[dobry4u]

Originally Posted by BIG JEEP on 44's

sure it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets shanked.

Wear a condom, then it shouldn't be a problem


Oops... there I go again.... Clever but not nice

[RebelDarlin]

Originally Posted by BIG JEEP on 44's

sure it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets shanked.

Geez Mom, we were just playin'...

[BIG JEEP on 44's]

Originally Posted by dobry4u

Wear a condom, then it shouldn't be a problem


Oops... there I go again.... Clever but not nice

Ok Bob Saget ... But if I gotta wear a hat yer wearing a paper bag.

[golfhobo]

Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

No, you don't.

I would ask, "can you prove that?"

But then, you would only answer with your tiresome dodge that you can't prove a negative.

I might submit that, with your limited ability to comprehend what you read, you probably can't even prove a positive.

But I won't. So, I didn't.

I'm sure you can prove that I DID..... but, can you prove that I didn't?

I'm not sure I took a dump today. Can you prove that I didn't? for that matter, can you prove that I DID?

Fact is, you can't prove anything. You can't even prove what's on your birth certificate. It could be fake. Can you prove it ISN'T??

[dobry4u]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

I would ask, "can you prove that?"

But then, you would only answer with your tiresome dodge that you can't prove a negative.

I might submit that, with your limited ability to comprehend what you read, you probably can't even prove a positive.

But I won't. So, I didn't.

I'm sure you can prove that I DID..... but, can you prove that I didn't?

I'm not sure I took a dump today. Can you prove that I didn't? for that matter, can you prove that I DID?

Fact is, you can't prove anything. You can't even prove what's on your birth certificate. It could be fake. Can you prove it ISN'T??

Holy Descartes!!!!!

[Roadhog]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

I'm not sure I took a dump today. Can you prove that I didn't? for that matter, can you prove that I DID?

Ah..the "brain fart" theory. I contemplated this while sitting on the throne myself earlier....
The universe is an organism/program with the purpose of running through sequences/scenarios in order to learn about itself further or keep itself amused in the vastness of nothing. With that intention, every aspect of itself - even at the microcosmic level - possesses some level of consciousness. The more complex the system, the more self aware. That feeling of being and existence that each of us feels is the self awareness of the universe itself. The personality is merely an avatar for the universal consciousness to experience itself subjectively from different angles and perspectives. The reason the universe is expanding is because the system is running through more sequences and becoming more complex.

(flush)(swirl-gurgle-gurgle) :block:

[golfhobo]

Roadhog said:

Ah..the "brain fart" theory. I contemplated this while sitting on the throne myself earlier....

No you didn't. You were looking to see if there was an extra roll of T.P. in case you needed it.

The universe is an organism/program with the purpose of running through sequences/scenarios in order to learn about itself further or keep itself amused in the vastness of nothing. With that intention, every aspect of itself - even at the microcosmic level - possesses some level of consciousness.

The Universe HAS no sense of humor and cannot amuse itself.

The more complex the system, the more self aware.

Civilization dispells this belief. Self-absortion is not the same as self-awareness.

That feeling of being and existence that each of us feels is the self awareness of the universe itself. The personality is merely an avatar for the universal consciousness to experience itself subjectively from different angles and perspectives.

Um.... I have no idea what you mean, but I disagree! :lol2:

The reason the universe is expanding is because the system is running through more sequences and becoming more complex.

I think it has more to do with "gas." Take "Beano."

(flush)(swirl-gurgle-gurgle) :block:

My point exactly! :lol:

I have never understood people who sit on the throne and read magazines or think. I go there to dump a load, wipe my butt, and get OUT of there! If I didn't NEED to "go," I wouldn't migrate towards that throne.

I do my existential thinking while on the road. (or at home, as I am now.)

The universe is what it is. As are we. If we are alone in the Universe, that is an awesome thought and responsibility. If we are not, the same applies. Either way, the enormity of the Universe is not the question. The enormity of our LIVES is!

Consider the "ant farm" that we all were introduced to in elementary science class. [A Repuclican initiative, I'm sure.] Which "ant" are you? I am the one that made the "alternative" path around the traffic jam of the drones.

That path was outside my "universe," but not outside my thought.

I did not come to this initiative while taking a dump! :lol2:

[belpre122]

Originally Posted by dobry4u

Holy Descartes!!!!!

Holy shit!

I never, ever, imagined that "Discourse on the Method," that tiny book that I was required to purchase at the IU bookstore in Bloomington, IN............

.......would one day be personified by Golfhobo describing "taking a dump" and "wiping his butt." A huge philosophical leap we have taken on CAD indeed! Descartes would definitely feel humbled.

Good God! What a wasted education!:clap:

The humanity!

[Roadhog]

Originally Posted by hobo

The universe is what it is. As are we. If we are alone in the Universe, that is an awesome thought and responsibility. If we are not, the same applies.
Either way, the enormity of the Universe is not the question. The enormity of our LIVES is!

Ah...yes...
The virtual version of Descartes' "Brain in a vat", if you will.

It is not impossible that a highly-advanced civilization may create an ancestor simulation for one reason or another - the most likely being for historical or philanthropic study of their own past - and that within the abilities of their technology they create the active intelligence of the entire population of a civilization at one point in time?
The probability of us living in such a simulation right now are pretty high, with the chances are that we are not active participants in such a simulation, but rather parts of the simulation itself.
Essentially, there is no "real outside reality me" experiencing my life, but just a species (post-human or otherwise) watching what the simulated me does (along with what everyone else in our perceived reality does).
Effectively meaning that "I" do not actually exist anywhere, apart from perhaps as a memory of a past civilization (or in the imagination of the programmer that made our civilization up, if they are not human). That I am just a sentient (or pseudo-sentient) program within a program,
although I know no better.

Maybe everything that we perceive is artificial and is driven by some computational mechanism. (Matrix) Our self-image is artificial as well (avatar), but behind it is a sentient consciousness that is experiencing the simulation.

So, where you really taking a crap, or were you merely observing your avatar?

(snif...yawn..scratch) :block:

[Roadhog]

Originally Posted by YankeeTURBO

This thread needs to be locked. It serves no useful function at all.

...but it doesn't really exist.