I've spent a lot of time puzzling over philosophy recently.
My friend, Baili (at Baili and I), sent me down this rabbit hole
when she shared a book she had read, Galileo's Error by Philip Goff.
On a whim, I decided to buy it and read it.
Highly unusual for me, because I've avoided philosophy since I finished
my final philosophy exam at Acadia University a long time ago.
I was done with philosophy, amen, full stop, period!
Philosophy made my brain hurt.
Well, thanks to Baili, I'm not done.
Now I find philosophy much more interesting, and I plan to read more in the future.
But today my brain is hurting from reading philosophy,
so I decided I needed some comic relief, a whole other rabbit hole!
If a man is in the forest, and he says something, and there’s no woman around to hear him - is he still wrong?
IF THIS POST IS PUBLISHED AND NOBODY READS IT, IS IT REALLY A POST?
Till next time ~
Fundy Blue
On the Bay of Fundy
© M. Louise (MacBeath) Barbour/Fundy Blue
All Rights Reserved
It is certainly a post - and thanks for the smiles.
ReplyDeletehahaha philosophy..ugg. I took a course too. That was the end of that. Soooo much nonsense. Like it was just something humans made up to question the question. Some long con. But then if i comment on this post and no one reads it, did I really comment? Ummm suurreee. Unless we are all fake and this comment is fake and this post is fake and this is really all a dream in some person's mind where the mind is focusing on fake posts and fake comments and we're not even a real thing because that mind is aware and we aren't aware of the awareness. Pfffft lol do my farts really stink if no one is around to smell them? Or what if no one has a sense of smell these days? Do they still stink? Are they even real? Maybe that is why sense of smell is lost to question stinky farts. The next philosophy course. Oh, but could we ever really smell to begin with? Was it a real sense? Maybe what you are smelling isn't even there and you just thought it was and therefore your mind isn't your mind again and it is really some alien that you are living in and it is projecting these thoughts and sense onto you. Maybe I'll now go fill my brain with relevant things like luck. Oh. Whoops. Failed. Guess I better go back to wondering why it always has to be in the woods. Couldn't I be in the attic and have no one hear me? Maybe this is all a conspiracy by the trees? They want you to think in the woods so they can eat you. We could be roots of a tree right now from talking in the woods with no one to hear us. That is why roots rise out of the ground. We are revolting. Remember your roots!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Thank you, Pat! Now I know my post is really real, thanks to your comment! ROFLMAO! You obviously haven't forgotten as much of your course as I did. I'm having my morning coffee before I start to tackle chores, and I was dragging. Now I'm bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after laughing so hard. Happy Friday, my friend!
Delete"Why are you here?"
ReplyDeleteHaha 😂 love that one!
Some people have such a clever sense of humor! I wish I did, Sandi. Happy weekend!
DeleteIt's a post! Thanks for the chuckles.
ReplyDeleteOh, good, Alex! I worry about if anything is real ~ lol! Enjoy your weekend!
DeleteOh, that Baili! She's a bad influence on us, LOL! These cartoons are hilarious -- I especially like the final two. I read a lot of philosophy and political/social/spiritual theory when I was young, but I have no patience for it now and cannot plough through it. My brain hurts.
ReplyDeleteYour hilarious posts inspired me to see what I could do with philosophy funnies, Debra. Of course the idea came to me last night just before I had to make dinner, so it was a late evening for me. I'm very fond of Schrödinger and his cat, even though quantum superposition really, really makes my brain ache. But I'm dogged. I have a stack of metaphysical and quantum books to read over the next couple of years. I'm getting closer to the end, so I'm much more interested in metaphysical questions ~ lol. Have a great weekend with your Rare One!
DeleteFun funnies. I studied philosophy and theology. Theology teaches us that we know nothing, and philosophy that there is nothing to know. Go figure! Hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteLOL, Valerie! This is exactly why philosophy makes my head hurt! Have a great weekend! Hugs!
DeleteGreat memes... and I have a small confession to make. I have a philosophy degree... it was the only thing I could get out of college with in four years (I had started taking geology classes in my second year, but realized it would take me another year, so I got a philosophy degree).
ReplyDeleteI am not surprised to know you have a philosophy degree, Jeff. You read a lot of philosophy books, and your choice in that genre made me suspect you were a minister before you revealed that.
DeleteI was pursuing a degree in English during my first year at university. I took a geology course in my second year, fell in love with the subject, and I switched my major. I came back for a fifth year after I graduated to take some more geology courses. I was lucky to be able to do that.
My strongest memory of my philosophy course was crash reading Plato's "Republic" all one Saturday night at my grandmother's house before returning to campus to write a philosophy midterm. I was hitting the allegory of the caves about 4:00 am. I crammed through the rest of the book on the long bus ride back to my residence and through Sunday evening. It was a yearlong course, and I have no idea how I got out of it with a B. My required choice had been to take one course of sociology, religion, or philosophy. It seemed the lessor evil ~ lol.
Have a great weekend, my friend!
Keep reading anything to do with " Philosophy", and like me, you never know if you need to update your C V, , as that is what I thought when I was a pattern tester, and tried a new sewing or quilting technique ., After all, at any age, you might need a new career, or job or income!!!!Your post is very real.
ReplyDeleteOMG ~ I certainly hope I don't need a new job at this point, Jean! But when I moved to Denver in 1982 and lost my job about six weeks later (Oil Patch, sudden downturn), my mom told me do whatever I had to do if I wanted to remain in the US. Wash dishes in a restaurant, if that's what it took. Fortunately, it didn't take washing dishes, but I would have done it if I hadn't found another geology job. Oil, and I came from a hard rock school ~ lol. But you gotta do what you gotta do, and I had a whole lot of fun and learning on the oil rigs. We're living in crazy times, aren't we. Big hugs to you and Hugh!
DeleteThe difference between a philosophy major and a large pizza is that the pizza can feed a family of four
ReplyDeleteLOL, Adam! I read an article about all the great jobs you could have if you graduated with a philosophy degree. I wasn't convinced, although I'll admit we need deep thinkers. I'm not good with thought experiments ~ too ADHD. Wishing you and your family a lovely weekend, my friend!
DeleteHAHAHA! These were hilarious, Louise! I took some philosophy courses in college and really enjoyed them. In general, I like philosophy, but I need to be in the mood or else it makes my head hurt! I hope you have a lovely weekend. If the weekend actually exists :)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you enjoyed these, Martha! The weekend is great so far ~ I had a lovely massage and spent some time in Barnes & Noble having coffee and reading magazines. Now pizza for dinner. Take care!
DeleteWhy are you here - LOL!
ReplyDeletehahahaha dear Louise i bet only you can make philosophy post as interesting haha ,i am always struck by your wit wow ,loved it thoroughly ,so true about before and after the philosophy lol and so true about earning through philosophy degree . Pat is hilarious and i think he responded with equal level of humor lol
ReplyDeleteas for as myself is concern i find no cure to it ,i resemble with tree who says " i said all and no one heard lol . i don't know why but that is how i am made .with time i am understanding that each of us born certain mindset and purpose but only those who have dare, skill and opportunity can convey themselves .i am just a random voice obliged to speak my mind spontaneously with certainty that hardly anyone will hear or get it but still i respect my thoughts as they come to me and i want to write down them as memory in my online diary :)