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Convince the bomb not to explode.

Shawn February 22, 2017 at 02:29 8800 views 29 comments
Philosophical dilemma presented below. How do you convince the bomb not to explode?

Comments (29)

Nils Loc February 22, 2017 at 03:51 #56710
What bomb?

That is not a bomb.
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 04:22 #56719
What is it?
Wosret February 22, 2017 at 05:04 #56727
I'd be all like "saw that you were alone besides 'false data' apparently... look only the precise content can be doubted, but whether things look, sound, smell, taste or whatever as they appear is irrelevant to their ability to be sensible, and nonsensical, significant and insignificant. Doubt itself requires grounds, which is why you never doubted your senses until prompted to. What's important is not whether they're possibly false, but whether they're plausibly false... now get back out there and fucking explode asshole".
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 08:02 #56742
I just can't help but feel sorry for the bomb. It's so cruel that it's only purpose was to explode.

Wittgenstein would say that the language game has been taken too far at the expense of the poor bomb.
Wosret February 22, 2017 at 08:06 #56743
You could prevent the bomb from exploding with zeno's paradox, convincing it that it has to actually count an infinite string of numbers before it can finalize its count down.
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 08:09 #56745
Reply to Wosret

Yes, but the bomb would tell you that's just absurd. It can count to 3, therefore it can count to 4.
Wosret February 22, 2017 at 08:10 #56746
Reply to Question

I dunno... bomb seemed pretty gullible to me.
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 08:11 #56747
Reply to Wosret

The bomb was just doing its job!
Wosret February 22, 2017 at 08:14 #56748
Reply to Question

Pretty bad at its job though... to be a bomb that is sent on the enemy that can be easily persuaded to come back and blow you up instead.
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 08:39 #56749
Reply to Wosret

I hope I dream about the bomb tonight. It was at least a good bomb.
Benkei February 22, 2017 at 12:49 #56773
I'll threaten to blow it up before it's supposed to blow up so it can never fulfil it's life purpose.
Mongrel February 22, 2017 at 14:51 #56791
Dave? What are you doing, Dave?
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 16:33 #56812
Reply to Benkei

That's like what a father says when he doesn't get things his way. Or what a potential mother says when she places the priority of her own welfare above the fetus.

Sad things.
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 16:33 #56813
Reply to Mongrel

Dave was being a dick.
Mongrel February 22, 2017 at 16:36 #56815
Reply to Question Question, can we talk about this? I can see you're upset. Question, I'd really like to talk about

this.
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 16:39 #56816
Reply to Mongrel

Daisy, Daisy / Give me your answer, do. / I'm half crazy / all for the love of you.
Mongrel February 22, 2017 at 17:05 #56819
Reply to Question Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 18:04 #56822
Reply to Mongrel

What about it?
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 18:11 #56823
[The bomb] can indeed do what [it] wants, but [it] cannot will what [it] wants.
Mongrel February 22, 2017 at 18:12 #56824
Reply to Question It's part of the soundtrack. Plus the Blue Danube if I remember correctly.

Shawn February 22, 2017 at 18:20 #56825
Reply to Mongrel

For all the talent and great music and aesthetic appeal, I find myself returning to the above low budget film with a great philosophical argument.

"The only thing which exists is myself.

In the begging there was darkness and the darkness was without form and void and in addition to the darkness there was also me and I moved upon the face of the darkness and I saw that I was alone.

Let there be light."

The bomb was lonely!
Mongrel February 22, 2017 at 18:22 #56826
Reply to Question The universe is the result of God's loneliness.
Benkei February 22, 2017 at 20:24 #56833
Quoting Question
That's like what a father says when he doesn't get things his way. Or what a potential mother says when she places the priority of her own welfare above the fetus.

Sad things.


So unless it hit puberty it worked?
BC February 22, 2017 at 21:38 #56848
Quoting Mongrel
Mongrel

The universe is the result of God's loneliness.


Exactly.

Have you seen the rest of Dark Star? It's quite good; nice satire. There is a monster on board, and the cryogenically preserved (but oddly conscious) captain of the ship provides a possible solution to the Bomb's problematic desire to detonate: "Discuss phenomenology with the Bomb."

Mongrel February 22, 2017 at 21:56 #56856
Shawn February 22, 2017 at 23:40 #56875
Reply to Benkei

Hmmm, not getting your drift here. Care to explain?
Shawn February 23, 2017 at 00:35 #56896
Reply to Mongrel

How could an all good being be lonely? Is this God just being vain?
BC February 23, 2017 at 01:11 #56902
Reply to Question Why do you think god being lonely suggests that god is vain?
Shawn February 23, 2017 at 02:47 #56927
Reply to Bitter Crank

Nah, I got it wrong. God was just lonely so he created us. End of story.