Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Wow!


I am not going to say much this time. Please click here and then here, and simply read. Did you know about the existence of this movement?
In your opinion, should it be taken seriously? What do you think about it? I´m looking forward to your reactions.
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5 comments:

Paula said...

Wow. I didn’t know about the existence of this movement and I strongly believe it shouldn’t be taken seriously. The first thing that came to my mind when reading this was that there are certainly many people worldwide who found a good way of dealing with boredom. We can’t deny this is something original. This people can’t be that mad to actually think they are gnomes, as the “poem” suggests, or even to believe gnomes exist and should be protected and rise against us.
Some sites I found were mainly for entertainment, which I think it’s ok. It doesn’t harm anyone and it is kind of amusing, watching pictures of the gnomes’ holidays, their wallpapers and reading their stories. What I don’t believe is right are those organization sites dedicated to collect donations. Although it is hard to imagine how many people might be so naïve to believe all this and pay to an internet organization which aims to protect mythical creatures, there must be some. Otherwise, why do these sites even exist?

August 25, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Ganesha said...

I agree with Paula.
This is all a big lie...

August 28, 2009 at 11:51 PM
A. F. Ch. said...

Save the gnomes!!!!
I laughed for quite a long time after I had finished reading the texts. Seriously as it can be taken, I doubt that these web pages have much repercussion and can catch someone's attention.

According to what Paula said, I find these web pages both funny and free-time entertaining. Nonetheless, I believe that to reach to such ways of getting money like donations, means that the organization are neither serious nor moral. But, it's not the moderators' fault if anyone follows the web page or makes some donation, no matter how hard that seems to be believable.

August 31, 2009 at 5:49 PM
FloReS:) said...

IS THIS FOR REAL??????????

I didn't know whether to laugh or just remain stunned at people's level of delirium.
I didn't know about this. I must say, I never stopped to think very much on the level of popularity these garden gnomes had, I only thought of them as these figurines you see in my home town on the lawn's of elderly people's houses mainly. But I see that apparently they can be found in many countries.

Now... thinking of them as people?? With feelings?? Some sort of ancestors of ours?? I know that there's a mythology of some sort about gnomes, and how they once existed, or their souls still exist in the forests or something like that, but believing that these statues aren't made for decorational purposes but they embody the living gnome itself? I just can't find the logic in that.However, I looked up other sites as well, and saw some videos in YouTube about it, and I dare say there are some who are really taking this seriously! (And it's not completely surprising, considering the outrageous things you find on the internet)

What can you say to that? I don't agree, first of all. I don't see garden gnomes as people. Maybe real gnomes DO exist, or existed at some point, but I think garden gnomes are just a representation or symbolic object that makes reference to them.
Anyway, of course, everyone's entiltled to their beliefs and if this is what some people want to pursue, then they can go right ahead!
Luckily I'm not "keeping any gnomes in captivity" so I can rest assure that no liberation squad is going to break into my house to demand I "liberate" them. :)

September 4, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Mariah said...

Oh, gosh! they must all be joking! I mean, the first thing i thought when i read this- poem? was that gnomes' fingers are too thick and stiff to press the keys in the keyboard. So nobody will ever believe that this was written by a gnome, but by a 'fellow human' writing as a gnome- i'm just having some real hard time imagining it. Secondly, how is it that human beings oppress gnomes? i mean, it isn't like we make them read Halliday and Levinson, right?. It's more like we leave them there doing nothing all day. Such a heavy load!. Besides, why would gnomes want to raise against humans, and not against,say, pigeons, since, as the """"poem"""" says; 'some incontinent feathered friend heaps upon us the final indignity'?. I'll tell you something. I used to walk my way to highschool every morning at 6:30 am, black night in the winter. One day, my wonderful neighbour put a precious gnome in her garden (which was on the way to school). You can't imagine the little thing; it was exactly like Chucky. The first morning i saw it, in the middle of the night, i got i fright that i can't explain. And i didn't go round writing poems about how this awful thing condamned my mornings with his frozen, still blue eyes! Neither did i make some perverse plan to destroy it. I strongly agree with paula here: there's just people with too much free time in their lives. We should send them a few CDs with lectures by Chomsky and see what happens. They'll probably stop believing themselves gnomes and start writing poems about how hard it is to be a tree, though. Well anyway, gnomes do not exist. I suggest we start gathering ideas to give them to the people that create these sites. And see if they can do something more precious with their time. How's that?

September 7, 2009 at 11:08 AM

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