I believe that the universe consists, without residue, of the spread of events in space-time, and that if we thus accept realitically the four-dimensional fabric of juxtaposed actualities we can dispense with all those dim nonfactual categories which have so bedeviled our race: the potential, the subsistential, and the influential, the noumenal, the numinous, and the nonnatural. But I am arguing here, not that there is nothing outside the natural world of events, but that the theory of the manifold is anyhow literally true and adequate to that world: true in that the world contains no less than the manifold; adequate, in that it contains no more.

Um, what? I'm started to really dislike philosophy. ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?

On the other hand, this article from The Onion is bloody hilarious. The last paragraph had me crying. :)

I've seen that article already. The Onion seem to be recycling all their old material - over half of this weeks stuff I remember from previous ones.

Posted by fraggle from 212.159.87.48 @ 03/19/2003 11:37 AM CST

you cry easily

Posted by mantra from 68.118.224.213 @ 03/19/2003 01:15 PM CST

Do you question my sincerity?

Posted by Afterglow from 24.42.72.116 @ 03/19/2003 01:30 PM CST

the idiot who wrote that probably was like "manifold! that sounds cool.. i'll use it!"

Posted by aurikan from 159.153.4.51 @ 03/19/2003 02:51 PM CST

likewise for residue

Posted by mantra from 68.118.224.213 @ 03/19/2003 03:21 PM CST