From commander at cybermesa.com Wed Aug 27 00:30:20 2003
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:26:44 -0600
From: Stephen Whitehill <commander at cybermesa.com>
Reply-To: johnny at charm.net
To: johnny at charm.net
Subject: Re: The Tao of Eeyore



Ms. McLaughlin wrote:

>Mr Whitehill wrote,

>I once bought a book on the philosophy of Winnie the Pooh but it was a
>disappointment because the original philosophy of Eeyore was neglected
>while I had developed the Eeyorical Imperative, an eeyoristic logic, and
>The Ontology of Eeyorism.

>Do tell.

	The notes of this particular amusement have been lost.  If I remember the
gist of the Eeyoristic system,  the Eeyoristic imperative is to act as if
the situation was the worst imaginable, the logic involved the operator E
that when instantiated with the proposition Cpq (p implies q) as in ECpq
results in AEpEq, meaning that either or both p and q are not what they're
cracked up to be in their non-modal forms, and CAEpEqBpq which roughly
translates into "oh, bother".   The ontology of Eeyorism was centered on
the foundational concept of "Whatever".  The argument involved showing that
Eeyorism is not, in fact, a cute representation of pessimism but that
simulations are real and what is not simulated is naive, and there's no
hope for Christopher Robin to ever become a philosopher but to remain a
blithering idiot with nothing to achieve in life but perhaps to marry a
nice girl.  Eeyore knows that heffalumps (sp?) are noumenal (Oh, bother) so
"whatever" is Being.

					Mr. Whitehill