On 3/14/06, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Smart ass ex lawyer ;-)
I've never made any claims to any intelligence levels. I can certainly be an ass, though. <g> > Ok, you'll have it your way. I rarely do. This will be a treat! > > First argument: Did I claim n'existe pais? No, I said I _barely_ exist, at > morning. I understand that. My point wasn't that you didn't exist, simply that existence is an "on-off" type of thing. Either you do or you don't. You can't "barely" exist. Even subatomic particles such as muons whose independent existence is measured in millionths of a second, do indeed fully exist for those brief periods of time. So even if you feel sub-human before your first cup of coffee in the morning, it can't be said that you are ever anything other than a fully existing being. > Second argument: Admitting to exist, does that make me feel? Your argument > is similar to the logic of a character by the famous Danish writer Ludvik > Holberg. He proved that a person was a stone by saying: Can a stone fly? No. > Can you fly? No. Thereby are you a stone. That, of course is just silly. Amusing, but silly. I won't grace it with a rebuttal... > > Third argument: It is proven beyond reasonable doubt that you Frank are not > a living person, but a computer generated shit chat'er. Thereby are you not > entitled to make a valid argument. The validity of any argument has nothing to do with the nature of the person or thing that generated the argument. A statement is right or wrong in and of itself, and its correctness is quite independent of it's author. However, I can't blame anyone for playing the odds and considering the source as part of their decision-making process in deciding whether a statement is right or wrong. You played the odds, but you lost. <vbg> > > Got you, and it felt gooood. You didn't actually get me, but if it made you feel goooooood, then I'm happy, too. <g> > > BTW. Your post amused me. Then I consider my post a success. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
