Robby's Thread o' Philosophy

[W M]

If actions are stronger than words
Why is the pen mightier than the sword?

Because a pen can be concealed

[Killbert-Robby]

We accept God with no proof, why not accept I eat what I see and see what I eat.

"We"?! I would thank you to leave the rest of us out of your delusional fantasies!

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I was talking about the bigger picture
I was talking about
HUMANITY

[Dracomax]

if you look at me and don;t eat me, your statement is false.

if you look at me and try to eat me, there will be a restraining order for your next meal.

if you succeed at eating me, your diet will shortly include a lot of iron from the bars.

however, I doubt you could bite through an iron bar, as mythbusters couldn't even get a skull to bite through a steel cable without shattering the skull.

[Killbert-Robby]

Eat what I see doesn't mean I eat EVERYTHING I see, like when I say "I like what I see", it doesn't mean I like everything I see

[Jim North]

I was talking about the bigger picture
I was talking about
HUMANITY

So was I! We want nothing to do with your base chicanery!

Eat what I see doesn't mean I eat EVERYTHING I see, like when I say "I like what I see", it doesn't mean I like everything I see

Flag on the play! Redefinition of terms! Moving the goalposts!

Also, going back a bit, "it is, for me" is a relativist fallacy!

And you're smelly!

EXCLAMATION POINT!!!!!

[Killbert-Robby]

I never set the goalposts in the first place you smelly thing you!
What are goalposts anyway? CONSTRAINTS
Why would we constrain a philosophical discussion you pleb!

[Jim North]

Of course you did! You made the first post in the thread!

Stupidhead!

[Killbert-Robby]

Of course you did! You made the first post in the thread!

Stupidhead!

The first one in the virtual thread, but what about the metavirtual one that exists inside of all of us

[Ahaugen]

Of course you did! You made the first post in the thread!

Stupidhead!

The first one in the virtual thread, but what about the metavirtual one that exists inside of all of us

you're just pulling stuff out of your ass now, aren't you?

[Killbert-Robby]

Of course you did! You made the first post in the thread!

Stupidhead!

The first one in the virtual thread, but what about the metavirtual one that exists inside of all of us

you're just pulling stuff out of your ass now, aren't you?

*NOW*?

[Risky]

A pen is a more powerful weapon than a sword, because it can have so much more sweeping effect. However, it's all in how you use it. If you use a pen to create "words" that are just words, while someone else creates words that spur men to "action", obviously the actions created are more powerful than the words themselves. It's like gunpowder vs. explosions: Obviously the explosion "speaks louder" than the gunpowder, but the gunpowder is still mightier than a sword. Or a pen. Wait, where was I?

[Corgan_dane]

Sean Connery knows the Pen is Mightier.

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[Maker]

"Cannons fire only once, but words detonate across centuries", as it were.
Actions are noisy and all in your face which makes them seem immediately stronger, but ideas have a quiet, patient strength. Comparing them is like getting a tiger to kill a tree.

[Killbert-Robby]

but ideas have a quiet, patient strength.

Or a loud, patient stupidity.

[Rkolter]

The pen is only mightier than the sword if you can wield the pen; cut your opponents thumbs off - what are they going to do? Defend with their pen? hah! Once their thumbs are off, the pen is useless.

[Dracomax]

if you cut our thumbs off, we shall write with our feet!
if you cut our feet off, we shall dictate.
if you cut our tongue out, we shall learn morse code!
You can not silence the people!
unless, you know, you kill them.
also, if the pen is mightier than the sword, where would the keyboard fit?

[Jim North]

The pen is only mightier than the sword if you can wield the pen; cut your opponents thumbs off - what are they going to do? Defend with their pen? hah! Once their thumbs are off, the pen is useless.

If you switch "pen" and "sword" in all that, it's still true.

also, if the pen is mightier than the sword, where would the keyboard fit?

Pow.

[Brockway]

What is truth?

A MISERABLE PILE OF SECRETS

Mankind ill needs a savior such as you!

I've always thought of making sense as something that happens to other people.

[Phact0rri]

Joe Pesci completely validates the strength of a pen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDLtMEu49BI

[Rkolter]

The pen is only mightier than the sword if you can wield the pen; cut your opponents thumbs off - what are they going to do? Defend with their pen? hah! Once their thumbs are off, the pen is useless.

If you switch "pen" and "sword" in all that, it's still true.

Your statement is true, but the thought process is faulty. In a battle of pen vs. sword, only the person with the sword has the ability to cut the thumbs off his opponent.