User:Node ue/Sentient stove

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And unto us all sayeth Node: «I am a sentient stove. Is not thy counterproof forthcoming?». And Node saw that it was not forthcoming. --Book of Node, Sentient Stoves 1:11

Here I'll document the paradoc of the Sentient Stove and the Unbeliever.

The basis for this parable is an heated argument which happen in #wikipedia on irc.freenode.org.

¹Mark Andrew Williamson, the great Node of UE, was on one fine night bathing in the moonlight whit shineth through the great window of His abode. ²Our Node could be found situated in front of His ordinator in an upright position. ³He speaketh with His peers via the most blessed medium of the Internet Relay Chat. ⁴He speaketh unto us by the most holy Internet Relay Chat networks of Freenode, Phrenzy, &c. ⁵The discussion strayeth onto the subject of anonimity and The Intarweb. ⁶Sayeth He unto #wikipedia, «I have viewed the luminance and it is The Internet. ⁷It offereth anonimity at a level of which previously one could but dream. ⁸It offereth anonimity even to the degree such that one might make claim to be a sentient stove, and a logical counter-argument will not be forth-coming.» ⁹What sayeth Node, it alarm'd His peers and they discovered them-selves to be in a state of dis-comfort. ¹⁰So unto him they spake thusly, "Im-possible is such. There be not such a thing as a sentient stove but in lore." ¹¹And unto us all sayeth Node: «I am a sentient stove. Is not thy counter-proof forthcoming?» ¹²And Node saw that it was indeed not forthcoming. ¹³In Bostra Gràtzia tennemus sa fiditzia nostra.

Of course, that's extremely biased towards my POV and a bit the exaggerate, but you get the point. Thus the paradoc: can prove conclusively that I am *not* a sentient stove, or not? Can not.