Let's make fun of philosophers

[Ren]

It's interesting to think about what was destroyed in its entirety - what if there was some ancient Wittgenstein progenitor who solved philosophy? What if Caesar burned it all to make him shut up?

It would make Aquinas, Descartes and company look pretty silly, working on their various systems not knowing someone had already destroyed metaphysics

 

[Ren]

This thread wouldn't be complete without a bit of fun at the expense of postmodernists.

Can somebody please explain this nonsense:

Is this just some kind of wordplay on the word true/truth?

 

[Ren]

"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend."

Derrida can be witty @Deleted member 16771

 

[Sidis Coruscatis]

It would make Aquinas, Descartes and company look pretty silly, working on their various systems not knowing someone had already destroyed metaphysics

On second thought I think the monks who took the vow of silence already solved it.

Spoiler

 

[Lady Jolanda]

Can somebody please explain this nonsense:

I think he's having a laugh at people trying to make sense out of it.

 

[Pin]

Lao Tzu was lazy too.

 

[Pin]

Confucius confused us.

 

[April]

Candide! And go!

 

[Ren]

Confucius confused us.

Lmao.

I'm really enjoying these little philo-jokes.

New Candide! And go!

Voltaire was interesting, but he was frankly a little bit candid about certain topics. Wo-ho-ho!

 

[Pin]

Lmao.

I'm really enjoying these little philo-jokes.



Voltaire was interesting, but he was frankly a little bit candid about certain topics. Wo-ho-ho!

Voltaire was a gambling addict.

 

[Pin]

David Hume wore perfume.

 

[Ren]

Voltaire was a gambling addict.

Was he?

He's a bit controversial in France these days. He said some weird things about slavery and Jews.

 

[Ren]

David Hume wore perfume.

Aristotle was a species of a turtle at risk. An "at risk turtle"

 

[Pin]

Was he?

He's a bit controversial in France these days. He said some weird things about slavery and Jews.

By modern standards he would not be a good dude.

He got rich by using a formula at a casino, basically winning the lottery.

 

[Pin]

Aristotle was a species of a turtle at risk. An "at risk turtle"

Oh! A play on words.

 

[Ren]

He got rich by using a formula at a casino, basically winning the lottery.

Presumably finding that formula required some smarts though

 

[Pin]

Presumably finding that formula required some smarts though

He was smart and he was a genuine troll.

 

[Ren]

Oh! A play on words.

Every morning I have a bagel, in memory of the old Hegel

 

[Ren]

Do you know that before he became a philosopher, Kierkegaard was a very quirky guard?

 

[Ren]

Hmmm. Maybe I'm an Ne user, hehe