Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated. After a year long absence, I have decided to return following utter frustration over a nonsense post in the General Phillosophy area which forced my (typing) hand.

I shall not, in all likelyhood, spend as much time as I did in the past here. Frankly, you are undeserving of my esteemed presence, and I have other haunts which I find more enjoyable, and where I can cause just as much trouble in the intellectual climate by my interjections of contrary views. That being said, there are a few of you who simply are not to be found elsewhere, thus I enjoy returning in order to converse with you specifically. This, as evidenced by the title, includes both certain friends and certain enemies.

In the words of Michael Corleone: Just when I (or more likely a few of you) thought I was out they pull me back in!

We have much to discuss.

Welcome back.. :)

Should be fun...

Who are you two anyway.. ? lol

Edit: James, maybe you should re-introduce yourself, after being away for a year.

Thank you. I appreciate it, Enmos.

Those who know me, will remember me - some would prefer to forget. Those who don't know me, will know me soon - they will judge me soon enough.

My introduction beyond is superfluous. If you must know, however, I am a philosopher and crazy right-wing ideologue.

Those who know me, will remember me - some would prefer to forget. Those who don't know me, will know me soon - they will judge me soon enough.

My introduction beyond is superfluous. If you must know, however, I am a philosopher and crazy right-wing ideologue.

Right wing eh.. we're going to have some fun then ;)

Right wing eh.. we're going to have some fun then

God willing we shall have plenty of fun, Enmos.

God willing we shall have plenty of fun, Enmos.

Theist ? Or just habit ?

Enmos:


Theist ? Or just habit ?

Non-personal pantheist philosophically. Mytho-poetic European pagan romantic religiously. Were I to address you religiously, I'd be speaking of Tyr or Apollo or Chu Culainn. But I am not and am about as religious as the ancient philosophers.

So yes, cultural habit.

Plus, it sounds a lot better than "yep". Aesthetics, my good man.

Enmos:



Non-personal pantheist philosophically. Mytho-poetic European pagan romantic religiously. Were I to address you religiously, I'd be speaking of Tyr or Apollo or Chu Culainn. But I am not and am about as religious as the ancient philosophers.

So yes, cultural habit.

Plus, it sounds a lot better than "yep". Aesthetics, my good man.

Noted :)

Apparently this has been moved. And not to some deleted area. ;)

The mods are useful...yes.

Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated. After a year long absence, I have decided to return following utter frustration over a nonsense post in the General Phillosophy area which forced my (typing) hand.

I shall not, in all likelyhood, spend as much time as I did in the past here. Frankly, you are undeserving of my esteemed presence, and I have other haunts which I find more enjoyable, and where I can cause just as much trouble in the intellectual climate by my interjections of contrary views. That being said, there are a few of you who simply are not to be found elsewhere, thus I enjoy returning in order to converse with you specifically. This, as evidenced by the title, includes both certain friends and certain enemies.

In the words of Michael Corleone: Just when I (or more likely a few of you) thought I was out they pull me back in!

We have much to discuss.


Bless.

Do you think he lacks self-esteem...?

I am Varda.

Varda:


I am Varda.

I am become death, destroyer of worlds.

Reiku:


Bless.

Do you think he lacks self-esteem...?

Ha ha. Good response.

There was some speculation you had returned for a time as an intrepid character called 'sandy'??? :cool:

Carcano:


There was some speculation you had returned for a time as an intrepid character called 'sandy'???

I've been known to go to the beach from time to time.

Welcome James, it is good to have you back. We have missed you in Philosophy. Not much in other places. ;)

Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated. After a year long absence, I have decided to return following utter frustration over a nonsense post in the General Phillosophy area which forced my (typing) hand.

I shall not, in all likelyhood, spend as much time as I did in the past here. Frankly, you are undeserving of my esteemed presence, and I have other haunts which I find more enjoyable, and where I can cause just as much trouble in the intellectual climate by my interjections of contrary views. That being said, there are a few of you who simply are not to be found elsewhere, thus I enjoy returning in order to converse with you specifically. This, as evidenced by the title, includes both certain friends and certain enemies.

