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0 of 1 people found this post helpful Posted 07/29/08 - 12:49 AM: Subject: Take A Wild Shot	#1
Okay everyone. Chill. So... some of us has been here for a long time and some are just starting to warm up. We have discussed, argued, exchanged punches and wrestled with a couple members. That said, I'm sure we have had "somewhat baseless impressions" about those we came across with in this oh-so-reasonable forum. Now, if you had to take a wild guess about certain PF member's real life what would it be? Let's get it on! *Half inspired by a PM exchange
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Posted 07/29/08 - 01:26 AM:	#2
Hyena, well since you started, it is only fair if you get the first shot. So, I think you are a cheerful girl in a job you don't find very interesting. I think it would be something administrative, or business and sales. You'd like to get away and travel someday, but fear that this is a dream. Though you are cheerful you think much more then you show in daily life. You know the way they look when all of a sudden you start a talk about nothingness or a ramble about what it means if a thing is not. You don't, because you don't like the stares it gets you, so you rather talk music. You'd like to find someone, someone who is both tough, fun and doesn't mind a good philo talk, but hey they are so damn hard to find and the others are just so uninteresting. You come home and hang your coat, you read for a bit. You escape to here, you do your job well. You're otptimistic, but then you are insecure, you are a pessimist, but feel safe. You hang out with friends and you like sweets. You can laugh and giggle. Edited by Caldwell on 07/29/08 - 01:38 AM
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Posted 07/29/08 - 01:34 AM:	#3
Eliza, the modbot, I bet has a den full of tech gadgets. I picture her exactly like her avatar, fashionably bolted and screwed in the right joints of her shiny, metallic figure. I bet she has a year's supply of shamois sponge and turtle wax to keep her looking good. Banno has a garden, and his avatar is a self-portrait. I imagine him in a small cottage, the roof of this cottage is mud and straw, and just outside is his precious arborium, somewhere in the down-under. He inspired me to make a compost. unenlightened, perhaps, has a very relaxed existence and doesn't lose his temper or use swear words. 180 proof is a very stern neighbor, but keen. I can hear him say "What is it again this time....?" to someone.
The standard view is that doctors are not at fault if they deceive their patients for their health's sake, and that fathers are not at fault if they deceive their children for their own good. For the crime of deception consists not in the falsity of what is said but in the harm done by the deceiver. -- Thomas Hobbes, 3rd set of objections on The Sixth Meditation, Descartes.

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Posted 07/29/08 - 02:27 AM:	#4
Caldwell is a prosperous banana farmer. Thanks to her team of migrant laborers, she has very little work to do. She spends most of the day sitting under the trees pondering philosophy and posting from her laptop. Sometimes she wonders if there's something more she could do with her life, but then she eats another banana and forgets the thought. She does go into town once a week to lead rallies against plastic bags. unenlightened wanders the world soaking up experience and passing it on. Landlady, of course, looks after her tenants well... but if they cause trouble, she becomes ruthless. Part of her wants to quit and become a professor. 180 Proof has a simple house on 40 acres of land in the desert. He usually keeps to himself, but everyone in town knows and respects him anyway. When he speaks, everyone listens.

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Posted 07/29/08 - 07:01 AM: Subject: I swear this is all true...	#5
Paul spends 90% of his time indoors, leaving only for the occasional live baseball game and to groceries (the only thing he doesn't buy online). He owns every Star Wars film on DVD, VHS, and Betamax -- and he's saving up for Blu-Ray -- but has less of the related merchandise than you would expect. What most people do not realize is that his obsession is not nerdy, but rather research. The Force is strong with Paul, and every day he comes closer to a breakthrough. To maximize his training time, he sleeps for three solid hours each night, making up the balance in random nano-naps during the day. For he knows that someday, the fate of the universe may rest in his hands. Meanwhile, hyena in petticoat has placed herself in a holding pattern, patiently awaiting the day that I can hire my own secretary and fly her across the ocean. However, she only wants the job because she knows I won't complain about her accessing PF from work. Once in the States, hyena will be accidentally caught up in a harrowing Manchurian Candidate-style plot while picking daisies. (Which is why the "Do Not Walk on Grass" sign was there to begin with.) She will be rescued by Fenchurch and Caldwell moonlighting as the superhero team "Girls with Guns." (Hundreds dead, story at 11.) Caldwell spends most of her time reading poems, as well as dictating a few to a lawn jockey which is also a voice-activated dictaphone. She has plenty of free time due to her hefty government salary -- for you see, she is the free world's secret tactical weapon against mad scientists and megalomaniacal dictators bent on world domination. When trouble arises in the military underground, she is called in to negotiate with the enemy. Those who are not instantly charmed wind up mentally fatigued, crushed by the weight of her immense expertise regarding the politics, the art of war, and international relations. Tobias is no longer an international man of mystery, having finally settled down not with one of the many Soviet spies he has bedded over the course of his career, but a peaceful woman three months older and ten years wiser than him. These days, the only Other he finds reason to assassinate is the creeping Schopenhauerianism of modern youths. Reformed Nihilist is the guy who shows up uninvited to the party, but no one minds. After all, that's why the friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend was told in the the first place. Plus, he brings beer. Always. What people don't know is that sometime in the past, Reformed Nihilist entered an eight-round underworld tournament consisting of battles to the death by assuming the identity of feared Sino-Syrian terrorist mastermind Fayed al-Shenlong in an effort to defeat a consortium of criminals plotting against Caldwell (the real Fayed al-Shenlong having decided at the last minute to forgo the contest). He has never revealed this secret as he wishes to win Caldwell's heart and hand the old fashioned way (by which I mean romantically, not getting her drunk and knocking her up). Oh, and unenlightened is actually a flea reincarnated into a basketball who interacts with his computer telepathically.
Am I a man dreaming I'm a butterfly, or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of sashimi?

