Today is the feast day of St. Solipsus, the Patron Saint of solipsists, and as vice- chairman of The Solipsist Society, it is my pleasure to wish each and every one of you a very happy Solipstice.
To celebrate, there will be a solypso session in the Berkeley's Arms.
How can solypsists form a society, if they are so sceptical about each other's existence? Or did I take my philosophy lessons wrong?
Anyway, don't get too drunk on solypsist beer. You are all invited to tomorrow's celebration of the St. Synopsus, and as a 2nd Rank Charge d'Affaires of the Synopsis Society, it is my pleasure to with you all a happy Synopstice.
To celebrate, there will be a 30-minutes synopso session in The Short Inn, where we will noodle the first two bars of each tune, and drink shots of condensed beer.
It's easy to be a solypsist when spending most of your time in the internet, talking to virtual people, spending your virtual money and being virtually anyone you like to be there.
But I've crossed the line. I met Janek in the flesh several times and it's when I had to give up my solypsism - he really exists, moves and makes sounds! Great sounds
Anyway, happy Solipstice!
This is all so confusing for a guy not raised in the Catholic tradition. How you ever keep track of all these saints and holy days?!?!
I just found out last week about St. Arbuck - patron of insomniacs. Appearently there are thousands of shrines for this saint all over the world and people stop in one, two sometimes 3 times a day to make a donation of about $5 and in return they get an excellent cup of coffee.
Here's the best saint I've come across for a while.
(I've copied this from it's source, and accept no responsibility for the spellings - "Clenogvaur" for Clynnog Fawr etc. My collie could have got nearer than that).
_______________________________________
Many saints made their name by being killed, of course. Torn apart on racks, burned in pitch, choked with quicklime, covered in nails, beheaded and drowned – that was just St Quintin of Rome.
But St Aelhaiarn is (so far I know) unique among the blessed in having been killed as a punishment from God.
Aelhaiarn, or "Ironbrow" in English, was, according to that most reliable of historical records, medieval hagiography, the manservant of the great Welsh saint, Beuno of Clenogvaur.
Beuno was in the habit of rising secretly in the middle of the night and walking to Llaynhayrne, which as you'll appreciate is a four-mile trip from Clenogvaur. At Llaynhayrne he would kneel on a flat stone in the middle of the river and pray.
Aelhaiarn couldn't help wondering what the holy man was getting up to, and so one night, in idle curiosity, he followed surreptitiously behind.
And so it was that in mid-prayer Beuno heard a rustle in the bushes and saw the shape of a man. Not knowing who was there, Beuno called on God to punish the lurker if his intentions were not commendable. Idle curiosity not being commendable, the Lord rustled up a pack of wild beasts, who tore the hapless lackey limb from limb, and bit of limb from bit of limb.
Realising then who the man was, Beuno repented – a little late, you might have thought. But not so. Nothing as superficial as dismemberment keeps a good saint down. Beuno had the theology; he could rebuild him.
He pieced his servant together bit by bit and limb by limb. Unfortunately, though, in the darkness, even the great Beuno failed to find one of his eyebrows.
There was nothing for it but to fill the gap with the metal tip of his pikestaff, so the six-million groat man went through the rest of his life with an iron eyebrow, and that's how Aelhaiarn got his name.
_________________________________________________
And the great thing is - it must be true, because there are churches named for this guy, and there's a village named for him just up the side of the hill.
St Arbuck is from my hometown. In fact, I lived there before he came. He/she really has really changed the world. St Arbuck is every where. But what a lousy cup of coffee for five bucks!
Merry Solipstice
Merry Solipstice
Today is the feast day of St. Solipsus, the Patron Saint of solipsists, and as vice- chairman of The Solipsist Society, it is my pleasure to wish each and every one of you a very happy Solipstice.
To celebrate, there will be a solypso session in the Berkeley's Arms.
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by LastToFinish
Re: Merry Solipstice
Oh - that's disappointing.
I thought I was the only one.
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: Merry Solipstice
I assume you'll be the only one there?
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/philosophy/solipst.html
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by Zina Lee
Merry Synopstice
How can solypsists form a society, if they are so sceptical about each other's existence? Or did I take my philosophy lessons wrong?
Anyway, don't get too drunk on solypsist beer. You are all invited to tomorrow's celebration of the St. Synopsus, and as a 2nd Rank Charge d'Affaires of the Synopsis Society, it is my pleasure to with you all a happy Synopstice.
To celebrate, there will be a 30-minutes synopso session in The Short Inn, where we will noodle the first two bars of each tune, and drink shots of condensed beer.