In the words of Michael Corleone: Just when I (or more likely a few of you) thought I was out they pull me back in!

We have much to discuss.


Have you embraced Islam yet?

Hehe

Varda:



I am become death, destroyer of worlds.

No we are all sons of bitches

Varda:


No we are all sons of bitches

I'm the biggest son of a bitch this side of Toledo.

S.A.M.:


Welcome James, it is good to have you back. We have missed you in Philosophy. Not much in other places.

Ha ha ha.

Ah, I love you like the Devil loves God, Sam. Sufi style, of course.

Ghost 007:


Have you embraced Islam yet?

Allahu Ackbar.

Jihad!

Amusingly enough, I am sporting a very proper Islamic-styled full beard right now. I could totally pass as a Moslem if I tied me a turban as I am wont to occasionally do.

Sultan Yakob.

Welcome back Prince_James.:D

Even though we rarely agreed on anything, I did miss you somewhat...

/Sharpens claws..:D

Varda:



I'm the biggest son of a bitch this side of Toledo.

My dad said I'm a princess.

Varda:



I'm the biggest son of a bitch this side of Toledo.

I live in Toledo. You're on my ignore list now.:cool:

Bells:


Welcome back Prince_James.

Even though we rarely agreed on anything, I did miss you somewhat...

/Sharpens claws..

Nice to see you again, dear Bells. We shall enjoy many more conversations, I'm sure.

Varda:


My dad said I'm a princess.

I can make you a queen, babe.

Clusteringflux:


I live in Toledo. You're on my ignore list now.

I r sad now. :(

Woe is, invariably, me.

Huh? You left?

just kidding

welcome back.

Ghost 007:



Allahu Ackbar.

Jihad!

Amusingly enough, I am sporting a very proper Islamic-styled full beard right now. I could totally pass as a Moslem if I tied me a turban as I am wont to occasionally do.

Sultan Yakob.


Yes, keep the beard dear brother, it is the crown on a man's face. All the Prophets of God had beards.

Now on to the next step. You will have to be circumcised - with a blunt, rusty imitation Swiss army knife and with no anaesthetic.

Yeah. All the prophet's had beards, man.

http://www.angel.dk/various/Variousny/4DrHook/DrHookA_03.JPG

This prophet got stoned and he missed it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSkKpTuO5z8).

By the way, welcome back, PJ.


Now on to the next step. You will have to be circumcised - with a blunt, rusty imitation Swiss army knife and with no anaesthetic.

Wait. Muslims practice circumcision? Didn't know that. I thought they kept it natural.

Invert Nexus:


By the way, welcome back, PJ.

Thanks, my good man. A fine thing to see you again.

That being said, real prophets smoke hookahs, all majestic style. Those guys clearly are poseurs.

Ghost 007:


Yes, keep the beard dear brother, it is the crown on a man's face. All the Prophets of God had beards.

Diogenes kept on bitching me out about it, so I finally accepted.


Now on to the next step. You will have to be circumcised - with a blunt, rusty imitation Swiss army knife and with no anaesthetic.

The meat has all ready been sliced, my good man. No need.

That being said, real prophets smoke hookahs, all majestic style. Those guys clearly are poseurs.

Sacrilege!!
You clearly have no idea who you're dealing with.
(I updated the link to a video rather than lyrics. It's a classic if you haven't heard, you should.)

Missed you PJ. One of the few who did, well I am sure other people did as well...

Invert Nexus:

I take your Dr. Hook and raise you an Edmond Dantes:

http://ass-no-ryu.com/katyjag/hookah0.jpg

The Count of Monte Cristo defeats you, my good man.

Sisyphus:


Missed you PJ. One of the few who did, well I am sure other people did as well...

Thank you, friend.

Welcome back, dillhole :)

Hmmm, let me see this Gladiator perform. Prince, your tongue may have the sharpness of a rapier but does your wit? Send out the lions!

Roman:


Welcome back, dillhole

Thanks, you anti-vain vanity named person, you.

