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So, what if something was animate at one point? Is it still considered an inanimate object (take, for example, the body of a dead man)?

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Izzhov · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject:

Well if robots take over the world are they inanimate?

If so then I'm afraid robots will take over the world.

Also if I run out of condiments I won't be able to have meals.

Also I don't like homework it's my least favorite inanimate object I mean what if I have too much of it?
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kaoskastle · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject:

There is no such thing as too much of an inanimate object.

Izzhov · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject:

You want a million homeworks????
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kaoskastle · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject:

You have to remember, sir, I have never experienced homework.

What's it like?

Izzhov · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject:

It's really annoying.

How about... you would want a million time bombs that are set to go off in 10 seconds????
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Damian · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:

Well, a million time bombs set to go off in 10 seconds isn't much different than one or two, really. Effect-wise.
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Izzhov · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject:

Same difference. The point is, it is possible to have too much of an inanimate object, so there's good cause to be concerned sometimes...

i hope the robots don't take over my brain... o_o
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Tommy · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:49 am Post subject:

I heard of a guy who ate a pile of grenades to save the rest of his troop from the explosion.
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Banjo-Fella · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:25 am Post subject:

A big ol' pile of grenades typically leads to a bigger pile of corpses and miscellaneous severed limbs. In my experience, you can have too many of that type of inanimate object, especially if they're decorating your living room when your family come around.

I guess inanimate objects don't like living rooms much?
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Izzhov · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:30 am Post subject:

Yeah, when I try to eat condiments in my living room it gets all messy. =(
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Upsilon · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:30 am Post subject:

Here's a conundrum for you: does a non-living object count as inanimate if its raison d'etre entails movement? Motors, carousels, automata - is it meaningful and valid to call these things "inanimate"? If not, does that mean they should be excluded from our festivities? Or does it mean we should seek a more inclusive term? What might a more representative, politically correct term be?

I don't want to be bigoted against robots Sad

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dPaladin · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:44 am Post subject:

how is that a conundrum? they're still inanimate.
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Lucca Majere · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:23 am Post subject:

Inanimate is more concerned with life than movement, IMO. ...so I guess that means dead bodies are inanimate...not sure. o.o
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Tommy · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

Does I.A.W have a condiments threshold?
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kaoskastle · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:00 am Post subject:

So I guess that the main question I was posing here was can something go from animate to inanimate entirely? I mean, I guess it could, but...

what about flowers are they inanimate or not because they're alive but move not of their own volition

c0j1r0 · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:03 am Post subject:

I think you have to have a brain or muscles or something to be animate...
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LynkStar · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:04 am Post subject:

I'm worried that some day all inanimate objects will be made obsolete by animate ones.
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kaoskastle · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:06 am Post subject:

The day I have an animate spoon will be the day I consider my existence forfeit.

c0j1r0 · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:13 am Post subject:

What, are we going to have animated, biologially engineered objects?
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Dr Fruitcake · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:23 pm Post subject:

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Robots are inanimate objects. Just because it moves doesn't mean it's animate. But, I agree with kaoskastle. WITHOUT QUOTING HIM.
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Damian · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject:

If it moves it's [loco]motive, not animate
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Izzhov · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject:

kaoskastle · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: