Arthur Jones Classic News Cast Part 2

[bootiack]

so fukin awesome

[sphinxofthenewage]

and a younger girl robbed all his fortune serves him right, so better a whore stealing his money that his children benefiting from it.

[faffaflunkie]

Truly a man who did not care about money.

[misconduckt]

Arthur Jones was awesome, he as a solipsist, look it up. The most inspiring man to me, and he doesn't set out to be inspiring, in fact that statement would probably make him vomit.

[InaneRex]

@misconduckt

Well. I refuse to speak for Arthur, but reading what he wrote, I find it hard to believe he was a solipsist.

The principles he used to build his machines, certainly exist outside his mind.

His quote about the: "When I die, it is not me who ends, it is the world" (paraphrased, of course) is quite interesting though.

I corresponded, briefly, with one of his sons. Didn't seem like a happy fellow.

[Beethovens7th]

@InaneRex There's nothing "solipsist" about the quote. He started it off with "As far as I'm concerned...." In other words, he's not saying that there is LITERALLY no universe outside his mind, he's saying that his consciousness of it does not exist before his life or after his death.

[InaneRex]

@Beethovens7th

I think you're arguing with the wrong fella...

[cdoc77]

Yeah, I admire the man in many ways. What really disturbed me was the part when he talked about death, because now the man is dead. And I don't think he went "poof" either. To me, the pertinent question is, "Where is he?"

[Beethovens7th]

Damn, he was something else, that's for sure.