Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2013 2:05:14 GMT -5
You're joking with him, right? Oh. I feel moved to respond to your second reply  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2013 16:10:33 GMT -5
I'm not interested in cheering you up.
|
|
|
|
Post by berlake on Oct 18, 2013 18:55:51 GMT -5
I'm not interested in cheering you up. You've managed to write another sentence without inserting a redundant comma, so you must like me a little bit. Not that this has cheered me up, so you're still being relatively true to yourself. Overall a pretty good comeback, though; you're good at those one-liners. I might learn something... |
|
frustratedwanter
Full Member
Apparently I posted something in 2020. I don't think that's what I'm looking for but what ta hey?
Posts: 150
|
Post by frustratedwanter on Oct 18, 2013 23:39:50 GMT -5
Cheer up Tim. Been chewing on this bone for some 30 years. Frustration is 'The Way'. I don't understand what part of anything leads to this question. |
|
frustratedwanter
Full Member
Apparently I posted something in 2020. I don't think that's what I'm looking for but what ta hey?
Posts: 150
|
Post by frustratedwanter on Oct 19, 2013 1:36:54 GMT -5
I think I should eat now. I can see this incredible drive to say something I think is clever that may elicit a response from some other I. A response that I can use to propagate the idea of some I that is greater than another I. Not really. I'm not really seeing it, I am being the incredible drive to say something I think is great. Saw a show once about mountain goats in rutting season. That they would starve to death in the interest of propagating themselves.
Whatever this self is here that is interested in propagating itself is not different from that.
I find myself more interested in trying to be clever than I am in eating. There is some vague understanding that organisms need to eat. But in this case it is a fictitious non existent organism that finds sustenance in being clever, feeding on whatever it thinks others are thinking about whatever it thinks it is thinking. I don't know that I can express precisely what is going on here. The body which actually requires nourishment plays second fiddle to some mental construct of an I.
The above may be understood or not. Don't even know what I said. What I do know is that the body has not eaten. Something very solid that needs nourishment is pushed aside by nonsensical mind stuff.
Luckily... I didn't feel like cooking so I got something to go. In the end the body will eat tree bark.
I did get something more appetizing than that. Whatever this alleged I might be.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2013 2:52:16 GMT -5
You're joking with him, right? I don't understand what part of anything leads to this question. Might be a joker that wants to run me around town. |
|
|
|
Post by berlake on Oct 20, 2013 7:31:40 GMT -5
I think I should eat now. I can see this incredible drive to say something I think is clever that may elicit a response from some other I. A response that I can use to propagate the idea of some I that is greater than another I. Not really. I'm not really seeing it, I am being the incredible drive to say something I think is great. Saw a show once about mountain goats in rutting season. That they would starve to death in the interest of propagating themselves. Whatever this self is here that is interested in propagating itself is not different from that. I find myself more interested in trying to be clever than I am in eating. There is some vague understanding that organisms need to eat. But in this case it is a fictitious non existent organism that finds sustenance in being clever, feeding on whatever it thinks others are thinking about whatever it thinks it is thinking. I don't know that I can express precisely what is going on here. The body which actually requires nourishment plays second fiddle to some mental construct of an I. The above may be understood or not. Don't even know what I said. What I do know is that the body has not eaten. Something very solid that needs nourishment is pushed aside by nonsensical mind stuff. Luckily... I didn't feel like cooking so I got something to go. In the end the body will eat tree bark. I did get something more appetizing than that. Whatever this alleged I might be. You're right. It's totally been reduced to that: one-upmanship. I didn't start out with that aim (at least not consciously), but it's ended up there. I'm going to stop it now, though, because I'm being a d**k and that's just pointless. Incidentally, I'm not sure I know yet that the body is more substantial than an illusory "I." That certainty hasn't arisen here (I really don't like the way a sentence like that sounds so contrived, but it seems to fit). There's no certainty that the body is any more "substantial" than thoughts or the illusory "I" which is constructed from them. Perhaps they're both equally ephemeral. It looks as though they will both pass away and cease eventually (though, again, there's no certainty about this, either). I'm sorry if my responses have been a bit... well, unfriendly. I am afraid I was reacting to the perceived unfriendliness I was encountering, though I understand you may not have been acting in that way. In any case, I don't have to respond like a rejected child, so I will do my best not to anymore :-) I hope your food was good... |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 3:52:42 GMT -5
I'm not interested in cheering you up. You've managed to write another sentence without inserting a redundant comma, so you must like me a little bit. Not that this has cheered me up, so you're still being relatively true to yourself. Overall a pretty good comeback, though; you're good at those one-liners. I might learn something...Yo Scrappy Do. Wha' happened to your post? |
