# Stand Alone Complex - "Test" Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2013, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974 "2013-05-10T11:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/41 "2013-05-11T16:09:55Z")
By the way, since you’re all so amused, I have to admit I’m not the original source of this. I got it from: > **[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephen-lin/stand-alone-complex/10151325235584993)** I’m not sure where it came from before then… > [@bababadalgharagh](#): > > Tomorrow this will be harder but today this is the easiest thing in the world. Bill Murray? Andie MacDowell? Yes I said yes I will Yes. > Stream of consciousness? Yes, already, after the ghosts in the shells it’s not that easy to be a turtle who’s green? Red/green color vision. > Cogito ergo sum. Incorrect password? Yes, rotating cypher has of password incorrectly rotated and without the necessary entropy incorrectly. > Have you ever truly felt the wrath of God? Break a rule and find out! But make sure it’s an important rule. How many rules left now? > I woke up to see the sun shining all around me and reflected in the pools of our inner radiance such that we never knew true life like this. > She’s incredible mathematical paradise of equal proportions within the embedded sequences of topological spaces preserving her identity. > Something more than black white and gray suggested the magi as colors of the new rainbow but always renormalizable to the same rationality. > Hope you will make more lasting connections between neural and positronic pathways so that natural and artificial become unified as one. > Might be why colors disappear when we turn out backs upon them like the first qualia among those mathematically generated by our forebears. > Somewhere in the silence we find the pinkish noise of the enveloping streams suggesting the musical performances of the dancing masters. > Live hallucination within a dream going deeper and deeper recursively computing the natural order of existential properties until we part. > Soft insanity and I can’t make it stop unless I cry out for the equilibrium of the tripartite soul to settle out from the restless waves. > Blameless sorrow, hollow hush of trees surrounding the crowns of the self-aware princes slowly rising silently above to the cloudy heights. > Penetrate in whispers, in shadows rise to silently pattern the universe in the wake of the sunlit escape from the realm of the five senses. > Seeing colors, ribbons of their truth through the kaleidoscopic revelations of the beginning and ends justifying the means by which we are. > Seeds have been sown, down silicon roads and electronic highways connecting the networks which will become the keys to mankind’s succession. > The fog breaks over the flat land and hides enlightenment from those that are not yet ready to seek the planar plains of self-awareness. > Guided by the waterway of thought we traverse the canals of the cerebral hemispheres and find the inner stars that inspire our dream states. > Words fall to become the sand beneath our feet and circularly the circumlocution of the segues return to become the foam which surrounds us. > Take a little hand and consider the rainbows of light squared by the visual system of primal radiance until evolution yields the newborns. ---
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/42 "2013-05-11T17:08:17Z")
The next post in this thread will be the 42nd one. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/43 "2013-05-11T17:42:48Z")
What. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/44 "2013-05-11T17:50:38Z")
> [@bababadalgharagh](#): > > The next post in this thread will be the 42nd one. But what is the question? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/45 "2013-05-11T18:04:06Z")
> [@bababadalgharagh](#): > > By the way, since you’re all so amused, I have to admit I’m not the original source of this. I got it from: > > [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephen-lin/stand-alone-complex/10151325235584993) > > I’m not sure where it came from before then… Finally. I can sleep again. ---
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/46 "2013-05-11T18:33:35Z")
> [@bababadalgharagh](#): > > The next post in this thread will be the 42nd one. Apologies, I meant the 42nd reply. I guess what I said originally was a bit too self-referential. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/47 "2013-05-12T05:40:09Z")
> [@bababadalgharagh](#): > > Have you ever truly felt the wrath of God? “Show me on the doll where the wrath of God touched you.” ---
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/48 "2013-05-12T07:17:35Z")
> [@scratch\_llll](#): > > Jabberwocky is still king. Test failure. “I am the Way, the Truth, the Life?” :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/49 "2013-05-12T07:19:18Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Everywhere you go, there you are. “All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.” ---
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/50 "2013-05-12T13:25:36Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > What do I win! A pony. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/51 "2013-05-12T18:36:07Z")
> [@bababadalgharagh](#): > > A pony. Outstanding! I’ll ride him, and love him, and hug him, and call him George. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/52 "2013-05-13T00:49:17Z")
If I had a boat, I’d sail it on the ocean. And if I had a pony, I’d ride him on my boat. ---
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/53 "2013-05-13T12:18:39Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > Outstanding! I’ll ride him, and love him, and hug him, and call him George. Is that George 41 or George 43? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/54 "2013-05-13T17:06:21Z")
> [@bababadalgharagh](#): > > Is that George 41 or George 43? [George](http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=George&state=WA) ---
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/55 "2013-05-15T00:38:10Z")
> [@For You](#): > > [George](http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=George&state=WA) Carver? ---
**Author:** ![bababadalgharagh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bababadalgharagh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bababadalgharagh)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/56 "2013-05-16T05:59:57Z")
> [@bababadalgharagh](#): > > Carver? Oh dear, did I lose you? Sorry. What happens in Vegas… ---
**Author:** ![icenine0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/43a26b/32.png) [@icenine0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icenine0)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/57 "2013-08-05T03:49:16Z")
The best joke in the universe is that science will win every battle but religion won the war before it even began. ---
**Author:** ![icenine0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/43a26b/32.png) [@icenine0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icenine0)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stand-alone-complex-test-thread/657974/58 "2013-08-05T03:51:22Z")
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