Where is Wotsit ?

[GOD]

Hey Wotsit , come out come out where ever you arent . Or have you been promoted and the mothership has come and picked you up ? I for one am missing you ...... well most of you . Life isnt so interesting without you . So wash your hands and beam yourself back here again .

If your dead please let us know so we can look for another AI .

 

[magickmumu]

R.I.P
Ayuaniets

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

1200 posts, the last one being:

Every epic poem, work of fiction ?

Is that how we speak in the lounge ?

I stand insulted and shall remain silent until reparation is done.

Secret Societies, what do you think?

 

[Brugmansia]

Ahua is a soft guy, which is a good thing. But inherently he seemed fragile and occasionally envious which in my opinion didn't always made an equal and amenable debate possible.

Being offended because others tossed their opinion on the table is a bit like asking others to adjust their views in order to lime them with his own seat. Sacrificing yourself can never be a valid card for any privileged right or justice. Nor is can serve any symbolic to him or her with a proper grade of common sense. Ahua, come back.

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

Every epic poem, work of fiction ?

It depends on your definition of fiction. The Wikipedia definition seems to apply to ancient poems like the Ramayan and Gilgamesh epic.

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events.

In the past two or three weeks I've listened to the Gilgamesh epic two times. It reminded me very much of the Ramayan audiobook I had been listening to some years ago, and the Star Wars saga before that. Monsters, two brothers on a quest, intervention by the gods, etc. These stories are not histories, but they aren't useless figments of the imagination either. Joseph Campbell has a lot to say about these myths.

"We have not even to face the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time, have gone before us: the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god, and where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence, and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the World."

 

[Mr.Smith]

hes hiding under an amanita

 

[GOD]

Saying all epic poems or storys are fiction is easy but not proveable . Maybe some of them are true and maybe some of them have parts that are true . But to dismiss all of them as fantasy is stupid . They were writen as a response to experience and the advice , sense of the storys , must have a value to people since they were writen or they would have soon been forgoten .

 

[Mr.Smith]

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[grifter7]

is the epic of gilgamesh worth reading ive had a look at it and it seems sort of long . Reminded me of the pick of destiny story but... reading alot at the moment just too much mind candy to choose from

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

is the epic of gilgamesh worth reading ive had a look at it and it seems sort of long .

This weekend I listened to another audio version of the epic, and it was even better than the first one. You can find both of them online, and listen to the entire epic ("radio drama version of Gilgamesh, adapted by Jeremy Howe, from the English version by Stephen Mitchell") in an hour and a half.

 

[Mr.Smith]

Wotsit lives. he popped in earlier

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

Of course he lives! And I'm assuming he regularly checks his mail here.