On Tue, 13 May 2008 05:54:15 -0700 (PDT)
"bukvich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <bukvich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> OK. As a point of discussion The Matrix has possibility. As a trump
> card not so much.
Hey, it's your thread, I'm trying not to intrude.
> Reality is the great refuter, and it remains when you pretend it isn't
> there.
Nah, that's just other people. No people, and after some time reality
fades away.
> No I do not believe we are alone. I believe life is so sparse and the
> universe is so vast we are alone for all practical purposes. I
> anxiously await professor Tarantola's data where he surveys the sea
> bottom in the Persian Gulf looking for lost Atlantis, however.
Sorry, but that is very unlikely. If there was any life at all it almost
certainly would have had more than enough time to be all over the place
once it had made some technological progress. So either they go
somewhere else or technological progress is extremely hard (for example
it leads to self destruction).
> Wandering lost in the wilderness? This is ultra archetypal you know.
> Oedipus did that too. (They say. Oedipus is about as historical as
> King Arthur.)
I hope you realized it was a metaphor.
> You could be a suicide bomber and take out a villain and a couple
> dozen innocent bystanders.
Yeah, I can see the David sneaking into the group of innocents. But
seriously, if I still had some grudge against anyone it would be much
more effective if I stayed alive. So no, sorry.
> Yeah well there are times when I think Mica is my soul mate. Four
> seconds in forty years is a minutae.
Feeling a little bit passive aggressive towards Mica? I can understand
that.
> My own experience meditating is that it's about the most best thing I
> have ever done. No drugs and the holy spirits come down into your
> living room and applaud your unique snowflakiness. How can you beat
> that?
Try mountain biking.
> It would have been more impressive had I scored, but it isn't that
> easy.
How about scoring and knocking? Doesn't that produce an even more long
lasting impression?
> We all get a near death experience right before we die. Do you ever
> read those buddhist things where the guru croaks and the disciples
> meditate around the body for days and they describe all this
> miraculous decay process of the guru's spirit off in the nether world?
I saw the movie. The disciple carries the casket containing the dead
master on his back to the top of the mountain and makes a big, big
fire. Sparks all over the place, all night. What a way to go.
> YOU CANNOT FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME.
Except yourself. They all do it to themselves. Distributed project.
Piece of cake.
P.
["that's the beauty of it"]
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