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Murex
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A question within a question
#4675857 - 09/17/05 10:51 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you started reading a novel and someone came up to you and told you the end, would you still read the novel?
-------------------- What if everything around you Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know, Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection, Is it all you want it to be?
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Deviate
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Murex]
#4675863 - 09/17/05 10:54 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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absolutely if i was enjoying it to begin with. ive read many books knowing the story/having seen the movie first.
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it stars saddam
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Murex]
#4675954 - 09/17/05 11:22 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes, because I still wouldn't know the events that lead up to the end.
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Deviate
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some people even read the same book two or more times.
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it stars saddam
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Deviate]
#4675991 - 09/17/05 11:31 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Actually, I usually don't purchase a book unless I plan on reading it several times. There have been a few times when I've even reread a book immediately after finishing it.
I see no reason why books should have less "replayability" value than, for instance, a film.
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Deviate]
#4676003 - 09/17/05 11:34 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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No, I don't even like to watch movies again because I already know whats going to happen.
-------------------- Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe. "Everything that we know and understand comes down to perception, and by altering this perception we shake everything we know. All that you and I can know and understand is what we can see smell hear think touch and so on, and when something like mushrooms or salvia alters this steady perception, it can break reality permanently." - Dihnekis
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Deviate
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Re: A question within a question [Re: LazyGnome]
#4676018 - 09/17/05 11:38 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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i know what you mean about not purchasing books you only intend to read once, you finish it in a matter of hours and then you have no use for it after that.
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Murex]
#4676469 - 09/18/05 01:33 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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hahaha I had to laugh! I always start books with the last page and then I read them backwards by chapters.
-------------------- Ahuwale ka nane huna.
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A question within a question, for an answer.... [Re: Murex]
#4676961 - 09/18/05 07:51 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you were to go to see the Mona Lisa for the very first time, and someone came up and said "It is a painting of some chick" - would you still want to see the painting for yourself....?
-------------------- I'll be your midnight French Fry.... "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Murex]
#4677355 - 09/18/05 11:10 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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This happened to me back when the movie Titanic came out. Half way into the movie, my friend spoiled it for me... she said the ship sinks. I finished watching it anyway.
-------------------- Republican Values: 1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you. 2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child. 3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer. 4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Murex]
#4677463 - 09/18/05 11:51 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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So the question within the question is, if you knew how your life would turn out would you still want to live it?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: A question within a question, for an answer.... [Re: PhanTomCat]
#4677599 - 09/18/05 12:41 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you were to go to see the Mona Lisa for the very first time, and someone came up and said "It is a painting of some chick" -
There is strong evidence that the painting is a Da Vinci self-portrait joke. The facial features are his, softened a bit with his hair and dress done in a feminine style.
-------------------- The proof is in the pudding.
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Icelander]
#4677817 - 09/18/05 02:24 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Icelander said: So the question within the question is, if you knew how your life would turn out would you still want to live it?
The only thing I really care about in my life are a handful of moments I hold onto. So yes I would want to still live it for all the rest of those moments in between. Besides I already know how my lifes gonna end....I'm gonna die.
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Re: A question within a question [Re: tonygirl1983]
#4678032 - 09/18/05 03:20 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Besides I already know how my lifes gonna end....I'm gonna die.
But you have no idea which Shroomery member will be holding the knife...
-------------------- The proof is in the pudding.
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Swami]
#4678047 - 09/18/05 03:23 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Oooooh the suspense! It's killing me. Who would be willing to give up excitement like this?
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Swami]
#4678118 - 09/18/05 03:53 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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there were too many tourists for us to see anything in the louvre and besides the mold infested wooden floors affected my wife's allergies. I would never have expected our visit to end that way. never really cared about mona tho'.
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Re: A question within a question [Re: redgreenvines]
#4678259 - 09/18/05 04:40 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would never have expected our visit to end that way.
pant pant pant pant pant
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: A question within a question [Re: Swami]
#4678340 - 09/18/05 05:07 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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But you have no idea which Shroomery member will be holding the knife
Mr. Green in the Library (with the knife)...
-------------------- Republican Values: 1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you. 2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child. 3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer. 4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
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