do movies/books/music/etc have an effect on your daily life?
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taythegibs
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My question to you is do you think that movies/books/music/etc have an effect on your daily life? I have been crazy irritable today, and it took me hours to realize that before i went to sleep last night and for a little while today ive been reading a book that has had me on edge. Because of the book I have not had a productive day at all today. Anybody else?
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I watch about 2 hours of TV a week. I read only online like forums and blogs. But I ALWAYS have music going. At home, in the car, outside while smoking always music. Always positive stuff or electronic (And I do like Dub Step... NO SKRILLIX CR4P THO). I would like to think I am a happy guy so maybe my music does have an effect on me... or is it Affect?
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Affect.Vision:I watch about 2 hours of TV a week. I read only online like forums and blogs. But I ALWAYS have music going. At home, in the car, outside while smoking always music. Always positive stuff or electronic (And I do like Dub Step... NO SKRILLIX CR4P THO). I would like to think I am a happy guy so maybe my music does have an effect on me... or is it Affect?
Well, affect what I am doing or how I am feeling?
Everything affects what we are doing. But I don't allow things to bother me.
If I did, books, TV and movies would be the least of the things that would affect me that way.
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As a musician and a former literature major, absolutely.
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Effect is a noun, affect is a verb. So something can have an effect on you, or affect you.
To make matters more difficult, though, affect is also a noun in psychology, and it means your overall mood. So something can have an effect on your affect, or even affect your affect.
And to answer the original question, most definitely. -
Music is a must! But I hardly watch T.V. For some reason I'm fascinated with the obituaries in the newspaper...probably because I'm old!! Damn...
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It is A great portion of my life as I find myself in bed more days than out.
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This question got me to thinking about some of the books and music that have greatly influenced the outcome of my world view, which has a constant affect on my daily life. Some of these books offered viewpoints that I have embraced, others have illustrated clearly that which I have rejected.
Here's the short list:
The New Testament
The Rise & Fall of The Third Reich; William Shirer
The Genealogy of Morality; Friedrich Nietzche
Mere Christianity; C S Lewis
Atlas Shrugged; Ayan Rand
Principles of Biology; Herbert Spencer
No Exit; Jean Paul Sartre
Ten Days that Shook the World; Jack Reed
It Can't Happen Here, Babbitt, Main St.; Sinclair Lewis
The Grapes of Wrath; Steinbeck
Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
The Music of:
Woodie Gutherie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon -
I agree that "Principles of Biology " book is riveting. LOLJDH:This question got me to thinking about some of the books and music that have greatly influenced the outcome of my world view, which has a constant affect on my daily life. Some of these books offered viewpoints that I have embraced, others have illustrated clearly that which I have rejected.
Here's the short list:
The New Testament
The Rise & Fall of The Third Reich; William Shirer
The Genealogy of Morality; Friedrich Nietzche
Mere Christianity; C S Lewis
Atlas Shrugged; Ayan Rand
Principles of Biology; Herbert Spencer
No Exit; Jean Paul Sartre
Ten Days that Shook the World; Jack Reed
It Can't Happen Here, Babbitt, Main St.; Sinclair Lewis
The Grapes of Wrath; Steinbeck
Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
The Music of:
Woodie Gutherie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon
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Actually, that book changed my life. In it, Spencer applied Darwinist Evolutionary theory to Capitalist Economic theory, coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" in economic terms, and invented Social Darwinism, which is the premis of Ayan Rand's economic outlook. Mr. Spencer is also "credited" with having said, during the Great Famine in Ireland in the mid 1840's, "When the poor die, society is benefited."
The book itself is as dry as the Sonora desert, but some of the ideas I found there were shattering, and fundamentally altered my view of economics. -
I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth. -
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.Lasabar:I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth. -
Pet sounds=xanax
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Okay.....Luko:
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.Lasabar:I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth.
A simple "Wrong" would have done just fine... -
this guy is a mean person.
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This agression against Kuwait....it will not standLasabar:
Okay.....Luko:
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.Lasabar:I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth.
A simple "Wrong" would have done just fine...
Got any good sasparilla? -
Guess you missed my hilarious Billy Madison reference...i was being ironic since my mind also is filled with asinine movie quotes.Lasabar:
Okay.....Luko:
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.Lasabar:I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth.
