…and Her!
Dude. I even drew it in crayon.
[b]Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from Frankenstein
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.[/b]
Trust me: Or so pleasurable.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
That can do it.
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Can you say that?
If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
Hear! Hear!
There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
Does anyone?
There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other.
That’s only fair, right?
[b]The Onion
White House Says Biden Still Energetic Enough To Have Customary Morning Intercourse With Jill [/b]
Unless, of course, that’s just made up.
Poll Finds Americans Would Endure At Least 150 Million Dead In Exchange For Cheaper Burrito Bowls
I wouldn’t go higher than a million myself.
Regretful Officer Believes More Could Have Been Done To Kill Unarmed Black Man
Lest we forget: youtu.be/kKj4L6GwL5Y
New Ford F-450 Comes With Shotgun In Case Truck Doesn’t Kill Pedestrian On Impact
You pay extra of course.
Elon Musk Tries To Back Out Of Twitter Deal By Deleting App From Phone
So, did it work?
Woman Who Bought Mega Millions Ticket With Coworkers Already Knows How She’ll Dispose Of Their Bodies
Actually, I’d keep that sort of thing to myself.
[b]Sean Carroll
Is time real? …In one sense, it’s a silly question. The “reality” of something is only an interesting issue if its a well-defined concept whose actual existence is in question, like Bigfoot or supersymmetry. For concepts like “time,” which are unambiguously part of a useful vocabulary we have for describing the world, talking about “reality” is just a bit of harmless gassing. They may be emergent or fundamental, but they’re definitely there.[/b]
On the other hand, “Is time real”?
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Either that or a pinhead.
In 1965, physicist Richard Feynman opined, “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics,” and the sentiment is equally applicable today.
I’ll bet Sculptor does.
What is the fundamental nature of reality? Philosophers call this the question of ontology—the study of the basic structure of the world, the ingredients and relationships of which the universe is ultimately composed.
I’ll bet Sculptor knows.
There is a famous joke, attributed to Einstein: “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.” I don’t know whether Einstein actually ever said those words. But I do know that’s not relativity.
Okay, maybe, but who doesn’t get his point if he did say it?
So neurons talk to each other by squirting electrically charged molecules from the axon of one to a dendrite on another.
[i]Why? How?
Pick one:
1] God
2] No God[/i]
The neutron is a bit of a drama queen.
Let’s explain that.
Then explain why.
[b]Existential Comics
Leave my stable job in the cave identifying shadows on the wall to face the world as it really is? In this economy??[/b]
Rebuttal? Cue the Platonists!
I do think smart phones are a net negative. You used to be able to go out with friends and just make up wild lies like “samurai’s were forbidden from jumping” or “dolphins are the only animal that doesn’t poop” and only their wits could aid them. Now they can just “look it up”.
Never thought of that, did you?
Yes, that’s right, under communism, Christmas will be abolished and everyone will be forced to celebrate a new holiday that is GAY and FRENCH.
Hey, a small price to pay, isn’t it?
[b]Oh? Philosophy isn’t “useful”?
Define “useful”
Define “philosophy”
Define “isn’t”
Define “define”
That’s what I thought.
Define “thought”
Define “I”
Define “what”
Define “.”[/b]
Exactly! Come on, you know who you are.
If I had to have a beer with any philosopher living or dead, I would definitely choose living.
So, anyone want to have a beer with me?
Capitalist propaganda genuinely has people believing that without the bankers no one would have ever come up with the idea to do any work.
Like robbing banks.
Beer is disgrossting.
Alcoholism is disgrosstinger.
That’s why alcoholics are always tryna get bzzzzzzzed.
[b]Emil M. Cioran from The Trouble with Being Born
What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?[/b]
Any Christian insomniacs here care to comment?
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.
Ah, of course, ambivalence!
I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.
Sort of, as it were.
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
Next up: as philosophy sunk [long ago] into paralysis.
Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.
More to the point: especially here.
Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth.
A rather glum obsession let’s call it.
[b]The Onion
Ex-Christian Makes Uncomfortable Small Talk After Running Into Jesus Christ At Store [/b]
No, really, I wonder what I would say.
Off-Duty Officer Instinctively Reaches To Turn Off Body Cam During Argument With Wife
On the job training let’s call it.
God Refuses To Grant Any More Transcendent Near-Death Experiences To People Who Crash Snowmobiles
Talk about mysterious ways!!
Report Reveals Jesus Christ May Have Benefited From Father’s Influential Position To Gain High-Powered Role As Lord And Savior
I knew it!!!
Husband Buys Wife Tickets To See Singer She Wants To Fuck
And it’s Taylor Swift to boot.
Mom Changes Words Of Prayer To Be More Cheerful
Report: God is anything but cheerful about that.
[b]Albert Camus from The Stranger
Gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.[/b]
Next up: for the last time.
I would have liked to have tried explaining to him cordially, almost affectionately, that I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything. My mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow.
Pick one:
1] existentialist
2] sociopath
I said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn’t dissatisfied with mine here at all.
Now that takes me back. Way back.
He wasn’t even sure he was alive because he was living like a dead man.
Or worse [for some]: a man who wished he was dead.
I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another.
See, gib, Maia and I told you so.
For by giving it some hard thought, by considering the whole thing calmly, I could see that the trouble with the guillotine was that you had no chance at all, absolutely none. The fact was that it had been decided once and for all that the patient was to die. It was an open-and-shut case, a fixed arrangement, a tacit agreement that there was no question of going back on. If by some extraordinary chance the blade failed, they would just start over. So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
Calmly indeed.
[b]The Onion
Area Man Remembers Less Politically Correct Time When Christmas Was About Honoring The Glory Of Saturn [/b]
On Titan for example.
