Sarky! Don't Do It!!!

Le Rack

It has been brought to my attention that Sarky, yes THE sarky, will soon be removing the glorious, demon eating, snake fighting beard. You heard me, THE BEARD!

Now everyone, sign the petition and cast your vote to save the beard!

blu_sonic

never knew he had one?

_Kaiser_

whiist I hast never seen this beard of yore, for to cut it off wouldst surely be a tragedy of epic proportions

mike65

If he looses the beard what will he stroke? *cough*

Mike.

Le Rack

Just don't do it man!

Sarky

But think of the starving kiddies*.

Maybe I'll arrange a poll where people can pay to vote...


*Note that at this time I have no idea which particular charity Itzacon 2 is being organised in aid of.

Le Rack

Is that the one you're doing this for?
Find out all the details first cuz you don't want to shave off what you've worked so hard for to find it's gone into some scumbags pocket.

Sparky

Sarky wrote:

But think of the starving kiddies*.

Maybe I'll arrange a poll where people can pay to vote...


*Note that at this time I have no idea which particular charity Itzacon 2 is being organised in aid of.

Im expecting a change of avatar aswell if so, ya can shave it, but let it grow back to a nice cleaner beard.
Oh and when you do shave it, can i get my remote control and lost car keys back.

Cheers.

scojones

Keep the beard, beard's show character.

Le Rack

Sparky-s wrote:

Im expecting a change of avatar aswell if so, ya can shave it, but let it grow back to a nice cleaner beard.
Oh and when you do shave it, can i get my remote control and lost car keys back.

Cheers.

this is no laughing matter young man! This beard is symbolic of Boards history, it is a part of us all!

Shabadu

Don't be such a selfish fúcktard, he's cutting it off for the starving kiddies. I'm giving him 30 quid if he does it. IT'LL GROW BACK, YOU KNOW.

Le Rack

He doesn't even know what the charity is for or if it even exists yet.

Shabadu

Yeah, what we DO know however, is that he's not just doing it for shits 'n' giggles. I *think* we may assume that the charity he'll be donating it too *does* infact exist at this moment, considering how long charities take to be regulated, and how soon Itzacon is, etc. Things do not only pop into existence when we come in contact with them. Even Déscartes figured that out, and the man was a FOOL.

funky penguin

sjones wrote:

Keep the beard, beard's show character.

They also hide facial disorders such as ballchinitis....

kittenkiller

funky penguin wrote:

They also hide facial disorders such as ballchinitis....

I'll throw some mooolah into the pot if after the removal of said facial hair, i can stroke the ballchinitis effected area????

Thinkning of having my beard waxed off tbh => pluckedchickenmingeitis

Shabadu

Courtesy of Lubnip & Funky Penguin:

Sarky

Yeah, Mr. Tickle and I have had some good times... *sigh*

arbeitsscheuer

He's lying!

Not even a man with such hairy strength as Sarky could bring himself to remove the source of all his powers...

Sure, remember Samson?

LadyJ

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

funky penguin

LadyJ wrote:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Sure ya do!

Big chap. Had a bad hair day of biblical proportions.

LadyJ

My cry was directed at Sarky!

funky penguin

Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Talliesin

Shabadu wrote:

Things do not only pop into existence when we come in contact with them. Even Déscartes figured that out, and the man was a FOOL.

Yes, but I've never been happy with Déscartes' "proof" of this. It depends too much on a God, which in turn I'm not happy about his proof of, nor his assumptions about the nature of that God. Really, the only thing Déscartes managed to prove to the degree to which he sought to prove things was that he existed (proven to himself, not to others) and that each of us exists (again only proven to ourselves individually, not to others).

Obviously therefore Sarky should shave his beard, if he gets a high enough bid.

Shabadu

Talliesin wrote:

It depends too much on a God,

Mightn't this comment get you in trouble?

IIRC, he spent quite a few pages blathering about his conciousness proving his own existence, creating a tenous link between this and the presence of a God, (presumably male, and bearded)*, and then just kind of wimped out, saying something along the lines of 'well of course, if God created me, he must have created all these other things also'. Did he start talking about the concept of faith at one stage? Can't remember.

Of course, we must remember the time he was living in, and the fear he quite probably had of the Church. It always seems like he was tailoring his philosophy so it would be suitable to Christians. This doesn't really hold with the way he rejected the seemingly obvious sensory proof of the world.

Talliesin

Shabadu wrote:

Mightn't this comment get you in trouble?

I doubt there'll be a Jihad.

