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SamwiseGamgee · 01-15-2004, 06:32 PM

Eomer, what is this apparent undying fascination with the cat o' ninetails that you have? Haha!

Gollum: 'Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be. But half a bee has got to be vis a vis its entity. But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee, when half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury?'
Sam: Sucks quizzically on pipe whilst furrowing his brow. 'An interesting point you raise, my dear Smeagol. And one which must be addressed, I feel. Now, it's as my old gaffer would say: Half a bee is, despite being only half of its origonal entity by its very morphological definition only half of what it should be, and therefore half a bee is half a bee.'
Frodo: 'But my dear Samwise, you have forgotten the argument of the teleologist. This "ancient injury" of which Gollum...sorry, Smeagol, speaks would surely, by teleological thinking, have happened for a purpose, in order that the task which this half a bee- we shall call him Eric- has been appointed with may be fulfilled. By this reasoning the bee, despite being "Eric the half a bee" by the morphological definition, is by teleological reasoning an entire bee for the purposes of fulfilling his long-appointed task. Your thoughts, Master Smeagol?'
Gollum: 'I'll be honest with you, I was quoting Monty Python and am just bored now. You got any fish?'

01-15-2004, 06:32 PM	#585
SamwiseGamgee Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In the warm bosom of a Warg Posts: 378	Eomer, what is this apparent undying fascination with the cat o' ninetails that you have? Haha! Gollum: 'Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be. But half a bee has got to be vis a vis its entity. But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee, when half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury?' Sam: Sucks quizzically on pipe whilst furrowing his brow. 'An interesting point you raise, my dear Smeagol. And one which must be addressed, I feel. Now, it's as my old gaffer would say: Half a bee is, despite being only half of its origonal entity by its very morphological definition only half of what it should be, and therefore half a bee is half a bee.' Frodo: 'But my dear Samwise, you have forgotten the argument of the teleologist. This "ancient injury" of which Gollum...sorry, Smeagol, speaks would surely, by teleological thinking, have happened for a purpose, in order that the task which this half a bee- we shall call him Eric- has been appointed with may be fulfilled. By this reasoning the bee, despite being "Eric the half a bee" by the morphological definition, is by teleological reasoning an entire bee for the purposes of fulfilling his long-appointed task. Your thoughts, Master Smeagol?' Gollum: 'I'll be honest with you, I was quoting Monty Python and am just bored now. You got any fish?' __________________ -- Well, I'm back.