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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On This, I think, is where the topic becomes the most interesting. Perhaps it is possible for us to be scanned and exist in a different electrical form, but this perhaps is the crux of the conversation. Social interactions are nothing more than just data access, no? Yes? This very conversation - is it just minds interacting with one another over electrical impulses in order to glean some greater understanding above current knowledge, or is it a collaboration or information and transfer of such independent wills? I suppose it has to do with whether or not you believe that mankind is in existence to develop information, or to discover information. Are we creatures on the forefront of informational creation or are we just meandering through the darkness with our theories, hoping to stumble our way upon some new breakthrough, some new finding? Before you answer though, take a step back and realize just what you have to compare our grand knowledge upon. Are we even aware, truly, of any knowledge greater than our own? Yet we somehow know of just how ignorant we are in a cosmic sense... how can this be?

I still think you are barking up the wrong proverbial tree.


To me the focus of reality was summed up perfectly in the Kurt Vonnegut book 'Timequake'. In it the main character is at a picnic or a barbecue, and there are people sitting around throwing a frisbee and eating corn on the cob or whatever, and the character says, "if this isn't good, then I don't know what is."

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Man do I hate frisbee. and corn.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Man do I hate frisbee. and corn.

My first rule in these matters is to use the specifics of a statement in order to identify the spirit of that statement.

If my response targets a specific, it's only because wounding that specific wounds the spirit.


As it pertains to this discussion I've often WONdeRED what the ideal picnic game is. After much deLIBERATION I've come to the rather frightening conclusion that the ideal picnic game is, 'Red Rover'.

You might consider challenging me to a game, though in all fairness I must warn you that the great Frenchman lOUIs Uni is on my Rover team.

I would also warn against attempting to shore UP your line by HIring Mr. Ver Magnusson as a RINGer. Last I heard he was near Gimli (not the Dwarf, the other one). Which in itself isn't a problem, so long as you remember the old ADage, “On Wings We Conquer”.

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Last edited by Subey on Feb-02-2007 at 19:52