(18:54:03) khannatanmai: I guess if we struggled with ambiguity in daily life, language would be pretty inefficient
(18:54:13) spectie: khannatanmai: welcome to firespeaker's world ;DDD
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2003 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2004 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2005 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2006 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2007 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2008 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2009 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2010 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2012 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
2020 |
(18:54:03) khannatanmai: I guess if we struggled with ambiguity in daily life, language would be pretty inefficient
(18:54:13) spectie: khannatanmai: welcome to firespeaker's world ;DDD
"It was framed within Marxist—... I was going to say ‘theology’—which I think I'll stick with."
"Anthropology's just racist folklore."
"If you're lying, then the other person is probably lying too. And if you're not lying, the other person is probably still lying."
"As a consequence, Postmodernists' judgment about the invalidity of judgments must also be invalid, but the idea of criticizing Postmodernist dogma does not seem to be popular among them."
(11:48:40) kesuari: they mean you'll live with god (or notwith god) forever
(11:49:00) kesuari: heh, without means notwith. i didn't need to make the word up
(19:13:11) kesuari: well, i suppose they say one way to become a great artist is to copy everyone else
(19:13:26) kesuari: well, copy the great artists i mean
(19:13:37) kesuari: someone who wanted to paint well shouldn't copy any drawings i've done
(14:49:24) Brenda: it isn't that i don't care about consequences! i just usually don't think about them
(14:49:42) [me]: it seems to me more that you do think about them, you just honestly don't care about them
(14:49:54) Brenda: ok you're right
(14:49:57) Brenda: i don't
(14:50:12) Brenda: it's after i decide i don't care that i stop thinking about them
(14:50:26) Brenda: that way it can be a surprise when they happen! :)
(15:17:35) [me]: you just have to think like me is all, and then you'll understand things like this :-P
(15:17:46) kesuari: yeah
(15:18:06) kesuari: i, on the other hand, got my thinkingways from a more reputable dealer than you, i think
(15:18:14) kesuari: you probably got yours from a kyrgyz bizarre
Shyngys: "Кто придумал пейперы? Я хочу по голове ему дать."
Jonathan: "Аристотл наверное."
Shyngys: "Блин, он умер уже."
Annex door creaks
Derek & Jonathan, in unison: "Ghosts!"
Derek: "Truth by concensus!"
14:13:02 [Rianna]: yeah...fanfiction is like...free literary crack
14:13:32 [Rianna]: It is really fun, generally not too good for you, but you keep coming back for more each time you quit :-p
"This is, like, the ultimate incarnation of toast."
"So Mohammed said to the mountain, 'Rabbi Akiva—Oh wait, let me get my glasses…'"
01:02:01 [Tristan]: (it occurs to me i've probably spent more money on free software than many people have spent on pay-for software)
"Regularity is a different kind of thing from a thing."
"If language were perfect, could it be used for lying? …That's too hard."
05:39:41 [me]: how big's the file?
05:39:49 [Tristan]: 346 MB
05:40:07 [Tristan]: (my internet connection's really fast, so i replied before i got the question)
05:40:44 [Tristan]: or maybe this?:
(00:39:51) [Tristan]: 346 MB
(00:39:53) [me]: how big's the file?
(00:40:15) [Tristan]: (my internet connection's really fast, so i replied before i got the question)
05:41:12 [me]:
05:39:41 [me]: how big's the file?
05:39:49 [Tristan]: 346 MB
05:40:07 [Tristan]: (my internet connection's really fast, so i replied before i got the question)
05:41:32 [me]: *someone's* internet isn't as fast as it should be
05:41:40 [me]: probably fault of my stupid ethernet cord though
05:42:11 [Tristan]: probably
05:42:22 [Tristan]: yours must be slow, and mine fast, to make me able to reply before your question gets here
05:42:38 [me]: .. what?
05:42:44 [me]: oh, that actually makes some sense
05:42:47 [me]: scarily enough
05:43:12 [Tristan]: lol
05:43:18 [Tristan]: don't i normally?
05:44:14 [me]: in weird ways like that? Emphatically yes.
05:44:39 [Tristan]: no, i mean in normal ways, like that
05:44:50 [me]: that's what I mean
05:44:54 [me]: you just think it's normal
05:45:00 [me]: cause it's you
05:45:51 [Tristan]: actually, i was a bit scared it would be patent nonsense,
05:46:02 [Tristan]: but i thought i should try anyway
05:46:02 [Tristan]: and it worked :)
05:46:16 [me]: no, you see, it did make some sense
05:46:45 [Tristan]: yeah, that's what i mean
05:46:45 [Tristan]: i was scared it would be patent nonsense
05:46:45 [Tristan]: and it wasn't
05:46:58 [Tristan]: so my attempts at communication resulted in some communication
05:47:10 [Tristan]: which is what working communication should do
05:47:10 [Tristan]: so it worked :)
05:47:21 [me]: you mean you were afraid it would come across as such?