Shabadu wrote:

IIRC, he spent quite a few pages blathering about his conciousness proving his own existence

Fair enough. The cogito proved to Déscartes that Déscartes exists. He has also convinced me that I exist. So far, so good.

Shabadu wrote:

creating a tenous link between this and the presence of a God, (presumably male, and bearded)*, and then just kind of wimped out, saying something along the lines of 'well of course, if God created me, he must have created all these other things also'. Did he start talking about the concept of faith at one stage? Can't remember.

Of course, we must remember the time he was living in, and the fear he quite probably had of the Church. It always seems like he was tailoring his philosophy so it would be suitable to Christians. This doesn't really hold with the way he rejected the seemingly obvious sensory proof of the world.

Yes, but that goes against the purpose of the Meditations. It would have been quite acceptable to say "well, I believe God exists, but I can't prove it within the limits I have set for myself here", but he didn't. Besides, at that point in time one could get away with public Atheism, with a degree of scandal but not direct censure.

Fun facts for trivia fans:

Descartes stated that, for a period of his life, he was attracted to cross-eyed women. He cited his attraction as being instilled by a cross-eyed childhood playmate, and said that, once he realized this cause, he was able to rid himself of it. He adduced this as evidence that the human mind can freely control the body.

When his daughter died he named a doll after her "Francine" and apparently treated the doll as if his daughter was still among the living.

Shabadu

Imo, apart from his mathematical work, the only thing he contributed to philosophy was cogito ergo sum. I thought I had indicated above that I don't feel his proof of god was in holding with the rest of his chosen philosophical method. Actually, another great thing he did for philosophy was to start from a blank slate as it were, and not just carry on from the Grecians; it was fairly revolutionary.

I just don't like the way he said that morality in humans only exists because there is a God and immortal life. It's insulting to humanity as a whole, and to any moral athiest.


EDIT: coco pops

Tar.Aldarion

All HAIL La géométrie!
for was it not written in the great babylonian texts of zues that he hath tried in his Dioptrique and his Météores to show that his Méthode is better than the vulgar, and in his Géométrie to have demonstrated it!
Form this it is taken that descartes is obviously an excellent icecream.
My favourite is René.

arbeitsscheuer

Actually Descartes also devised the Brains-In-A-Vat Theory, from which the Matrix stole its most obvious philosophical pretence. The "Evil Demon" Theory is also a fave of mine that Rene came up with.

The Matrix also uses a Hegelian Master-Slave dialectic, which combined with the Brains-In-A-Vat theory looked SH*T-HOT on screen up until it all went a bit pear in 2 and 3.

I hope that was reasonably clear.

Shabadu

So what you're basically saying is that Descartes is responsible for the Matrix trilogy? I say we ressurect him so we can kill him harder.

Chad ghostal

i'm afraid he's in bits, we ressurected him for the '2001 have sex with a dead philosopher' festival... we tried to be gental, but he didn't fair well

Talliesin

Shabadu wrote:

So what you're basically saying is that Descartes is responsible for the Matrix trilogy? I say we ressurect him so we can kill him harder.

In fairness, he was more responsible for some of the good sci-fi that the Matrix ripped off.

Chad ghostal wrote:

i'm afraid he's in bits, we ressurected him for the '2001 have sex with a dead philosopher' festival... we tried to be gental, but he didn't fair well

It was the equine bestiality that did it. We shouldn't have put Descartes before the horse.

Shabadu

Talliesin wrote:

It was the equine bestiality that did it. We shouldn't have put Descartes before the horse.

This made me laugh and cry.

Sarky

Talliesin wrote:

It was the equine bestiality that did it. We shouldn't have put Descartes before the horse.

Painful.

sanncoo

Talliesin wrote:

It was the equine bestiality that did it. We shouldn't have put Descartes before the horse.

A classic!

funky penguin

It shall go down in the annals of Time as "Teh Gratestest Pun EVA!!!!!!1111".

Capt'n Midnight

Lets split the difference and get keep the left half of the beard, it's sinister !

Hagarack

well now, if you're all so anxious to save the beard you must come to itzacon and donate said monies to save it or have the chance to stroke his soft-as-a-baby's-bum chinnywin. By the way the charity we'll be doing stuff in aid of is the MG association, the Myasthenia Gravis Association, have a look at their site to learn more, http://www.mgauk.org/

Thank you. And remember Sarky will feel naked without his beard, prone to attacks of the elder gods. We have to do it, to save his wrath falling upon us.

homah_7ft

Phew I think I did it

Sarky

My chin is now safe from charity.

But... For how long?

homah_7ft

Until the Jimmy Hill memorial foundation is created.