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04/14/2004 03:19:05 AM · #1
I notice that many people have misunderstood the difference between "power" and "strength". To me (and my dictionary, for that matter), power is a more generic term, while strength is a word describing physical attributes such as raw strength and longevity.

For example:

You can have political power, but not political strength (not in the same way)

You can have electrical power, but electrical strength is not the same.

You can say that an image is powerful, but it wouldn't have to be strong.

A person can be powerful without being strong (I think I can beat George Bush in armwrestling, but he is undoubtedly more powerful than me)

A god can be described as "a power", but not "a strength" in the same way. (and on the same note, I don't get all the people who took pictures of bibles... Sorry. It is a picture of a book. If the challenge would have been "funny" or "humour", do you think a picture of a Denis Leary DVD or a book by P.G Wodehouse would have done well?)

What I am trying to say is that about half of the entries in the "strength" challenge don't cover the challenge, and are getting rated very low, at least by myself.

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04/14/2004 03:37:00 AM · #2
If you read the challenge, it says to photograph your representation of strength or power.
04/14/2004 03:40:05 AM · #3
The detail of the challenge is to Photograph your representation of strength or power. Therefore, I am not seeing a problem with pictures of power. In addition, strength is not only a physical attribute it is also mental/emotional attribute.

04/14/2004 04:04:27 AM · #4
Wehey, so much for beign observant, eh?

I'll reverse my comments and votes before the end of voting :/

Cheers for pointing it out to me, folks. I think I may need new glasses. Or brain. Or both.
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