Philosophy Now Forum

Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:31 pm

Harbal wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:10 pm Philosophy already is fun. If you want to do the world a real service, find a way to make religion fun.

That could have been coreographed by the black and white foxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

What having a philosophical “God” conversation or any other philosophical topical conversation with Immanuel Can really feels like.


https://giphy.com/explore/banging-head-against-the-wall

An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

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Morgenbesser was known particularly for his sharp witticisms and humor which often penetrated to the heart of the philosophical issue at hand, on which account The New York Times Magazine dubbed him the "Sidewalk Socrates." According to one anecdote, when J. L. Austin claimed that, although a double negative often implies a positive meaning (e.g., "he is not unlike his sister"), there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative, Morgenbesser retorted: "Yeah, yeah."

Atla wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 7:57 am An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

Lovely and hilarious.

Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:04 am

Atla wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 7:57 am An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

Lovely and hilarious.

Very good, the lecturer forgot about sarcasm.

What kind of 'fun' are we talking about here? Poker at the bar? A round of darts? An immersive boardgame?

Philosophy the boardgame...hmm, I think I'm onto something here...

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:09 am What kind of 'fun' are we talking about here?

Your kind of fun will do, nothing is off limits, and no restrictions. Whatever fun you find entertaining. All varieties of fun are welcome.

George and Kramer conversation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3gSx1HhlY

Squaaaaared away ...

Commentary: After you ask the question with an Einsteinian focus not limited to time and circumstance, then the source and appearance of the answer becomes unpredictable. For that reason, for anyone the answer can be front and center but ignored and lost. The solution is a truly earnest question that keeps focus on its toes outside the crumbling entropic effects of time and circumstance; thus, the benefit of mind training, i.e., meditation.