Marvin the Mighty
I'm not sure I agree with that sentiment--sure, Basch is alive in the physical sense, but with regards to the public eye, he is, indeed, quite dead.
Bitchface *hsus I completely disagree. If you base everything on public opinion then you completely lose any notion of ultimate truth.
Marvin the Mighty
Are you sure about that? Because I don't feel like you thought that one through. Take, for example, George Orwell's work. How well read -are- you?
Bitchface *hsus
You're really not taking into account the greater issue, here. We could sit here all day and expound upon our own literary savy, while ignoring the real issue. We are suffereing from a deep difference in ideology. Your platonic ideals are just too lofty for my socratic method.
Marvin the Mighty Perhaps we should take a step back then and start from the beginning. It is my opinion that Basch is not truly alive. Basch, as the world remembers him, is dead. The man that stands before us today is some one completely different, simply bearing the same name. It's a sad but true fact of life. Basch has ceased to be.
Bitchface *hsus I feel like you haven't even started from the beginning. You're still operating under a very fluid notion of the "self." If you really wanted to start at the beginning you would flush out your theory a little better. I, personally, cannot conceive of such a transient self.
Marvin the Mighty That has absolutely nothing to do with what I just said.
Bitchface *hsus Yes it does.
You have not started from the beginning.
You are saying that Basch is a different person.
Marvin the Mighty It's like you're making up this stuff on the fly in the hopes of sounding intelligent, when really, you're just masking your own ignorance. You, sir, are a knave.
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Marvin the Mighty XD