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Breaking in the neophyte.

05:06 / 18.09.05

It looks like I'm the newest member of Barbelith, so I suppose I should make with the compulsory (and uninteresting) introductions.

I am a nineteen year old student of linguistics, studying at the University of Sydney, Australia. That said, I'm growing increasingly disenchanted with the whole scene, and am currently considering dropping out to become a full-time art dealer/starving writer with a nice, healthy heroin addiction.

I live and dress above my means, I smoke Eurotrash cigarettes, I drink Scotch neat (no chaser), I speak Italian very badly, I love to read and write (but not 'rithmatic, because I'm a humanities goon), and my interests lie in the philosophy/religion/theoretical physics/softcore pornography section of the bookstore.

My life in three paragraphs. How terribly depressing.

05:10 / 18.09.05

Jolly good. Tell me, young Hiccups, what is your stance on asscandling?

05:11 / 18.09.05

I thoroughly endorse the practise, as long as protection is worn. I would not want to be responsible for the conception and subsequent birth of a horrendous candle-child.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

06:21 / 18.09.05

Protection? I think you'll find barebacking is compulsory first-time round. Now bend over...

10:18 / 18.09.05

The advantage of candle-children being that having legs of their own, you don't have to carry the horrid little buggers around when one gets up in the middle of the night for a snack and requires illumination. Of course, eventually they melt away into little mewling waxen puddles, but then that's what all the newby asscandling's for. Taking one for the team and all that. Jolly good, carry on.

11:19 / 18.09.05

*whimpers*

Can't we just cuddle?

11:26 / 18.09.05

Hello Ryan!

Welcome to the sane jolly scrumptious world that is Barbelith. We all get along here harmoniously and work out our disputes in a mature and understanding manner. Beware of in-jokes [too late] and replying to posts in a thread [uh oh], as that may cause addiction.

Now simply adjust your fiction suit and turn the barbelo-meter up to a high pitched volume and you´re ready to have a go!

23:50 / 18.09.05

Doesn't breaking in a neophyte involve animal sacrfice and psytrance? I hate psytrance.

00:41 / 19.09.05

I prefer triphop and old-school punk, myself.

01:05 / 19.09.05

I'm so tired of asscandle jokes.

Here's the important stuff, son.

01:07 / 19.09.05

Well, here, maybe.

13:35 / 19.09.05

I'm still not quite sure that I understand, so I think I'll just smile and bob my head in what I hope is an intelligent fashion.

13:45 / 19.09.05

my interests lie in the philosophy/religion/theoretical physics/softcore pornography section of the bookstore.

I just bought a cheap copy of the Tao of Physics yesterday, see you in the Headshop? What's your stance on the observer principle disproving the omniscience of God? Do you like to argue about pointless things? Chomsky?

Welcome, choose Ninja over Pirate, Optimus Prime was always the best autobot.

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:54 / 19.09.05

14:13 / 19.09.05

2. Hate bisexuals.

00:50 / 20.09.05

I just bought a cheap copy of the Tao of Physics yesterday, see you in the Headshop? What's your stance on the observer principle disproving the omniscience of God? Do you like to argue about pointless things? Chomsky?

Oh yes, I'll be in the Headshop when I find myself with a decent amount of time in my hands and/or alcohol in my blood.

From what I know, I don't think the Observer Principle violates the hypothetical Godhead's omniscience in any profound fashion - as far as I am concerned, there are far better (and more blatant) logical incongruities to be brutally taken advantage of (such as the dichotomy of God's omniscience/omnipotence).

From "The Name Of The Rose:"
I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there between God and primigenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regards to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?"

I understand why the Observer Principle would pose a logical problem, but once must also take into account that the hypothetical God's omniscience must, by definition, take into account all extant possibilities and truths, including the dynamics that change with his observations. I liken it to an endless feedback loop - though God changes the universe with active observation, his omniscience always makes up for the shortfall.

Besides which, God can't be God if he can't break his own rules.

And Noam Chomsky is a sexy Jew.

11:25 / 20.09.05

Ratchet! Ah, Ratchet. Of all the underpowered Autobots, surely Ratchet had the biggest ball bearings. I mean, you never saw "compensating for something" Goldbug take on Megatron solo, eh? Eh?

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:28 / 20.09.05

Goldbug attempted to stop Galvatron single-handed before being rescued by Ultra Magnus after a disastrous assault on Galvy's volcano machine.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:29 / 20.09.05

Breaking in the neophyte

Best euphemism for masturbation EVER.

12:45 / 20.09.05

Better than cavorting with madame palm and her five lovely daughters?

And what about shaking white coconuts from the veiny love tree?

13:15 / 20.09.05

On a date with Fisty Palmer

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:33 / 20.09.05

Yeah. Better than those.

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:37 / 20.09.05

Much better.

13:54 / 20.09.05

Wankobots aside (OPTIMUS...PRIME...IT'S FRICKIN' OBVIOUS) if God's omniscient he's observing everything all the time, which would surely collapse the wave function everywhere at once. The fact the observer principle exists implies nobody is observing before you, thus no observing deity.
But you're right, the 'Can God create a stack of Porn so heavy He can't lift it?' is much snappier.

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14:59 / 20.09.05

Two things:

1 - There's no problem whatsoever, so long as you ARE God

2 - How come the neophyte has got such a long fucking ficsuit? I run out of character's long before I get to 'on hiccups'.

15:03 / 20.09.05

Good question- *I* want an absurdly long name!

15:46 / 20.09.05

I haven't met you yet, therefore you don't really exist.

01:27 / 21.09.05

Wankobots aside (OPTIMUS...PRIME...IT'S FRICKIN' OBVIOUS) if God's omniscient he's observing everything all the time, which would surely collapse the wave function everywhere at once. The fact the observer principle exists implies nobody is observing before you, thus no observing deity.

I didn't even think of that, to be perfectly honest. I suppose I'm going to have to reply with the observation that assuming that an omnipotent and omniscient being must abide by the laws of logic (and thus the natural sciences) is an illogical statement in and of itself. Then again, I find that such logical burps must be ignored occasionally simply to be capable of having an argument.

And Money $hot: because I rule.

01:31 / 21.09.05

I haven't met you yet, therefore you don't really exist.

I think, therefore I really, really hate René Descartes.

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08:18 / 21.09.05

Is hiccups the name of your steed?

13:57 / 21.09.05

Kekekeke. I wish.

It's actually a snippet from Tristan Tzara's Dada Manifesto of 1917.