A simple "Wrong" would have done just fine... -
LOL, you're slipping Lassie. I'm not sure if I like this new and improved mature and responsible Lassie. Come on dude, there's always room for copius amounts of miller lite and fart jokes. Trust me, I know.Luko:
Guess you missed my hilarious Billy Madison reference...i was being ironic since my mind also is filled with asinine movie quotes.Lasabar:
Okay.....Luko:
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.Lasabar:I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth.
A simple "Wrong" would have done just fine...
On a related note, I can relate virtually every thing that happens in my life to a Seinfeld episode. I have had entire conversations with people doing nothing but quoting or referencing Seinfeld episodes. -
AHA! My good sir, what I have typed is EXACTLY what Billy Madison DID say after he got that response! YOU, SIR, are the one who is slipping! BOOOOOOOOMLuko:
Guess you missed my hilarious Billy Madison reference...i was being ironic since my mind also is filled with asinine movie quotes.Lasabar:
Okay.....Luko:
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.Lasabar:I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth.
A simple "Wrong" would have done just fine... -
Hey there... I was still in "Quote" mode when I said that... C'Mon guys, if you're gonna dance with the Devil, AT LEAST wear your dancing shoes!Heavy:
LOL, you're slipping Lassie. I'm not sure if I like this new and improved mature and responsible Lassie. Come on dude, there's always room for copius amounts of miller lite and fart jokes. Trust me, I know.Luko:
Guess you missed my hilarious Billy Madison reference...i was being ironic since my mind also is filled with asinine movie quotes.Lasabar:
Okay.....Luko:
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.Lasabar:I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth.
A simple "Wrong" would have done just fine...
On a related note, I can relate virtually every thing that happens in my life to a Seinfeld episode. I have had entire conversations with people doing nothing but quoting or referencing Seinfeld episodes. -
"Lasabar!" (said with a clinched fist as Jerry would say "Newman!" after he's been had")Lasabar:
Hey there... I was still in "Quote" mode when I said that... C'Mon guys, if you're gonna dance with the Devil, AT LEAST wear your dancing shoes!Heavy:
LOL, you're slipping Lassie. I'm not sure if I like this new and improved mature and responsible Lassie. Come on dude, there's always room for copius amounts of miller lite and fart jokes. Trust me, I know.Luko:
Guess you missed my hilarious Billy Madison reference...i was being ironic since my mind also is filled with asinine movie quotes.Lasabar:
Okay.....Luko:
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.Lasabar:I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth.
A simple "Wrong" would have done just fine...
On a related note, I can relate virtually every thing that happens in my life to a Seinfeld episode. I have had entire conversations with people doing nothing but quoting or referencing Seinfeld episodes. -
I would say that everything has an effect on my daily life.taythegibs:My question to you is do you think that movies/books/music/etc have an effect on your daily life? I have been crazy irritable today, and it took me hours to realize that before i went to sleep last night and for a little while today ive been reading a book that has had me on edge. Because of the book I have not had a productive day at all today. Anybody else?
Books, movies, TV shows, news articles, etc. all play a role in shaping my (and everyone's) values, ideas, and opinions which define who we are.
Whether for better or worse, everything we experience has an effect on us - it's just to what extent it affects us.
(Tried to use affect/effect as best as I could. Still not entirely sure how to use the two words but I usually refer to this comic, from the oatmeal, when in doubt.) -
Don't I feel like the fucking ***.Lasabar:
Hey there... I was still in "Quote" mode when I said that... C'Mon guys, if you're gonna dance with the Devil, AT LEAST wear your dancing shoes!Heavy:
LOL, you're slipping Lassie. I'm not sure if I like this new and improved mature and responsible Lassie. Come on dude, there's always room for copius amounts of miller lite and fart jokes. Trust me, I know.Luko:
Guess you missed my hilarious Billy Madison reference...i was being ironic since my mind also is filled with asinine movie quotes.Lasabar:
Okay.....Luko:
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.Lasabar:I find that my daily life is FILLED with quotes from all the asinine stuff I watch/read...
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth.
A simple "Wrong" would have done just fine...
On a related note, I can relate virtually every thing that happens in my life to a Seinfeld episode. I have had entire conversations with people doing nothing but quoting or referencing Seinfeld episodes. -
I'm always blasting music.
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Have 12 daiquiris?Lasabar:Oh, and in case you guys were wondering... It's Nudie Magazine day... -
What is this the 80s?Lasabar:Oh, and in case you guys were wondering... It's Nudie Magazine day...
