ChuckVision! Philosophy Corner

Quotes Plato Never Thunk...

Guy #1: "You know the hundred monkeys thing?" Guy #2: "No, what?" Guy #1: "If you take a hundred monkeys, and set them down at typewriters for a hundred years, eventually they'll type up the complete works of Shakespear. Golden retreivers are so smart, they could punch it out in a week!" --Guys sitting behind Ken on a flight.

"I lost track of time for a second." -- P.J.

"He's all over the place because of the Unabomber." -- Lee, commenting on the editor of Penthouse

Dan: "Money is just a measure of. . ." Adam: "Wealth?"

"Arguing about whether computers can think is like arguing whether submarines can swim." -- Djikstra

"Let's go to Flannigan's, since it's centrally located for everyone. Everyone being me and everybody else." -- Ken

"That hit me way over my head." -- Sandy, not getting a joke.

"Geez, I wasn't even remotely close." -- Sven, after taking a wild guess

Sven: "I've never accidentally hit you." Rod: "Not for lack of trying!"

Lowell: "What is life without honor?" Steve: "Longer."

"Hell, God, I know nine or ten from church." -- Diane, a friend of Sandy's, saying she knows plenty of available guys.

"Theology is to religion what poison is to food." -- Voltaire

"You don't recognize the address, but you think you'll know where it is when you get there." -- Dan

Mark: "Hello, is P.J. there?" P.J.'s mom: "No, do you know where he is?"

"It's exactly less. It's no more than less and no less than less." -- Ken

"I think that song was popular because so many people liked it." -- Steve Thompson

"An unidentified man is swept away by floodwaters. He was later reported missing." -- Approximate caption on a picture that appeared in one of the big Detroit papers

"We match the price of any of those so called 'low price' stores." -- Commercial for car stereo place.

Some Deep Thoughts from Philosophy Tonight

Aug 13 Subject: God Why do people continually try to prove or disprove divinity by referencing science? The two have differing purposes, and we are not advanced enough to have to two become one (yet). [Philosophy Tonight> msg #1

Aug 14 Subject: Love If I hadn't have been an idiot with some people in the past, and they hadn't been idiots with me, I wouldn't have the life I currentl;y have, nor the man. Everything would've been different. I prefer things this way, but of course, I would be saying that if I were in the other life, the one I can't even imagine right now. So, is it sour grapes? Or do I really like my life as much as I think I do? [Philosophy Tonight> msg #2

Aug 14 Subject: Christianity The people who say that someone who's 'fallen away' from this religion was never a Christian to start with remind me of the doctors' reactions to Nurse Kinney's polio treatments. They would look at the astounding recoveries and say, "It wasn't polio. It was misdiagnosed. Your treatment doesn't work on polio victims." Hundreds of children. Thousands. Don't define the indefinable in your fruitless effort to make everything conform to your holy book, whether it's the Bible or a medical journal. [Philosophy Tonight> msg #3

Aug 15 Subject: Implied requests If you've inferred something that should have been explicit, are you presuming? And if someone says that "of course, such and such was meant for you!" but you would like it actually said, what do you do? If you insist, you're a baby. If you ignore it, you're a doormat. If they could change it, but don't that says something, don't you think? [Philosophy Tonight> msg #4

Aug 16 Subject: cats How can they be so unconcerned? Are they really? Or is it another case where we don't know the language so we make false assumptions? [Philosophy Tonight> msg #5

Aug 24 Subject: Focua and Perspective What's the use of focus? Will it show that which you need to see? Or will it blind you to that which you need to see? Is the solution to take a step backwards at intervals to see the big picture, and then, if everything is handled, bury oneself agan in the details? How deos it profit one to 'have perspective'? Isn't that just another way to say that one's values are the same as the society in which one lives? That being the case, many great minds proved their worth by lacking perspective. Perhaps perspective is only useful for the mediocre, the ordinary, the minds that make up the economies and trends and the statistics of the world. They need perspective, and the extraordinary need to reject it? Is that the way it is? [Philosophy Tonight> msg #7

Aug 26 Subject: Forum Information This forum information is the absolute zen of all forum informations that be. [Philosophy Tonight> msg #9 [Last updated Aug 26, 1998 16:09 by Stephanie This is a forum for the purposes of airing out all the dust bunnies that live in the ol' attic. In other words, if it occurs to you, post it! If something you read gets you thinking and you want to explore it more fully, go ahead, but posts don't necessarily have to be related to anything else previously posted. Stray thoughts need homes, too, and if they're out HERE then maybe they won't be making you uncomfortable over THERE.]

Sep 27 Subject: The draining of a mind. It seems that I'm helpless to avoid the deterioration of my mind. I forget things, am not in control of my emotions, and can't follow simple logical problems to their solution. I wander what's wrong with me? Do others see it, too? Is it happening to others? [Philosophy Tonight> msg #13

Sep 28 Subject: Afterlife What do you think happens after death? Does the unique (hopefully) personality stop existing? Is it carried on? Does it merge its learnings into some sort of great mishmash and lose its identity in the process? [Philosophy Tonight> msg #14

Oct 4 Subject: Dogs and cats living together. All I need is to get it through ONE of their heads. The problem is that both of them are completely clueless about the other one's views on this subject. *sigh* [Philosophy Tonight> msg #16

Oct 5 Subject: Dreaming What a stupid subject. Dreams are nothing to get upset about. The subconscious is stretching and turning over in its sleep, odd theings get juxtaposed, attitudes and situations don't ring true. So why does it bother me when I awaken with the memory of a dream that doesn't sound like me, or a situation that I don't only have no desire to have happen, but will never have happen anyway? I feel like someone came up to me and told me that during my sleep I had actually done the things in the dream. Sleepwalking? Split personality? Whatever, it would have been a violation of my self. [Philosophy Tonight> msg #17