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by Janek
Re: Merry Solipstice
Alright, but someone better turn up this time, I was there on my own last year.
Got Solippy drunk too.
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by BegF
Re: Merry Solipstice
…and as a backer it’s hard to keep having faith in this !!!
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by BegF
Re: Merry Solipstice
It's easy to be a solypsist when spending most of your time in the internet, talking to virtual people, spending your virtual money and being virtually anyone you like to be there.
But I've crossed the line. I met Janek in the flesh several times and it's when I had to give up my solypsism - he really exists, moves and makes sounds! Great sounds
Anyway, happy Solipstice!
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by Barfly
Re: Merry Solipstice
...EveryOne
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by Barfly
Re: Merry Solipstice
Damn - there I go again, imagining that BegF exists.
Must take the pills to make it stop,
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: Merry Solipstice
" I met Janek in the flesh several times"
That's what you think.
KFG
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by KFG
Re: Merry Solipstice
This is all so confusing for a guy not raised in the Catholic tradition. How you ever keep track of all these saints and holy days?!?!
I just found out last week about St. Arbuck - patron of insomniacs. Appearently there are thousands of shrines for this saint all over the world and people stop in one, two sometimes 3 times a day to make a donation of about $5 and in return they get an excellent cup of coffee.
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by RogueFiddler
Re: Merry Solipstice
Here's the best saint I've come across for a while.
(I've copied this from it's source, and accept no responsibility for the spellings - "Clenogvaur" for Clynnog Fawr etc. My collie could have got nearer than that).
_______________________________________
Many saints made their name by being killed, of course. Torn apart on racks, burned in pitch, choked with quicklime, covered in nails, beheaded and drowned – that was just St Quintin of Rome.
But St Aelhaiarn is (so far I know) unique among the blessed in having been killed as a punishment from God.
Aelhaiarn, or "Ironbrow" in English, was, according to that most reliable of historical records, medieval hagiography, the manservant of the great Welsh saint, Beuno of Clenogvaur.
Beuno was in the habit of rising secretly in the middle of the night and walking to Llaynhayrne, which as you'll appreciate is a four-mile trip from Clenogvaur. At Llaynhayrne he would kneel on a flat stone in the middle of the river and pray.
Aelhaiarn couldn't help wondering what the holy man was getting up to, and so one night, in idle curiosity, he followed surreptitiously behind.
And so it was that in mid-prayer Beuno heard a rustle in the bushes and saw the shape of a man. Not knowing who was there, Beuno called on God to punish the lurker if his intentions were not commendable. Idle curiosity not being commendable, the Lord rustled up a pack of wild beasts, who tore the hapless lackey limb from limb, and bit of limb from bit of limb.
Realising then who the man was, Beuno repented – a little late, you might have thought. But not so. Nothing as superficial as dismemberment keeps a good saint down. Beuno had the theology; he could rebuild him.
He pieced his servant together bit by bit and limb by limb. Unfortunately, though, in the darkness, even the great Beuno failed to find one of his eyebrows.
There was nothing for it but to fill the gap with the metal tip of his pikestaff, so the six-million groat man went through the rest of his life with an iron eyebrow, and that's how Aelhaiarn got his name.
_________________________________________________
And the great thing is - it must be true, because there are churches named for this guy, and there's a village named for him just up the side of the hill.
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: Merry Solipstice
Ha ha ha!
Good Yule & Happy Solstice everyone!
(It was at twenty to three this morning.)
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by Innocent Bystander
Re: Merry Solipstice
St. Arbuck-just told my wife about him (or her??)
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by I_Fel
Merry Solipstice to one and all...
...though, solipsistically speaking, the one actually IS the all. And here I thought it was Old Ned's Day - patron saint of whingers...
# Posted on December 21st 2005 by drone
Re: Merry Solipstice
Does Ned know the merry wives of whingers?
# Posted on December 22nd 2005 by oldstrings
Re: Merry Solipstice
St Arbuck is from my hometown. In fact, I lived there before he came. He/she really has really changed the world. St Arbuck is every where. But what a lousy cup of coffee for five bucks!
# Posted on December 22nd 2005 by John Culhane
Re: Merry Solipstice
My favorite saint, just to get this fully off track, is Saint Brigid, who changed water into beer as one of her miracles.
# Posted on December 22nd 2005 by AlBrown
Re: Merry Solipstice
Now thats what I call a miracle!
# Posted on December 22nd 2005 by showaddydadito