What about the title?

we should keep reposting this post but modify little by little until we get a completely reconstructed repost

My favorite ship of Theseus example is the Roman Empire. They started out as a Latin speaking polytheistic + republican empire with Rome as capital; and hundreds of years later they had become a greek speaking monotheistic + monarchistic empire with Constantinople as capital. When did they stop being Romans? According to themselves, never.

This is a good allegory for the racists claiming the country is theirs and foreigners need to be kicked out.

Are modern brits even brits anymore? If heritage matters so much how like our ancestors are we really?

Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you’re the one who shot him.

He had been a big, twitchy guy with veiny skin stretched over swollen biceps, a tattoo of a swastika on his tongue. Teeth filed into razor-sharp fangs—you know the type. And you’re chopping off his head because, even with eight bullet holes in him, you’re pretty sure he’s about to spring back to his feet and eat the look of terror right off your face.

On the follow-through of the last swing, though, the handle of the ax snaps in a spray of splinters. You now have a broken ax. So, after a long night of looking for a place to dump the man and his head, you take a trip into town with your ax. You go to the hardware store, explaining away the dark reddish stains on the broken handle as barbecue sauce. You walk out with a brand-new handle for your ax.

The repaired ax sits undisturbed in your garage until the spring when, on one rainy morning, you find in your kitchen a creature that appears to be a foot-long slug with a bulging egg sac on its tail. Its jaws bite one of your forks in half with what seems like very little effort. You grab your trusty ax and chop the thing into several pieces. On the last blow, however, the ax strikes a metal leg of the overturned kitchen table and chips out a notch right in the middle of the blade.

Of course, a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store. They sell you a brand-new head for your ax. As soon as you get home, you meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded earlier. He’s also got a new head, stitched on with what looks like plastic weed-trimmer line, and it’s wearing that unique expression of “you’re the man who killed me last winter” resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life.

You brandish your ax. The guy takes a long look at the weapon with his squishy, rotting eyes and in a gargly voice he screams, “That’s the same ax that beheaded me!”

Is he right?

Edit: You can even watch this (slightly altered) quote in live action!

Read and watch John Dies at The End. You simply must.

shoutout the community run wikipedia mastodon account. Pretty funny to see the official Wikipedia account respond to peoples hornyposts lol

https://wikis.world/@wikipedia

My favorite of all time is the beautiful simplicity of the first version of the article "YouTube", by Gary, Christmas 2005:

YouTube is a website for hosting videos. It is similar to Flickr, except instead of photos, it is for videos.

If you printed out all those edits on paper you could use them in laminate to build a ship of Theseus ship. Of course you would have to continually replace the paper as it got waterlogged and sloughed off.

In the game Nier Automata there is an NPC in the main settlement who talks about how he won't replace his leg since it's the only piece of him that hasn't been replaced. He feels that if he replaces his legs he would no longer be the same person. This made me think of that.

One related to this I always wondered.

A man and woman marry, they grow old, the woman dies.

The man, marries a new.hotmyoung wife, 40 years his junior.

The man dies.

The woman remarries, again, a much younger man.

She dies, the man remarries.

And so on.

What is the family dynamic here? Is it all one long chain of the same couple?

What if we have kids involved. Not like, imbreeding, but the same process starting a generation removed. Are the many times removed couples step parents or step inlaws or anything to the generstion down couples?

Now we need to take the original phrases and rebuild the first version of the article elsewhere. Then we will ask ourselves which one is the same ship of theseus article

Honest question if anyone has tried this in that who I am when I signed a contract is not the same person as I am now therefore any contract should be invalid no? Or are we acknowledging that a "soul" supercedes everything?

It's an interesting thing I'm sure someone has tried to raise with a lawyer. I mean eventually all our cells are replaced naturally in our body right?