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# apedapedingdangdung
hit it!
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:32, archived)
# a thinking being is thinking
that's provable.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:34, archived)
# well,
it's the only thing that can't be doubted, which may or may not be the same thing.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:35, archived)
# oooh
if dogs can fly then cats can drive.

or is that a valid although not necessarily correct argument?
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:35, archived)
# people have flying dreams
you never hit a light bulb
Birds have car driving dreams - slow down Mr Feathers! Fuck off I'm a bird!

/Izzard
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:38, archived)
# i have run out of words
so i'll concede on the grounds that i can't talk

/truly burned out
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:42, archived)
# like my geography teacher, who is a retrospective genius,
one monday afternoon, he had us last lesson, and wasn't really in the mood, so he just opened a window a little and said the room was full of words, and we couldn't fill it up with any more.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:46, archived)
# thass lovely
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:51, archived)
# fantastic.
I must remember that!
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:53, archived)
# opening the window
freed up just enough words for him to teach us, and it worked.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:57, archived)
# you mean an entity which posesses the property x posesses the property x
?

how does that differ from arithmetic in terms of being defined as true only in terms of itself?

language is returning to me piece by piece
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:45, archived)
# no, i'm going the cartesian route
everything about the sensory world being uncertain. if you eliminate everything that can be doubted, you're left with nothing, except that something must exist to do the doubting and eliminating, and that much is certain.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:51, archived)
# that's aquinas, descartes just gave it a nice writeup :)
you misquoted it to the point where it becomes meaningless. seem to have got it right there though
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:52, archived)
# yeah,
well prove it!
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:54, archived)
# descartes ended up completely bonkers.
he was living in another philosopher's shed wasn't he?

(it's been 12 years since I studied any philosophy... might be wrong...)
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:56, archived)
# he ended up dead
since the queen of sweden made him wake up at five in the morning, and he was a lazy get and it was cold in stockholm.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Fri 23 May 2003, 23:58, archived)
# that was after the shed thing...
...wasn't it?

She rode him hard, the bitch.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Sat 24 May 2003, 0:06, archived)
# well,
he did like sitting in a shed, as i believe.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Sat 24 May 2003, 0:08, archived)