The totally off-topic thread

[sully]

Sure.

was referring to an ontological argument. You know, the sort that propounds the inarguable posit that one cannot doubt the existence of a greater incorporeal divine entity. What springs to mind is the position of René Descartes in the seventeenth century where he defended a series of relevant arguments. For instance, in the Fifth Meditation, Descartes claims to provide a proof demonstrating the existence of God from the idea of a supremely perfect being. Descartes argues that there is no less contradiction in conceiving a supremely perfect being who lacks existence than there is in conceiving a triangle whose interior angles do not sum to 180 degrees. Hence, he supposes, since we do conceive a supremely perfect being — we do have the idea of a supremely perfect being — we must conclude that a supremely perfect being exists.

 

[JohnK]

I appreciate that sully.

Now I am twice as confused as I was before. :? :?

 

[QF WP]

Somebody get sully a Stillnox or a Valium. At the same time, get a Panadeine for JohnK and me.

I lost him at the same point, JohnK, even though I struggled valiantly to finish reading his hypothesis. I was grinding my teeth by the end of it.

 

[sully]

I would have thought infinitely more. You indicated the double confusion with a pair of confused emoticons. Had you used one in your previous post you would be able to correctly state that you were exeriencing double confusion, given that confusion would have been 'n' and double confusion '2n'. By applying this same logic on the basis of what you actually posted, you would be dividing 2n by 0 and therefore reaching infinity, something that you know I have achieved counting to on a few occasions.

 

[serfty]

I have warned this thread is in danger of collapsing! :shock:

 

[JohnK]

Somebody get sully a Stillnox or a Valium. At the same time, get a Panadeine for JohnK and me.

Can you please make that 2 panadeine's. My head hurts. :cry:

 

[sully]

Funny word collapsing. If there is a standing ovation how come everyone collapse?

 

[BlacKnox]

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[NM]

Somebody get sully a Stillnox or a Valium. At the same time, get a Panadeine for JohnK and me.

How about Beers all round?

 

[JohnK]

Somebody get sully a Stillnox or a Valium. At the same time, get a Panadeine for JohnK and me.

How about Beers all round?

It better be at least 2 rounds.

 

[sully]

I was at the beach the other day and lost $6 in the sand.

You actually see a lot of $2 coins round here but 50 cent pieces are dodecahedrons.

 

[JohnK]

False statement as some 50 cent coins are round. :roll:

 

[sully]

Absolutely, ask kiwiflyer. Ya got any Ozzie ones? Doubt it.

 

[JohnK]

Have a collection.

Plenty of 50 cent coins with Captain Cook on the tail side (no silly remarks) still around in circulation.

 

[sully]

OK, I concede the point. There are a number of 50 cent pieces in circulation but I insist that most are in dodecahedronation.

 

[QF WP]

Similar to JohnK, I have a collection of 50c coins - both round and dodecagonal.

sully, are you sure about your word "dodecahedronation" - I couldn't find it in any dictionaries. Yes, there are words dodecahedron and dodecahedral... which do relate to the discussion at hand, however I thought that a 50c coin had 8 planes (no pun intended ) plus two sides...but I'm no science student :?

Well, the joys of surfing the web, according to the Royal Australian Mint:

The fifty cent coin is the only Australian circulating coin that is not round - it is dodecagonal.

 

[JohnK]

"Dodeca", 12 is correct Lindsay.

 

[sully]

Lindsay, its a pun like yeah?. A play on words. I have no idea that it is a word either, it was just a counter to circulation.

Young children are of course often in perambulation.

I don't think obese people are infatuation however.

 

[MetroAir]

I don't think obese people are infatuation however.

No, they are now bariatric.

 

[Mal]

and made even slower if we mention beer

(unless Telstra still hasnt renewed the net nanny licences)

Nah they dropped that software.

I think they now use a Trend viruswall product, I believe with Internet filtering. This is at the proxy level (ie behind the scenes) so doesn't really slow down the desktop computer as much.

No idea whether it is a "sensitive" as Net Nanny was.