Question 1
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moominmuppetwhat is the order of importance of those things and why?
Hmmm... trickier than it seems.
1. Friends -- that's right; first priority. That's also the only reason LJ should be on the list at all (in terms of "important things", which I assume is the interpretation). It's a central modality for communicating with friends, but a replaceable one. It's rightly in position #6.
I assume by "Love" there's a connotation of romantic love specifically. That's all a weird categorization for me, and the overlaps between friends/love/sex, in particular, are pretty convoluted. Assuming that whoever wrote the meme originally is talking about primary partnership romantic love -- its importance varies a lot in my life. If I were attached to someone that way right now it would be a very high priority, but since I'm not, it isn't, and "tracking it down" isn't.
The last three are largely experiential. I'd be loathe to lose any of them, but I think the order here is actually correct already. I'd lose "drugs" before "music" because there are ways of creating altered states of consciousness that aren't dependent on externally accessed chemicals (whereas as loss of all music would mean no earworms or humming to yourself, as well as not listening to external music), but I would probably put "altered states of consciousness" before both sex and music, if it came down to that, since part of what I value about all three is their ability to alter the state of my consciousness.
Sex
Music
Drugs
Hmmm... trickier than it seems.
1. Friends -- that's right; first priority. That's also the only reason LJ should be on the list at all (in terms of "important things", which I assume is the interpretation). It's a central modality for communicating with friends, but a replaceable one. It's rightly in position #6.
I assume by "Love" there's a connotation of romantic love specifically. That's all a weird categorization for me, and the overlaps between friends/love/sex, in particular, are pretty convoluted. Assuming that whoever wrote the meme originally is talking about primary partnership romantic love -- its importance varies a lot in my life. If I were attached to someone that way right now it would be a very high priority, but since I'm not, it isn't, and "tracking it down" isn't.
The last three are largely experiential. I'd be loathe to lose any of them, but I think the order here is actually correct already. I'd lose "drugs" before "music" because there are ways of creating altered states of consciousness that aren't dependent on externally accessed chemicals (whereas as loss of all music would mean no earworms or humming to yourself, as well as not listening to external music), but I would probably put "altered states of consciousness" before both sex and music, if it came down to that, since part of what I value about all three is their ability to alter the state of my consciousness.
Sex
Music
Drugs
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Date: 2006-03-20 08:43 pm (UTC)