Charlie Self's Socks

LOL!!!! Keeter, keeter, keeter. My laugh for the day. You got that new writer I was suggesting you hire??

dave

Unisaw A100 wrote:

UA100 noticed:

Sure did. Purple, too.

Charlie Self "An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence." Honore de Balzac

"Sitting by the stream Corn encrusted poo floats by Bay Area Dave"

(this haiku by c. potts is da bombe)

Regards, Tom.

Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

seems YOUR writer has resorted to re-runs. Just how much mileage did he expect from a few kernels of corn, Tommy-Boy? Keeter's got him a new writer; now it's time for you to pony up and get some new talent. The current writer is way past his prime.

dave

Tom Wats> >

Do any of you guys have a life?

John, Living solely for happiness - avarice - is wrong. Not in the moral sense - many great things have been achieved through greed. I am speaking here not only of the "base" desires that led to the invention of fire, but more refined desires, such as the desire for freedom, the desire for knowledge, even the desire for higher intelligence. The only reason to do a thing is because it is right. There is no end which we ought to pursue even if we knew it to be wrong. Living for happiness is wrong in the logical sense - whether avarice walks paths that are noble or mean, it is a sign of a disorganized philosophy. Goals have to be justified.

The second theory might be called "confusion" - roughly, the belief that we can't really be certain what's going on, because the human species isn't smart enough to Figure It All Out. Confusion is the simplest of all philosophies, and the most durable. It is the one that assumes the least; by Occam's Razor, the strongest. Confusion is the underpinning of altruism and the last refuge of a Singularitarian under fire. Avarice shades into confusion through the hope that a superintelligence will explain things to you; confusion shades into altruism through the hopes that a superintelligence will know and do, whether or not it chooses to explain.

Altruism supplies direction. Altruism can provide a full, logical justification for a course of action. The price of that is the loss of simplicity. Only altruism qualifies as a genuine Meaning of Life Altruism is the simplest explanation that relates choices to reality; confusion is the simplest explanation that relates choices to mind.

You should get up in the morning because you will make the Universe a better place. Or rather, you will make it more likely that humanity's successors will make it a better place. Same cause-and-effect relation; the length of the chain of events doesn't matter.

Oh wait - you're another WebTV user?

Sorry. Here's yours:

John,

F**k off.

mttt responds:

I love it.

Except some web tv users are intelligent. Course that's probably what the Martians said when they first landed on earth: Some of them are sentient. Then they took a few of our cats and left.

Charlie Self "The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth." Pliny

Well, mttt, you got me. I use webtv by choice, while sitting six feet from my computer. I can skim through the latest 1500 posts to this NG in a matter of minutes. Can you do that? You do a lot of talking to show that you are also a man (?) of word.

John, can you give me the short version of MTTT's long winded post? I couldn't get past the first paragraph... did it make any sense or was he in a fugue state again?

dave

John wrote:

Last post from me on this subject. Have you been here long? There's a long running, fairly amusing thread about WebTV users. Kind'a like we used to poke fun @ AO Lusers. Second, your post and mine were quite similar in that neither added any value to the 'net. I just used up a few more bytes on a sector on a hard drive. Not sure what enticed you into a reply on this thread, especially a "get a life" rejoinder that I haven't heard in quite some time. Third, I don't know whether I'm able (capable) of skimming through 1500 posts in a matter of minutes but I'm pretty sure I don't want the ability. Fourth, when UA100, TW or CS post, I *always* read them, and I usually enjoy them. Finally, are you unsure of the spelling of "man" or are you wondering about whether I have 2 X's or an XY pair? [ Can't keep "gender" and "sex" straight, so I prefer to drop [to] the genes. ]

Or, as Shaw said, "intelligence is an experiment that failed."

Sorry, Dave. Didn't get very far myself. It was like he was doing the spray paint in a paper bag thing. How's the weather? Lived 16 years in Sebastopol. Enjoyed the predictable weather, and remember at one time (it's been a while) buying 8 foot redwood 2x4s at three for a dollar.

John, the weather is GREAT! It's been in the 80's and 90's lately. Several days of hot weather broke all time records about 2 weeks ago.

I lived in Novato and Petaluma (Chickentuma ) back in the

Three for a dollar? That's before I bought any! :)

Where are you at now?

dave

John wrote:

From DSM IV

"Bipolar I: For a diagnosis of Bipolar I disorder, a person must have at least one manic episode. Mania is sometimes referred to as the other extreme to depression. Mania is an intense high where the person feels euphoric, almost indestructible in areas such as personal finances, business dealings, or relationships. They may have an elevated self-esteem, be more talkative than usual, have flight of ideas, a reduced need for sleep, and be easily distracted. The high, although it may sound appealing, will often lead to severe difficulties in these areas, such as spending much more money than intended, making extremely rash business and personal decisions, involvement in dangerous sexual behavior, and/or the use of drugs or alcohol. Depression is often experienced as the high quickly fades and as the consequences of their activities becomes apparent, the depressive episode can be exacerbated."

Regards, Tom.

Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

More egomaniacal claptrap from he who thinks he is a shrink. All that has shrunk is the portion of your brain that controls impulse posting to "attempt" to bait me. I'm not biting, Tommy WasteOne. Go back to limericks. Those were pretty good from time to time.

dave

Tom Wats> >

Hey Dave, in Arkansas now, surrounded by pine and red oak. Used to fly in and out of the old Marin Co. (grass) and new airport, also Petaluma, Santa Rosa and all the Bay area airports, and seaplanes at Sausalito. Lots of fun but all good things must come to an end.

Re: this NG. Remember, you are swimming with sharks.

John, I never flew a seaplane. Never even BEEN in a seaplane. All my flying was done out of Reid Hillview and San Jose Airport. and I did a few cross wind landings at a tiny airfield south of San Jose. Can't remember it's name. No control tower, potholes everywhere and WINDY as hell.

thanks for the reminder. :)

dave

John wrote:

You just bit, IDIOT!

P.S. F*ck Off

Boy, lots of troll-feeding going on. I'm sure he's enjoying the attention.