And now...

Capricorn
Deep-seated confusion pervades your philosophical views. Careful attention to Wittgenstein may induce writing block. Spread rumors about who's getting jobs where. Requirements figure prominently.


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Aquarius
Thesis looms, considerations from seemingly distant areas of philosophy relevant. A little hand-waving goes a long way. Back up your discs! Moon in Gemini means this time, like all other times, is inauspicious.

http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~okeefets/horoscope.html

http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/stanford/archives/fall1997/entries/ontological-arguments/poem.html

Thus spake St. Anselm, thus spake St. Anselm,
Thus spake St. Anselm with weighty intent,
And we're awed as we read his proof so ontological
Would that we could understand what it meant.

And WHILE im on the topic

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have 'Schopenhauer and Hegel']

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Plato, they say, could stick it away--
Half a crate of whisky every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.

http://www.things.org/~jym/fun/nietzsche-tech-support.html

On the Perfections Attributed to God
by P.D. Magnus

Scholastic philosophy made an industry of enumerating the perfections of God. Although such work is unlikely to result in an academic appointment in today's atmosphere of secular, naturalistic philosophy, it may be helpful to review the possibilities; perhaps it would allow one to enumerate the perfections that can be attributed to the Brain. What follows is a cursory list of perfections, with interpretive gloss and illustrative examples where appropriate.



omnipotence
the perfection of being all powerful
omniscience
the perfection of being all knowing
omnipresence
the perfection of being everywhere; ubiquity
omnibenevolence
the perfection of being all good; the problem of evil has motivated arguments that an omnipotent God could not possess this perfection
omnidoxence
the perfection of being all believing; this relativized form of omniscience may be used interchangeably with "gullibility"
omniabsence
the perfection of not being anywhere; one of the few perfections an atheist will admit of God
omnimalevolence
the perfection of being all evil; the problem of good has motivated arguments that God could not possess this perfection
omnisyllogence
the perfection of following as a conclusion from oneself as a premise; this appears to be the perfection critical to the success of the ontological argument
omniontologence
the perfection of being all things; observing that omnisyllogence only establishes the de dicto existence of God, some medievals claimed this was the perfection central to the ontological argument; yet, God is not a poached egg, and thus God is not omniontologent
omniomnience
the perfection of being all things to all people
omnicorpulence
the perfection of being every body; although some sources attribute this to God, one imagines that it would require a consensus
omnicrapulence
the perfection of being all messed up
omnihilism
the perfection of not meaning anything; the perfection granted to God upon his death
omnitemperence
the perfection of refraining from everything; renders omnipotence moot

wisdom, n. A state of clarity and understanding so complete and exhaustive, yet also so detailed and complex, as to be totally incommunicable.

Cartesian Evil Genius Alert:

The reader is advised that he or she may be subject to an illusion
generated by an evil genius, and that his or her "sensory fibers" may
be falsely manipulated at any time with neither advance warning nor
any possible legal remedy.


Probably a good warning for us all...

Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: A tree in a golden forest.

The Moral Of The Story (Ghaleon Rule)
Every problem in the universe can be solved by finding the right long-haired prettyboy and beating the crap out of him.

All this wisdom and more - The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés

CAPTURE THE FLAG: "DARWIN FISH" MAY BE A NEW VERSION OF A VERY OLD GAME, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA STUDY PROPOSES

This is why UGA scares me. They have too much free time.

Sleep.

I lay here, now it is 4:30 in the morning.
Yesterday I didnt get to sleep until 8am. I can't sleep.. i cant make myself sleep. I dont want to sleep.
Erik is asleep, has been since 12am. Yet I cannot go to sleep. Why?

My eyes are tired, yet i know if i log off and try to sleep, I will lay awake listening to the radio, or to The Saint, or something, because I do not want to sleep. Why can I not want to go to sleep.

I know I will be tired tomorrow... I was tired today.

Why then this? Why then am I awake?

Sleep is one of those things of the flesh I both love and hate. I love the rexlation it can give, the peace, the comfort. It claims us when no one else will have us, eases our worries, and returns us to the world renewed. Too, laying asleep with someone you love is one of the most bonding experiences. But sleep is also the time of nightmares, of the passage of time without awareness of it. It is too close to death for my liking. I am most aware of my own mortality when I face sleep, and I am more afraid of dying in my sleep than any other way. Because, I ask myself, if I die in my sleep... will i know?

It is a silly question. I know. But one that haunts me.
I did not used to fear death... but now I do. I do not want to leave those people who I love and care about without me. I do not want to cause that greif, that suffering, that loss. Havent I caused enough pain as it is?

I want to live forever... because I know the only boundary of Love is life, and even then, love continues. Souls find one another, again and again. And even we souls who had nothing and no one, will eventually be called to serve and love eventually. I know this is true.

[dream]
Someone is trying to steel my silverware. A knife, fork, and spoon. Not very nice, either, but the serving staff keeps trying to take them, and they are mine. So I keep them in a small yellow leather pouch on my wrist to keep them safe. Even that is not safe, for they still keep trying to take them. So I hide them in my pocket. They are safe there.
[/dream]

If anyone has any idea what the hell that dream meant, Id be really grateful.

Babylon

The word has so many connotations, mixed and strange.

the Greek form of BABEL; Semitic form Babilu, meaning "The Gate of God." In the
Assyrian tablets it means "The city of the dispersion of the tribes."

The capital of ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia on the Euphrates River. Established as capital c. 1750 B.C. and rebuilt in regal splendor by Nebuchadnezzar II after its destruction (c. 689 B.C.) by the Assyrians, Babylon was the site of the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Judeo-christian faith draws many of its conceptions of what is evil from what the Babylonians worshiped. Yet we borroed myths and gods and heros from them just as often as we shamed them and called them heathens. Gilgamesh's teacher became Noah, who survived the flood.
YHWH, the Shem Hameforash, has its roots in the fact that names lend the speaker the power over the named, and it should not be that any mortal has power over God, thus no mortal may speak His name.

"This practice is close to magic and idol worship, so as monotheism developed and broadened, the magical use of God's name was objected to. So while the name Yahweh remains written in Jewish liturgy, Jews felt that an invisible, omnipresent, omniscient part of reality cannot have a name."

And even Romeo and Juliet have their ancient Babylonian counterparts, Pyramus and Thisbe, who wispered their love through a crack in the wall.

Gods became monsters, and demons, and traditions were cast into sins.

Yet Babylon has other meanings, which should not be forgotten.

A city or place of great luxury, sensuality, and often vice and corruption.
A place of captivity or exile.

Thus why I have often named clubs in my stories Babylon - they are both a place of vice, and of captivity and excile. Never can you be more alone and trapped than in the center of a crowd.

And yes... it is our last, best hope for peace.

Babylon.

I am the Natural Number e I go with the flow _

what number are you?

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