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  • andrewk
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    I hope you brought your cup!
  • Hanover
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    I don't know what to make of this either. He's been declared dead, his estate distributed, life insurance benefits handed out, eulogies said, wife remarried, children adopted, all his slaves freed. I inherited his cat mat. Must I return it?
  • S
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    Speaking of PF members who haven't properly made it over here, I don't get why busy (busycuttingcrap) hasn't joined in, despite actually joining last year. I recall that he, along with several others, wasn't happy about the way the TPF faction abandoned ship, but none of that matters now.jamalrob

    Yet he was recently active at the old place, I noticed. Greyfrairs Bobby.

    I also noticed that @SophistiCat has recently joined, and he was one of those several others that you referred to. Welcome to the forum, Sophisticat.

    And welcome to you too, @Ruminant.
  • S
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    Welcome back, Banno! And rest in peace.
  • Baden
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    Banno is busy proving that the law of the excluded middle doesn't apply to the concept of life. He is neither alive nor dead, but undead.
  • Michael
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    Isn't "undead" just "was dead, but now isn't" - so alive? Or "dead, but still moving" - so dead?
  • Baden
    15.6k
    Both and neither. Banno embodies fuzzy logic. Or at least his beard does.
  • ArguingWAristotleTiff
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    Thank you for responding because for the life of me I haven't been able to come up with your nickname only your real name. ;)
  • Sir2u
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    c692d54914719657e04f6c6ca5b5a1a1.jpgBanno

    I hope you brought your cup!andrewk

    Of course he brought it, but it is not red anymore. Now it is invisible. :s
  • Sir2u
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    He is neither alive nor dead, but undead.Baden

    Now the question is "Is he still in the box?"
  • Banno
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    SO I updated my profile picture - I'm not allowed to upload images here yet.

    My cup, as you can see, is now a hand-crafted ceramic, in shades of blue. The cat's mat has been upgraded to a scratching post, so Hanover, you are welcome to his old mat. Jack is pictured sharing my contempt for poor philosophy in its various forms.
  • Banno
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    What of Landru Guide Us?

    I have concluded that the post-truth politics of Trump is all his fault.

    He should be here to defend himself.
  • Jamal
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    @Landru Guide Us joined a year ago but hasn't been seen for nine months. Things were pretty quiet at the time, so there probably weren't enough right-wing memes here to pique his ire.

    I agree that Trump is his fault.
  • Banno
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    I don't think he would be very happy about it. Or than again he might be rejoicing in the existential freedom provided.
  • Brainglitch
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    P1: Banno is dead.

    P2: Banno was Australian.

    P3: The evidence here shows that he refuses to stop talking.

    C: Dead Australians can talk

    Q.E.D.
  • Michael
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    P1: Banno is dead.

    P2: Banno was Australian.

    P3: The evidence here shows that he refuses to stop talking.

    C: Dead Australians can talk

    Q.E.D.
    Brainglitch

    Why "Banno was Australian" and not "Banno is Australian"? You seem to be implying that he isn't an Australian (any more). And if he isn't an Australian then he isn't a dead Australian. Therefore that he talks is not proof that dead Australians can talk.

    Q.E.D.
  • Brainglitch
    211
    Why "Banno was Australian" and not "Banno is Australian"? You seem to be implying that he isn't an Australian (any more). And if he isn't an Australian then he isn't a dead Australian. Therefore that he talks is not proof that dead Australians can talk.Michael

    P1: Banno be dead.

    P2: Banno be Australian.

    P3: The evidence here shows that he refuses to stop talking.

    C: Dead Australians can talk
  • Michael
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    P1: Banno be dead.

    P2: Banno be Australian.

    P3: The evidence here shows that he refuses to stop talking.

    C: Dead Australians can talk
    Brainglitch

    Can the dead have citizenship? If not then you can't be both dead and Australian.
  • Brainglitch
    211
    Can the dead have citizenships? If not then you can't be both dead and Australian.Michael

    OF course the dead have citizensjip.

    They even vote in some places.
  • Brainglitch
    211
    And get elected.Michael

    Q.E.D.
  • ArguingWAristotleTiff
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    Can the dead have citizenship? If not then you can't be both dead and Australian.Michael
    You don't lose your citizenship simply because you cease living.
    Silly goose
  • ArguingWAristotleTiff
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    They even vote in some places.Brainglitch

    Sometimes they vote twice and collect Social Security checks.
  • Brainglitch
    211
    Sometimes they vote twice and collect Social Security checks.ArguingWAristotleTiff

    Ha! There ya go.
  • Mongrel
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    I've been reading Geneology of Morals (after Gay Science). Paying closer attention to the parts I sort of ignored before.. the blond Aryan conquerors versus the darker primitive people. The assessment of democracy is that it endangers the purity of the blond Aryans (who were universally blond for some reason). Communism is a monstrous reversion to a primitive social structure resulting from the rise of the darkies.

    So.. he said he dwelt with Schopenhauer to the point that it was just the two of them. That means he has to have known that the pale blond image is a myth.. a metaphor... a magic language that is bound to create pathos and pathology. Expression and creation are identical.

    Per N, the Buddhist longing for nothingness is the same as the Christian mystic's longing for union with God. He thinks both forms of mysticism are nihilism cults.
  • Mongrel
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    When I'm intent on displaying my stupidity I prefer to do it by cartoon.
  • Sir2u
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    When I'm intent on displaying my stupidity I prefer to do it by cartoon.Mongrel

    What kind do you prefer?
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