I clicked on the spot on your post, then realised it was just a dirty mark on my computer screen. Do you all have a mark on your screen? Is this a plot?
I'm reading this thread while listening to John Cage.
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
If this thread does not exist, it will be impossible to close. It will go on for ever, therefore it will exist. But if it did not not exist in the first place, its non-existence would be in dispute, therefore....
If this thread does not exist, it will be impossible to close. It will go on for ever, therefore it will exist. But if it did not not exist in the first place, its non-existence would be in dispute, therefore....
(I think I have a headache coming on)
But don't all threads go on for ever. And if we don't feed this one, it will continue not to exist, but will gradually shade from our awareness of its non-being.
I'm sure that would sound better in German, but,
a. I don't speak German, and
b. That would break one of the rules, except that
c. If something does not exist, can it break a rule? And
d. I still think that would sound better in German. But as I don't speak German, even if somebody strings together some long words that sound like German, to me it will sound just as impressive.
To have a thread that does not exist
Is like drinking but you can’t get pissed
A paradoxical illusion
That can cause much confusion
And the point is entirely missed
A thread that isn’t really there
A younger man might even be scared
It’s ghostly displays
And mysterious ways
May give one cause for despair
But Fear not this ethereal text
Its non-existence truly is blessed
Its transparent whimsy
No matter how flimsy
Gives one opportunity to reflect
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A heat of exposure, a metaphor for that of an iron on invisible ink
Creating invisibility by phone takes accurate keystrokes,
But the clarity of highlighting is beyond me.
Fall if watchers stay indoors?
This is not haiku.
needs seventeen syllables -
not just ellipsis
I really don't know clouds at all.
^
white noise
I was so hoping that the gap was filled with synonyms for noise - to the extent that I've logged on to check and see. Such a disappointment
what constitutes a haiku
yet the inspiration flew
I clicked on the spot on your post, then realised it was just a dirty mark on my computer screen. Do you all have a mark on your screen? Is this a plot?
I'm reading this thread while listening to John Cage.
Love it!
As a chorister, I thought you would prefer Byrd's Mass for 0 voices...
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
Answers on a unicorn.
When I was young there were clouds - little fluffy clouds. You don't see them anymore. Maybe you do in the desert.
@mousethief was riffing on a Joni Mitchell song.
Meanwhile, I’m an agnostic as to whether this thread exists.
Are you sure you're not an athreadist who merely thinks he's an agnostic?
I did of course get Mousethiefs reference and was continuing it with more people whose grasp on reality was somewhat tenuous.
Silence is not a colour
Therefore silence does not exist
For a concept to exist it has to be real.
What did 0 say to 8?
(I think I have a headache coming on)
I'm sure that would sound better in German, but,
a. I don't speak German, and
b. That would break one of the rules, except that
c. If something does not exist, can it break a rule? And
d. I still think that would sound better in German. But as I don't speak German, even if somebody strings together some long words that sound like German, to me it will sound just as impressive.
Is like drinking but you can’t get pissed
A paradoxical illusion
That can cause much confusion
And the point is entirely missed
A thread that isn’t really there
A younger man might even be scared
It’s ghostly displays
And mysterious ways
May give one cause for despair
But Fear not this ethereal text
Its non-existence truly is blessed
Its transparent whimsy
No matter how flimsy
Gives one opportunity to reflect
A concept can exist without being instantiated.
Oh yes, so it is. But what if there is no body? Resurrection?
If it is becoming illusory it must have existed. How can something that does not exist lose its form?
By gaining a form?
But then by its very ‘is ness’ it exists.
Foiled again!
Okay...
Something could have a sole characteristic which is a state of non existence. Only by its non existence does it exist.
But then it exists 🤦♂️
She's a witch! Burn her!
Warlock I’m afraid. Just as flammable, but can’t multitask.