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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...
October 31, 2017 at 19:21
Put your demons to work. Make them curtsy to you as you curtsy to your boss.
October 27, 2017 at 17:46
Self Censored :-x (This is not a joke thread or this thread IS NOT a joke).
October 26, 2017 at 19:52
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...
October 26, 2017 at 18:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, by Iain McGilchrist
October 26, 2017 at 17:30
It isn't an empirical bird.
October 26, 2017 at 03:54
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...
October 25, 2017 at 19:51
God's parrot laughs and says "I heard that Bohr. If I believe that I don't know what hasn't been rolled yet, I will deign to play with myself. "
October 25, 2017 at 16:55
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...
October 23, 2017 at 21:30
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...
October 23, 2017 at 19:15
Ellen is Frank's first child. Sophia is the youngest. How much do you really know about Frank?
October 22, 2017 at 18:25
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...
October 22, 2017 at 17:45
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...
October 22, 2017 at 16:53
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...
October 21, 2017 at 18:08
A Nervous Splendor: The Wittgenstein Family had a Genius for Misery
October 20, 2017 at 18:47
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...
October 19, 2017 at 21:44
What translation of the Tao Te Ching is that from?
October 19, 2017 at 03:07
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...
October 19, 2017 at 02:22
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...
October 18, 2017 at 18:08
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...
October 18, 2017 at 17:25
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...
October 17, 2017 at 17:15
Story of my life. I remember working my job and was like :( why am I doing this.
October 17, 2017 at 16:40
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...
October 16, 2017 at 19:41
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...
October 16, 2017 at 01:17
God accidentally spills a bucket of clear liquid. 14 billion years later he cleans it up.
October 15, 2017 at 16:38
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...
October 15, 2017 at 04:48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzPD009qTN4 Ecologies are all connected from the bottom to the top. It's all enormously complicated.
October 14, 2017 at 19:15
The average diet (excluding the consumed residues of glyphosate) is probably far worse via the "gut flora" influence than a healthier diet with averag...
October 14, 2017 at 18:24
What are you trying to do on this site?
October 14, 2017 at 18:01
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...
October 14, 2017 at 17:52
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...
October 14, 2017 at 02:44
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 ...
October 13, 2017 at 19:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quxWhp5y23E
October 13, 2017 at 19:06
Long ago I danced for a King named Clark, Who frowned and began to bark. He sold me away, To a tyrant they say, Who cut out my tongue as a lark.
October 12, 2017 at 18:42
"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...
October 12, 2017 at 17:56
"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'...
October 12, 2017 at 04:03
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...
October 11, 2017 at 22:24
Just ignore me. The demon Cantor and a polytheistic shaman, Quag, are having dinner. Cantor asks "Can every number count towards infinity?" The shaman...
October 11, 2017 at 18:53
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...
October 11, 2017 at 17:46
Dennett'sho (Dawken'sho) You say potato, I say potato.
October 10, 2017 at 19:06
What do you call an ensho that copies itself by a praxis?
October 10, 2017 at 17:46
Hey! Calm down, I'm joking. Your jokes were great. I only wish mine were as good as yours.
October 10, 2017 at 00:26
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 ...
October 09, 2017 at 23:49
I hope you're thinking what I am thinking. Who's there?
October 09, 2017 at 22:53
If someone knocks on a door and nobody's home can the knocker hear himself knocking?
October 09, 2017 at 21:44
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...
October 09, 2017 at 21:08
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...
October 09, 2017 at 19:15
How to Live like a Vulcan
October 09, 2017 at 18:23
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...
October 08, 2017 at 23:24
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 ...
October 08, 2017 at 20:56