What's a Yorkie Bar? :dono:
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by normal » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:48 pm

Yorkie bars are culture, but the poo we create is nature ..... :shock:

Ok, so not everything we change/create is culture. Our crap and piss is nature. But we do in in a cultured way (most of the time)
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Jay G » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:49 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
Jay G wrote:What's a Yorkie Bar? :dono:
Wrong.

How can a question be wrong?
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Re: Nature != Culture

Post by Animavore » Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:49 pm

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