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For me, the profound topics of discussion in this thread are, with regard to this particular, email, why should a woman in a theocracy find it significant, regardless of whether it is fact or fiction; and in general, why are such topics as patrocide, genocide, incest and pedophilia acceptable as...

Good grief! I had 10 minutes before I had to leave for work. I didnt have time for homework. I pasted and posted. (I knew I could depend on the TBF for that). I type 80wpm. Some of my posts are done very quickly, thought later, I return to reflect and edit. These are not doctoral...

So what you are all really trying to tell me is that there IS a jokes thread, and my very instructive theological joke about Ratzinger would be most welcome, even though it uses appalling words like ?

I never said it was funny. I was not even certain where it is fact or apocryphal. I posted it here as a curiosity, to see what people might think, to be perfectly honest. I was drinking coffee, this morning, and there it was, in my email. So I posted it. Just like that Michael Moore email...

Hmm... let's see. Incest and patricide are appalling. Yet it a drama such as Oedipus is a classic, required reading for all students. However, a joke about patricide and incest would probably be considered something to be avoided at all costs. Don't you find something curious in this...

How can you be so certain it is "a joke?" I have no certainty in that regard. When I first opened it, I puzzled over what it might mean. Yes, in all honesty, I finally came to the conclusion that it is a joke. I admit that. But jokes, like novels, are also fair game for analysis...

Motokid, I was especially concerned about offending your delicate sensibilities, and hesitated for endless nanoseconds before clicking on the post button. Can you ever forgive me?

It was in my e-mail this morning, from a woman I know in Kuala Lumpur. Just passing it along. Feel free to delete the thread, if it bothers people, and I shall know not to post jokes. I have a good joke about Ratzinger, but I did not post for fear that it might be construed as religious...

Popeye was always saying I yam what I yam and Olive Oyl liked him just fine. Bluto was another matter. Even Jehovah said "I am who am." I have Popeye and Jehovah on my side. I can't be so bad. Hypothetical question: If I agree to all you say, and surrender to you, and convert myself to be...

Its a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Of course the word pedagogue, in Greek, means a leader of children. I suppose, with some stretching, it might also be construed as a leader of the childish. Sometimes we are mature and other times we are childish, as when we fall prey to...

Big Questions and Big Answers I just realized that, whenever we say that something is a big question, what we really mean is that it is that it is a question which requires a big answer. Someone recently asked me, "What is Zen?"; a small question requiring a big answer. I suppose a...

An Apocryphal Tale re: Barbara Walters Barbara Walters did a story on gender roles in Kabul several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked about 10 paces behind their husbands. She returned to Kabul recently and observed that the men now walked several...

I met an interesting, philosophical fellow in a bookstore once, who posed the following question: He said, "Imagine taking a large glass jar, filling it with flies, and sealing the lid. After a few hours, you place the glass jar in a furnace, and everything is incinerated. What remains of...

Peder, I am playing on the notion of a Corporation as a virtual person having rights, and me as a fiction which is not legal, having no rights in posterity, yet I remain civil. There are lines of poems that immortally wound the soul. - Frost

Yes, thats it... I am stealing moments to type hurredly from memory. The Last Question I am nothing without google, ms word spellchecker, and the leisure to repent

We are but grass, but a grass in which splendor hides. Eternity parasitizes the ephemeral.

Is immortality anything more than lasting memory.... But, I would settle for a thousand years... Take a look at the battlefield dialog between Gaukos and Diomedes in the Iliad, about generations of people as leaves... "The loved that ended yesterday in Texas began 4,000 years ago in...

Bang! Here is my loaded answer. I too once thought as you, of lasting posterity. Then I felt that our sun would end one day in a supernova. Then I learned that our sun is too small for supernova. Then I though of technology planning an escape, a Noah's ark of genetic labs, piloted...

Not cryptic at all. The collected dialogues are a virtual Plato. They are my only means to access Plato, and Socrates. My own writings are a virtual version of me. My words may live on after I am gone. A Corporate entity is a person with rights, under the law. Seek and you shall find...

Our writings may become a virtual person. A corporation is a legal fiction on a piece of paper with a seal, which has the status of person in civil law. I am an illegal fiction, unsealed, but civil.