Question about memes

some freak is trying to bury this question

why?

There´s been a lot of stuff posted here that showed up at other places. I´ve posted stuff that was on Rense the next day. GLP ALWAYS! has the breaking news first!

No...No, not memes! How about ´ideas´, ´propositions´, ´associated concepts´, anything but memes. Save us from memebots!

What the hell is a "meme"?

memes are a huge and important clue
a pattern of thought
bump

Thanks HRM.

Why you´re welcome ?/

Memes: Introduction
by Glenn Grant, Memeticist

"An idea is something you have;
an ideology is something that has you."

--Morris Berman

What if ideas were viruses?

Consider the T-phage virus. A T-phage cannot replicate itself; it reproduces by hijacking the DNA of a bacterium, forcing its host to make millions of copies of the phage. Similarly, an idea can parasitically infect your mind and alter your behavior, causing you to want to tell your friends about the idea, thus exposing them to the idea-virus. Any idea which does this is called a "meme" (pronounced `meem´).

Unlike a virus, which is encoded in DNA molecules, a meme is nothing more than a pattern of information, one that happens to have evolved a form which induces people to repeat that pattern. Typical memes include individual slogans, ideas, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions. It may sound a bit sinister, this idea that people are hosts for mind-altering strings of symbols, but in fact this is what human culture is all about.

As a species, we have co-evolved with our memes. Imagine a group of early Homo Sapiens in the Late Pleistocene epoch. They´ve recently arrived with the latest high-tech hand axes and are trying to show their Homo Erectus neighbours how to make them. Those who can´t get their heads around the new meme will be at a disadvantage and will be out-evolved by their smarter cousins.

Meanwhile, the memes themselves are evolving, just as in the game of "Telephone" (where a message is whispered from person to person, being slightly mis-replicated each time). Selection favors the memes which are easiest to understand, to remember, and to communicate to others. Garbled versions of a useful meme would presumably be selected out.

Wow Elaine this server is like lightin honey!!!!

even thought a meme is found to be a hoax, does it still change us?

Yes in the sense it becomes a symbolic imprint. Think of it perhaps in one of two ways. If you have a virus and recover you will have a genetic memory of the event. The next time you are exposed you will perhaps have more immunity. Thusly you will either reject the virus outright as in the case say of measles or as is many more times the case you will be more susceptible to it as in the case of the common cold.

I think in my experience memes are more like the cold. Once symbolically imprinted I tend to recognize and be hooked by the same mind imprints. The interesting thing about memes to me is how powerfully they are utilized to get us to all go a certain direction. Think of the whole stargate conspiracy meme, it´s huge. Maybe both sides (all the players)perhaps are the same side symbolically steering us to an eventual end scenario meme. Perhaps it has a purpose. It helps to look at what the end purpose might be. Memes are mind tunnels.


As
Marshall McCluhan said the medium is the message

[link to www.mcluhaninstitute.org]
meme1.html

You mean memes are real?

huh>

Anonymous Coward
10/10/2004
11:16 pm EDT Re: Question about memes

You mean memes are real?
Anonymous Coward
10/11/2004
3:26 pm EDT Re: Question about memes

huh>


NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE IN TIMES ON THESE POSTS? WHY WAS THIS EVEN ON THE FRONT PAGE? GLITCH?

Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.

God´s lioness,
How one we grow,
Pivot of heels and knees!--The furrow

Splits and passes, sister to
The brown arc
Of the neck I cannot catch,

Nigger-eye
Berries cast dark
Hooks----

Black sweet blood mouthfuls,
Shadows.
Something else

Hauls me through air----
Thighs, hair;
Flakes from my heels.

White
Godiva, I unpeel----
Dead hands, dead stringencies.

And now I
Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas.
The child´s cry

Melts in the wall.
And I
Am the arrow,

The dew that flies,
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red

Eye, the cauldron of morning.

Me, Me!

Anonymous Coward
10/10/2004
11:16 pm EDT Re: Question about memes

You mean memes are real?
Anonymous Coward
10/11/2004
3:26 pm EDT Re: Question about memes

huh>


NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE IN TIMES ON THESE POSTS? WHY WAS THIS EVEN ON THE FRONT PAGE? GLITCH?

The memes threads are the reason the board was taken down IMO.

Is "ASSHAT" and "FUCKTARD" a GLP MEME

I try to use these words daily in the real world in the hopes they will spread and become a world wide used words.And with any luck history will give credit where credit is do!
Right WIO Thanks for asshat

actually they are

I am sending you HAPPY THOUGHTS!





RIGHT NOW!




(Seems like everybody could use more of those these days...)

thanks ;)

I like this hrm: "It helps to look at what the end purpose might be. Memes are mind tunnels."

That´s the whole purpose of becoming aware of memes. Now we can start using them on ourselves (an others) with conscious intent and purpose. This is part of the secret knowledge that the PTB have been using to manipulate the masses for one very long time now.

Program yourself! Power to the peeps!

Personal Relationship With God
Also Public Relationship With God

Donald Gaston, who shared an elevator with Thompson yesterday, was able to elaborate.

"Hugh´s got a very personal, private relationship with God," Gaston said. "He told me all about it."

"Teamwork," Thompson said, holding up a copy of Kurt Vonnegut´s Breakfast Of Champions. "I asked Jesus, ´Jesus, do you want trash like this at the library?´ Jesus didn´t even have to take any time to think! He said, ´Hugh, no book filled with drawings of women´s privates and people´s behinds belongs in a library!´ I move we do what Jesus would."

Thanks to the combined efforts of God and his friends in Mobile, Vonnegut´s book was removed from shelves.

According to Thompson, the only regret he has about his personal relationship with God is that he is unable to share it with more people.

[link to theonion.com]

how sad .. DBJ

Don´t Blame Jesus

i didn´t blame anyone
it wasn´t me

to AC 3:34:

why do you think it was the Memes threads that brought GLP down?

You are absolutely amazing me ;-)
Everwhere I go...
Wow Sylvia and the woo woo too

Happy meme_tic memories
Past futures colliding
Rushing like overwrought
Rivers of time


I´m sending delighted THOUGHTS back to you



on another note Idol´s copying
whoo I´m complimented!

In America you´ll get food to eat
Won´t have to run through the jungle
And scuff up your feet
You´ll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day
It´s great to be an American

Ain´t no lions or tigers ain´t no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Ev´rybody is as happy as a man can be
Climb aboard little wog sail away with me

CHORUS
Sail away sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay

In America every man is free
To take care of his home and his family
You´ll be as happy as a monkey in a monkey tree
You´re all gonna be an American