When … indeed
“When he who hears doesn’t know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks doesn’t know what he himself means – That is philosophy.” – Voltaire So cocktail party conversation is actually philosophy?
First task: get a calendar
Then, in the next (last!) weeks of this terrible year, scrape together small amounts of time as often as you can. During these times, allow yourself to look ahead and anticipate. Plan. Think. And plan some more. Write those plans on your new calendar with expectations of fulfilling them. The Covid-19 virus cannot disrupt our
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Genius
Photo by Tyler Lastovich on unsplash “Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.” – E.B. White (author of ‘Charlotte’s Web’)
William of Ockham’s Razor
“Do not multiply postulated entities without necessity.” And if William had lived much, much, later in another era or two, his 14th century intellectualism may have been traded for today’s five second philosophy. Now, he’d say, “Keep it simple, stupid.”
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A Wordsmith Bar Fight
An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
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Sunday Funnies
September 13, 2020 Routines I recommend going on YouTube and looking up names of comedians from the past. And pick any of their appearances on the old “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” A couple to get you started: Jonathan Winters, Rodney Dangerfield. They aren’t politically correct; in fact, often politically insensitive, they are a
Lovely
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” Roald Dahl, “The Twits”
Don’t Quit
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high and you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is strange
Aha!
“There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.” – William James