An infinite number of monkeys.

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"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." --Prof. Robert Silensky

How Many Monkeys Does it Take to Write the Bible?

I’ll give you the answer up front: an infinite number of them.

The chances are 100% that ONE of an infinite number of monkeys will write the Bible, along with another monkey that will write My Pet Goat, another penning The Origin of Species and yet another scrawling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Also, how many of you would attribute some special qualities to that monkey, that somehow, it possesses some amazing skill the others do not? Is it a better monkey? How many of you think that that SAME monkey that wrote the Bible would turn around and write the Koran? Would you bet a million dollars on it?


http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/how-ma ... bible-191/

[mtmynd]

is this given an infinite amount of time along with the infinite number of monkeys, i wonder...?

[stilltrucking]

Shit Cecil don't get me started on time, I used to google the latin phrase
"time if no one asks me I know what it is, if I am asked i don't know"

infinite time
subjective time is infinite
objective time is a melody

that is what I learned from a book called The Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness lectures from the year 1905. Edmund Husserl.

I picked it up in morrow bay california in 1976 by 2008 I have read eighty pages of it. I gave up on it last year. Like my dreams of sailing a sloop to Scotland or ever getting laid again. I may have to start reading it again, man so much fucking greek and latin, but when I finaly got bored is by his "neologisms" I think that is the right word for jargon.

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what can i say i am a slow reader.

check out the movie Cecil I am still trying to find time to finish watching. I hope they did not screw up the ending.

[stilltrucking]

Wow!
I just picked it up for the first time in months and noticed I am on page 156. I must have been sleep reading again.

I got tired, it was bad enough dealing with all the Greek and Latin words but he makes up his own words as he goes.

[mtmynd]

156pp in 33 years... how many more pages are left? do you think you have enough time left to finish it? I have quite a few books like that... waiting for me to continue reading them. i hate to tell them i'm no longer interested and hope they know that by now.

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I gave up on it last year. What a feeling of relief. I have also given up my dream of sailing around the world alone.
and I am pretty much resigned to dying a virgin.

[mtmynd]

dying a virgin.... might be better than dying with a virgin, but that's just a sidetrip... most things in this life are - sidetrips. stepping stones from one moment to another while taking rests and eating breaks,, even though what we eat could be considered a sidetrip - "yeah, i'm gonna have a bowl of brown rice instead of mashed potatoes" - sidetrip.

Soo can get pretty frustrated with me when i'm driving. why? sidetrips. it's a spontaneity deal - turn right onto a road i've never been on because at that moment i feel there's something there that i need to see. "what's this? another one of your shortcuts?" - she'll ask. no... this is a sidetrip. "but i thought we were going home to eat lunch..." yeah, we are. just a little sidetrip first...

it's been documented that Osho knew the day he was going to leave his body after years of ill health. his aid told of Osho being very excited and was making sure everything he needed to do was done before he left... as if he was going on a vacation, it was that comfortable. he looked forward to his passing. then at some point in the day he laid down on his bed and before anyone knew it - he split... heart failure being the reported reason for his passing.

his epitaph reads:
<center>OSHO.
Never Born, Never Died.
Only Visited this Planet Earth
between
Dec 11 1931 – Jan 19 1990.</center>

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Jesus Christ, I been looking for his tombstone a long time amigo.

I give up on that too.

I was pretty fucking suicidal when I realized my fucking days were over.

Funny about that.

But I think I miss my dog more than the pussy.

[mtmynd]

But I think I miss my dog more than the pussy.

did that little hand-me-down feller finally pass? i don't remember ever reading about it. when friends die, especially close friends that always stick by you, are troublesome losses... it hurts like hell to be suddenly cut off from that level of friendship, like losing an arm or a leg, you stumble around unable to see clearly while the tears do their cleansing. but my father-in-law used to say, "it builds character..."

i don't miss Osho. there's more books out there than probably anyone else's - 2,000 titles in 35 languages... helping his words survive the years. his words is all i ever knew of the man... that's more than enough for me. you know he was an enlightened man at the age of 21 and also was a college professor of philosophy for several years before he dropped out of that and became a preacher (for lack of a better name). during those times he read... it's been reported he read more than 100,000 books which were part of his library. i heard him say that was all he did during those years ... read. the irony was he never wrote one book... all his books are from his discourses over the years... every discourse was recorded and written out.

[tarbaby]

don't miss Osho. there's more books out there than probably anyone else's - 2,000 titles in 35 languages... helping his words survive the years.

Maybe in another hundred years Cecil, but not yet. I would betcha a dollar to a donut there are way more than 2,000 titles and 35 languages refering to the words of Jesus Christ. Of course Christ had a couple thousand year head start if anybody is counting.

I miss Calvin and Hobbes, I miss Opus.
I am hoping I don't start missing newspapers.

Yeah I am not over the dog yet.

I miss Molly Ivins and Red Emma

This woman like a big sister hero to me.
Even though we never met

A man can never have enough sisters.

[mtmynd]

Who's this Jesus fellow you're speaking about..? I'm thinking it's that man from Nazareth that preached some 2,000 years ago..? Yeah, you're right... I'm not counting but I betcha there are a lot more titles than 'Holy Bible" out there speaking for him.

Sounds like today is one your 'missing' days... missing this and missing that, eh? You know, I'm just guessin' here, but I'd betcha another dollar to a donut that the folks on today's list aren't missing this life at all. Whatcha think? If they came back now it'd all be so strange for them... at least that's what I figure.

Re: Emma Goldman. Wikipedia has the scoop on her. What a woman. She was ahead of her time, wasn't she? And I thought Johnny Yuma was a rebel... Mercy.

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I don't know what list you are talking about Cecil.
I am always missing stuff. Sorry.
What list?
A list of people who wrote about Jesus Christ?
One of my favorite books about Christ is called
The Humor of Chirst, by Elton Trueblood.
It was written about fifty years ago I think.

Do you ever read the Sunday comics?

[mtmynd]

I don't know what list you are talking about Cecil.
I am always missing stuff. Sorry.
What list?

Calvin & Hobbes ; Opus ; newspapers ; the dog ; Molly Ivans ; Emma Goldman... quite a list you ran up.

Do you ever read the Sunday comics?

No, truck, I haven't read the Sunday comics far longer than I am able to remember. But I provide the comics on Sunday for Soo and Nate.

[stilltrucking]

I asked you about the comics before. That is how I learned to read from the comics. I remember the thrill, it was a magic childhood moment. I suppose that is why I still look forward to them on Sundays. Your streams too. I miss them when you have to do other things.
But

What list were you talking about?

That is what I missed. Your point.

Are we having a pissing contest about Osho and Jesus?

I should probably meditate. I used to, I used to do a lot of "sitting" running down the road listening to a throbbing diesel hearted om.



So what list are you refering to? You are talking about The Bible? I was talking about books about Christ Jesus. Not necessarily the Bible.





Remember when John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus? Boy oh boy.