If you click on this thread, leave a post!

[Jesse]

I just figured out the ratio will get worse not better.

 

[lord methous]

we are at over 2,000 views and only now at 201 i think its failing badly

 

[jameslikespie]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GROUND!

http://youtu.be/gAYL5H46QnQ

 

[BigApplePi]

Okay. I left this post. I did my duty ... as if there was such a thing as this as a duty. I am not responsible for those who viewed and failed to leave a post ... or am i? There is such a thing as encouragement. I could encourage you to leave a post claiming it is the thread dictum. Yet that would take my energy and my energy is not unlimited. Certainly there are those who wish to view and not leave a post. We cannot stop them. Solution to try: leave a post without viewing ... or did someone already suggest that? No problem. No harm. Just do it. When you do, would you leave a post letting us know HOW you did it? Anything that will improve the post to view ratio would help. In fact that could be our goal: Not to go for the impossible. Just improve the post to view ratio.

 

[xbox]

I shall take over the world.

 

[Peeps999]

Ruling the world would involve talking to people. To do that you'll need to get off the internet.

 

[jameslikespie]

I'd say if one were to try to take over the world the internet would be useful.

 

[Peeps999]

It would be very useful but I doubt it could be entirely done over the internet. I challenge someone to prove me wrong by taking over the world with the internet!

 

[jameslikespie]

Yeah, I doubt anyone could do it purely with the internet, but no one person could do it on their own.

 

[xbox]

I demand you all to make me cookies.

 

[BigApplePi]

I'm postponing my efforts to take over the internet and then the world until I finish making this post which will bring the post to viewing ratio here closer to the critical stage necessary to do so.

 

[xbox]

Can you make me cookies after that?

 

[digital angel]

While you're in the kitchen, make me baked brie.

 

[jameslikespie]

Hmmmm......

 

[Lostwitheal]

Here we go, my patented cookie cake.

 

[Reluctantly]

^ Wow, that looks really good.

 

[Lostwitheal]

^ Wow, that looks really good.

And it's only got 15lbs of butter per square inch

 

[jameslikespie]

Random song link: http://youtu.be/46b55NFTX5M

 

[jameslikespie]

Epic thread revival FTW!

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

What does it mean to be?

 

[jameslikespie]

I clicked to see Artsu's post.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

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[Oedipus]

All my stuff smells like strawberries and I can't get rid of the scent. It's getting a little sickly.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Well. Okay. Here's a post.

 

[jameslikespie]

Thank you

 

[Zionoxis]

I am under the impression this ratio is due to a natural INTP tendency to defy what others say. That being said, I almost followed suit.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Herp.

It's sad that the views-posts count isn't what it was expected to be.

 

[jameslikespie]

Must...keep...thread...going *passes out*.

 

[MissBadHabits]

Hey guys he passed out! Does anyone have a sharpie? I want to draw a penis on his face! Oh wait....we're on the internet...

 

[terraxceles]

I am a bird, happy chirpy-chip tralalalala~

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

What does it mean to say that something exists outside of the self?

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

This thread does not even have 10% the number of replies as views.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

I therefore propose multiple posts per viewing to remedy the situation.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

What does it mean to say that something exists outside of the self?

This is an excellent question, and is perhaps the key question of all of philosophy.

It underpins ethics, because implicit to ethical theory is the notion that something does exist beyond what is presently experienced - the notion that your act right now will have an "effect" in the "future" - a rippling throughout space-time.

It underpins metaphysics in that it is the basis upon which anything other than phenomenological experience can be thought to meaningfully exist, and similarly epistemology in that it is the basis upon which anything beyond present experience can be known.

Before we attempt to answer this question, let us consider: what would can we derive about the world without making any assumptions about existence outside of the self in the present moment?

 

[terraxceles]

I am back, I have retained my form as a bird, chirpity chip chip

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

What does size mean on the subjective level? Is the experience of a single atom (everything experiences something, otherwise it wouldn't exist - this is not up for debate) different, except in complexity of phenomena, to the experience of a human subject? How is it different? How is it not different? Do multiple conscious beings over the same set of matter?

 

[Umenneske]

This is me leaving a post.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Our efforts are futile.

We may as well give up now.

 

[Oedipus]

Actually a little bit gutted this worked so poorly.

 

[Peeps999]

Our efforts are futile.

We may as well give up now.

Never give up. Trust your instincts.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

What does it mean to say that something exists outside of the self?

This is an excellent question, and is perhaps the key question of all of philosophy.

It underpins ethics, because implicit to ethical theory is the notion that something does exist beyond what is presently experienced - the notion that your act right now will have an "effect" in the "future" - a rippling throughout space-time.

It underpins metaphysics in that it is the basis upon which anything other than phenomenological experience can be thought to meaningfully exist, and similarly epistemology in that it is the basis upon which anything beyond present experience can be known.

Before we attempt to answer this question, let us consider: what would can we derive about the world without making any assumptions about existence outside of the self in the present moment?

I think it was Words who once elaborated on this. I do find the question interesting.


It starts with the Self; we are, or at least I am. The Initial Assumption is the belief that anything can and does exist outside the Self. Doing away with that assumption, what, then, is Objective Reality? Quite odd that there could be nothing outside my Self, on the contrary, from whence did I retrieve these notions and perceptions? Do I generate content from within? How is that possible? Was a I created in such a way as to allow that possibility, and therefore only interfacing with extensions of my own Subjective being in the form of External Objective Reality? Inconclusive, yet such reasoning is functionally legitimate and practically true. Objective Reality is merely an extension, a concept within my own Subjective Reality. But why would I separate myself from my Self? Why would I allocate a section of my cognition towards maintaining a separate entity away from what I then identify as my Ego, my 'core being'; my internal thoughts and emotions?

Inside, I find my Ego, of which it can be said, for all intents and purposes, that it is my innate soul. I also find the amalgamation and compartmentalization of what I am not and am eternally opposed against - External Objective Reality. My Ego is pitted against the EOR in a struggle for survival. To emerge victorious, I must understand EOR, utilize it against itself, and dominate it. Lest I succumb to suppression and annihilation.

 

[jameslikespie]

Hey guys he passed out! Does anyone have a sharpie? I want to draw a penis on his face! Oh wait....we're on the internet...

*Sleeps with one eye open*.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

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[jameslikespie]

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Let us do away with the notion of anything existing outside of our consciousness.

Instead, we simply recognise the existence of a Representation of Objective Reality which is present in our consciousness. We cannot simply do away with this, and instead must learn to live within it.

If I touch fire, whether or not anything outside of my perception of that fire gives it reality, I will be burned and I will feel pain. So I take it as real in the sense that my behaviour towards it will turn back on me. Such is the case with the rest of our Objective perceptions.

As well as these passive Perceptions, of qualia, of Object recognition, of feeling, there is another aspect - force. We are constantly impressed with particular forces which guide our action within the world, or else try to push us in some direction but with an opposing force which counter acts this.

Hypothesis: pleasure results from an acceleration along these lines of force, pain results from resistance along these lines of force. Our goal, then is to maximise our traversal along these lines of force, which requires first Representing the nature of these forces subjectively, and then attempting to adjust our position in this field such that maximum acceleration will eventually result.

 

[Jesse]

no

 

[jameslikespie]

 

[Oedipus]

 

[alrai]

okay.

yesterday i got drunk and just feel asleep while someone was talking.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu