please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste...I've been around for a long long year stolen many man's soul and faith...I was around when jesus christ had his moment of doubt and pain...made damn sure that pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate...pleased to meet you hope you guess my name...but's what's puzzling you is the nature of my game...
Originally posted by Fletch XXX thats my line.
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sorry....won't use it again..
hehe
please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste...I've been around for a long long year stolen many man's soul and faith...I was around when jesus christ had his moment of doubt and pain...made damn sure that pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate...pleased to meet you hope you guess my name...but's what's puzzling you is the nature of my game...
Y'know what the world really needs? Existential fortune cookies. Instead of "You will have lucky day", it should read "And if you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into thee". That would be stellar.
A few other favorites from Freidrich:
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing"
Originally posted by quiet Socrates: what Plato is about to say is false.
Plato: Socrates has just spoken truly.
For those of you that don't get it...
See, on the outside, the Plato statement is at first obviously true, because it is an answer to a question, it's the last thing we read, because Plato is in agreement -- and we all like things that are in agreement. Socrates perhaps intends to play a trick on Plato -- or maybe just on you, for most people would not want their next statement to be "false" -- nobody really wants to be wrong. But think about how Plato has just validated his own false-ness -- thereby transfering the insult into a compliment. This is of course assuming that there is an audience listening -- for if Socrates and Plato were alone, there probably would be no animosity -- unless there was some kind of mental challenge attached... but we can assume for an intelligent person such as Plato that, "being false", is not really a big deal... It's just a binary switch. Plato has turned around the potentially insulting statement (you can see it that way) -- by validating the Socrates statement, and so the next logical step is to conclude that:
If Socrates speaks the truth, then Plato is false.
If Plato is false, yet speaks the truth about Socrates being "correct", then Socrates is incorrect about Plato being false.
Now you could stop here and laugh -- gee that is witty -- this logical puzzle that makes no sense, like a tongue twister for a buggin' noggin... Or you could continue -- do we have somewhat of a broken chain... or do the statements keep looping and referencing themselves forever -- in a necklace of infinity?
Let's say the chain is never broken. Now we know Socrates to be a liar, and what Plato is about to say is "true", then Plato says that Socrates has spoken truely, which is another lie. Why do we dislike lies? Why do we want people to be honest? The only way you can be honest is if you have access to some kind of ultimate truth -- and only TheFLY has access to the ultimate truth right now... Until you meet TheFLY, you will have to accept the funny reality without being awares -- there is honesty within the lies, and false within the true -- and that is the root of why sarcasm is so funny -- because it gets at the core of the dual nature of existance.
Originally posted by TeraBabes Socrates is my fish's name.
I had a cat named Xenophanes.
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Now, along with my 20" sony monitor, my playstation, a bunch of my CDs, some furniture, and a number of collectable books, my ex-girlfriend has a cat named Xenophanes.
See, on the outside, the Plato statement is at first obviously true, because it is an answer to a question, it's the last thing we read, because Plato is in agreement -- and we all like things that are in agreement. Socrates perhaps intends to play a trick on Plato -- or maybe just on you, for most people would not want their next statement to be "false" -- nobody really wants to be wrong. But think about how Plato has just validated his own false-ness -- thereby transfering the insult into a compliment. This is of course assuming that there is an audience listening -- for if Socrates and Plato were alone, there probably would be no animosity -- unless there was some kind of mental challenge attached... but we can assume for an intelligent person such as Plato that, "being false", is not really a big deal... It's just a binary switch. Plato has turned around the potentially insulting statement (you can see it that way) -- by validating the Socrates statement, and so the next logical step is to conclude that:
If Socrates speaks the truth, then Plato is false.
If Plato is false, yet speaks the truth about Socrates being "correct", then Socrates is incorrect about Plato being false.
Now you could stop here and laugh -- gee that is witty -- this logical puzzle that makes no sense, like a tongue twister for a buggin' noggin... Or you could continue -- do we have somewhat of a broken chain... or do the statements keep looping and referencing themselves forever -- in a necklace of infinity?
Let's say the chain is never broken. Now we know Socrates to be a liar, and what Plato is about to say is "true", then Plato says that Socrates has spoken truely, which is another lie. Why do we dislike lies? Why do we want people to be honest? The only way you can be honest is if you have access to some kind of ultimate truth -- and only TheFLY has access to the ultimate truth right now... Until you meet TheFLY, you will have to accept the funny reality without being awares -- there is honesty within the lies, and false within the true -- and that is the root of why sarcasm is so funny -- because it gets at the core of the dual nature of existance.
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