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Posted 07/29/08 - 01:17 PM:	#6
Post Modern Beatnik has a cat, I am pretty sure he has. His cat meows once to approve a plan, and twice if it disapproves. When the cat meows twice the Beatnik reexemines. It is hard to pinpoint what he does as his business seems to be conductible from a chair. It involves complex patterns of human resource management and identity formation though. It is on the crossroads of science and politics. Even if he doesn't lift a finger people tend to see him. He has a dusty black cloak in the descriptions of others and he walks the barios. His mortal enemy is is Nihilistic locomotive. The man puts order into disorder and neatly disorders order, with a meticulousness that seems calculated but is in effect completely random. Perhaps this comes down to the same thing. He invented a lottery which was played in Babylon. A trump card if ever there was one. It Reformed Nihilist and and gave Ecce the part of the dragon. Since then the wheel at PF turns. Post Modern Beatnik asked Dunamis to track him. The war machine couldn't find him though, his rhziomic tentacles didn't catch on. He did find many things though. Many things and many people. Now Dunamis weaves the web. He assembles people, places and posts into an awesome army of metaphors. When he comes I hope Petunia's tree logic will save us and Landlady will do her job and look after the land. How do I know all this, ahh I stole a manuscript of Benkei's desk who will publish this in "The Global Strategy Quarterly" Ahh, whereas what PMB says is all true, mine are all lies, made up to impress the women in the corner. Told at 180 Proof's bar while having a few glasses too many. Only licquor requires proof. I am rambling on about whiskey and women while he makes the ice cubes clang in my glass and smiles knowingly. He heard it all before. What am I saying, he lived it all before. I see Hyena and Caldwell whispering in a corner right now. What would that be about? High above the bar Paul is gambling and throws our souls into the eternal slot machine above. Perhaps three banana's will come out. Jack pot. Edited by Tobias on 07/30/08 - 02:01 AM
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Posted 07/29/08 - 01:40 PM:	#7
Swstephe, a rogue cyborg engineering major who has gone to the dark side of philosophy. Unenlightened, at the age of 99 he has mastered the art of existence and became a wise 20 year old again. Paul, self-actualized, so far removed from the common man that he is only able to look at humanity through his window, yet remains content. -Best shots from a newbie PF member.

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Posted 07/29/08 - 02:28 PM:	#8
Bloody hell, I've really exposed my madness, haven't I! I thought I was talking to the dissociated fragments of my schizophrenic self, but I see now; you are my therapists. Ok, I admit it - I am locked in this padded cell called Psychotheraputic Fantasia, with only this screen and a keyboard. I kept thinking that if only I came up with a good philosophical post I would be let out. But I see now that I just needed to have this insight into my true condition. I understand it all now, and it was for my own good, so will you all have a think and maybe, if I promise to be good, will you let me out. Please?
The observer is the observed. J Krishnamurti "Philosophy, to the Philistine, is an evolutionary process, watched over by some sort of brisk dynamic Providence, and culminating in the supreme insight of modern thought." John Cowper Powys

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Posted 07/29/08 - 08:46 PM:	#9
Every evening Tobias walks by a wing of the Library filled with hospital beds and big puffy chairs, where Unenlightened changes the soiled undergarments of many an octogenarian (Un's books are living people and address the tender melancholy of the absent self, gleaned in eyes of the dying or in the scattered words of the schizophrenic). They share a non-human book between them titled "The Perennial and Empty Art of a Genteel Curiosity" Tobias lives in a hexagon of Byzantine decor and has a liking for cold turkey sandwiches and the mirror at the end of the hall. The shelves of his little place hold blue octavos before noon and two whole walls shelved with these little books transform into shelves stocked with vintage bottles of red wine and classy pornography in the evening. He joins a smoking group who hold discussions over the railings of one of the Library's ancient vertical shafts. Paul lives in a hexagon where the books are GUI monitors and permit access to many other regions of a theoretical model of the Library -- he has generated a Library of his own through a very basic understanding of its elements and so can do without the real thing. He sometimes attends Tobias' smoking parties in disguise via a system of holographic projectors.
Hunger impelled me to eat myself to death because I would not eat from others.