|
|
|
Post by berlake on Oct 30, 2013 7:34:47 GMT -5
You've managed to write another sentence without inserting a redundant comma, so you must like me a little bit. Not that this has cheered me up, so you're still being relatively true to yourself. Overall a pretty good comeback, though; you're good at those one-liners. I might learn something...Yo Scrappy Do. Wha' happened to your post? I deleted it. It was a mistake. I was ashamed of myself. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 12:54:48 GMT -5
Yo Scrappy Do. Wha' happened to your post? I deleted it. It was a mistake. I was ashamed of myself. Please don't hang your head on my behalf. If you live in an environment that doesn't permit you to have a rant at someone then please feel free to fire at me as much as you want to. Praise and criticism flow through here quite easily. I feel strange not putting commas in my sentences. Though at your request. There isn't any. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 13:28:25 GMT -5
I feel strange not putting commas in my sentences. Though at your request. There isn't any. An apostrophe is a comma, 'nlightened. |
|
|
|
Post by berlake on Oct 30, 2013 16:45:01 GMT -5
I deleted it. It was a mistake. I was ashamed of myself. Please don't hang your head on my behalf. If you live in an environment that doesn't permit you to have a rant at someone then please feel free to fire at me as much as you want to. Praise and criticism flow through here quite easily. I feel strange not putting commas in my sentences. Though at your request. There isn't any. Thank you |
|
frustratedwanter
Full Member
Apparently I posted something in 2020. I don't think that's what I'm looking for but what ta hey?
Posts: 150
|
Post by frustratedwanter on Oct 30, 2013 19:29:23 GMT -5
I feel strange not putting commas in my sentences. Though at your request. There isn't any. An apostrophe is a comma, 'nlightened. Not being an english major, I am torn between "aren't any" and "ain't any" apostrophes. Possibly "ain't none". "Isn't any" sounds somehow improper. But I do find english baffling. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 12:10:10 GMT -5
An apostrophe is a comma, 'nlightened. Not being an english major, I am torn between "aren't any" and "ain't any" apostrophes. Possibly "ain't none". "Isn't any" sounds somehow improper. But I do find english baffling. It should be "aren't" if you want what is correct, as it is a contraction of "are" and "not" and since the antecedent of there, the subject, is plural (comma s). "Isn't" would work if the antecedant was singular. "Ain't" ain't a word, so they say, and stands in for a triple contraction of are and is and not. It's a switch-hitter but wrong unless you're going for improper style. Isn't could be used for improper style as well, which is the case in this case, methinks. |
|
frustratedwanter
Full Member
Apparently I posted something in 2020. I don't think that's what I'm looking for but what ta hey?
Posts: 150
|
Post by frustratedwanter on Oct 31, 2013 20:41:54 GMT -5
Not being an english major, I am torn between "aren't any" and "ain't any" apostrophes. Possibly "ain't none". "Isn't any" sounds somehow improper. But I do find english baffling. It should be "aren't" if you want what is correct, as it is a contraction of "are" and "not" and since the antecedent of there, the subject, is plural (comma s). "Isn't" would work if the antecedant was singular. "Ain't" ain't a word, so they say, and stands in for a triple contraction of are and is and not. It's a switch-hitter but wrong unless you're going for improper style. Isn't could be used for improper style as well, which is the case in this case, methinks. Well! Just ask an english major. (Garrison Keillor does some fun stuff on english majors). Took a while to realize you were affirming the source of my discomfort. I say "My". I wanted to say "You agreed with me" but the "me" you were confirming was just some long forgotten rules and regulations once learned. I would like to say THAT is the essence of an "I" but it feels like putting on airs. Wanted to say something about "intuitive english" but don't know that something that was once known and then forgotten but still remains can be called "intuition". Wish I had more "intuition" on punctuation. "...'...,...; A triple contraction of are and is and not. Ain't. Brilliant! "Are is not" sounds much less so. Language, the origin of words; I do find fascinating. A fascination not much followed. The writer wants to keep on writing. Every little nonsense that comes to mind. Maybe that's what makes a writer. This isn't an exercise in proper english. This is an understanding that certain rules were EVENTUALLY invented governing language. And a seeing that there is an apparent entity that thinks it is on the right side of those rules. An apparent entity that desperately wants to be on the right side of one thing or another. "Is not" or "Are not". Because there are now accepted rules on the use of language one phrase may seem more appropriate than another. And any entity that thinks it is more correct for speaking one way or another is just an idea finding itself superior to what another idea does. If that ain't right it seems pretty close. I have other things to do. This isn't an exercise in proper english grammar. Seeing that something as insubstantial as an idea that is accepted as truth can find great conflict with anything outside of that idea. I want to think THAT seeing is the essence of the "spirituality" game. If not? Other things to do. Tchau. |
|
