| Date | Name | Comment | | | 19 May 2009 |  Nicoline Badenhorst |  Loading...*Flees from her own page in distress* The thing won’t let me post a reply! So here goes: Um, I guess I might be... I’ve got an aversion to commitment. Sulky: "Ha, aversion? You meant to say terror?" Ah, it can speak?! *Sulky slinks off into her corner again.* Ok, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. Listen, just deal with it, I’m not a nice person, so don’t expect me to -be- nice around you. *sullen silence* Well, I guess I can be glad she isn’t turning into the retriever in the moment. It’s easy to discourage me from heated discussions. Just pretend you’re not interested. Um, the crazy, yes definitely; mastermind- that’s the difficult part. It implies a larger than average IQ and a somewhat distorted view of morals. Which I’m not certain I have. But yeah, there are some not so seriously strange people around Elfwood. Lol Yes, I had that today- after my test I was visiting my very pink and girly friend and she played Taylor Swift to me. I’m not saying that I don’t like soft music once in a while, but my taste goes more towards Metal and Rock (my brother gave me most of the songs by Korn and I’ve been listening to them almost endlessly) All the lovey stuff and happy endings type of things go against the grain of my being, which is why I like Rammstein. Being able to understand the words helps too- they usually sing about real life crimes from the viewpoint of the perpetrator- somehow more human, I think. What’s your type of music, btw? Haha, I can just picture that scene! Wonderful, looking forward to gazing upon Europe. lol Ok, cool, I’ll hopefully go through Demon Fire tonight and mail a nice long comment.  Kelsey Lynn Reed replies: "huh, maybe the comment monster has been grumpy lately o_O
Ah, yeah, that was me too, and probably still is a bit... I think once you find the right person it is better though
lol but then our pages would be really really boring with hardly any comments at all and even less philosophical rantings at that xD
Hmm, maybe if we team up we can somehow manage to rule the world... or maybe make our own country, that would be exciting
I will listen to basically anything but I like Rock, some metal, and techno... I also like really old country music which is waaaay better than the new crap everyone is putting out. I’ve listened to some Rammstein, it’s pretty good ^_^ i also have a tendency to like music that comes from specific regions like celtic and such...
oh dang, forgot about the comment box... wonder if i can figure it out before you get on here xD
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| 20 May 2009 | Nicoline Badenhorst | Loading... It has no reason to be grumpy- it’s got a lot of crazy new friends amongst my entourage. *glances at comment monster sitting under her bed* It doesn’t seem too impressed with the fairies, but then, Pixy doesn’t like them either... just proves you shouldn’t trust little winged human-like creatures with an affinity for shoelace-untying and hair-knotting. Lol Hm, maybe it will go away with time, right now I’m a bit on the ambiguous side of "do you want to run away?" Lol! Agreed. Philosophy, within limits, is great. My accounting lecturer has this beauty of a joke: the BA department’s exams look like this: The lecturer puts a chair on the table and says "Write an essay on whether or not the chair is on the table." The best student answered "What chair?" Awesome! I’ve always wanted to make my onw country. *rubs hands and takes out map* So where are we gonna put it? I’m sure we’d do a much better job than the rest of the world and in the end, so many people will want to immigrate that we’ll have to buy land from the other countries. Lol Yes, I don’t have a problem listening to other music and basically if it sounds good, I’ll listen to it, but after a while, most songs go on my nerves through lack of sensible lyrics or because the melody is boring and overplayed. Like Lady Gaga I can’t stand. Walking home from University, I get passed daily by at least two cars playing Pokerface. Enough! Hehehe, have you gotten my mail? Sorry if I took Demon Fire apart. Couldn’t help myself. ;-) Kelsey Lynn Reed replies: "I say give it a bit of a chance then run away if it seems necessary xD
That is the best idea in the world! I would have so much fun if i had a lecturer who did that! Needless to say my essay would be taken very seriously... -starts wanting to do that now-
Hmm, well do you like rainforesty/tropical, lots of mountains with mild weather that never really borders on the extremes, or the really extreme places? Maybe we should just go inhabit an island that no one has claimed yet xD
Lady Gaga, agh. Although I have it on my computer I rarely listen to it and the only time I tolerate it is if I’m listening to it at some club a friend drags me to. Beyond that, I agree, wayyyy over used.
