but they make me feel so groggy

This thread needs more non-sequitur humor.

(10:09:09 AM) Groucho: ok, guys... if the shutdown lasts an entire month
(10:09:20 AM) Groucho: would that make this the tea party equivalent of ramadan?

"We're not going to be disrespected," conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., added. "We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is."

-- lol wat

Sunday mornings, I POG naked

Some days, I pog clothed.

What could anyone possibly say about that picture.

guy needs a new haircut

Guy?

That's my son!

What's Groucho been up to?

something involving javascript and unit testing. I didn't ask

Blog needs more goofy selfies.

(5:51:51 PM) Groucho: I'm so excited I could **** naugahyde

But Naugahyde is probably doable. An ice cube on the other hand...

Bump

Starting a post with pulled me out a zucchini this morning had so much potential....

All of my recent blog entries have been posted in RGT :P

mod in da houze

The Zucchini mod?

The Axiom of Non-contradiction

The principle does not simply affirm that what is contradictory cannot be said (a contra-diction), but goes further to deduce that it cannot be thought, and even cannot be. "What cannot be said", of course, means "what cannot be meaningfully said", and fair enough.

The first trait of the principle leads quite logically to the conclusion that not all can be said, and therefore that not all is said. There is a realm of Silence: apophatism.

The second trait concludes that not all can be logically thought -- and even that not all is thought. There is a realm of Mysticism: the ungraspable.

But the third trait upgrades itself to a principle of Being. What cannot be thought (because it cannot be said, being contra-dictory) simply cannot be. The insight of Parmenides is the basic paradigm of theism. Thinking and Being correspond to Being and Thinking. Being is Thinking, that is Intelligibility, not certainly for an individual mind, but as such. Here is the ultimate basis for the famous ontological argument for God's existence. But this scheme of Parmenides is not the only philosophical paradigm.

If this identification between Thinking and Being were not the case, we would be open to a realm of Emptiness: Being empty of Thought.

-- The Rhythm of Being (paraphrased)