05:47:37 [me]: (and hey, give me some credit too, I understood your nonesense)
05:47:38 [Tristan]: i was afraid it would come across as patent nonsense, but that wasn't my objective
05:47:43 [Tristan]: i was trying to communicate :)
05:47:44 [me]: okay
05:47:46 [me]: yeah
05:47:49 [me]: well, you succeeded
05:47:51 [Tristan]: i wasn't meaning to deprive you of any
05:47:57 [me]: after I thought on it some..
05:48:00 [Tristan]: yeah, but only after much effort just now!
Aaron B [04:07]: i like it my way. when you become reincarnated as me in your next life, you can change it ;)
me [04:07]: … wait
me [04:07] that can't happen
me [04:08] can it?
"Everything is a euphamism; you can't really say it; you have to do it."
Matt: "Could we reschedule the conversation about the meaning of life?"
Jonathan: "It's not really about the meaning of life; it's about the driving factors."
Matt: "Could we also reschedule the conversation about the conversation?"
(06:23:29) Jess: i like anthropology much more for the way it thinks, rather than what it thinks about
"It's hard to write porn from the point of view of Plato."
"I trust a webpage more than I trust myself."
"Yeah, value judgements ... bad."
(15:59:45) Aaron B: but i forgot that you're jonathan
(15:59:51) Aaron B: and conventional logic doesn't apply
(15:59:58) [me]: IT'S NOT CONVENTIONAL LOGIC
(16:00:08) [me]: it's logic that works on stereotypical american teenagers and no one else
(16:00:27) Aaron B: right
(16:00:29) Aaron B: convention
(03:19:22) Оберон: I believe in baltimore
(03:19:25) Оберон: I'm bad with locations
"No, you don't get it. Domino's is bad pizza for the same reason steak is bad pizza."
"That's what I'm saying! Definitions can't be defined. ... As such."
oberon: "In one of those tests linked to on Jon's test page, there's a question that asks 'Do you frequently make references to things that you have heard or read?'"
Matt: "No, most of my conversations are smell-based."
Nat: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra."
Kesuari: no law against oberon having good ideas. and even if there were, it's a good law to disobey once in a while.
(07:54:54) Оберон: Actually, I only think
(07:54:59) Оберон: Perhaps some day I'll thinki
(03:59:22) Kesuari: well, then you talking about you experiencing class is real, just like a book of fiction is real, but the class is make-believe
(03:59:44) [me]: and so am I :-)
(03:59:59) [me]: I need to get some make-believe sleep
(04:00:25) Kesuari: okay
(04:00:43) Kesuari: good make-believe early morning.
(04:04:09) Kesuari: (or, perhaps, me reading you talking about you experiencing class is real, but you talking about class and the class itself is make-believe... i'm not entirely sure.)
(04:04:56) [me]: yeah, I think that's more in line with what you originally said
Jonathan: "You can just go around the curb that way."
oberon: "But I like to go the legal way."
Jonathan: "But the Branvan goes that way."
Cem: "I've written 12 pages for a 5-page paper that's probably going to be 20 pages long."
Jonathan: "Wow, what are you writing about?"
Cem: "Wisdom and the bible and philosophy and socrates and shit. It's fucked up."
(18:43:06) Mark: There comes a point where you can reduce anything to anything. I mean, reconstructions of reconstructions of reconstructions - they're building a PIE in the sky
"George Lucas was a starving artist. Now he's fat."
"I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe."
Jonathan: "This guy isn't human! Hm, he doesn't look human either."
Rameez: "None of us are human."
"What is `innate'? What is `what'?"
"Within the deep enigmatic craters of the human mindset, exists a belief of an ideal world; inconceivable in reality, an almost intangible paradise is found to be a constantly recurring notion. The previous sentence meant nothing; it is only a structural perception of the implausible."
"We don't need no inspiration. We don't need no firewalls."
"Eating eggs is like eating unborn fetuses—look, you dropped fetus on your lap!"
"So when you know you're going to die, do you take your ammunition or a cigar, you know?"
[21:41:53] LunaCamilla: my biscotti tells me that if it makes me happy, to do it at least once
[21:42:08] firespeaker org: that's not always possible
[21:42:18] LunaCamilla: yeah, i was thinking that
[21:42:23] LunaCamilla: i told the biscotti that
[21:42:27] LunaCamilla: but it wouldn't listen
[21:42:32] LunaCamilla: so i ate it
"I'm not writing it from a user's standpoint; I'm writing it from an author's standpoint."
"Well, now that you mention it, that does look kinda like orange."
[17:24:29] Verdant Forest: I think Russian is more lustful than French. French plays hard to get.
"You know, when a whole language becomes DDR steps, you know you have a problem."
"And you know, your four-year-old comes home and is like 'Mom, can I buy a vibrator?'"
"It's just like going to war when you know you're going to die."
"Faith is believing what ya know ain't so."
"Everything's filtered through the little woods we live in."