Remember, when [bristolz] passed away?... Information-theoretic definition of death implies you're not dead, if the structures encoding your personality, memories, beliefs, desires etc. can be reconstructed to appropriate functional level through inference.
Here is what: a community has much lower probability of disappearing from existence than an individual, and a person's essence sometimes can be summarized in a short motto of one's life.
The Reliquary of Principles would be a page dedicated for the guiding principles of halfbakers' lives, a place where these principles are kept, and collected slowly, at everyone's pace, since it would require everyone's introspection and time.
Hopefully this could become good a source of inspiration, and just maybe, a way for those who may inevitably die in the future, to survive, in some form, in those, whom they will inspire.-- Inyuki, May 28 2012 Wikipedia - Information-theoretic death http://en.wikipedia...ion-theoretic_death [Inyuki, May 28 2012] Halfbakery - bristolz http://www.halfbakery.com/user/bristolz [Inyuki, May 28 2012] Blundstones http://www.blundstone.com/ [UnaBubba, Jun 04 2012] I think 'Reliquary of Principles' might be a more apt name for this, but I like it. The idea that I could come back many times over the course of my life and add little pieces of wisdom to that which I and others have previously laid down has a somewhat Zen-like feeling. [+]-- Alterother, May 28 2012 // 'Reliquary of Principles' //
Definitely… 'Graveyard of Principles' makes it sound as if being elected to public office is somehow involved.-- 8th of 7, May 28 2012 Whoa did you post this before or after my posting? I didn't see it until now.-- rcarty, May 28 2012 I found a nice quote in one of the links:
"It is impossible to conclude based on present evidence that either failure criterion is likely to be met."-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 28 2012 Ok. With your recommendations, renamed the idea to 'The Reliquary of Principles'.
I see.-- Inyuki, May 28 2012 Much though I agree with the motivation behind this idea, and much though I love the HB, the perpetuation of my HB-related idiosyncracies is not really the full nine yards of immortality I aspire to.
As Woody Allen said when asked if he hoped to become immortal through his cinematographic legacy, "No. I want to become immortal by not dying."
I think the HB may have significantly extended the lifespans of some of its regular denizens, but by keeping them alive rather than by immortalizing them.-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 28 2012 [MaxwellBuchanan], can't agree with you more. Indeed, it won't bring the true immortality, which, some other ideas actually bring us closer to.-- Inyuki, May 28 2012 Who wants to live forever?-- UnaBubba, May 28 2012 anyone who is not prepared to commit suicide.-- xaviergisz, May 28 2012 We're probably all prepared to commit suicide in the right circumstances, I would suggest.-- UnaBubba, May 28 2012 I'm not getting this one. How is it possible to tell the guiding principles of halfbakers' lives, is this just a place where we put opinions of others here formed from reading their posts?-- Phrontistery, May 28 2012 That's the point... are they principles or merely observed attributes?-- UnaBubba, May 28 2012 The HB'ers will live on as long as there is not another system crash. Anyway, [UnaBubba] died once and came back already. And see what trouble that caused! But still, [+].-- sqeaketh the wheel, Jun 01 2012 There's no trouble, [squeak]. Everything is cool and sweet, while there's no-one stepping on my toes.-- UnaBubba, Jun 01 2012 I agree, [UB}. Keep those steel-toed Doc Martins on.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Jun 01 2012 Doc Martens? Soft-toed casual shoes.
In Blundstones we trust.-- UnaBubba, Jun 04 2012 random, halfbakery