Comments on: Double positive

By: j-a

j-a — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:20:26 +0000

i never wanted to be immortal in the first place!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:53:03 +0000

Ahhh. The idea of immortality in one form or other has been a theme of fiction and science fiction in particular for some time. I believe the scenario you mention was well covered in the old TV show Max Headroom.

I wonder about physical immortality also. I’m dead sure that it will be invented just as I am 90 years old and I will be doomed to be a cranky old man for centuries. At least until the aliens attack and blow up our sun.

By: wildsoda

wildsoda — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:04:29 +0000

*I heard an anecdote about a university lecturer remarking that a double negative can result in a positive statement, but a double positive can never result in a negative statement, to which someone in the back of the room replied, “Yeah, yeah.”*

That supposedly happened at Columbia University, and the student was this guy who went on to become a scholar himself. Of course, I read that in a profile of said guy in the alumni magazine, so I wonder if it’s really true or just wishful thinking.

By: jilbur

jilbur — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:21:51 +0000

but now I think of something from a book I didn’t even like, The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, that the Merry Pranksters altered a sign near their house to read: No Left Turn Unstoned.

We were already immortal–‘we’, not ‘i’ or ‘you.’ Good question: why would ‘i’ want to be immortal, what do ‘i’ want when ‘i’ want to just go on being ‘i’ … looked at just right, every desires has an aspect of the ridiculous, but that one is definitely one of the semi-finalists for Miss Most Ridiculous Desire in the Universe.

By: anne

anne — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:00:14 +0000

“Consider that two wrongs do not make a right, but three lefts do.”

also, one word: TRON.