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Arethinn ([personal profile] arethinn) wrote2004-05-14 11:24 pm

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does someone want to come over and snuggle me?

(this is essentially rhetorical - much more a statement of feeling than an actual request. in fact i would feel very creeped-out if any of you said yes, with precious few exceptions.)

[identity profile] shalora.livejournal.com 2004-05-14 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
is you okay?

[identity profile] starlightforest.livejournal.com 2004-05-15 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
like some kind of quantum thought experiment, i don't in fact exist unless someone is observing me.

for a brief second while the pic was loading, i thought Hermione was giving me the finger. i was both amused and startled, heh...

[identity profile] ungarsfragile.livejournal.com 2004-05-15 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
My favourite implicit empiricist, Berkeley, would agree; excepting that as `esse est percepti`, the act of observing would require your existence.

[identity profile] starlightforest.livejournal.com 2004-05-15 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
But does it require my prior existence? That is, does the fact that I am observable mean that I must have already existed to be able to be observed, and that things cannot be "bootstrapped" into existing?

[identity profile] saizai.livejournal.com 2004-05-15 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
If you wanted me to.

[identity profile] dreamfall.livejournal.com 2004-05-15 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
Well... I don't know that I'd snuggle you, but I'd come take you out for coffee and listen to you, and I'd give you a hug if you wanted/needed one.

[identity profile] razorjak.livejournal.com 2004-05-15 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)

You're a bit too far away ... but my futon is always open for snuggling whilst watching cheesy old movies.

[identity profile] soundwave106.livejournal.com 2004-05-16 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
So are you more wishing for someone to snuggle?