Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: //\\o//\\annabee//\\o//\\annabee Date: Feb 8, 2008 07:06
PÃ¥ Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:33:00 +0100, skrev THE BORG outthere.com>:
>
> "Immortalist" yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:0eb02bb6-d4f3-48ef-8432-1befd28f4e80@v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 7, 6:29 pm, "THE BORG" outthere.com> wrote:>>> What we have in our Collective is what you may term "Good time AND bad
>>> time
>>> friendship". In other words we are there and we are friends in the
>> good
>>> AND
>>> bad times. We find this far preferable to human friendship.
>>> THE BORG
>>
>> But there are plenty of examples of people who are good and bad time
>> friends, those who don't let good or bad times effect friendship. So
>> what is new here?
>>
>> We have no experience of this ourselves and thus we judge humans and
>> prove
>> humans by our own experience of them.
>> We have proved satisfactorily the nature of human friendship thank you.
>> THE BORG
>
> What do you mean by proved? I remember many people who are good and
> bad times friends, the best friends to have, who don't treat friends
> differently because of events in the world. Now you make it sound as
> if you have a way to make such people impossible. Else you say from
> your observations, are they possibly limited then?
>
>
> You can only prove by your own experience and evidence.
> You cannot change this kind of proof.
> Hearsay - TV - books - newspapers - are irrelevant.
> If you wish to rephrase what we said you may.
> You can say "According to THE BORG COLLECTIVE there is no such thing as
> human
> friendship" as we do not class those who are only there in the good
> times as
> "friends".
> Would this make this better for you?
> You can say "According to humans - we believe we have friendship".
> But if you ever do find a BORG anywhere in space on your travels and
> tell him
> of "human" friendship - he would just laugh. The knowledge and proof of
> the
> none existence of human friendship is known and accepted throughout our
> Collective. What one of us learns - we all learn. We add to our
> Collective
> knowledge continually.
> THE BORG
The BORG are a GENERALIZING nutcase. Who better wise up, cause
generalizing is the way by which insanity gets a foothold into your brain.
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