I haven’t gotten your mail yet but by the sounds of it I’m going to be super happy for the criticism! Ehehee, I can’t wait 
Seriously though, I am still pondering the existence of the chair that may or may not be on that table assuming both the chair and table are really there... " | |
| 21 May 2009 | Nicoline Badenhorst | Loading... Good idea. ;-) Oh, I couldn’t resist starting to dream about how well I’d do in philosophy if I’d be allowed to go crazy on the page. Though I’d probably get a cramp from writing after the fifth hour. lol Rainforest sounds good- I’m very into protecting our mother earth and our many or non-legged fellow creatures, so this would be the perfect setting for me to go rampant. Islands- I think they’ve gotten into short supply since the advent of free market capitalism. Can’t argue with that. Let’s see, who’s next on my top hates list... I think it might be Scissor Sisters or Mica. Or maybe boybands in general... I just got back from my test (at ten in the evening) and got looked at as if I was crazy for walking home in the dark. The point I’m trying to make is that I won’t allow my freedom to be inhibited by the fact that there is crime in the world and that I am a member of what is considered the fairer sex. I’ve got a pepperspray and an attitude, I’ve got faith that there is some angelic being watching over me and I follow basic security rules like stay away from shadows, cross the street if you see a lone figure standing or approaching slowly, stay away from the edge of the road, walk briskly, but don’t run, keep your head up and your eyes everywhere and stay on the safe, regularly patrolled road. I’m not being reckless, I just like my independence and I know where the limits are of that. I don’t want to make my life dependent on the hypothetical actions of some freak and I don’t think that as soon as it becomes dark the number of freaks suddenly multiplies. They are there during the day too, and unfortunately, there is no safety in numbers. If they’re out to get you, they will and there is pretty little to help you then. Or do you think I am wrong? That is assuming that the chair is indeed a chair, i.e. that we do not merely believe that it is a chair because we were told that it is a chair. The same goes for the table, by inference. Kelsey Lynn Reed replies: "It would be great fun though, one of those times one might actually enjoy school!
Hmm, ok, i’ve always liked the rainforest... so now for a name. It needs to be a good name too -falls into thoughtful silence- I’m going to start writing this down you know...
-shudders- boybands.. scaryyyy.
I think you have the right idea. Of course, this coming from someone who believes that whatever Fate has in store for you is going to happen eventually no matter what you try to do. I agree for the most part about the walking home after dark since I do it all the time too. I’d also have to add ’know how to jump fences’ to my list. I do, however, believe that if you’re with someone else your chances are less likely to be a target but doesn’t rule it out, especially if the person your with isn’t very intimidating. I walk around with a friend of mine quite a lot and carry a small flip knife because I know for a fact that my friend would be (absolutely no offense to her) completely uselss if someone did decide to attack us xD As to the multiplying freaks, I think it all depends on the part of town you’re in. I know that where I live and also where I go to a martial arts class you get some major creapy people at night but in other parts of town you could probably sleep in the middle of the street with all of your life’s savings as your pillow and you’d be perfectly fine the next morning.
