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Re: What if?

Unread postby lateralus » Mon 19 Feb 2007, 23:32:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lateralus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')hat if America won it's war in the MidEast and was seen triumphant? Would that bum you out?


Seen as triumphant to whom?
to the Iraqis who want to get on with their lives. I, for one, have been reading Iraqi blogs. They want things to get back to normal, and not Saddam's normal.


You mean they want to return to the Ottoman empire? :P

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', 'W')hat if - we're all just (minor)subroutines operating in some large computer?


The Matrix.

What if the Normans had lost the battle of Hastings?

What if I had banged that busty redhead in 8th grade?
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Re: What if?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Mon 19 Feb 2007, 23:39:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lateralus', '
')What if I had banged that busty redhead in 8th grade?[/i]
you'd been no happier than you are now. Which brings up an interesting question, how happy are you? Life is tough, and lots of people are sad.
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Re: What if?

Unread postby Jack » Mon 19 Feb 2007, 23:52:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lateralus', '
')The Matrix.


Not even that - the agents were part of the machine, yes, but the humans were still human beings, plugged into the network.

But suppose that we are all just little programs. Our supposed self-awareness is a delusion, programmed in by whoever wrote the program.

In the Matrix, there is the possibility of an external existence. But in this scenario, that possibility does not exist.

What if - that redhead had banged you?

What if - she got pregnant?

What if - you married her?

What if - the child wasn't yours?

Fade in with Twilight Zone music...
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Re: What if?

Unread postby lateralus » Mon 19 Feb 2007, 23:55:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lateralus', '
')What if I had banged that busty redhead in 8th grade?[/i]
you'd been no happier than you are now. Which brings up an interesting question, how happy are you? Life is tough, and lots of people are sad.


Hahaha you've been watching Dr. Phil haven't you?

I'm pretty happy, I live in Canada where the beer flows cold from the mountain springs and hockey is on every Saturday.

I'd be pretty miserable if I lived in a quasi-dictatorship under the rule of a darth chimp, or even worse still, sent to the desert where people threw hand grenades at me every morning after breakfast so that fat housewives could drive to the corner store to buy the new Oprah magazine. 8)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', 'W')hat if - that redhead had banged you?

What if - she got pregnant?

What if - you married her?

What if - the child wasn't yours?


That would friggin suck now wouldn't it. Good thing it never happened. [smilie=5eek.gif]
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Re: What if?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 00:01:09

Don't be so smug, Canuck. Your in this jam with us.
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Re: What if?

Unread postby lateralus » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 00:10:01

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'D')on't be so smug, Canuck. Your in this jam with us.


What jam was that again? The one where we attacked all the Indians at Wounded Knee so we could rape all the gold in the Black Hills or are you talking about the one where we rape the rag heads for the Black tar?

Come on PMS grab some humour life is short.
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Re: What if?

Unread postby cynicalheretic » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 00:23:10

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')hat if anybody had an iota of fucking creativity?

cynicalheritic says, "you've pretty much blown them away, PMS, nobody wants to compete with you" Sad, there must be some creators out there. It's just a silly/fun exercise in imagination. Gimme your best, cynicalheretic.



What if - The central core of the earth was actually composed of Hydrogen, Chlorine, Oxygen and Iron and not nickel and Iron?

What if - Less some number was more than a number equal to a number less than the original number but not more than the previous number?

What if - We never developed exactly 10 digits?
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Re: What if?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 00:32:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lateralus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'D')on't be so smug, Canuck. Your in this jam with us.


What jam was that again? The one where we attacked all the Indians at Wounded Knee so we could rape all the gold in the Black Hills or are you talking about the one where we rape the rag heads for the Black tar?

Come on PMS grab some humour life is short.
that's pretty clever. Canadians are as pure as the driven snow I'm sure.
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Re: What if?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 00:55:54

]you refer to 11? It does seem to be a special number.
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Re: What if?

Unread postby lateralus » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 00:59:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lateralus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'D')on't be so smug, Canuck. Your in this jam with us.


What jam was that again? The one where we attacked all the Indians at Wounded Knee so we could rape all the gold in the Black Hills or are you talking about the one where we rape the rag heads for the Black tar?

Come on PMS grab some humour life is short.
that's pretty clever. Canadians are as pure as the driven snow I'm sure.


Purer than driven greed for sure.
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Re: What if?

Unread postby I_Like_Plants » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 02:12:02

What if?.....

We wake up in the morning and the US dollar has collapsed?

Silicon Valley experiences a large enough earthquake to mess up its water and electrical systems to a major degree?*

President Bush has a mojor seizure or some other major fuck-up during a live press conference, and "puppetmaster" Cheney has a heart attack in response, causing them to both be "out of the running"?


*I know what I have to do in that circumstance, I need to shoot my next door neighbors, the problem being, I don't have a gun, so I need to procure one. Or procure some other way of killing them relatively expeditiously.
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Re: What if?

Unread postby I_Like_Plants » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 02:13:10

MAJOR not mojor.

Of course the effective IQ on here is about 75 and English is a 2nd language for *all* of us on here, computers make *everyone* stupid.......
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Re: What if?

Unread postby Zardoz » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 03:19:59

What if Adolph Hitler had been accepted into art school and never went into politics?

What if Karl Marx had died of a childhood disease?

What if King Henry VII had never established the policies that made England a maritime power, and the British Empire had therefore never come into existence?

What if Emperor Zhu Di of China had not dismantled his gigantic exploration fleet in 1433, and continued exploring and colonizing the world instead?
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Re: What if?

Unread postby Last_Laff » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 05:27:33

What if you carry out an attack by the order of yourself while you're sleeping?

What if I planted cochlear implant into PenultimateManStanding and listen to him meowing as if he's trying to talk?

What if Bush had a statue of Saddam Hussien beside his bed?

What if the largest field, the only one, had been found that turned out to be other than oil?

What if a woman claiming that she is you?

What if Eve picked out the apple from the tree instead?

What if this nonsense becomes sounded sense?
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Re: What if?

Unread postby Bas » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 05:53:10

What if choice doesn't really exist and is merely an outcome of circumstance and conditioning?
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Re: What if?

Unread postby cynicalheretic » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 10:09:34

I was reading yours posts on the other site, and those guys are right, STAY OFF THE FUCKING DRUGS (or get on the right drugs). Your thoughts are not coherent. You sound exactly like my dad did before we got him admited to the psych ward for schizophrenia (paranoid variety)

Please dude, I am asking that you get the help you need. You are very intelligent, but until you can learn to control your thought patterns you are no use to anyone and will never be able to pass on any insights that will benefit the world.
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Re: What if?

Unread postby kevincarter » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 13:44:17

What if streetlights could walk?

What if smurfs controlled the world?

What if you found your sister at a hore house?

What if only you exist and the rest of us are no more than an illusion?

What if TV was never invented?

What if you were born in Africa?

What if your fammily are all millionares but never dared to tell you?

What if the CIA knows the world is ending next year but want to keep us working untill then?

What if you die?

What if you don't die?

What if you go to heaven?

What if they deny you access to heaven because is something wrong with your application?

What if you can't complain about it?

What if they just won't listen to you?

What if they call security?

What if they send you to hell?

What if they don't let you in either?
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Re: What if?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 20 Feb 2007, 15:31:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kevincarter', ' ')
What if the CIA knows the world is ending next year but want to keep us working untill then?
:lol: my favorite one, could be true, too!
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