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....yer a bounty hunter?

You did say you don't have any alien corpses in your trunk...you never said anything about not having human ones...

Lol, well, i've got two ways of translating that one, and neither of them come out to any sorta profession that's legal in most countries...

My first guess was that yer a drug dealer...then I sat and thought about it, and thought perhaps yer a seller of stollen goods on the black market...

Heh, either one makes ya sound all cool and dangerous as fuck, so even if I am WAY off base, you could just sit back and go with saying you're either one, just for the sake of sounding all cool n' mysterious.

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i enjoyed your 2 cents

i guess i owe at least a half-penny change -




you may need a map for yourself
but
it might not need to be big
or detailed
to get the job done







also -
maybe logic could be a coping mechanism
survival tool
symbol of evolution
or
just a technique used to gain added insight on a situation



LHX - has seen multiple uses for
razor blades
bananas
spoons
bodies
bricks
and some other things[/quote]


Naw, the map, methinks, doesn't need to be that big to get the job done...but, I for one kinda LIKE building a bigger map, even if I do find all this maybe logic shyt useful...the map, in and of itself, to me, is uesful (and just plain ol' fun) for really gettin' down and dirty when it comes to seein' the world from a really specific point o' view...and can have it's uses in terms of helpin' yerself out...like, if yer constantlly broke, changing the map ya use for viewing yerself in realation to money, and buildin' up an ego where ya consider yerself one that money comes easilly to, could go a long way in startin' to get a more readilly available cash flow commin' into yer pocket...that type of deal...ya gotta do more than just that, obviously, but it is a damned good start. And when I'm up there, in the occasional political protest I find myself in every now and again, screaming my views to the world, showin' them just exactly what sort o' map I use for relatin' to the world, it comes in handy, and is damned fun to use then!

But yeah, I'd nonetheless agree with ya that a big map's by no means needed...it just can be fun, nonetheless! But, e-prime, then, comes in useful to remind me, like Anonymous was sayin' that the deepest point of philosophical thought is that there really IS nothing, in the centre of it all, when ya get right down to it- and thus one viewpoint could really just be seen as being as good as another

Now....hrm...multiple uses for a banana, eh? *Arches eyebrow* Haha...just what sorta "multiple uses" have ya seen...my mind'z goin all kinds of places with THAT one...

~Chylde

Hrm...

I can see where yer goin' with this one..and the only thing that I can really come up with, off the top of my head, would be to break it down till you get to the question of "Do I really exist at all?" Asking "why do I have a body" if ya wanna get really technical with the whole Maybe Logic mindset, denotes assumptions of what a body "is," since, if you ask "why do I have this body?" you're assuming you have one, and by doing so are then defining what a body "is."....so, my thought is that the best thing you could boil it down to, using maybe logic, would be something along the lines of "Do I exist?" since there's no definition or assumption about what anything "is". You're not assuming you have a body, you're not even, really, tacking a definition onto what existance "is", since you're questioning even that....

Does take one waaaayyyy out on a limb though...there was something, too, that Wilson commented on, with all of this, in a taped interview I have of him...trying to remember what it was he'd said...the interviewer asked him that, with all this questioning, avoiding using the word "is,' talking in e-prime constantly, can't one just get to the point where it becomes silly, since you're breaking things down SO much...and Wilson said something (if my memory's not failing me here) to the effect of how you can't work with e-prime from the standpoint of questining everything so that no reality map is ever created...and that we each have to have some sort of reality map to go by for functioning in this world, so that to work with e-prime doe not mean that you stop thinking of the world in terms of what "is" alltogether, or else you'll never have a reality map or frame of refferemce to go by, and you need these for functioning in this world...something to that effect, though I know I'm getting parts of it not quite right...and, *SIGHS* the tapes are all in England, and till I can get them outta there I can't listen over that bit of it and see what it was he said about it all, exactly...

This does seem like a good case in point, though...I mean, we can get to the point where we start questioning whether, in fact, we actually exist, and that, while fun from a magickal or philosophical point of view, isn't exactly something that makes living in the every day world all THAT easy! To me, e-prime's one of those things that's useful to keep in the back of your head, as a useful way of always questioning things and never stop thinking about them, while still creating a reality map for yourself nonetheless, which will, inevitably, require you to break out of using e-prime...the map's not the territory, but if ya don't create a map for yerself in the first place, then ya got no territory to walk on anyway, is the way I like to think about it...

That's my 2 cents on the matter at any rate...hope this helps!

Yeah...the drive in booze places do rule...

Heard, too, that somewhere in Vegas there's at least one drive-through marriage chapel, which rather made me laugh. (LOL, would ya like fries with that McWedding?)

Between that, and the honeymoon suite in the Star Trek themed hotel there, we do have some rather fucked up things in this country, I must say...

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