Also, we must remember that the chair could be used as a table and the table could be used as a chair. Therefore, one must wonder whether the chair is actually the true table and, like you said, we only believe that the chair is a chair because that’s what we’re told. Somehow this reminds me of a short story I once read about animals not really being ’cats’ or ’dogs’ but just being things without names and how humans just have to name everything... animals don’t think ’oh you’re a human’ so why should we think of a cat as a cat? oh how philosophy can turn our worlds upside down." | |
| 22 May 2009 | Nicoline Badenhorst | Loading... Hm... name. Something that sounds like the paradise we’re going to make of it. Utopia is out, Paradise, Heaven and suchlike blunt names are out. Maybe something in the direction of Liberté, though I wouldn’t go for that one exactly. Please do write it down- we might actually need the information, you know. lol Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could really start our own country? I think so too, strangely enough, even though I’m a firm believer in choice at the same time. I know it makes no sense, but I see it this way: fate can lay out the path for you, but it’s largely your choice if and how you are going to walk it. Hahaha, yes, the strange thing called human. I’ve often wondered about what animals, especially dogs and parrots think of us. I mean, how do they see us- do they know that our hands really aren’t our snouts and how do they know what we want when we tell them to sit down? Is the chair there because someone tells us it is there, or does someone tell us it is there because it is there? And where is there? Could it be here, or is here really there? If I say the chair is on top of the table, how can I say that that is really true, given that everything is relative. Does that by inference mean that the table is under the chair? Lol, I could go on like this forever. Maybe I should copy our discussion and send it to my lecturer- he’d have a good laugh. Kelsey Lynn Reed replies: "Hmmm, ok I’m going to ponder the name for awhile and get back to it... so, the question turns to politics in my mind. We’ll need a ruler of sorts. I kind of liked the idea you had in your story how the ruler was actually more like a puppet and the people simply controlled it etc. And yeah, I think we’re definitely going to start one some day
sounds good to me. heh, at least if you know you’re going to die eventually you can have fun on the way xD
Animals, we think we have them figured out (by ’we’ I mean scientists) but we really dont lol
Of course then we must ponder, assuming that everything is relative and the chair is on top of the table, how the table could possible be holding up the chair if the table may or may not even be there (or ’here’ if we’re following your illogical logicalities that logically could make sense to a philosopher).
LOL you should totally do it and tell me what he says xD" | |
| 22 May 2009 | Nicoline Badenhorst | Loading... P.S. I sent the mail again, hope you get it this time. | |
| 25 May 2009 | Nicoline Badenhorst | Loading... Wait a moment here, we want to be the rulers, so nothing about us being puppets, we’re going to be awesome and everybody’s going to love us. Lol Let’s see. Monarchy totally sucks. Democracy is better but not by much. Oligarchy goes a gainst the grain of my being- it should be fair to everyone. Communism is out of the question- too much indoctrination and restriction of freedom. Socialism is a good idea but desperately fails in money terms. Bureacracy is waaay too boring and lacks dynamics. How about a strict Jean Jacques Rousseau interpretation of democracy, where the different organs of the state control each other in such a way that it eliminates the possibility of fraud and corruption? It’ll take a lot of systems planning though. Question: If we’re going to set up camp in the rainforest, where are we going to build houses for our people, given that we don’t want to kill our green home? I like the idea of treetop houses, but that might prove a logistical problem after a while. I agree. The only three things in life that are certain are death, taxes and that it doesn’t go as you expect it to, so why not enjoy the ride and worry later? But what if not the table is holding up the chair, but the chair is holding up the table? This assumes that actio=reactio and thus we cannot say which is holding up which. And all this while keeping in mind that neither really might be there, given that if we dissect the nature of matter, we find that matter is made up of something so tiny that we can legally assume it not to be there (materiality principle) and thus we can logically assume that we are talking about something which does not in fact exist. *aside: talk about circular reasoning* Lol, I think I’d be too shy to do something this bold. Kelsey Lynn Reed replies: "lol, oh yeah, forgot that small detail xD
Hmm, sounds like a good idea. Will have to do some research into that sort of democracy though since I don’t know much about it... I guess if all else fails we could start from scratch and see what we come up with.. would definitely give someone who is really bored soemthing to do xD
oof, treetop houses would be awesome if there was a way around the problems... hmmm... that’s a hard question. still pondering teh name too. I think I’ll make a list of ideas and get back to you =P
