Isn’t there a Ghost in every Machine ?
Or is there a machine in the ghost?
Did that last question make any sense?
Can I be rescued from complete incoherence by a god from a machine, with or without ghosts?
to what or whom would you assign the title of Deus Ex Machina?
Can’t anyone or anything be a Deus Ex Machina, given the right circumstances?
What, exactly, are the “right circumstances”?
And what would be the wrong circumstances?
Would it be the wrong circumstances if you were doing a headstand and singing “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy”, while watching the twilight zone?
Does it require all 3 behaviors or would one by itself constitute “the wrong circumstances”?
I mean, what if you were watching Outer Limits instead?
what about doing a headstand, singing **The Twilight Zone ** (either version) and watching Yankee Doodle Dandy?
What if James Cagney scares us?
Did he really ever say, “You dirty rat”?
Ever in life, or ever in the movies?
Did he ever say it in a movie?
Do you believe IMDB users?
Was that funny and factual reply or what?
Do you blindly accept the assertions of a self-proclaimed authority just because they tell you they’re an authority? How sad is that?
is it sadder than a sad clown?
What’s wrong with being a self-proclaimed authority? Don’t you know that most of the people on this board are self-proclaimed authorities on something or another?
Like Who?