Are you doomed to be a single geek for the rest of your life?

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Alphathree33

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Originally posted by: linuxboy
Are you doomed to be a single geek for the rest of your life? Several problems exist in confronting this statement as well as formulating a suitable response. First, the above conjecture presupposes the wildly erroneous notion of my being a geek, moreover a single geek. Despite obvious equivocalities in the denotation of geekdom, the state of singlehood further extends this grave fault insofar as it assumes we are somehow not connected with the world-at-large, or as Emerson aptly put, the Oversoul. Second, one runs into conceptual difficulties at attempting to grasp the elusive idea of life as well as a remainder of life. Assuming life is an entity separate from noetic offspring, the remainder of one proves to be nearly impossible to define, assuming both probablistic/stochastic models as well as foundations built upon affirmation of free will or deityhood. Third, I question the use of the word "you". Our own self-definitions are so arbitrary and fickle that any referent thereabouts is bound to cause confusion in ourselves and in our surrounding worlds. Who is this "you"? The dubious despondent overtones also cause concern. I thus conclude that your nonsensical remark cannot be answered. As for an answer to your question, it's highly likely to be so. Who'd want to put up with my odd ramblings and real-life, lackluster plainness? pas des personnes Cheers ! :)

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So what you're really saying is that you are annoyed that weezergirl assumed you were a single person and a geek to begin with, you have philosophical difficulties with the idea of your own death and you don't know who you are. But despite all of this, you think you will forever be a single geek?
 

misterj

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Originally posted by: linuxboy
Are you doomed to be a single geek for the rest of your life?

Several problems exist in confronting this statement as well as formulating a suitable response.

First, the above conjecture presupposes the wildly erroneous notion of my being a geek, moreover a single geek. Despite obvious equivocalities in the denotation of geekdom, the state of singlehood further extends this grave fault insofar as it assumes we are somehow not connected with the world-at-large, or as Emerson aptly put, the Oversoul.

Second, one runs into conceptual difficulties at attempting to grasp the elusive idea of life as well as a remainder of life. Assuming life is an entity separate from noetic offspring, the remainder of one proves to be nearly impossible to define, assuming both probablistic/stochastic models as well as foundations built upon affirmation of free will or deityhood.

Third, I question the use of the word "you". Our own self-definitions are so arbitrary and fickle that any referent thereabouts is bound to cause confusion in ourselves and in our surrounding worlds. Who is this "you"?

The dubious despondent overtones also cause concern.

I thus conclude that your nonsensical remark cannot be answered.


As for an answer to your question, it's highly likely to be so. Who'd want to put up with my odd ramblings and real-life, lackluster plainness?

pas des personnes



Cheers ! :)

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