EmmZ:


Hmmm, let me see this Gladiator perform. Prince, your tongue may have the sharpness of a rapier but does your wit? Send out the lions!

Morituri te salutant.

EmmZ:



Morituri te salutant.
I hope you look good dripping with sweat and fear.

When I saw your name pop up, I figured someone had resurrected an old thread. A pet peeve of yours, as I recall.

Anyway, it's great to have you back.

Emmz:


I hope you look good dripping with sweat and fear.

You forgot blood. I look excellent with blood.

Madanthonywayne:


When I saw your name pop up, I figured someone had resurrected an old thread. A pet peeve of yours, as I recall.

Anyway, it's great to have you back.

A ridiculous pet peeve! I loathe thread necromancy and I am seeing it abound still.

Thank you, my good man. I was waiting to hear from you. Long time, no see! You're one of the better category of the two I wanted discourse with.

Emmz:



You forgot blood. I look excellent with blood.

Vermillion is my favourite colour.

Hm. I'll prepare iaculum and fuscina for my Ordinari.
I guess I'll be Retiarius this time.

And you? Thraex or Murmilllo?


Welcome back PJ.

Did you leave, PJ? ;)

James R.:


Did you leave, PJ?

I'm a shadow in a world of light.

Good to see you, oh worthy adversary.

Emmz:


Vermillion is my favourite colour.

Grand. I'll make sure you get positioned to see me wearing it proudly. Hopefully less so than my enemies whose women I wish to hear the lamentations of after I crush. That is, after all, what is best in life.

Plazma Inferno:


Hm. I'll prepare iaculum and fuscina for my Ordinari.
I guess I'll be Retiarius this time.

And you? Thraex or Murmilllo?


Welcome back PJ.

Thank you.

Oh, and I think I shall be the Secutor. They were trained as the counter to the Retiarius. I'll hedge my bets against you, fisherman, and take me the counter to your insidious trident and net.

Oh, and I think I shall be the Secutor. They were trained as the counter to the Retiarius. I'll hedge my bets against you, fisherman, and take me the counter to your insidious trident and net.
Good answer. I didn't manage to fool you with my choices.

Secutors are venerable enemies. ;)

Plazma Inferno:


Good answer. I didn't manage to fool you with my choices.

Secutors are venerable enemies.

Now to wait for the carcass clean up after the hunt. We can't go on until everything is nice and tidy for the blood bath, after all.

welcome back, i shall necromance a thread in your honour

Make it a grand ritual. At least 2001.

done kind sir

Varda:



I can make you a queen, babe.

You can't afford me

Varda:


You can't afford me

But I all ready own you.

you'll never take me alive

It's ok - he's a necrophiliac.

The method is progressive, but the reason is retro, I call it neo-necro.

catchy

I agree.

So Varda, where is the nudity?

I've bared nothing but my face in these parts
The other parts will be bared for no thing

I am no thing (but a chicken wing).

y'are a fishmonger

Do you think I meant country matters?

i think nothing, my lord

yeah, you heard me
nothing

That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.

get thee to a nunnery, bitch

I will fight, till from my bones my flesh be hack'd; give me my armour.

giveth me thine armour.

Never.

bones, you say?

If after every tempest come such calms, may the winds blow till they have waken'd death!

I have decided to return

Well, so far we are not impressed. Try harder....

Syzygys:

I don't speak to hypostases.

interesting
who is this guy?
what is he about?

i have a vague notion of a racist wannabe philosopher that was laughed outta either gregs or pauls place and ended up .... apparently now dazzling dumbfucksci

could i be mistaken?
should i wade thru the muddy verbiage to find out

He's super fascist. He thinks the only people who should have rights are white males who think like him.

Sort of an appealing philosophy, really.

Gustav:


i have a vague notion of a racist wannabe philosopher that was laughed outta either gregs or pauls place and ended up .... apparently now dazzling dumbfucksci

Greg or Paul's place?

Roman:


He's super fascist. He thinks the only people who should have rights are white males who think like him.

