This is interesting..

[Phoenix In Flames]

[Mew_User]

I love Jim Jarmusch.

[rtil]

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

[Phoenix In Flames]

Jim Jarmusch: googling...

[Kött]

Yes and no... everything is inspired but if not totally ripped off it has its original value and there will always be things that haven't been done yet.
The above sight partly is true but viewing it in a fatalistic and absolute way would make life seem dull, empty and completely senseless.

[psi43]

true

but you have to distinguish between too much influence from one thing and taking influence from a lot of small things

the second one obviously being the better way 2go

[MarcK]

Really fucking gay.

[funzop]

whatever we all know this

[retrosmash]

I'm Really fucking gay.

[aether]

kinda like mixing paints to get the color you want. like taking a bunch of ideas from somewhere else to make into something 'yours'

aw fuck who am i kidding that analogy has probly been made before.

[valiums]

now how do i apply this to real life without going to jail?

[MarcK]

aw fuck who am i kidding that analogy has probly been made before.

Not only has it been done and said over trillions of times but I also don't believe in and hate the idea of it.
"whatever it is, it's been done before. simpsons did it."
"You have a character with red hair that's a goofball? way to copy from j.k. rowling, dick"
"I'm going to use the concept of war being bad behind my painting. It's okay that it's been done, because nothing else would be original. all is hopeless"

I hate discussions like this whenever people around me are trying to write or brainstorm. It's like a way to make yourself feel better for having shitty hackneyed ideas.

[CoolDrMoney]

Yea that guys right but the execution can still be original

[Gaius Caligula]

This is just abandoment of creating new ideas; there are still frontiers just all the good ones are taken.

[logen]

This thread was already done once.

[DrRumack]

way to bump

[MarcK]

I agree with him though.

its not like individuals from the middle ages could come up with the idea of virtual computerized worlds that blah blah blah to human society. I mean on a VERY fundamental level, everything or most of everything has been done, but above that we haven't come across every idea possible and we never will.

I mean how the hell can we know everything's been done? We dont know the things that haven't

[DrRumack]

i think a better metaphor is that everything comes from something and nothing is entirely new

[Gaius Caligula]

i think a better metaphor is that everything comes from something and nothing is entirely new

That is correct but their are certainly entertaining enough ideas out there to be considered original, one can spectate nothing is original because they never actually discovered or created anything that wasn't influenced by stories, poems, etc themselves.

[MarcK]

nothing is entirely new

thats where you lose me.