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Am I a fool?
The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') Started conversation Apr 21, 2001
This is a simple enough question. Discuss.
Am I a fool?
The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') Posted Apr 21, 2001
Yes yourself
Am I a fool?
The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') Posted Apr 21, 2001
I don't know. Insecurity? Extreme paranoia? The fact that I'm wearing odd socks? I just wonder whether people might think me a fool for these things. But I'll tell you who is a fool: Comrade Rumble. Straight edge, indeed.
Am I a fool?
shrinkwrapped Posted Apr 21, 2001
Oh yes. Without a doubt. A classic case of a fool if ever I saw one.
Am I a fool?
jackthelad Posted Apr 21, 2001
Seneca said that when he wanted to see a fool he looked in a mirror;it takes a wise man to know he's a fool;but only fools think they're wise.....so there you go...
regards Jackthelad
Am I a fool?
Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! Posted Apr 21, 2001
Jackthelad,
When you have activated your page, I will drop by and give you the full h2g2 welcome 
- as is my job here. All you need do is use the edit page button on the right of the screen and write a few lines of text about yourself - or anything for that matter - then do an update.
See you soon.......
Bassman 
Am I a fool?
Bob Gone for good read the jornal Posted Apr 22, 2001
whats wrong with the straght edge thing???
I wish I could do that (but I drink to much) sounds a good way to live to me!!
Am I a fool?
Shanana the cannibalistic banana Posted Apr 24, 2001
Only a fool would question his own sanity publicly... No, wait.. that's a sane person.. So, yes, you're both. Am I making sense?
Shanana
Am I a fool?
Bob Gone for good read the jornal Posted Apr 24, 2001
proberbly....but you might not be 
Am I a fool?
NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) Posted Apr 24, 2001
The problem is that only fools think they are wise, whereas Socrates was smart enough to know he knew nothing. But, does that mean he was wise, because he knew that he knew nothing, or a fool, because wise people are generally right and therefore he must be right about his knowing nothing, but then he can't be believed after all...
...
?!
Okay, my head hurts. 
-Twinkle
Am I a fool?
Shanana the cannibalistic banana Posted Apr 24, 2001
I think Socrates was just trying to mess with people's heads...
Shanana
Am I a fool?
Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! Posted Apr 25, 2001
He succeeded with mine!!
It is correct that you have to know a little about something before you realise how much more there is to it.
Bassman
Am I a fool?
Shanana the cannibalistic banana Posted Apr 26, 2001
Which would therefore mean that you must know SOMETHING, which menas you cannot know NOTHING, so hence, he was wrong to say he knew nothing!! Ow... my head hurts....
Shanana
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Cooper the Pacifist Poet Posted Apr 26, 2001
Messing with people's heads was what Socrates *did* for a living. That was his purpose to existence.
Well, that's what Daemon thought, anyway.
--Cooper
Am I a fool?
Shanana the cannibalistic banana Posted Apr 26, 2001
True, but he was only supposed to screw with *his* generation, not all of western society....
shanana
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- 1: The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') (Apr 21, 2001)
- 2: Comrade Rumble (Apr 21, 2001)
- 3: The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') (Apr 21, 2001)
- 4: Bob Gone for good read the jornal (Apr 21, 2001)
- 5: The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') (Apr 21, 2001)
- 6: Comrade Rumble (Apr 21, 2001)
- 7: shrinkwrapped (Apr 21, 2001)
- 8: jackthelad (Apr 21, 2001)
- 9: Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! (Apr 21, 2001)
- 10: Bob Gone for good read the jornal (Apr 22, 2001)
- 11: magrat (Apr 22, 2001)
- 12: Shanana the cannibalistic banana (Apr 24, 2001)
- 13: Bob Gone for good read the jornal (Apr 24, 2001)
- 14: NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) (Apr 24, 2001)
- 15: Bob Gone for good read the jornal (Apr 24, 2001)
- 16: Shanana the cannibalistic banana (Apr 24, 2001)
- 17: Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! (Apr 25, 2001)
- 18: Shanana the cannibalistic banana (Apr 26, 2001)
- 19: Cooper the Pacifist Poet (Apr 26, 2001)
- 20: Shanana the cannibalistic banana (Apr 26, 2001)
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