Re: Inanimate Nude Girls

1

The reflection embodied in that quotation makes me want to quote the following, from an NY Times article on art-metal:

When Atsuo, the single-named singer-drummer for the sludgy Japanese post-metal band Boris, was asked recently in the online magazine radcompany.net about the influence of Satan on the band's work, he gave a predictably high-minded answer, engaging the question's absurdity - heavy metal's Satanic influence is one of the genre's great clichés - and then trumping it. "It's simple to talk about Satan as a symbol, but it's important to consider the deeper meaning of the symbol," he said in one of his rare interviews to be translated into English. "To me, the Devil is not a symbol, but a moment that touches on morals. The moment when a person changes - that is the Devil."

horizontal rule
2

This was awesome: "After I undressed her, I was upset to see that her head hadn't been properly screwed on."

horizontal rule
3

Something similar happened to me in an infant CPR class -- we were instructed to slap the dummy infant's back firmly and repeatedly. When I did, the head of mine popped off and rolled away.

I think the instructor thought ill of me for giggling.

horizontal rule
4

Ahh, the Japanese. So incomprehensible. Their language is nearly untranslatable. (In that when you translate anything with a philosophical bent to it, it ends up sounding like nonsense in English.)

horizontal rule
5

Something similar happened to me in an infant CPR class

I'm glad this comment took the direction it did, because for a couple of miliseconds I was getting ready to be really, really disturbed.

horizontal rule
6

Re: 1:

Action is transitory, a step, a blow,

The motion of a muscle, this way or that,

'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy,

We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

ATM.

horizontal rule
7

I think that Boston College can go all the way.

horizontal rule
8

5 - Tia wins! That made my day.

horizontal rule
9

"I felt something, but it also gave me something of a guilt trip, and I was asking myself, ‘What am I doing here?' and I guess at that point I got completely turned off."

Lesson learned: avoid self-examination while fucking your silicone doll.

horizontal rule
10

No, just while fucking someone else's silicone doll.

horizontal rule
11

With your own, a wholesome and meaningful relationship may be developed.

horizontal rule
12

With AI these dolls will soon be able to talk andhold conversations.

horizontal rule
13

Silicone dolls are for weaklings. Real men make it with silicon dolls.

horizontal rule
14

8 gets it exactly right.

horizontal rule
15

"Hey, at least he's not claiming it's better than a real woman"

Insert joke here about the value of relationships, accompanied by Roxy Music lyrics and Indie movie reference. Apologize for predictability.

But clicked the link and all I can say is:"Bangs!" I hate myself for the reaction without quite knowing why, but must repeat:"Bangs!" I am talking about the haircuts, for one-track commenters.

horizontal rule
16

Roxy Music lyrics

I was listening to "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" the other day and it reminded me of the Realdoll thread.

horizontal rule
17

Did you guys check out the comment spam at the bottom of the Tokyo Times thread? Pretty trippy.

horizontal rule
18

In that when you translate anything with a philosophical bent to it, it ends up sounding like nonsense in English.

Probably it sounds like nonsense in Japanese too. The trick is, not to let on to foreigners.

horizontal rule
19

Japanese philosophy: Nishitani's "Religion and Nothingness" is the best thing I've read on Heidegger, and one of the best on Nietzsche.

Richard Thompson's "Psycho Street" (on "Rumor and Sigh") includes a guy who divorced his wife to marry an inflatable doll, and three years later divorced his inflatable doll in order to marry a different inflatable doll.

horizontal rule