Comments on: The Pandora’s Box of Second Life!!!

By: GreenLantern Excelsior

GreenLantern Excelsior — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:35:21 +0000

According to the poems of Hesiod (700 BC), Pandora was indeed the first woman. Created by Hephaestus, she was given to Epimetheus as a gift and she “promptly scattered the contents of her jar,” except for Hope, which remained. There is speculation that the jar contained evil things which were then inflicted upon mankind, or good things which escaped forever, and even that Hope remained within the jar, forever beyond the reach of mankind. But Hesiod depicted Pandora as having “a shameful mind and deceitful nature,” speech containing “lies and crafty words,” and possessing “sheer guile, not to be withstood by men.” She was not a nice lady momentarily overcome by curiosity. Hesiod wrote:

“From her is the race of women and female kind:
of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who
live amongst mortal men to their great trouble,
no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.”

Presumably Hesiod had been through a bad relationship!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora

By: Artiamus Seifert

Artiamus Seifert — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:18:59 +0000

Actually, you’re slightly off on your Pandora myth. Just want to kinda clarify some points.

She wasn’t the first women created. She merely was a beautiful women who Zeus noticed one day way back near the beginning of the world. Zeus gave her a box with instructions to never look within it. After a time had passed, Pandora’s curiosity of what was in the box had grown and grown, so finally, one day, she opened the box, thus releasing all of the evil things into the world like pain, suffering, death, disease, despair, that sort of stuff. However, she managed to close the box fast enough to keep one thing inside it.

Hope.

By capturing hope in the box and not letting it escape like the others, Pandora, while cursing humanity with all the bad things, ensured that when everything else was gone, humanity would still have hope, be it hope for a better future, better president, whatever.

By: Mony Markova

Mony Markova — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:54:25 +0000

Hey everyone, thanks for the comments I tought this one was going to raise more rought answers and honestly I was preparing to duck a little. I will try to answer them as best as I can.

1. On SL Addiction

There are several groups in-world devoted to create awareness of the Sl addiction stuff, (one muste be mentioned, started my self: “Awareness Sl Addiction Information”), but there are others. one office is at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Root%20Squared/176/180/129

What is best is thare there is one Certified Professional that can help if anyone wants to go that way. If you need her in-world or off world info I can get if for you. Pls send me anote or email me monymarkova(at)yahoo.com.

2. Police and Griefing

Yes there are several role-play and re-griefer Police groups in SL. But San Miguel’s Police Department is run by a former RL 911 dispatcher and includes among their members, RL officers from different countries (not only U.S.) as well as present and former military personnel and yes also regular civilians.

They are set to Educate, Help citizens and keep the peace, never re-grief. Even as it is a volunteer group, it is professionaly alike run, with training and constant contact with SL people. They patrol several sims, you ask them just to random patrol, to program security for an event, or even give them admin perms to protect your sims, or of course just join 911 dispatch and ask for help if needed (it is important to send your location).

It’s a nice efffort that is effective in dealing wiht grief. It is also a free service.

3. That Joke “The First Thing we need to go is.. ” appeared on Harvard Business Review” I am going to look for its to see what issue it is in.

Read you soon
Sorry about the typos !!!

By: Franz Carver

Franz Carver — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:27:12 +0000

Interesting article. Cheers.
Thanks for the links also.

Do you remember at all where the quote came from? “First thing we need to do is destroy the public notion that the best things in life are free”.

By: Enelar

Enelar — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:47:42 +0000

I actually have a male and female account. I created the male one to get away from my ex when he was in his stalker mode and found the experience as a guy on SL to be quite different than what a woman sees (far less hassling for one thing).

I ended up keeping him around even after my ex calmed his ass down because I enjoyed roleplaying as him but I do gotta say, I’m pretty honest about the person behind the keys being a woman when directly asked. I saw the hurt that sort of shit can cause first hand via not only my ex (who was lying to foreign men and playing himself off as a disabled woman) but from a few past ex-friends of my own. People get attached on SL and want that RL connection. It’s human nature and I do my best to let women (or men) who are getting too close to my male alt know that I’m a woman and their fantasy of some nice guy in the states typing to them is just that.

Also men tend to squick hardcore when they find out the hawt babe they’ve been screwing is a 46 year old man who lives with his mom.

By: Angel

Angel — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:07:03 +0000

Janeforyou makes baby Jesus cry

By: D.B.

D.B. — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:24:09 +0000

Unless you’re planning on meeting up in RL and have hot passionate sexings with eachother, it really doesnt matter which gender player any avvie has.

Your hot chick friend is really a man?

Your best buddy is really a woman?

Does it really matter as long as you like eachother and have fun, and not plan on taking it any further then just SL?

By: Nikola Shirakawa

Nikola Shirakawa — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:54:17 +0000

And what would these SL Police people be able to do to help against griefers, exactly? How would calling them be any better than calling other griefers into the fray?

By: JayR Cela

JayR Cela — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:40:23 +0000

I use 3 different avatars under the same name ( JayR Cela ) one is a female sorceress, the second a male sorcerer, the third a magical dragon. And yes I am male in RL, however over the 3 years I have been here, I have never made any attempt to hide or deceive anyone as to my RL gender. I have many friends, both RL males and females. It does not bother them, nor me. And it is interesting, to say the least :_)

By: Sigmund Leominster

Sigmund Leominster — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:52:45 +0000

There’s another delicious twist in the “gender bender” arena of Second Life sexuality. In a recent article for the UK’s “Guardian” newspaper (http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2262449,00.html ) a study from Nottingham University found that 70% of WOMEN in online games play as MEN. So not only are a high proportion of SL women possibly RL men, a similar proportion of SL men are possibly RL women! So maybe “Johnny” and “Susie” in SL are really “Mary” and “Brad” in RL, and both are thinking they are having a same-gender realtionship but are in actuality enjoying a traditional opposite-gender situation.

Some folks like to paraphrase Will Shakespeare and claim that all Second Life’s a stage, and the men and women merely players. But I suggest we look to Albert Camus as we are more likely to be living in “Le Théâtre de l’Absurde,” as the existential absurdists would claim.

We really ARE stepping through the sexual Looking Glass, folks, and as I write, I can’t but help hear the refrain from Blur’s “Girls & Boys” song;

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they’re girls
Who do girls like they’re boys
Always should be someone you really love

But relax. On the upside, YOU at least know which gender you are. Just keep an eye on your partner!!