see, now if you go with the idea of action/reaction then we could just completely forget about the chair and table and ponder whether we are in fact holding the earth down by standing on it. So if we’re talkign about something taht doesn’t exist then how can we be talking about it at all. If we have found a way to talk about it then it must exist or we would not have any grounds to this entire conversation. Back to the table and chair: you know, we could just say that the table and chair are simply hanging in space and just happened to end up in such a position that we could assume the chair was on top of the table o_O" | |
| 26 May 2009 | Nicoline Badenhorst | Loading... Yes, that sounds like a very good idea. You know what this reminds me of? The shared world projects that were popular sometime around the 1980’s. You know, those where some genius sat down and wrote a world and then sent it to a whole lot of authors who created one or two characters in that world and wrote short stories and novels based on that. The characters of different authors could even interact, provided that the authors didn’t go around changing other people’s characters or killing them off without permission. But, since we are pondering whether the chair holds up the table or the table holds up the chair, if we solve the one problem, we could apply the solution to the other by inference. The point still remains that how can something exist that we know consists of basically nothing? What would your proof be that the table and chair just hang around in space like that? I mean, I can see that they are indeed standing very firmly on the ground. Although the proof of senses is a weak one, given that we could still exist in a continuum that only manipulates our brains to think that we exist (a la Matrix). Which somehow reminds me of the cat in the box paradox. The most important point to remember is probably that of what influence the chair standing on the table could have on say, the incidents of death by ant poisoning in Tailand. By this I mean, how important is the chair? Could it be a mere decoy to distract us from the true meaning of the table? *I could get much more ridiculous but I think I’ll save that up for the next reply. Otherwise I’d ruin my own fun in this.* Kelsey Lynn Reed replies: "that sounds awesome! Let’s do that. It would be interesting to see what kinds of stories we could come up with.
Ooooh, I watched the matrix yesterday! Oh how strange that that movie came up.
Well I think the importance of the chair depends on the person (or people in our case) who is discussing the meaning of the chair and table in the first place. Like you said, to someone in Thailand the chair has no importance at all but to us it is obviously very important because we can’t seem to let this subject go. That said, I think we could say that the chair is only important to those who think it is important even though I’m sure one could somehow figure out how the chair effects every living person on earth in some microscopic way if we really deemed it necessary. A decoy though? Perhaps. But then we must ask, why is the chair chosen as a decoy instead of, say, a door or a pencil? What is so important about the table that we must use a chair to distract us from it? Maybe that’s what every one of the people writing an essay about the chair and table is missing. Perhaps this professor of yours is trying to prove that people are just incredibly narrow in their thoughts because as they sit there writing essays about whether or not the chair is really on the table they all fail to notice that every answer to the next test your professor will give out is scribbled on the surface of the table. " | |
| 28 May 2009 | Nicoline Badenhorst | Loading... You seriously never heard of this? It does sound awesome, doesn’t it? I found some great world building sheets in the Farp section that we could use as blank on which we can fill in our world.
I think it’s just too funny to let it go. I like making fun of big thoughts- somehow they’re too loaded for me to let them go just like that, if that makes the least sense to you. *glances at the clock* Darn, it’s only 20h and I feel in need of my bed already.
There are two possible answers to why the chair was chosen instead of something else. One is destiny, but then we must question the existence of a higher power and its identity and motives. While we could say that this higher power is represented by the professor putting the chair on the table, the question immediately poses itself as to whether he is the ultimate high power or is there one who is higher, and what did he want to tells us by his action? The other is chance- that there simply was nothing else available. However, the question is also if the action was meant to draw our attention away from the table or towards it. I love the irony that the answers may be where no one thinks to look but right under their noses and wonder if we could find our very own table with answers if we only thought to look.
I think the penultimate question that remains is: is the chair comfortable? | |
| 31 May 2009 |  Zachary Tank_Comander Marshal | Loading... AwEsOmE is an awesome word...  just trying to spark some kinda debate here... it would be interesing to see where this goes... Kelsey Lynn Reed replies: "lol the word awesome is an awesome word and fun to say although AwEsOmE, by all laws of the english language, isn’t a word at all xD" | |
| 11 Aug 2009 |  Mark Boston | Loading... The best word in the world is: Plinth Its just so... awesome!  Kelsey Lynn Reed replies: "Plinth? It is kinda cool though I do have a hard time saying it for some reason xD I’m personally a fan of the word Tree! " | |
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