WinMX Engrish; Uncertain Philosophers preventing them from leaving academia?; Proverbs 13:20,24
Not much activity today - just finishing up the last of the chapel makeup CDs for last semester. Wow, last semester was such a disaster. But I guess it really taught me a lesson - to shape up for future semesters. So far I’ve attended every chapel I can get to (two I can’t go to because of work), which is a good start. Hopefully I can keep that up!
Anyhow, besides that, I did a search for “franksvalli” on Google. What a weird assortment of stuff! There’s a lot of pages with game statistics, since I play with that name on multiplayer games (except WoW, where I had the obscure name of “Baronfranks” - haha). I also found a post I made on Engrish.com a long time ago. I was using WinMX to download/upload Beatles bootlegs in mp3 form (on a 56k modem!). I got a message from some random guy who wanted me to start his download right away.
My favorite line is “When your connection circuit became vacant it is good”. This is pretty funny now that I think about it - this is just like a chinese gold farmer in WoW. They’re using some weird translator that doesn’t work quite right…
January 27-28, 2002
<FranksVallia> heya.. I’ll start you, but I have a really slow connection. I should be on all night and day though
<FranksVallia> … unless AOL sings me off 
<FranksVallia> signs me off… lol
<norihide> I am sorry! I want rest 100MB
<FranksVallia> no prob… really. I’m glad to let you upload, but I just wish I had a faster connection
<FranksVallia> I’m online a lot though, under “FranksValli” mostly
<FranksVallia> so if the connection breaks you can find me again
<norihide> OK im retry Later.
<FranksVallia> alright
<norihide> Please your download Retry
<norihide> your download retry!!!
<norihide> When your connection circuit became vacant it is good
<norihide> You downloaded the file where you want until you are last from me.
However, the file where I want cut it halfway.
How do do and be?
<norihide> start me!
<norihide> start me !!!! your after me!
<norihide> Bye
<norihide> what?
<norihide> If there is not the answer I cut it and good-bye!
<norihide> Please start my demand previously. If it ends your demand is started. If there is not the answer it is disregard listing going.
<norihide> what?
<norihide> what?
<norihide> goodbye
<norihide> what?
<norihide> ‚¨‚̂ꂦ‚¦‚©‚°‚ñ‚É‚³‚点?�I?�IDOM
<norihide> You do not have the file where I pull an interest. Besides please hit.
I guess that means I pissed them off? After I typed my last message, I went to bed - and woke up to find this, which I found to be pretty funny (after I sort of made sense out of it).
I guess that’s my entry for today. Jerm is right, the topics become hard to find! I’m gonna have to start randomly copy and pasting some obscure philosophy or something, just to make it look like I have creative thoughts spewing out of me!
Oh yes, one other thing - Jerm posted on my previous post regarding philosophers who stay in Ivory Tower. He said that truth is so hard to define, or to get right I guess. This is true - I think philosophers would want to at least be certain of the truth before they went out and preached the good news to others. So here’s a bad analogy - the philosopher is like a person working on a blueprint for something. Naturally they don’t want to make the blueprint public until it is complete. The same with philosophers - their blueprint is to find Truth. But it wouldn’t make sense to publicize an uncompleted and uncertain truth.
Maybe they have to publicize it instrumentally, at least to get the basics out there. I don’t know. Part of the problem is that people in society don’t really care much about philosophy. It is valued so much that it is one of the few college majors that people actually laugh at, just because it is so unviable in this world. When you major in philosophy you are not going to get the big bucks, so why bother with philosophy at all? That’s the attitude I guess. Oh well, there are lots of things wrong with the world, and this is but one of them.
“Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools suffers harm.”
Proverbs 13:20
“Those who spare the rod hate their children,
but those who love them are diligent to discipline them.”
Proverbs 13:24