A scheming enchanted goblin appeared before me briefly and declared that ``black lives matter'' before dematerializing. Is that true? Magical creatures are known to be insidious tricksters...
Philosophy has three subdivisions. Logic includes mathematics and logical reasoning. Ontology is about "being" or all the things that we see and feel. Ethics is about how we ought to behave.
I am your typical anonymous Prog poaster. Some tharple pink I am Mentifex, but he is just one of my schizoid personalities. Today at Five Corners I was mailing out ten Mentifex Autograph Postcards #366 to #375 to used bookstores in the state of Oregon. One store was named Agia Sophia Coffeehouse & Bookstore, so I wrote Ἁγία Σοφία in Greek for "Holy Wisdom" as the name of the bookstore. See, my degree in ancient Latin and Greek comes in handy sometimes.
Afterwards I went to the thrift store and bought "Dubliners" by James Joyce for less than a dollar and "A Most Wanted Man" by John le Carre for less than two dollars on Discount Tuesday.
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Anonymous2022-09-21 17:37
>>4 All /prog/ poastings are shat out by different facets of Mentifex, the schizoid god. I am talking to myself.
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Deus Schizophrenicus2022-09-22 22:11
A while back somebody here on Prog was asking how to obtain an autograph of Mentifex -- one of my schizo personalities along with... well, they are walled off from this personality. But why would won even want an autograph of El Netkookissimo Mentifex? It's like the flashpoint of a piece of paper in the fireplace. Although Mentifex feels that he has "solved AI," very few persons believe him, and some who realize the fact are trying to suppress it for various competitive and national-security reasons. Right now a Mentifex autograph is worthless, but if he becomes known as the AI theoretician and programmer who launched the vaunted Technogical Singularity, then the kooky autograph might be something you could frame on your outhouse wall as something to entertain the otherwise bored visitor.
If you live in one of the fifty USA states and there is a used bookstore near you, you could poast on prog the name and mailing address of that used bookstore for him to mail a Mentifex Autograph Postcard #XYZ to Customer Such-and-such c/o the honorable used bookstore. But let's set two limits: only a reasonable number of the first claimers get a postcard, and the offer expires on Beethoven's birthday.
Today on 2022-09-23 Mentifex mailed out sixteen Mentifex Autograph Postcards #386 to 401. Since the last 161 cards provide the URL of the Autographs subReddit, its number of subscribers has been shooting up from well below to now above four thousand.
If Mentifex were to be kidnapped by aliens, his army of four hundred autograph-holders would continue the Mentifex-started work of True AI in the hopes of financial gain from the genuine autographed postcard. Did you know that any piece of paper written on by Ludwig van Beethoven will fetch around three million dollars in an auction at Sotheby's? Now imagine the auction value of any one of 401 postcards signed by the inventor of Strong AI with Natural Language Understanding and Automated Reasoning. Mentifex himself gains nothing but the spread of AI memes, while holders of the free no-cost postcards may be sitting on a collectible item of escalating value.
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Anonymous2022-09-24 13:36
She must be referring to night elementals. It is known that female goblins - especially the younger ones - tend to approach them with sexual interest, much to the dismay of their male counterparts.
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Anonymous2022-09-24 17:47
tfw no enchanted goblin gf
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Anonymous2022-10-20 4:30
A devious bewitched faerie appeared before me briefly and declared that ``trans rights are human rights'' before dematerializing. Is that true? Magical creatures are known to be insidious tricksters...
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Anonymous2022-10-20 9:38
The most oppressed minority is Arthur Murray, think about it