Wearing a Starfleet Uniform in public
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boom!! theres your organization...
but thats not the point.... the point of this whole thread is to report the expereinces of wearing the uniform.... and starting today, i will be wearing a uniform every day for six months.... in a sort of... refuseing this psycological "help" that i should have...
back to reporting...
yesterday in a success stratagies class, we disscussed this whole thread and how it relates to me. we also explored as to why i wear it. the class could not beleive this thread. every time i wear it they are in support of it and request that i wear it more often because it reflects "ME" and who i am.
here is day one picture....
You're sitting alone it seems. The girls are looking at you funny.
College is about booze and sex. Oh and education. How many chics have you tagged wearing that uniform?
At least switch to command for the love of god!!
Yes, that is why I suggested to see a psychologist (as in: a trained diagnostician you can talk to without having to be afraid). I don't know you, but this thread gives me a picture of you, and that picture makes me worried. Your need to wear the costume, your comments about your core believe, your need to create a thread about it, and your agressive response as well.
If this thread were about you wearing a jersey or an animal costume - or even a real military uniform - all day long, my response would be the same.
this is why i hate typed conversation, no one knows the tone you are using..... and by saying that i should see a psychologist, beacuse "escapism" is something ppl should deal with, is implying that i am suffering from this..... just dont do this again....
A few of them do. Most of them don't. As I said earlier, most of them figure that you're on your way to a costume event, that you're a nut, or they wonder what kind of outfit is it that you're wearing.
Almost NObody, Sho, takes that uniform as a symbol of your ideals because as I and other people have pointed out, most people don't associate any particular core beliefs with Trek. To almost everybody but us, Trek is TV shows, movies and maybe some books. That's it.
I'm interested in what these "core beliefs" are and how you develop specific beliefs from them. When a stranger sees your Star Trek costume, will they immediately recognize your core beliefs, or do you need to explain them to them? Knowing your core beliefs, can the same stranger then figure out what you believe, specifically, about the issues facing our society today?
Only if your core belief is the propriety of wearing costumes from television shows in public. No one is questioning your sincere adherence to whatever beliefs you hold. (I am still unclear on what those are.) Some of us are questioning the propriety of wearing a TV costume in public life.
Perhaps. But Gene Roddenberry is not my moral compass. I would not seek his approval, nor be especially stung by his disappointment. He has no moral authority over me. (And I think he would agree with me on that point.)
It sounds like you're seeking some kind of religious experience. You've got your prophet in the person of Gene Roddenberry, a set of doctrine that convicts society and offers a plan for improvement, and now an outward confession of faith and a visible mark setting you apart from "the world." Or it could be more akin to the scene phenomenon--lots of punks, etc., hold deep beliefs that are expressed by their music.
So am I. Do you follow the book of TOS which preaches equality, as long as that does not mean a woman can be captain? Or maybe the Book of TNG which states repeatedly that it is ok to observe the plight of the less fortunate but you must not get involved. Even when it means the total annihilation of a race.
As a confirmed autodidact I'm not a huge fan of academia, but I've gotta say this:
Sho, if you're really getting a tuition-free education, you absolutely owe it to yourself to get a good grounding in the liberal arts and social sciences. Treat yourself to some classes on philosophy, political science, economics, and history.
The world is infinitely more complex than Star Trek makes it appear to be. Your core beliefs should be informed by reality, not Hollywood.
Sho, if you're really getting a tuition-free education, you absolutely owe it to yourself to get a good grounding in the liberal arts and social sciences. Treat yourself to some classes on philosophy, political science, economics, and history.
The world is infinitely more complex than Star Trek makes it appear to be. Your core beliefs should be informed by reality, not Hollywood.
The world is far more complex than what you will be exposed to in college as well, even if you took every class ever offered.
And that is true. People who play games are seeking a form of escapism, but they don't suffer from it. Escaping reality as form of balancing and chargeback is a natural thing to do. It's the extreme form that one suffers from. When the game you play becomes the reality for you, then it definately needs to be dealt with.
Guess why there are people who get addicted to alcohol. Or people who play games so hard that they forget to eat. Extreme forms of escapism has reasons, and those need to be dealt with.
You are trying to live a fantasy world. Your so called "core believes" are completely fictional. Your "uniform" doesn't mean anything. Don't you realize that?
Escapism is also done when you sleep, it's called dreaming.
Good call. And when you decide to sleep all day long because your dreams are better than your real life, you think that's a good idea?
Small world.
Only if you're an elected official in DC.
Which is why I said "grounding," and not "thorough and exhaustive knowledge of." Through a liberal education, one can learn the foundations of several different fields of study and prepare oneself for lifelong learning. One becomes familiar with the tools of scholarship, different worldviews, and critical thinking. In a more concrete sense, one learns how we got where we are, and where we may be going.
You can pick all this stuff up on your own, of course. (Autodidact!) But you can't pick it all up from Star Trek. As much as I appreciate Star Trek's role as a mirror for our faults and an optimistic view of the future, it doesn't exactly prepare you for rigorous thinking or shed much light on the real world.
That's why I'm concerned that the OP may have derived his core beliefs from it. And since the OP is in school, it seemed appropriate to offer some academic advice. It's presumptuous of me to play academic advisor, and maybe the advice was unwelcome, but I do believe it would be a good path towards self-improvement. We do strive to better ourselves, right?
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