Date Posted:17:35:46 08/19/05 Fri Author: short timer Author Host/IP: 68.89.136.109 Subject: A better class of men 64 going on 12 In reply to:
Tarbaby
's message, "PG-60 Parental consent advised." on 15:47:41 08/19/05 Fri
>>>not mature enough for hot heavy action.
>>>
>>>hemmingway finally stopped wearing a dress
>>>but thought he could find what it was to be a man by
>>>stareing into a shotgun.
>>>compassion
>>>me I just want to wake up for the first time and find
>>>a woman in my arms.
>>> _________________________
>>
>> You don't mean that. First you know you could never
>>fall asleep if a real woman was there in three
>>dimensional space and time. You would lay their all
>>night to lose in the feeling to lose consciousness,
>>too present in the presence.
>>
>>And that is all you really want, is just the presence
>>in a text box. A silicon woman you don’t want a
>>carbon relationship anymore. You just in it for the
>>words
>>
>>
>>> Listening to The Iliad last night. Helen of Troy
>>conversation with Aphrodite she said, " haven’t you
>>screwed with my life enough, got dam it leave me
>>alone. Get out of my life."
>>>I would have said PG-13, but not anymore, that is way
>>>too mature content for me.
>>>
>>>The last hug I got was from a four ton elephant cow.
>>>Twenty five years is a long time between hugs.
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>The first time it happened was a poem, an old man
>sitting on a park bench holding a leaf
A better class of men 64 going on 12
When he was twelve I had to resist the temptation to go a couple rounds with his father. Twelve years old and already a loss of innocence: peer pressure in elementary school. Now they put the junior high school kids in high school. Before I had ever seen porn. My sexual speculations were so unimaginative. But I had to cut the guy some slack. Seeing how he had that brain tumor
All this because the word transcends, oh is this all there is?
Oh yes I believe in experience, but what have I just experienced? Room for error there: phenomenological speaking. I have no idea what an empiricist is
Speculation:
2. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor. "Clothed with transcendent brightness." Milton.
2. (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
Now I can see very excellent but reaching beyond the limits of human knowledge if that includes speculations about what lies beyond the reach of my intellect. I got to take a pass on Kantian transcending. Duh me.
I like this bit on speculation by a writer of speculative fiction.
So one problem with speculation is that it piggybacks on the Gell-Mann effect of unwarranted credibility, making the speculation look more useful than it is.
Another issue concerns the sheer volume of speculation. Sheer volume comes to imply a value which is specious. I call this the There-Must-Be-A-Pony effect, from the old joke in which a kid comes down Christmas morning, finds the room filled with horseshit, and claps his hands with delight. His astonished parents ask: why are you so happy? He says, with this much horseshit, there must be a pony.
