"It was framed within Marxist—... I was going to say ‘theology’—which I think I'll stick with."
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Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "philosophy": religion (10), language (9), weirdness (9), wisdom (8), stupidity (8)
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[edit] added: 3 March 2012
[edit] added: 5 November 2010
"Anthropology's just racist folklore."
[edit] added: 17 November 2009
"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."
[edit] added: 11 September 2009
"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."
[edit] added: 30 May 2008
(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
[edit] added: 15 May 2008
(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
[edit] added: 20 December 2007
(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! :)
[edit] added: 8 December 2007
(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
[edit] added: 2 June 2007
Shyngys: "Кто придумал пейперы? Я хочу по голове ему дать."
Jonathan: "Аристотл наверное."
Shyngys: "Блин, он умер уже."
[edit] added: 9 April 2007
Annex door creaks
Derek & Jonathan, in unison: "Ghosts!"
Derek: "Truth by concensus!"
[edit] added: 18 June 2006
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
[edit] added: 28 May 2006
"This is, like, the ultimate incarnation of toast."
[edit] added: 31 March 2006
"So Mohammed said to the mountain, 'Rabbi Akiva—Oh wait, let me get my glasses…'"
[edit] added: 22 March 2006
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)
[edit] added: 5 March 2006
"Regularity is a different kind of thing from a thing."
[edit] added: 16 February 2006
"If language were perfect, could it be used for lying? …That's too hard."
[edit] added: 7 February 2006
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!
[edit] added: 4 August 2005
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?
[edit] added: 31 July 2005
"Everything is a euphamism; you can't really say it; you have to do it."
[edit] added: 1 April 2005
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?"
[edit] added: 14 March 2005
(06:23:29) Jess: i like anthropology much more for the way it thinks, rather than what it thinks about
[edit] added: 27 February 2005
"It's hard to write porn from the point of view of Plato."
[edit] added: 23 February 2005
"I trust a webpage more than I trust myself."
[edit] added: 19 November 2004
"Yeah, value judgements ... bad."
[edit] added: 14 November 2004
(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
[edit] added: 8 November 2004
(03:19:22) Оберон: I believe in baltimore
(03:19:25) Оберон: I'm bad with locations
[edit] added: 26 October 2004
"No, you don't get it. Domino's is bad pizza for the same reason steak is bad pizza."
[edit] added: 26 October 2004
"That's what I'm saying! Definitions can't be defined. ... As such."
[edit] added: 26 September 2004
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."
[edit] added: 5 May 2004
Kesuari: no law against oberon having good ideas. and even if there were, it's a good law to disobey once in a while.
[edit] added: 9 May 2004
(07:54:54) Оберон: Actually, I only think
(07:54:59) Оберон: Perhaps some day I'll thinki
[edit] added: 18 March 2004
(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
[edit] added: 17 February 2004
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."
[edit] added: 30 November 2003
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."
[edit] added: 23 November 2003
(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
[edit] added: 30 April 2003
"George Lucas was a starving artist. Now he's fat."
[edit] added: 27 April 2003
"I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe."
[edit] added: 24 April 2003
Jonathan: "This guy isn't human! Hm, he doesn't look human either."
Rameez: "None of us are human."
[edit] added: 13 April 2003
"What is `innate'? What is `what'?"
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"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."
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"We don't need no inspiration. We don't need no firewalls."
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"Eating eggs is like eating unborn fetuses—look, you dropped fetus on your lap!"
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"So when you know you're going to die, do you take your ammunition or a cigar, you know?"
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[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
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"I'm not writing it from a user's standpoint; I'm writing it from an author's standpoint."
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"Well, now that you mention it, that does look kinda like orange."
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[17:24:29] Verdant Forest: I think Russian is more lustful than French. French plays hard to get.
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"You know, when a whole language becomes DDR steps, you know you have a problem."
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"And you know, your four-year-old comes home and is like 'Mom, can I buy a vibrator?'"
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"It's just like going to war when you know you're going to die."
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"Faith is believing what ya know ain't so."
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"Everything's filtered through the little woods we live in."