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orinoco
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response 25 of 158:
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Mar 18 15:01 UTC 1995 |
O great UNIX god!
<orinoc bows and grovels>
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brenner
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response 26 of 158:
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Mar 19 05:28 UTC 1995 |
MArcus, is linear thought an artifical construct?
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vsclyne
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response 27 of 158:
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Mar 19 13:35 UTC 1995 |
Face it. *Life* is an artificial construct.
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brenner
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response 28 of 158:
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Mar 19 14:34 UTC 1995 |
Exactly where i was going, Shannon.
Is linear thought an artificial construct imposed by
"Life" or biological time-sense?
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vsclyne
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response 29 of 158:
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Mar 19 15:48 UTC 1995 |
Linear is a convenient fiction we use in constructing
models to tame the chaotic influx of what we should
laughingly call perceptions.
Got it?
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bunn
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response 30 of 158:
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Mar 19 16:29 UTC 1995 |
got it. like it.
Love It!!!
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juls
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response 31 of 158:
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Mar 19 16:45 UTC 1995 |
Oh, Shannon -- I swoon! All is forgiven, and Time just isn't the point,
is it?
Now, bunn, explain exactly what music is, and what the inside of Mozart's
mind sounds like.
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bunn
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response 32 of 158:
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Mar 19 16:56 UTC 1995 |
that's where true, original thought begins, before order in time -- the
genius is to draw a thread out of chaos and give it context in time, the
moment of divinity between before and after that gathers us up in its
harmony and compels us to follow....
is that what you mean, juls?
or is it the infinite possibility of angles and vectors on a billiard table?
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juls
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response 33 of 158:
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Mar 19 16:57 UTC 1995 |
Yeah, babe. (Ain't she somethin'?)
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humdog
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response 34 of 158:
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Mar 19 18:21 UTC 1995 |
listen, everything i know about consciousness theory i
learned from flying off the back of a motorcycle into a fencepost.
i am beginning to think that y'all should do likewise.
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juls
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response 35 of 158:
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Mar 19 20:52 UTC 1995 |
That explains a lot, humbaby.
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vsclyne
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response 36 of 158:
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Mar 20 04:38 UTC 1995 |
This feels like the ghetto for weirdwellian refugees. Is it?
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humdog
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response 37 of 158:
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Mar 20 10:35 UTC 1995 |
no. because if it were, we would have the benefit
of boswell, nana and mandel, which we do not.
and that is Tragic.
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vsclyne
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response 38 of 158:
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Mar 20 14:12 UTC 1995 |
Someone told me Humdog is boswell, nan, and mandel all rolled into one. So
what's the problem?
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mdw
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response 39 of 158:
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Mar 21 05:16 UTC 1995 |
All thought is an artificial construct, as is time, and linearity.
Memory is a mental illusion - we think things happened, in order, and
will continue to happen, and therefore, that linear time exists.
However attractive illusion it is, that's all it is, it's unprovable,
and the real universe might be a very different place indeed, with
properties we're not capable of either understanding or perceiving.
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vsclyne
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response 40 of 158:
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Mar 21 06:32 UTC 1995 |
What goes on in the universe does not makes a perceive in a particular way, but
it does make it impossible to perceive in some ways. Thus, we will never
remember the future.
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brenner
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response 41 of 158:
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Mar 21 06:33 UTC 1995 |
So, dear Marcus. What is poetry?
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humdog
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response 42 of 158:
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Mar 21 13:28 UTC 1995 |
marcus, marcus, marcus....
i see that you have not read your heidegger...or your aniximander...
THINKING is the first poetics
now please can we stop this alleged profundity?
the rodent wants brain fat
and i may let you give it to him
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vsclyne
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response 43 of 158:
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Mar 21 14:41 UTC 1995 |
Ah yes, Heiddeger...."Why is there something rather than nothing?"
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mdw
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response 44 of 158:
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Mar 22 07:11 UTC 1995 |
I don't remember heiddeger! Somehow, when he blessed the world with his
words, they never reached my ears or eyes!
Poetry is the art of speaking a picture.
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humdog
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response 45 of 158:
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Mar 22 07:35 UTC 1995 |
yeah well he was a nazi who never apologized for it, either.
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raven
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response 46 of 158:
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Mar 23 06:16 UTC 1995 |
Yeah funny how a lot of post modernist precursors had nazi backgrounds,
ie Heiddeger, Paul De Mann, come to mind. Ofcorse the daddaists all opposed
facsism from the start. One hopes were all good dadaist here, right burning
orange rind?
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vsclyne
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response 47 of 158:
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Mar 23 14:23 UTC 1995 |
"post modernist precursors" ... there's a pseud in there somewhere.
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brenner
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response 48 of 158:
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Mar 23 14:39 UTC 1995 |
...there's a hyphen in there somewhere!
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vsclyne
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response 49 of 158:
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Mar 23 17:15 UTC 1995 |
"post modernist hyphen precursors"
Brenner. You're a genius. It makes sense now.
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