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skatealex2
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What is 'cool'?
#10155177 - 04/12/09 11:01 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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not in the weather sense. but do you think some people are 'cool'? or is that just ego centric made up thinking?
If cool is real, does it mean being a good person? standing up for what you believe in?
or maybe that is all materialistic ideology
super blasted- wanna see your op inions on this
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DesertSolitaire
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my drug dealer = cool
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well, i dont think it has anything to do with being egocentric because egocentrism is when you can only see yourself and not others.
"cool" is not real in the sense that you or I are real, it is a concept. Cool also doesn't have a single meaning
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'Cool' definitely exists, and sophisticated marketing companies do exploit this use of primate popularity. I'm not sure if any definitive analysis has been done on what explicitly demarcates cool from not cool, but social applications like Facebook or Myspace might be able to produce some comprehensive data.
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: jivJaN]
#10155503 - 04/13/09 12:10 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cool is popculture slang referring to something that may have any or all of these characteristics:
Witty Original Classy Smart Fashionable Trendy
It is different things to different people.
Generally it is something someone young who is concerned with how other people perceive them, strive to be.
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: PDU]
#10155895 - 04/13/09 01:46 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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A cool person is basically a role model to others who think that person is cool.
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: deCypher]
#10155946 - 04/13/09 02:05 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cool is simple. Act disinterested in everything, have slicked back hair, wear black jeans and cool shades and you are good to go.
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when i think someone is cool its because they have similar interests as me and often are better at things i like then i. Theres alot of people here i think are 'cool' because they are so fucking smart. like crazy smart, So in a way i look up to them and think they are cool.
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: Cubie]
#10155981 - 04/13/09 02:18 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Pretty much anything can be cool, not just people. I think some of those pictures in your signature are pretty cool...
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: Poid]
#10156003 - 04/13/09 02:32 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Thanx and good to see ya again.
when talking about whats "cool" i think it has all to do with your personal interests. what your good at, what reminds you of good memory's and all that other good shit
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: Cubie]
#10156004 - 04/13/09 02:35 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Thanks for the welcome, it's good to be back.
I think 'coolness' is being cool while not caring about being cool and not claiming to be cool.
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: Poid]
#10156081 - 04/13/09 02:58 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Something is cool if you would like it to be associated with you
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Poid
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Right; like basically everything, it's all relative.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylanfireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: Poid]
#10157930 - 04/13/09 01:17 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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"Coolness is having courage, to do what's right"
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: Poid]
#10157939 - 04/13/09 01:20 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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teeter
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said: Cool is simple. Act disinterested in everything, have slicked back hair, wear black jeans and cool shades and you are good to go.
....how many years ago was that the "cool" formula?
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: teeter]
#10160959 - 04/13/09 09:21 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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atlest 15
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: Cubie]
#10160986 - 04/13/09 09:25 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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nick cave is cool. end of thread.
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: What is 'cool'? [Re: teeter]
#10161115 - 04/13/09 09:49 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
teeter said:
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OrgoneConclusion said: Cool is simple. Act disinterested in everything, have slicked back hair, wear black jeans and cool shades and you are good to go.
....how many years ago was that the "cool" formula?
It still is!
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