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Posted 07/29/08 - 10:53 PM:	#10
Hyena: Is definitely a wild child who can party hard and knows how to squeeze the marrow out of life. Caldwell: I see Caldwell as a nurturer. She likes to take care of things, like plants, her health and other people. 180 Proof: Probably has a library collection that would rival the library of Alexandria. I can see 180 spending hours playing Tarski’s World when his classmates were playing Super Mario Brothers. 180 probably also likes to argue in truth tables with others just for the heck of it. Paul: A cat-loving computer guy. I can totally see Paul sitting in front of a computer, with a cat on his lap, and with an evil grin on his face. Gramm: Artist/ Mac Computer guy. He’s probably out there right now wrestling with crocodiles, or playing with his Wii. Reformed Nihilist: Likes to go hiking in style: in black leather jacket and sunglasses (and scare the hell out of lone women hikers). Chato: Is either bird watching right now...or having a rational conversation with his dog.
There is time to laugh and there is time not to laugh, and this is not one of them. - Insp. Clouseau. From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt--that is the whole question. � Camus.

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Posted 07/29/08 - 11:52 PM:	#11
Tobias - charming playboy (probably reformed) Caldwell - content even when alone, likes a relaxed atmosphere. Prefers to be in the company of a small but closely knit group. RN - have high alcohol tolerance. (I'm not sure why this came to mind.) Likes to eat. PMB - has a nice and modest house and isn't really inclined to acquire a grand one. (Like I told you way back.) Gramm - lighthearted grampa. 180 Proof - in a perpetual "rolling eyes" expression. >>> Landlady - likes to dance and/ or sing (alone). NL - don't care what other people think.
Your failure to hit the target does not mean you are aiming at a mirage. Reload. Keep shooting ... - 180 Proof Glorious randomness.

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Posted 07/30/08 - 02:57 AM:	#12
Paul - Bitter, Narcissistic, Reclusive Reformed Nihilist / unenlightened - Balanced, Lover, Teacher Hyena - Young, Lonely, Confused 180 Proof - Genius, Ivory Tower Edited by aesop on 07/30/08 - 03:08 AM

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Posted 08/01/08 - 07:48 AM:	#13
lol, you guys are such dorks.

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Posted 08/01/08 - 10:39 AM:	#14
Kurt_Godel wrote: lol, you guys are such dorks. Said the one who named himself after this guy:
Am I a man dreaming I'm a butterfly, or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of sashimi?

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Posted 08/01/08 - 10:51 AM:	#15
Postmodern Beatnik wrote: Said the one who named himself after this guy:

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Posted 08/02/08 - 01:40 AM:	#16
Postmodern Beatnik wrote: Said the one who named himself after this guy: Lol, owned.
"Take the word of one immortal." - Disturbed "How could that be gay if im pretending you're a woman?" - Flight of the Conchords "Whose to know if your soul will fade at all" - Seether

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Posted 08/02/08 - 09:23 AM:	#17
yo, Godel was a friggin genius, ok? hmph!

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Posted 08/02/08 - 02:52 PM:	#18
larryn: beautiful, searching for something, linguistically interested, musing, and relaxed. Swstephe: intelligent, relativistic, doubting, down to earth. Pete: well mannered, questioning, responsive, intelligent, and maybe has an eye for tan women...don't really know though. Berkely's Ghost: eloquent, introspective, flaunty, inspiring Unenlightened: helpful
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Posted 08/02/08 - 06:27 PM:	#19
Kurt_Godel wrote: yo, Godel was a friggin genius, ok? hmph! Lol, I know.
"Take the word of one immortal." - Disturbed "How could that be gay if im pretending you're a woman?" - Flight of the Conchords "Whose to know if your soul will fade at all" - Seether

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Posted 08/04/08 - 04:31 AM:	#20
Kurt_Godel wrote: yo, Godel was a friggin genius, ok? hmph! Hah! No argument here!
Am I a man dreaming I'm a butterfly, or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of sashimi?

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Posted 08/04/08 - 09:49 AM:	#21
zigazactly.

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Posted 08/05/08 - 09:32 PM:	#22
Bang.
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