replying on Losing Control by DrinkYouAway
1 May 2004, 8:59 AM
Furthermore, buncombe. Mine is Moore's Paradox. Yours is Zodiac's Utter Failure.
replying on Losing Control by DrinkYouAway
1 May 2004, 8:59 AM
"You're gay" <-> (((P -> Q) -> P) -> P)
replying on Losing Control by DrinkYouAway
1 May 2004, 8:56 AM
"You're gay, but X"
replying on Losing Control by DrinkYouAway
1 May 2004, 8:43 AM
Much better are propositions of the form "P, but I don't believe that P."
on If I was a Child of a Perfect Union by w~* ATHENA *~w
1 May 2004, 4:31 AM
Oh yes, now I see -- our imperfections are what make us special, what make us human... what make us capable of love.
You just keep telling yourself that, you second-rate failure.
You just keep telling yourself that, you second-rate failure.
on There Is No Such Thing As A Poem by Aetius
30 Apr 2004, 12:31 PM
Frankingsteins are much too thick to hold a pen.
replying on Superman VS. The Stairs by TanHand
30 Apr 2004, 11:23 AM
on Superman VS. The Stairs by TanHand
30 Apr 2004, 10:55 AM
replying on A Night-Croucher's Journey by Everyone
30 Apr 2004, 8:12 AM
I see. The use of the verb crouch (which -=Dark_Angel=- had coined in the commentary on The Negro) and the last line made me think it was about an escaped negro. I now realise it is merely an tale from the outhouse. You fail.
on A Night-Croucher's Journey by Everyone
30 Apr 2004, 2:13 AM
A good try, but all poemes about escaped negroes must end with their capture. Any poeme that doesn't highlight the futility of trying to escape is only likely to rekindle that awful twinkle they get in their eyes when they think "I'm not a slave - I'm a human being". I once had to shoot a whole herd because of that.
replying on Russian Space Station by wilco
29 Apr 2004, 3:17 PM
lol
replying on The first Poeme by Everyone by Everyone
29 Apr 2004, 12:40 PM
congratulations
on saltwater bath by J.B. Manning
29 Apr 2004, 2:15 AM
DR E CARAWAX'S PROTOTYPE CHECKLISTE MARK II
[X] Arbitrary indentation
[X] Arbitrary linebreaks
[X] Melodramatic
[X] About romantic love
[X] Protaganist is a bummer
[X] Arbitrary indentation
[X] Arbitrary linebreaks
[X] Melodramatic
[X] About romantic love
[X] Protaganist is a bummer
replying on Its the same old static & flaccid striptease. by SupremeDreamer
28 Apr 2004, 3:25 AM
Drugs aren't simlpy a casual presence in your life - your entire personality would crumble if you didn't spend every waking moment telling everyone about the time you once smoked a meth.
replying on Love, Fair by MacFrantic
27 Apr 2004, 4:37 PM
1. Not without some sort of implicit context.
2. Are you denying that there could be such a thing as a statue of apprehension, or that it would look like Sleeping Beauty? To deny the former is obviously buncombe. The fact that you can't easily think of what it might look like doesn't mean it couldn't exist.
But to deny the second is equally buncombe. It might once have seemed plausible to deny that a statue of liberty could like a woman holding a torch, but obviously it could. Is your imagination so withered that you actually need to see a statue in the shape of Sleeping Beauty that represents apprehension before you can accept there could be such a thing?
2. Are you denying that there could be such a thing as a statue of apprehension, or that it would look like Sleeping Beauty? To deny the former is obviously buncombe. The fact that you can't easily think of what it might look like doesn't mean it couldn't exist.
But to deny the second is equally buncombe. It might once have seemed plausible to deny that a statue of liberty could like a woman holding a torch, but obviously it could. Is your imagination so withered that you actually need to see a statue in the shape of Sleeping Beauty that represents apprehension before you can accept there could be such a thing?
replying on Its the same old static & flaccid striptease. by SupremeDreamer
27 Apr 2004, 4:04 PM
I think you should replace it with the craziest, naughtiest cocktail of as many drugs as you can. Then you would be the coolest poete around.
replying on Love, Fair by MacFrantic
27 Apr 2004, 2:58 PM
1. 1 and 3 aren't the same thing. You can't have "a sculpture in the shape of his", but you can have "a sculpture in the shape of Ancient Greece".
2. This blabberwhig about 'Liberty' won't do at all. Saying that the Statue of Liberty is in the shape of Liberty doesn't somehow get around the fact that it's a statue of liberty. The statue of Liberty isn't concerned with accurately portraying a particular personification of liberty, but with portraying liberty. It could have succeeded in the former but failed in the latter, e.g. by portraying Liberty forced to gag on an enormous bronze glans.
Similarly, a statue of apprehension needn't concern itself with portraying a particular personification of apprehension ('Apprehension'); e'en if it did, that wouldn't be a guarantee that it was a statue of apprehension. It could be in any shape, as long as what it was in the shape of was taken to be a reification of, or otherwise represented, apprehension.
2. This blabberwhig about 'Liberty' won't do at all. Saying that the Statue of Liberty is in the shape of Liberty doesn't somehow get around the fact that it's a statue of liberty. The statue of Liberty isn't concerned with accurately portraying a particular personification of liberty, but with portraying liberty. It could have succeeded in the former but failed in the latter, e.g. by portraying Liberty forced to gag on an enormous bronze glans.
Similarly, a statue of apprehension needn't concern itself with portraying a particular personification of apprehension ('Apprehension'); e'en if it did, that wouldn't be a guarantee that it was a statue of apprehension. It could be in any shape, as long as what it was in the shape of was taken to be a reification of, or otherwise represented, apprehension.
- expose your right buttock
- say "here is a buttock"
- expose your left buttock
- say "here is a buttock"
- it follows that there are at least two material objects in the world
- so there is an external world
- QED