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External Since: Apr 14, 2004 Posts: 117

"emmel" <the_emmel*whatever*@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> On 2004-06-29, Refractor Dragon <wanderer DeleteThis @beeb.web> wrote:
> > "emmel" <the_emmel*whatever*@gmx.net> wrote in message
> >
news:slrnce2pe8.7te.the_emmel*whatever*@btcips73x12.cip.uni-bayreuth.de...
> >> On 2004-06-28, Refractor Dragon <wanderer DeleteThis @beeb.web> wrote:
> >> > "emmel" <the_emmel*whatever*@gmx.net> wrote in message
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > "Cogito ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. I have
no
> >> >> >> > knowledge
> >> >> >> >> > of
> >> >> >> >> >> >> > whether
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm really question this one...
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> >> > What?
> >> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> "Cogito ergo sum."
> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> > What are you question/questioning [about it]?
> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> "Cogito ergo sum."
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> > Ah.
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> > I think. Therefore, I exist to think. Or, at least,
there's
> > some
> >> >> >> > entity
> >> >> >> >> > that believes itself to be 'I' which is thinking. Either
way,
> >> >> >> > /something/'s
> >> >> >> >> > thinking, and perceiving. The only question is what.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> What's thinking anyway?
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > No idea. But something exists which we call 'thought', and we
> > reason
> >> >> > that
> >> >> >> > since we think, there must be something to exist and do the
> > thinking.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> But is there thought. Is there anything? Is anything real? What
is
> >> >> >> *real*? Do we _want_ to think about it? And why does there have
to
> > be
> >> >> >> anything that thinks?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > There may be layers of reality and/or unreality. All may be
> > illusion.
> >> >> > Yet... all?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > There is that which perceives. This whole world, this whole
> > appearance
> >> > of a
> >> >> > universe could all be illusion... except.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > There is that which perceives.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Whatever the source, there is /perception/.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > And there is that which perceives.
> >> >>
> >> >> Nice try, but reasoning doesn't work very well with lunatics Wink

> >> >
> >> > *shrugs* I can but reason; it is your choice whether to consider
my/our
> >> > words or not.
> >>
> >> Oh, I just don't accept reasoning from possibly non-existing entities
> >> Wink

> >
> > How do you expect to keep an open mind, then? *mock-affront*
>
> By hallucinating it (the open mind, OK).

....I see. And then you keep all your open minds in little boxes?

> >> BTW do you share the impression of people being disturbingly silent
> >> lately? Have we scared them off or something?
> >
> > *sighs* I fear they're just slipping back into lurkhood. Pity.
>
> I say they saw(sp?) me and run away.

Bah. They're used to other people being more afraid of them than they're
afraid of... erm... them. Sort of. *nod nod*

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External Since: Apr 13, 2004 Posts: 993

On 2004-07-01, Refractor Dragon <wanderer DeleteThis @beeb.web> wrote:
> "emmel" <the_emmel*whatever*@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:slrnce58sf.b9k.the_emmel*whatever*@btcips73x12.cip.uni-bayreuth.de...
>> >> >> Nice try, but reasoning doesn't work very well with lunatics Wink

>> >> >
>> >> > *shrugs* I can but reason; it is your choice whether to consider
> my/our
>> >> > words or not.
>> >>
>> >> Oh, I just don't accept reasoning from possibly non-existing entities
>> >> Wink

>> >
>> > How do you expect to keep an open mind, then? *mock-affront*
>>
>> By hallucinating it (the open mind, OK).
>
> ...I see. And then you keep all your open minds in little boxes?

Nice imaginary...

>> >> BTW do you share the impression of people being disturbingly silent
>> >> lately? Have we scared them off or something?
>> >
>> > *sighs* I fear they're just slipping back into lurkhood. Pity.
>>
>> I say they saw(sp?) me and run away.
>
> Bah. They're used to other people being more afraid of them than they're
> afraid of... erm... them. Sort of. *nod nod*

Huh?
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