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Electra
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Posted 10/31/2003 6:14 AM (GMT -6)

Disclaimer: I'm more of a poet than a logician.

I was thinking the other day about the opposite of nothing, and I got confused: Is it anything or everything? Then I tried to draw a picture of it and it looked like a triangle:

NOTHING———————EVERYTHING
   \             /
    \           /
     \         /
      \       /
       \     /
      SOMETHING

Then I thought of a whole bunch of other triangles, like:

NEVER———————ALWAYS     NOWHERE———————EVERYWHERE
   \             /          \             /
    \           /            \           /
     \         /              \         /
      \       /                \       /
       \     /                  \     /
      SOMETIMES                SOMEWHERE

If you add these triangles to the triangle of conjoined might counterfactuals:

WOULD———————WOULD NOT
   \             /
    \           /
     \         /
      \       /
       \     /
        MIGHT

You get:

SOMETHING SOMEWHERE SOMETIME MIGHT.

Does this mean something???

Electra
aka Triangle Poser

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing. ~ Dostoevsky

Tom
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Posted 10/31/2003 11:01 AM (GMT -6)

Electra: Does this mean something?

Tom: It means EVERYTHING!

Oh yeah, you forgot:

Noone -------- Everyone
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
Someone

PS How did you get your line of slash marks so straight? I tried that once for hours and my posts never lined up.

Tom

GregBoyd
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Posted 10/31/2003 11:55 AM (GMT -6)

Electra: I was thinking the other day about the opposite of nothing,

Doc: Been a busy girl lately, heh? Actually, Heidegger thought this the only true philosophical question. Now, as to your "equation," its validity hangs upon the appropriateness of "adding" together your various triangular formulas. But this isn't obvious.

BUT, on a more poetic note, your various triangulations is precisely the thing that has led philosophers from Plato to Hegel to Pierce to suspect that reality is inherently structured on THREES. If true, one indication a person can have to suspect they're heading in the right direction toward a fundamental analysis of some aspect of reality is that their analysis is arriving at THREE principles.

Doc

Electra
aka Triangle Poser[/font=Verdana]

"The responsibility is with the chooser -- God is blameless." Plato, Republic, 10.

DLW
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Posted 10/31/2003 1:28 PM (GMT -6)

Hence, the importance of analyzing society, the economy and the polity and how they interrelate...

We had three fellows once who came to fix our laundry-machine. There names were everybody, somebody and nobody. Now everybody wanted somebody to put their head inside to see what was wrong, but somebody wasn't listening and so everybody lost their temper and then somebody quit their job so everybody went home and nobody fixed our laundry-machine.

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

Electra
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Posted 10/31/2003 3:27 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
PS How did you get your line of slash marks so straight? I tried that once for hours and my posts never lined up.

Tom

I will teach you the secret of making virtual triangles, but first, can you explain my nothing ~ everything ~ something triangle in symbolic logic? I think that’s so cool.

Electra
aka Triangle Poser

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing. ~ Dostoevsky

Electra
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Posted 10/31/2003 3:31 PM (GMT -6)

PARTICLE MAN
by They Might Be Giants

Particle man, particle man
Doing the things a particle can
What's he like? It's not important
Particle man

Is he a dot, or is he a speck
When he's underwater does he get wet
Or does the water get him instead
Nobody knows, Particle man

Triangle man, Triangle man
Triangle man hates particle man
They have a fight, Triangle wins
Triangle man

Universe man, Universe man
Size of the entire universe man
Usually kind to smaller man
Universe man

He's got a watch with a minute hand
Millenium hand and an eon hand
When they meet it's a happy land
Powerful man, universe man

Person man, person man
Hit on the head with a frying pan
Lives his life in a garbage can
Person man

Is he depressed or is he a mess
Does he feel totally worthless
Who came up with person man
Degraded man, person man

Triangle man, triangle man
Triangle man hates person man
They have a fight, triangle wins
Triangle man

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing. ~ Dostoevsky

Electra
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Posted 10/31/2003 3:37 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
We had three fellows once who came to fix our laundry-machine. There names were everybody, somebody and nobody. Now everybody wanted somebody to put their head inside to see what was wrong, but somebody wasn't listening and so everybody lost their temper and then somebody quit their job so everybody went home and nobody fixed our laundry-machine.

dlw

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing. ~ Dostoevsky

Electra
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Total Posts : 611

Posted 10/31/2003 3:41 PM (GMT -6)

TRIANGLE POSE
Trikonasana (trik-cone-AHS-anna)

Triangle Pose is the quintessential standing pose in many styles of yoga.

Benefits

Stretches and strengthens the thighs, knees, and ankles
Stretches the hips, groins, hamstrings, and calves; shoulders, chest, and spine
Stimulates the abdominal organs
Improves digestion and relieves acidity and flatulence
Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause
Relieves backache, especially through second trimester of pregnancy
Therapeutic for anxiety, flat feet, infertility, neck pain, osteoporosis, and sciatica

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing. ~ Dostoevsky

honorman
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Total Posts : 1137

Posted 11/1/2003 2:26 AM (GMT -6)

My kids and I love "Triangle man..." Approve

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