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zero · 04-07-2008, 04:30 PM

okay. if all those advanced ETs are out there, why haven’t they introduced themselves to us by now? the most popular answer is what i call the "benign anthropologist" conjecture. the aliens have not contacted us, this scenario assumes, because they don’t want to disturb the evolution of our pristine culture.

- lee gentry

Hyakujo's Fox · 04-07-2008, 08:52 PM

I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say? 'Hello, meat. How's it going?'

+ Terry Bisson

Anna · 04-08-2008, 03:02 AM

Good evening. Here is the news on Friday, the 27th of Geldof. Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. - The new sensation sweeping the solar system is the total immersion video game, "Better Than Life." Using the new senso lock feedback technology, "Better Than Life" is able to detect all your desires and fantasies and then make them come true. So great is the appeal of "Better Than Life" when one store in New Tokyo ran out of stocks rubber nuclear weapons had to be deployed to disperse the crowd.

rd

Hyakujo's Fox · 04-08-2008, 04:26 AM

In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.

# th #

brightpearl · 04-08-2008, 07:59 AM

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.

~Blaise Pascal

zero · 04-08-2008, 09:41 AM

time present and time past
are both perhaps present in time future,
and time future contained in time past.
if all time is eternally present
all time is unredeemable.
what might have been is an abstraction
remaining a perpetual possibility
only in a world of speculation.
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present.
footfalls echo in the memory
down the passage which we did not take
towards the door we never opened
into the rose-garden.

my words echo

thus,

in your mind.

- t.s. eliot from burnt norton

Hyakujo's Fox · 04-09-2008, 10:16 AM

The Garden of Forking Paths is an incomplete, but not false, image of the universe as conceived by Ts'ui Pen. Unlike Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not believe in a uniform and absolute time; he believed in an infinite series of times, a growing, dizzying web of divergent, convergent, and parallel times. That fabric of times that approach one another, fork, are snipped off, or are simply unknown for centuries, contains all possibilities. In most of those times, we do not exist; in some, you exist but I do not; in others, I do and you do not; in others still, we both do. In this one, which the favouring hand of chance has dealt me, you have come to my home; in another, when you come through my garden you find me dead; in another, I say these same words, but I am an error, a ghost.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

zero · 04-11-2008, 02:18 PM

does every new universe constructed have to be nice?

- philip k. dick from the three stigmata of palmer eldritch

Anna · 04-11-2008, 06:32 PM

12"razormix · 04-12-2008, 11:55 AM

you must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

friedrich nietzsche

Stephi_B · 04-12-2008, 12:27 PM

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Henry Miller

YsaPur EsChomuw · 04-13-2008, 03:46 AM

Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow make sense.

Terry Pratchett: The Last Continent

Marcus Bales · 04-13-2008, 08:44 AM

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite. -Bertrand Russell

YsaPur EsChomuw · 04-13-2008, 09:12 AM

“There are days when I get stuck with the crossword. I don’t go knocking my brains out. I just put it to one side and pick it up again later. And often I find that one or two answers come to me straight away. Thing is,” now he turned towards her, “you fix your mind on a certain track, until eventually you can’t see all the alternatives.

Ian Rankin: The Falls

Anna · 04-13-2008, 10:39 AM

“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.”

04-07-2008, 04:30 PM	#151
zero ª ★ ª Join Date: May 2004 Location: lª m°°n Posts: 13,853	okay. if all those advanced ETs are out there, why haven’t they introduced themselves to us by now? the most popular answer is what i call the "benign anthropologist" conjecture. the aliens have not contacted us, this scenario assumes, because they don’t want to disturb the evolution of our pristine culture. - lee gentry

04-08-2008, 09:41 AM	#156
zero ª ★ ª Join Date: May 2004 Location: lª m°°n Posts: 13,853	time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past. if all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable. what might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility only in a world of speculation. what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. my words echo thus, in your mind. - t.s. eliot from burnt norton

04-11-2008, 02:18 PM	#158
zero ª ★ ª Join Date: May 2004 Location: lª m°°n Posts: 13,853	does every new universe constructed have to be nice? - philip k. dick from the three stigmata of palmer eldritch

04-12-2008, 11:55 AM	#160
12"razormix ° ★ ° Join Date: May 2004 Location: ªs°k° Posts: 6,458	you must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. friedrich nietzsche

04-13-2008, 08:44 AM	#163
Marcus Bales ________________ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, at the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, walled round with rocks as an inland island, the ghost of a garden fronts the sea. Posts: 8,967	What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -Bertrand Russell __________________ My strength is as the strength of eight -- My heart is nearly pure.

04-07-2008, 08:52 PM	#152
Hyakujo's Fox left hanging Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: between the click of the light and the start of the dream Posts: 10,071	I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say? 'Hello, meat. How's it going?' + Terry Bisson

04-08-2008, 03:02 AM	#153
Anna n Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2,752	Good evening. Here is the news on Friday, the 27th of Geldof. Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. - The new sensation sweeping the solar system is the total immersion video game, "Better Than Life." Using the new senso lock feedback technology, "Better Than Life" is able to detect all your desires and fantasies and then make them come true. So great is the appeal of "Better Than Life" when one store in New Tokyo ran out of stocks rubber nuclear weapons had to be deployed to disperse the crowd. rd

04-08-2008, 04:26 AM	#154
Hyakujo's Fox left hanging Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: between the click of the light and the start of the dream Posts: 10,071	In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs. # th #

04-08-2008, 07:59 AM	#155
brightpearl Rhinoceros fan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8,749	The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so. ~Blaise Pascal

04-09-2008, 10:16 AM	#157
Hyakujo's Fox left hanging Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: between the click of the light and the start of the dream Posts: 10,071	The Garden of Forking Paths is an incomplete, but not false, image of the universe as conceived by Ts'ui Pen. Unlike Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not believe in a uniform and absolute time; he believed in an infinite series of times, a growing, dizzying web of divergent, convergent, and parallel times. That fabric of times that approach one another, fork, are snipped off, or are simply unknown for centuries, contains all possibilities. In most of those times, we do not exist; in some, you exist but I do not; in others, I do and you do not; in others still, we both do. In this one, which the favouring hand of chance has dealt me, you have come to my home; in another, when you come through my garden you find me dead; in another, I say these same words, but I am an error, a ghost. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

04-11-2008, 06:32 PM	#159
Anna n Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2,752

04-12-2008, 12:27 PM	#161
Stephi_B waaaaaaa :) Join Date: May 2007 Location: Berlin Posts: 3,875	Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. Henry Miller

04-13-2008, 03:46 AM	#162
YsaPur EsChomuw oi Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 5,208	Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow make sense. Terry Pratchett: The Last Continent

04-13-2008, 09:12 AM	#164
YsaPur EsChomuw oi Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 5,208	“There are days when I get stuck with the crossword. I don’t go knocking my brains out. I just put it to one side and pick it up again later. And often I find that one or two answers come to me straight away. Thing is,” now he turned towards her, “you fix your mind on a certain track, until eventually you can’t see all the alternatives. Ian Rankin: The Falls

04-13-2008, 10:39 AM	#165
Anna n Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2,752	“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.”

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