What do you assign to Mordor?

[Lalaith]

ah, I missed Kath's post. That would have solved my quandry....

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by Fea

In this case, I'll head off the problem before it arrives by sending Sigmund Freud. Oedipus and Electra complexes my foot.

I've only been studying Psych for a few months, but didn't Freud more or less invent the entire concept of psychology? Which means that, by sending him to Mordor, you also send psychiatrists, psychiatric wards, and mental care, as well as indirect effects of the discovery of psychology, such as maternity leave and parents being allowed to visit hospitals with children?

Just a thought.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

I've only been studying Psych for a few months, but didn't Freud more or less invent the entire concept of psychology?

No, no, no... You're thinking of fantastic people like Plato (with his concept that knowledge is innate and that reality is what you think it is), Aristotle (with his idea that knowledge can only be gained through experience and that the only true reality is that which is concrete in our world), Descartes (cogito, ergo sum), Hobbes (monoism), Lock (agreed with Aristotle)... And in the 18th century, people like Hume and Kant. Then you had guys like Wundt and James, and then finally you get Freud, who was the father of psychoanalysis and his work was sort of the turning point in psychology that made it what it is today, but his fascination with psychosexual everything has been challenged or changed by so many people that it's annoying. Even my professor told us that we're only learning about him because we have to and that we'll hear far more about him in writing courses discussing psychoanalytic theory. A literary theory I also send to Mordor. Basically, the only Freudian concept still commonly in use, as explained to me by my professor, is that early experiences mold who you become later in life.

So by sending Freud to Mordor, I'm sending only his crackpot theories with him. The good ones can stay.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

As a pianist, I'm not quite sure - is it only the word that gets sent to Mordor, or pianists in general? I don't think I want to play there...

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

As a pianist, I'm not quite sure - is it only the word that gets sent to Mordor, or pianists in general? I don't think I want to play there...

You're a brave woman, Estelyn Telcontar, who admits she plays such things. Time was women who did so were sent to Mordor.

[Orominuialwen]

The stupid education system around here that thinks it's okay to not start teaching kids a foreign language until they're 12, and then not even require that they take one in high school. You learn languages best when you're young and 12 is really much later than schools should start teaching them. I keep thinking how good I could be at French by now if I'd had it since elementary school.


Cameras that don't have flashes. There's almost no point in having a camera at all if it only works outside in sunny weather.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Orominuialwen

Cameras that don't have flashes. There's almost no point in having a camera at all if it only works outside in sunny weather.

People who flash-blind people with their photography.

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

I've only been studying Psych for a few months, but didn't Freud more or less invent the entire concept of psychology? Which means that, by sending him to Mordor, you also send psychiatrists, psychiatric wards, and mental care, as well as indirect effects of the discovery of psychology, such as maternity leave and parents being allowed to visit hospitals with children?

Just a thought.

Hmm. Psychiatrists, psychiatric wards and bureaucratic hospitals all together in Mordor. I think I like the potential complications of this scene.

[Lhunardawen]

Alternating sun and rain within a day. Mordor residents should love playing in the rain and chasing frogs one moment then sunbathing and sipping iced tea the next.

No, I'm not sending frogs and iced tea to Mordor. They'll have to buy them from a stand that I'll be putting up near the Black Gate.

[VanimaEdhel]

When it snows and gets you all excited for winter and then goes back up to around seventy degrees farenheit the next day. That's wrong, I tell you.

[The Only Real Estel]

People who flash-blind people with their photography.

People who blind me with their brights after I flashed my brights at them to warn them of a speed trap. See if I save them a ticket again!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I assign recurring nightmares that mean that even with a full eight hours sleep, you wake up feeling less rested than if you'd only gotten your usual four or five. When you spend the day paranoid because you can't shake the horror that was with you when you woke up... When you know that it was only a dream, and that even though in the dream, you triumphed, you still can't get it out of your head and randomly shudder when the images invade your thoughts again... And when this whole stupid dream puts you in such a mood that even rain, which you really like, is just making it worse, because it should be snowing right now, not raining, and you only got a B on a paper, which is made worse by the fact that you deserved that B, or, more likely, a B- or Eru forbid, a C. When this bad dream and the mood it put you in means that if you don't get that test back today... it's been a week, after all, and the stress that comes with knowing that if you fail this test, your chances of passing Psych this term are so minimal that you're seriously considering withdrawing from the course if you bombed it, but you don't think you did, but the more time goes by, the less confident you are... when this bad mood makes you really want to go back to bed, only you can't because you've still got two classes, a bout of servicing the community, and a really important meeting to go to before you can settle down to do the homework you probably should have done yesterday...

Ugh. I think I just assigned nightmares, bad moods, the lack of snow, getting a grade I probably didn't deserve, stressful exams, and procrastination. Who thinks that I need to get over myself? *raises hand*