Yogis seem to be metaphysical idealists of a sort. The common folk are limited to the material transmutations by instrumental science and the works of...
To be continued, the Noumenous Bird Theme (The Musical): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixzD-wzxUEQ Why did the thinker ignore the bird? Because he w...
We can't all be smart, funny, coherent and planning toward progress like T Clark. But you can laugh if you try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YgEhv...
J.L. Borges epigram to his short fiction, The Library of Babel, is from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. “By this art you may contemplate the variation...
Existential Comics Why did Kim Jong Un execute the man in the Chinese Room experiment? (a) Because he suspected the man was bilingual. (b) Because the...
Far Side Style After reading Schopenhauer's seminal work "The World as Will and Idea" Frank decided he would show Schopenhauer his seminal work. "Hi A...
Kant, who happens to be in the bar for some anomalous non-reason, sees DesCartes raising a stein to his lips, runs over and grabs the stein out of Des...
Enough with this Quine monkey business. How many lightbulbs does it take to light a bulb? Depends on whose bulb is being lit. How much friction does i...
This thread is turning violent. Good thing our bodies aren't in the same space. A Panda bear rents a room at the Mandalay Bay hotel. He eats, shoots a...
Daniel Dennett's humorous slogan for contemplating Darwinian cultural evolution: A joke is just a comedian's way of making comedians of us all. A come...
It's more like a sad story with a thread-dependent context than a joke, I guess. Like the one about a disabling monster who amuses video gamers in a s...
A joke tries to persuade its disabled human about how to convey itself to other humans but the joke's owner has lost its keys in a dark ally and is pr...
Nietzsche is walking along a street in Turin we he sees a cart driver whipping a unicorn. He embraces the horse and whispers in its ear : "Sometimes h...
J.L. Borges fictions, if nothing else, his Library of Babel. I wish I could see the Library of Babel through Dennett's mind. Books on my kindle that I...
Buddha's Clear Liquid Self-Dissolving Solution (now comes in new bucket size). Do you suspect someone has been screwing your wife while you're at work...
I'm just wondering what this local manufacturing economy would look like. Maybe other markets would still exist but their prices might adjust to exclu...
The average diet (excluding the consumed residues of glyphosate) is probably far worse via the "gut flora" influence than a healthier diet with averag...
I sense a contradiction in this paragraph. How would someone determine when entering a formal market is their only choice? Wouldn't such a decrease in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKtluwou7h4 Through the dawning age We go walking together Toward the yawning grave Braving dangers, we make our way W...
If you just copy the joke you can change it yourself. He doesn't own the version of his joke unless his joke is his bread and butter. As an aside, he ...
"It's not the consumers' job to know what they want", said Steve Jobs. This reminds me of that script that cashiers ask but hope you don't have a prob...
"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to write terrible jokes. " "Pride is pleasure arising from a man'...
One of the definitions of humor: "comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be." Philo...
Just ignore me. The demon Cantor and a polytheistic shaman, Quag, are having dinner. Cantor asks "Can every number count towards infinity?" The shaman...
Slavery is wrong. Is this statement true of false? Who do you need to convince otherwise and once they are convinced, will they demonstrate it by thei...
I think we should blame T Clark for ruining this thread. Just remember I didn't do anything wrong. I'm totally innocent. You all participated against ...
I challenge you to demonstrate the claim that my jokes don't make sense. I accept they aren't funny or don't make you laugh or are not jokes but not t...
A man walking next to the Bedlam and Son's Open Source Asylum for Cognitive Surfeit hears another man shout down to him from a top a wall. "Hey! Are t...
You are continually trapped in a repurposing of my references Sir. I meant venereal diseases by "they" and "they" are not illusions, unless your ontol...
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Itching of the head is a common symptom of a venereal disease. Is there any swelling or discharge? One too many times with ...
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