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post #1 of 20
10/15/09 at 10:34pm
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As men (and women) of the stylish persuasion, we are obviously a group of people who place some value on superficial qualities -- a value that some, if not many, would deride as "vanity."

What is Vanity to you, and how much of it do you consider acceptable or beneficial? Do you think people's resentment is borne of simple jealousy or genuine moral disapproval?
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post #2 of 20
10/15/09 at 10:45pm
My understanding is that vanity leads one to think this song is about them.
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post #3 of 20
10/15/09 at 10:48pm
I thought this thread was going to be about farting in subway cars.
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post #4 of 20
10/15/09 at 10:48pm
abd laying waste to Cinnabon stansd during lunch break.
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post #5 of 20
10/15/09 at 10:55pm
I miss Vanity's just-don't-give-a-fuck attitude. I would love to see his comments on the nebbish Connie threads. Priceless.
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post #6 of 20
10/15/09 at 10:59pm
You must consider that-although only one tiny part of a fully realized human being- a well-dressed person uses more of his intrinsic (cultural) potential as a human than someone who is not well dressed and that makes him beautiful even on a more than physical or superficial level. But superficiality is a good definition of it: To me vanity- meaning emptiness- is basically a shield, a veil one can hang before the profane and the world in order to keep it out, so that it doesn't defile the inner mysteries that are each ones own. edit: Unfortunately I don't think that the majority can afford (or know of) genuine morality, so I think it's a mixture of jealousy, as you said, and a vague feeling of fear of the otherness of someone, or a hidden cowardice that makes oneself unable to explore those mysteries, those merely hinted-at things for oneself ...such reservations are quite natural of course but nothing but natural, too.
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post #7 of 20
10/16/09 at 3:14am
I'm posting this from the lear jet to Nova Scotia.
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post #8 of 20
10/16/09 at 3:15am
Its name is emptym.
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post #9 of 20
10/16/09 at 3:17am
Is the Raison d'être of SF.

Don't shit where you eat gentlemen.
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post #10 of 20
10/16/09 at 3:25am
vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.
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post #11 of 20
10/16/09 at 3:27am
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Originally Posted by kwilkinson View Post
I thought this thread was going to be about farting in subway cars.

+1.

The noobs won't get it.
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post #12 of 20
10/16/09 at 9:48am
Duplicate Post (see below)
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post #13 of 20
10/16/09 at 9:49am
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Originally Posted by binge View Post
I'm posting this from the lear jet to Nova Scotia (to see the total eclipse of the sun).
Carley doesn't like you!
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post #14 of 20
10/16/09 at 12:33pm
I prefer to believe that Vanity is still among us.
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Originally Posted by vanity
It was epic. And my only regret is not grabbing a Fanta and a seat to watch the agony I unleashed.
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post #15 of 20
10/16/09 at 12:55pm
I read some of those threaks. Truly he was an hero.
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