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I caught the meaning of the post as it dissolved into the eternal ether. I understand life now. OHM, OHM, OHM. I never knew there was life beyond Coad.
 
What would BJ have said if he had allowed himself to say it? Can God make a stone he cannot lift? Would Western philosophy have been better or worse if Hamlet had minded his own business and stayed at Wittenberg? Oh the eternal questions.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
What would BJ have said if he had allowed himself to say it? Can God make a stone he cannot lift? Would Western philosophy have been better or worse if Hamlet had minded his own business and stayed at Wittenberg? Oh the eternal questions.
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Is this a subtle shift from the philosophy of Immanuel Can't to that of the somewhat more-optimistic Friedrich "Could've" Nietzsche? And when should the "woodchuck chucking wood" and the "if I drink a bottle of 1978 Henri Jayer Cros Parantoux by myself and don't post a photo and tasting notes on Facebook, did I really drink it?" tropes be allowed entrance into the discussion?

-Eden (shouldn't have)
 
It's obvious to all observers that for me to attempt to trade quips with Eden & Jonathan is a losing proposition. So I will revert to an idiom I understand better, first offered to the world by that great Quaker and intellectual Richard Milhaus Nixon, and say unto Eden & Jonathan, fuck thee both!
 
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
What would BJ have said if he had allowed himself to say it? Can God make a stone he cannot lift? Would Western philosophy have been better or worse if Hamlet had minded his own business and stayed at Wittenberg? Oh the eternal questions.
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Is this a subtle shift from the philosophy of Immanuel Can't to that of the somewhat more-optimistic Friedrich "Could've" Nietzsche? And when should the "woodchuck chucking wood" and the "if I drink a bottle of 1978 Henri Jayer Cros Parantoux by myself and don't post a photo and tasting notes on Facebook, did I really drink it?" tropes be allowed entrance into the discussion?

-Eden (shouldn't have)
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No, no. Wittenberg, who wrote the Philosophical Not Books. Hamlet studied with him. Fatboy is a fan of one of the paragraphs.
 
I do not need to be told Douglas Adams punchlines. Thank you very much. I am familiar with the mice, the fjords, the Answer, the Question, the confound in the great computer, Scrabble tiles, post-hoc discussion about base 13, etc.

In the spirit of Yule suggesting that Da Phat Wun likes paragraph 42 of Wittgenstein I brought out the title of chapter 42 of "Cat's Cradle". Bokononism, anyone?
 
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