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Re: If you're an AFOL and you know it raise your hand (WAS: Blacksmith Shop)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:03:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allan Bedford writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allan Bedford writes:
> > > > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> > >
> > > > > > > Allan Bedford wrote:
> > > > > > > I am NOT an AFOL, I do not find many of the things that make AFOLS • giddy
> > to
> > > > > > > be very interesting to me. I am adult who enjoys 'building' with LEGO.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Adult who enjoys 'building' with LEGO sounds like an AFOL to me.
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess I'm just not fond of labels. If someone else wants to call • themself
> > > > > an AFOL I have no problem with that... it's just not for me.
> > >
> > > > But is not "adult who enjoys building with LEGO" as much a label as "adult • fan
> > > > of LEGO"? 8?)
> > >
> > > Is someone who believes in God necessarily a Christian?
> >
> > You miss my point. I am not making a comment as to which best describes you,
> > just that you've said you're not fond of labels, then promptly labelled
> > youself.
>
> I'm still missing your point I think. I don't recall labeling myself with
> anything. I did try to express a description to help folks understand me,
> but I really didn't define a label to attach to it. What label do you see
> that I've called myself?
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> > The answer to your question is obviously no, but "someone who believes in • God"
> > is just as much a label as "Christian".
>
> Ah, I think I might be seeing what you're getting at. Perhaps it's
> semantics, perhaps it's just different ways of seeing the world. I see
> short concise words like AFOL, Christian, genius, artist, geek etc. as
> 'labels'.
Well, that seems to be where we differ. I see AFOL as simply an acronymic
(????) abbreviation of "adult fan of LEGO". Maybe it's acronyms you're not fond
of?
> In a word (or two)
Or four 8?)
> they attempt to group together a broad
> collection of people related by one or more common connections. I see words
> like "someone who believes in God" or "an adult who builds with LEGO" as
> simply open-ended descriptions of one aspect of a person or persons.
So where's the distinction? Five words? I'm probably being pedantic here, but I
just don't see that "adult fan of LEGO" is any more a label than "adult who
builds with LEGO" (or any less an open-ended description of one aspect of a
person or persons).
And in my experience, a member of the latter group is generally a member of the
former, too. YMMV.
> Sorry
> if I appeared to try and paint myself with a label, that was certainly not
> my intent.
Apology not required, but accepted anyway! We often do things we don't intend.
ROSCO
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