Sort of an appealing philosophy, really.

Totally. You and I can drink beer and chill out after the panzers do their work.

I mean, we're totally moving at a faster pace, look out here comes the master race.

Springtime...with Hitler...in Germany.

What sort of beer do you drink? You're not the type to squeeze fruit into it, are you? Lime is for tacos. And taking care of corpses.

Fuck fruit.

In terms of commercially/widely distributed beers, I drink Beck's, Heineken, and Sam Adam's mostly.

Decent. Not great. You from the East Coast?

Fuck fruit.

In terms of commercially/widely distributed beers, I drink Beck's, Heineken, and Sam Adam's mostly.

Heineken?
Gnat's piss.

Becks is OK depending on the chaser.

Isn't beer usually the chaser?

Roman:


Decent. Not great. You from the East Coast?

NYC.

Oli:


Heineken?
Gnat's piss.

Better than almost all domestic beer.

Better than almost all domestic beer.

Come out West. You will weep at how good our beer and pizza is.

Hello PJ

hows it going my man??

good to see u back and hope life has treated you well in your year abscence away from the forums!!

take it ez man

and as for beer u need to sit back and break open a 660ml (or something like that) bottle of cold chilled Peroni!!

~~~~~~~~
take care
Zak

Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated. After a year long absence, I have decided to return following utter frustration over a nonsense post in the General Phillosophy area which forced my (typing) hand.

I shall not, in all likelyhood, spend as much time as I did in the past here. Frankly, you are undeserving of my esteemed presence, and I have other haunts which I find more enjoyable, and where I can cause just as much trouble in the intellectual climate by my interjections of contrary views. That being said, there are a few of you who simply are not to be found elsewhere, thus I enjoy returning in order to converse with you specifically. This, as evidenced by the title, includes both certain friends and certain enemies.

In the words of Michael Corleone: Just when I (or more likely a few of you) thought I was out they pull me back in!

We have much to discuss.

We have waited long for the return of the Prince!

All hail the Prince!!! (Horns blowing for background dramatic entrance!)

Roman:


Come out West. You will weep at how good our beer and pizza is.

To quote my currently incarcerated friend: I think nyet.

The beer, maybe. The pizza? Fugettaboutit.

Jozen-Bo:


We have waited long for the return of the Prince!

All hail the Prince!!! (Horns blowing for background dramatic entrance!)

Now that was a fanfare. I am well pleased. You may request a boon.

Zakariya04:


hows it going my man??

good to see u back and hope life has treated you well in your year abscence away from the forums!!

take it ez man

Thank you! Great to see you, my good man. Very long time, no see. :)


and as for beer u need to sit back and break open a 660ml (or something like that) bottle of cold chilled Peroni!!

Will do! :)

Damn!

PJ... excellent to see you back.

Suffice it to say, you were missed.


I'd give you fair warning, but I'm sure by now you've seen how sad things have become...lol

I hope your return shall help tilt things back towards sanity somewhat.

:cheers:

Glaucon:


PJ... excellent to see you back.

Suffice it to say, you were missed.

Now THIS is a face I am glad to see. I had thought you were gone, having not seen you for the week or so I've been back. VERY good to see you, my good man.


I'd give you fair warning, but I'm sure by now you've seen how sad things have become...lol

I hope your return shall help tilt things back towards sanity somewhat

Yes, a bit of a degeneration, as it were. But no matter, I shall help tilt things back to the rational and intriguing, I should hope!

We'll have plenty to discuss, I am sure.

Jozen-Bo:



Now that was a fanfare. I am well pleased. You may request a boon.

Boons are good!

I request the boon of Truth!

Yeah!
Big fanfare!
One guy on a hill, cupped hands, mock applause, couple of old tarts in rags, one giving the bird, the other a raspberry.
Someone makes the trumpethead salute and in the distance a crow caws...farkk..faarrrkk faarr..kkk.

Jozen-Bo:


Boons are good!

I request the boon of Truth!

I give you the truth: The opposite of "there is no absolute truths" is true by virtue of the failure of that statement.