Game: Ask the Person Below You

[Bakiryu]

to annoy those of us who want to sleep and welcome the rising soon.

are finger bones white?

[NikolaiI]

I don't know.

Have you heard of the I Ching?

[crazefest456]

It was part of a question in an application essay choice...but no, I don't really know...

what is the I Ching?

[NikolaiI]

ha, nice memory

Book of Change, or book of Changes...it's over 3000 years old, consists of texts and then commentaries by Confucius, among others. I'm just beginning it, so far as I can tell it's both for divination, but also for philosophy, etc., because it isn't just used to help everyone, it only wants to help the good, for people who are good and the common good. (I think)

Did you know Catholic actualy means universal?

[kiz_paws]

I actually didn't know that.

Did you know that Silly Putty was an experiment that went wrong but they decided that the substance created was rather cool and neat, and that was the beginning of the Silly Putty toy?

[crazefest456]

ha, nice memory

I didn't choose that essay choice...But I do have the memory of a goldfish...

No I didn't. That's an interesting meaning...hmm..

licking envelopes or sending email?

Kiz, I watched a documentary on that (History Channel's getting kookier by the years)..yeah..That's cool though! How convenient.

[NikolaiI]

erm...i really dun have a preferance.

occult or fan fiction?

[kiz_paws]

Fan fiction

Did you know that Albert Einstein was often asked to explain the general theory of relativity. "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour," he once declared. "Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity!" Had you heard this before?

[NikolaiI]

Yes, I have.

Did you know Richard Feynman was a lock-picker as a hobby?

[crazefest456]

YEAH! I read his autobiography!!! he's sooo cooooool....*drools*

Why do socks have to be so restricting?

[aeroport]

So that your feet don't get any ideas, naturally.

Did you know it was Nietzsche that first said "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"?
(He said it in German, of course, presumably in larger words...)

[kiz_paws]

Interesting, no, I did not know that, thanks for that information!

But, did you know that Albert Einstein was a very late talker? At the dinner table one evening, he finally broke his long silence: "The soup is too hot," he complained. His parents, greatly relieved, asked him why he had never spoken before. "Because," he replied, "up to now everything has been in order." Had you heard this one before?

[NikolaiI]

So that your feet don't get any ideas, naturally.

Did you know it was Nietzsche that first said "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"?
(He said it in German, of course, presumably in larger words...)

I don't think this is possible...

I mean if you mean it literally. Do you not think any Greek philosopher or any Roman soldier never said it before him? Or any Chinese soldier or thinker or teacher? Or anyone else?

Interesting, no, I did not know that, thanks for that information!

But, did you know that Albert Einstein was a very late talker? At the dinner table one evening, he finally broke his long silence: "The soup is too hot," he complained. His parents, greatly relieved, asked him why he had never spoken before. "Because," he replied, "up to now everything has been in order." Had you heard this one before?

Didn't know this, knew he was a late talker though.

Have you read much of Plato?

[crazefest456]

Wow, is that true? no I haven't...

What's the difference between great minds and the rest of us?

[NikolaiI]

Craze, I think you have a great mind.

I dunno, to your question though....Nietzsche said: I'm a genius in my nostrils. If I am not a genius in my nostrils, then Nietzsche certainly wasn't. Nietzsche said he was writing for some 6 people in the world, or working on problems that some 6 were....in reference to the height or depth of his philosophy...Descartes also, wrote that he was writing to one, special person, out of everyone else, who would read his works and understand him; Nathaniel Hawthorne, too, said he was writing to an ideal, perfect reader, who would be kind to him...

Anyhow what makes these people great were their ideas, writings, all of that; but what's of paramount importance is just the love that we give, expand, and receive. The lives we enrich. Or if none of that is possible then greatness is simply holding out against the tides of people battling for existence, and achieving one's own lofty goals in solitude or prayer...it would make someone great to remember all the passing thoughts during philosophical trains of thought that strike one as so important, as so capturing of the essence of things...