Stargazing Woman Reminded Of How Small Own Tits Are In Grand Scheme Of Things
Next up: how big her ass is.
Smithsonian Devotes New Exhibit To First African-American To Use Whites-Only Glory Hole
Come again?
Apple Announces New iPhones Will No Longer Be Compatible With Human Hand
Just out of curiosity, did they explain why?
New Pam Ad Campaign Reminds Teens That Pam Can Get Them High And Is Easy To Obtain
Anecdotes please.
Short Death Row Inmate Strapped Into Electric Booster Seat
Talk about humiliating!!!
[b]Milan Kundera from The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.[/b]
Don’t overthink it in other words. Whatever that means.
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
How preposterous is that?! Though, sure, point taken.
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
Right, like they consent to it. Though, sure, point taken.
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.
Talk about a “general description intellectual contraption”!!!
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
Ah, the unbearable lightness of being part.
Next up: the unbearable burden of living it.
Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
Not counting cockroaches and pinheads of course.
[b]The Onion
Studio Offers Free Kanye West Tattoo Removal [/b]
Must be in the thousands by now.
Most Popular Sex Toy In Every State
And the one in yours is…?
Winklevoss Twins Spend Joyous Afternoon Jerking Each Other Off
On Facebook.
Crypto Confidence Soars After CEO Defrauds Customers Just Like Real Bank
Ah, the real scandal.
Childless Man Wonders Who’ll Be There To Neglect Him When He’s Old
A spouse maybe.
Pride At Using Big Word Causes Man To Completely Lose Train Of Thought
Antidisestablishmentarianism this time.
[b]Sylvia Plath from The Bell Jar
I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I’d stop and look so hard I never forgot it. I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that’s the way I knew things were all the time.[/b]
In a crucial situation yourself? Want me to look at it?
When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.
Anyone here still pure? Want me to change that?
The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.
That ever happen to you? Me? Not so far.
A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.
Well, still animals, anyway.
I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead – after all, I had been “analyzed.” Instead, all I could see were question marks.
Well, that’s how it works though. In the real world anyway.
I didn’t really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.
He wished he could say that.
[b]The Onion
Disappointing Box Office Numbers For ‘Bros’ Force Biden To Ban Gay Marriage [/b]
That’ll do it.
Elon Musk To Cut Twitter Staff To Single Devoted Hunchback Who Laughs Hysterically At All Of Boss’s Genius Tweets
Didn’t this pinhead promise to step down? You know, if he is a pinhead.
Existential Horror At Wealthy Elite Selling Off Humanity’s Future Successfully Sublimated Into Yelling At Cashier
You wouldn’t think so, would you?
Zombie Virus Revived After 48,500 Years In Permafrost
With any luck then we’re doomed.
Man Up To 8 Soul-Searching Walks A Week
Next up: Man Up To 9 Soul-Searching Walks A Week
Man Forced To Venture Pretty Far Into Wilds Of Internet To Have Opinion Confirmed
Here I’m told: ilovephilosophy.com/index.php
[b]Ralph Ellison from Invisible Man
Once I saw a prizefighter boxing a yokel. The fighter was swift and amazingly scientific. His body was one violent flow of rapid rhythmic action. He hit the yokel a hundred times while the yokel held up his arms in stunned surprise. But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a Well-digger’s posterior. The smart money hit the canvas. The long shot got the nod. The yokel had simply stepped inside of his opponent’s sense of time.[/b]
Make of this what you will, of course.
But that’s getting too far ahead of the story, almost to the end, although the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
You know, for the invisible.
These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it becomes the truth; and if I tell them that you’re lying, they’ll tell the world even if you prove you’re telling the truth. Because it’s the kind of lie they want to hear…
The ruling class, let’s call it.
I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding.
And race has nothing [or everything] to do with it.
For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
Take God, for example.
Boo’ful, she said, life could be so diff’rent…
But it never is, I said.
How about we split the difference.
They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their own voices. And because they were blind they would destroy themselves and I’d help them. I laughed. Here I had thought they accepted me because they felt that color made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn’t see either color or men . . . For all they were concerned, we were so many names scribbled on fake ballots, to be used at their convenience and when not needed to be filed away. It was a joke, an absurd joke.
See, I told you.
BIGGY: cycles repeat until you change something that you normally do. What do you normally do that repeats a cycle that you don’t want to repeat? Change that. Get it out of your reach. Remove antecedents. Replace it with better stuff. You don’t think you’re free to change that? Talk about it. There are people who might have some ideas about that. We’re not meant to sharpen ourselves all by ourselves…unless we have no other choice. But we do.
No, seriously.
And now the Nazi clown is gone! *
Though, sure, we’ve still got plenty of Nazi clowns here to carry on…God’s will? [-o<
- though he’s still here in spirit: Last visited:Sun Jan 01, 2023 8:00 am
hermmmmm……
Anybody keep track of who all talks to who and who never dialogues with each other ever?
…and if they ever do dialogue with each other… the nature or structure their positions take?
[b]The Onion
Last Pickle Delighted To Finally Have Whole Jar To Self[/b]
Still, its fate is, well, shit, right?
Police Release Composite Sketch Of What They Would Prefer Murder Suspect To Look Like
Good idea, the murderer thought.
Hospital Patient Arrested For Switching Off Neighbor’s ‘Noisy’ Oxygen Machine
How noisy, right?
Brett Favre Makes Amends By Sending Photo Of His Penis To Every Mississippian On Welfare
Copper Fit execs rejoice.
NRA Congratulates School Shooter For Terrific Aim Given Such Small Targets
To wit: youtu.be/liusEeP1QcE
Reformed Nazi Puts Swastika Tattoo In Sarcastic Quotation Marks
Satyr immediately bans him from Know Thyself.