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I met this dude named Socrates by the Laundromat. He was taking togas out of a washing machine.
“The unexamined life is not worth living,” Socrates said.
"So what?" I asked. I had a lot of dirty socks to deal with, and I didn’t see what the dude was bugging me for.
He just walked away, holding a stack of togas.
Later I told my friends I had met Socrates. They laughed at me, because apparently the man is a world-famous philosopher who's been dead for many centuries. I wish I had known that before, now the guy thinks I'm a big dick and I didn't even bother to get his autograph.
Earlier today
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 08:05 PM
I saw pink elephants on my way home from school...
You put what in my Power Mac?
Its like what happens when you cross a phoenix with a super black hole; it's powerful enough to destroy itself, only to be reborn in a vicious cycle of torment and pain. Or in this case, nonsense.
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Dude, imagine Redline Trash Talk; the unholy spawn of B&B and ATT.
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We're being overrun!
Its like what happens when you cross a phoenix with a super black hole; it's powerful enough to destroy itself, only to be reborn in a vicious cycle of torment and pain. Or in this case, nonsense.
-Avatara, on the life cycle of ATT.
Dude, imagine Redline Trash Talk; the unholy spawn of B&B and ATT.
-ephrin
Will not get involved in a creation/evolution debate.
We're being overrun!
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Posted 29 November 2006 - 12:56 AM
If anyone out there hasn't read the depiction of Socrates in Aristophanes's Clouds, you should. It makes some of Plato's Apology make more sense.
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -The Buddha
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Posted 29 November 2006 - 01:01 PM
We already have a laundry topic. We don't need two.
"For a writing to be a writing it must continue to 'act' and to be readable even when what is called the author of the writing no longer answers for what he has written..."
Jacques Derrida, "Signature Event Context"
Jacques Derrida, "Signature Event Context"
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Posted 01 December 2006 - 01:29 AM
Bah, screw Plato. His essentialist stance was a deadweight on science until Darwin's day, and even beyond.
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 05:42 AM
Yeah, one time I saw snakes come out of my bathtub faucet, but that was simply a psychosomatic pretext to a nervous breakdown.
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 06:33 PM
Ok kids, story time!
Once upon a time, I did my laundry. It was very hard but I stuck with it and, lo and behold, I have clean clothes. Moral of the story? Always do laundry if you want clean clothes, otherwise you will be a stinky bastard for the rest of your natural born lives.
The End.
Once upon a time, I did my laundry. It was very hard but I stuck with it and, lo and behold, I have clean clothes. Moral of the story? Always do laundry if you want clean clothes, otherwise you will be a stinky bastard for the rest of your natural born lives.
The End.
"Vagina tingler"
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 08:46 PM
Dinosaurs!
Oh, sorry, go on with your usual discussion.
Oh, sorry, go on with your usual discussion.
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To change myself, I'd rather die
Though they will not understand
I won't make the greatest sacrifice
You can't predict where the outcome lies
You'll never take me alive
I'm alive
To change myself, I'd rather die
Though they will not understand
I won't make the greatest sacrifice
You can't predict where the outcome lies
You'll never take me alive
I'm alive
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 12:35 AM
Boris Yetskins, on Dec 5 2006, 04:33 PM, said:
Ok kids, story time!
Once upon a time, I did my laundry. It was very hard but I stuck with it and, lo and behold, I have clean clothes. Moral of the story? Always do laundry if you want clean clothes, otherwise you will be a stinky bastard for the rest of your natural born lives.
The End.
Once upon a time, I did my laundry. It was very hard but I stuck with it and, lo and behold, I have clean clothes. Moral of the story? Always do laundry if you want clean clothes, otherwise you will be a stinky bastard for the rest of your natural born lives.
The End.
That was terrible in that it didn't take into account particularity at all.
Once upon a time, a particular individual did his laundry, which is to say that he washed some number of particular garments including particular socks, particular underwear, particular shirts, and the like, in a particular washing machine at a particular time with a particular brand of soap at a particular place in some particular state of mind prior to moving these particular garments to a particular drying machine, inputting some particular settings, then waiting a particular amount of time. This particular individual had a particularly difficult time doing his particular set of laundry-related actions on this particular day for some particular variety of particular reasons, yet each particular piece of clothing taken from the particular laundry facility used by the particular individual on that particular day could be seen as being particularly, or at least relatively, clean in a particular sort of manner. If any particular individual out there wants to wear some set of particular clothing on any day in particular in order to not take on a particular odor of a particularly bad nature, that particular individual should wash his particular articles of clothing lest our particular individual does not take on said particular odor for the remaining length of his particular life.
The End.
-Pufer
This post has been edited by Pufer: 06 December 2006 - 12:36 AM
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -The Buddha
