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And now to sully my divine purity by forsaking my cubic innocence and succumbing to the evil temptations of reflective binary symmetry… and beyond! with my first post as a certified “Philosopher” (according to the automatic yet benevolent change to the word now underneath my name).
O Θαλῆς ὁ Μιλήσιος, if you were to see this day would you be proud or ashamed?
Apparently I’m not a “Thinker” anymore. Does the site’s mysterious coding mean to make a philosophical point here: that philosophy is without thinking - or perhaps beyond thought? 
Either way, I am glad you enjoy whatever it is that translates into my posts, todaytomorrow. 1000 posts and 1 reader, I’m on a roll!
I hope you’re not implying anything about the quality of Faust’s posts 
I might struggle to maintain the apparent quadratic progression in post frequency however, another 500 posts in a 1/7 of a year sounds tough. And I would only have 2 months to reach the 6000 mark - I can see how that would make me start to feel like I was about to die, Mr. Smears, even if I betray maths by extending my 2 month deadline indefinitely.
Mike
Well, as you’re all not dying to know - though I’m cataloguing it just the same - 1500 has just arrived three and a half months after 1000.
Quadratic progression, I hath failed you. Though 500 posts in a 3/10 of a year is still a 3-fold progression in speed on my last 500 that took 9/10 of a year.
So I can still aim for a linear acceleration in post speed if I post another 500 posts 1.2 times faster than my last 500 - so that leaves me about 1 and a half months. Aaaaaand go!
Wish me luck in this highly important quest :draws sword:
(there isn’t a heroic smiley that I could find so I’m just imagining that was the command for one).
P.S. I’m very disappointed that nobody appreciated my Greek and my mathematical & philosophical humour in the previous post to this one 
I’ve been sad for the last three and a half months and it’s all you guys’ faults 
Happy 10th Birthday to my ILP account.
…you old fuck.
As usual, I thought I’d time this post to co-incide with some nicely symmetrical post-count, which just so happens to be 2424 at the time I am writing this.
Somehow I’m still dwarfed in post-count relative to some much much younger accounts on this place.
My bad. They said I could talk before I could walk when I was a baby. They should have known this would happen.
Smears: 5.79 posts per day
Silhouette: 0.66 posts per day 
Makes it sound like every day I consistently post something 2/3 complete. Pah, how insulting!
It seems I forgot to mark my 2000th post. Looks like that happened… on the 17th january this year.
So let’s see, I did my first 500 posts over the course of 2530 days (yes I took a Sabbatical for 1229 days '05-'08)
Reaching 1000 took me another 325 days
Reaching 1500 took me 106 days
Reaching 2000 took me 569 days, and
Reaching 2424 took me 122 days
At the rate of my last 424 posts, I’m due 2500 in 22 days.
Hmm, if instead I leave and come back 2000 days from now some time before my 2500th post, I can make a nice U-shaped graph. Tempting.
Either way, it seems I’ve averaged 24.24 posts a year. Well, 24 and a quarter now I’ve done this one.
Interesting? No.
I don’t see what’s so good about a u shaped graph. How is that tempting??
It’s symmetrical. Symmetry wins everything.
Ohhhh yeah. I forgot all about that.
A thought occurs.
What if not post count, but word count were monitored and displayed.
Somehow I suspect you would rank much lower, Smears.
It would favour the ranters though, which is not something I support. If only there were some way to objectively quantify quality of post, and rank accordingly. Yeah that’s stupid, and I’d get marked down significantly for just this one post.
Honouring lack of inhibition it is.
Why is it that when I wanna say there’s infinite possible worlds, people wanna talk about occam’s razor? But when I’m perfectly brief in my identification of the hole in a position, people wish I would blabber on in some redundant tirade. I don’t get it man. Some of you guys are totally inconsistent.
I’m sure you can identify with this analogy that you have set up for yourself:
The quantity of “holes” you tackle is irrelevant against the quality of such holes.
To make the analogy more obvious, why not hold back on holes that are not worth penetrating in order to concentrate more fully on those that are worth destroying. Learn to say “no”, perhaps? And to respond to “no”?
I feel like the anti-Nietzsche here, but nay-saying can be so pleasurably rewarding. Though perhaps in line with what he was saying, it is not necessarily a submission of lack of power to say no, but can be a surplus. I’m fairly sure he eventually decided nay-saying was only ever a suppression of the will, though I contend that nay-saying is an element of reality that cannot be said no to. Yet perhaps saying “yes” is the only way to truly expand one’s horizons and “live life to the max” and deal with the only consequences of highest possible significance.
Am I to believe this is your philosophy?
I say no like 100 times a day. I’m always folding my arms and nodding my head back and fourth and making this one particular “no” face that a lot of people around me recognize as the end of negotiation. I’m not necessarily trying to do anything, or have any philosophy. I just exist. And the world is what it is. So for me to think I’m something other than just a part of it is silly. So what am I supposed to be doing and thinking? Will it ever matter?
That is all.
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