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I agree this is a great type of humor Roland00 Send a noteboard - 26/06/2018 05:07:22 PM

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nice try at demonizing though. maybe next time you do it, you'll get it right....

So you can put 'felon/misdemeanor' in my subject line and see if it results in different conclusions from the one I came to.

Nice try at making an argument at all. Maybe next time you'll do it right.


I agree this is a great type of humor, it is a little absurd type of humor that looks at the inconsistencies and paradoxes of life when we mix theoretical constructs in the mind with actual choices in the material realm.

But like Plato said this type of knowledge may bring us delight but it does not order nature. A similar mixture of theoretical plus concrete though does order nature and Plato argues is this is the good we should be taking the most delight in. He talks about this if I recall in Philebus and a similar line of argument with the Divided Line in The Republic.

(Don't read these wikipedia links yet, read the other stuff I write first.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philebus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy_of_the_divided_line

Absurd Irony is beautiful but we can not live merely by pointing out Irony. We must learn from the irony and figure out how to do universal truths as much as possible, and when universal truths are not possible (which is so often) we must learn how to tolerate and settle with life's little ironies.

We can't turn immigration and human lives into the tide pod challenge.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/3/17059848/tide-meme-very-not-funny

Absurd Irony can end hysteria but it can also can create hysteria where we take too much delight in the "play" that we miss the point of the games we play in the mind. No the game we play should be do the thing which orders nature, to reduce negative consequences and to increase positive ones. Sometimes Absurd Irony can lead to a nihilistic point of view where "nothing matters" and thus you stop thinking and you stop allowing your thinking to lead to better outcomes.

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What I am saying aerocontrols is I can't tell if your humor has too little camp, too much, or just hte right amount of camp

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