I have returned and am now available as usual for weddings, bar mitzvahs, virtual affairs, risque PMing etc.

HURRAH HURRAH KINGS HUSSAR...Madam de Piano hath returned...Joy to the world etc...

Good to see you CP...you have been missed...It's been so quiet here without you...I heard you had been snatched by some Middle Eastern Potentate and sold into a life of untold luxury and glitteratti...Louis Vuitton at your fingertips, a wardrobe by Balenciaga and glamorous young men to carry you where ever you desired..

Never mind kid, back to reality and "The GAP" with a bump...better look out your old deputy dog pyjamas...

Regards

Andrew

How DARE you suggest I shop at GAP!!!

Good to see you posting again CP.

Thank you!

I dare I DARE...

Welcome back Carol...

I'll have you know I am WAY scruffier than that

Good oh

Car Expert

Hi Carol!

I know where you've been Carol reading all my emails that the martians intercept. Hope you haven't told them how to take over the world

I don't think you really went away....

Thank you!

Hellooo

Erm... ok...


I did - for a whole week!!

Hooray! I look forward to a resumption of our virtual affair and many, many risque PMs

Oh, hang on, I thought you were §§§§§§§§§§ <name removed to protect the innocent> for a moment

Welcome back

ROFL

but only off the Forums

Now there's a question...
If I wasn't on the forums, did I actually exist? Hmm...

You did if you think that you did!

Very Good Petrat ...I like that very philosophical train of thought...

Glad to see you back Carol!

Hello Carol - nice to see you posting again!

A bump?

Welcome back from your forum sabbatical!

Yes - if a tree falls in a forest, and there's noone there to hear it, does it make a sound...... (Jasper Carrott)

Well, since you were not being observed, you may have existed or you may not. At the point of being observed you are then forced into the state of existence. This is a fundamental tenet of quantum theory. See Schrödingers Cat for another example of quantum superposition.

Hmmm ... when Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am' what he meant was that if there was thinking going on, then there must a thinker. So he could doubt the existence of everything EXCEPT himself (since by doubting, he would prove his own existence). From that, he persuaded himself (rather unconvincingly) that the entire world existed.

So to say 'you exist if you think you do' is perfectly Cartesian, provided we interpret it as meaning 'IF you are thinking you exist, then you must exist (thinking is proof of existence)'. What it cannot mean, of course, is that you can think yourself into existence ....

If anyone cares ....

And surely, nothing is forced into *existence*; it is more that the observed particle must assume a determinate position/state if it is observed, whereas its position/state remains indeterminate if not observed (sorry, bit rusty on quantum mechanics).

nick

Thank you!

oh you are too kind...

not that sort of bump!

you are also too too kind matthew

I post therefore I am

Yay - thank you!

Good to see you back Carol!

Looking foreward to seeing you in September

Thank you
Yay - we will finally meet!

I have evidence you did really exist then

Er....well if you didn't exist, whoever was using your mobile instead of you is a very skilled mimic, the texts sounded authentic to me.

Ah yes - I hired a very skilled impersonator for that week

I wasn't fooled by that impersonator
the voice was much too real...







you never had to go at all ...

Well, yes I did - I was suspended

you didn't have to post

anyway, you're back ....