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Q.) What's the difference between L. Ron Hubbard and Ayn Rand?
A.) One wrote a collection of science fiction books that became the focus of a deranged cult, the other wrote Battlefield Earth

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Q.) What do you call an ineffectual philosopher?
A.) Immanuel Can't

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"Nirvana" refers to the cessation of suffering brought about by the extinction of the self that results from taking heroin and shooting yourself in the head with a shotgun.

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When you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss snidely responds "why don't you take a picture, it'll last longer"

[there nevertheless is a case for the idea that racial slurs are inherently funny]

What's really sad is that GC is 24 years old, and still thinks racial slurs are funny.

I missed that controversy. Was he actually racist, or did he literally merely "think racial slurs are funny"?

Being racist is wrong, but there nevertheless is a case for the idea that racial slurs are inherently funny.

Inherently funny?

Potentially funny, I can see the case for. What makes something inherently funny?

Under a theory of humor advanced by the cartoonist Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) Meanness/Cruelty is one of the six basic elements of humor; the other five being Naughtiness/Crudeness, Cuteness, Bizarreness, Cleverness, and Recognizability. Under his theory anything combining at least two of these elements is more likely fumny than not.

I sincerely doubt that Scott Adams believes that something that is both cruel and crude, for example rape or child abuse, is automatically inherently funny.

Ok, I'll give you that "inherent" was a poor choice of words on my part

What's really sad is that GC is 24 years old, and still thinks racial slurs are funny.

I missed that controversy. Was he actually racist, or did he literally merely "think racial slurs are funny"?

Being racist is wrong, but there nevertheless is a case for the idea that racial slurs are inherently funny.

Under a theory of humor advanced by the cartoonist Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) Meanness/Cruelty is one of the six basic elements of humor; the other five being Naughtiness/Crudeness, Cuteness, Bizarreness, Cleverness, and Recognizability. Under his theory anything combining at least two of these elements is more likely fumny than not.

www.nietzschefamilycircus.com/

Q.) How many nihilists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A.) It doesn't matter.

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here's one that's a bit more esoteric

Q.) Why did the plucked chicken cross the road?
A.) It was being brought to Plato as an example of a featherless biped that is not a human


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Q.)Why doesn't the cube fuck the tetrahedron
A.) Because they're platonic solids

that one's also a math joke

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Q.) Why did the chicken cross the road?
A.) [Insert long winded essay about free will, animal consciousness/umwelt, determinism, and the meaning of the word "why" here]

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Q.) How many epistemologists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A.) The more important question is how do we know

I've been trying to figure out how "Eris" is spelled in greek. But unfortunately wikipedia doesn't say and google translate keeps changing its mind as to the greek spelling. The most legitimate looking rendering it's given me is "Έρις" but I don't know if that's right, do any of you?

A person gets superpowers in a freak accident. They resolve to become a superhero and then accomplish a lot of mundane work while putting off acting on this resolution.

The Aztecs were right about blood sacrifice being needed for the sun to rise, and the crops to grow, and the earth to exist (etc). The only reason the sun still rises and the crops still grow (etc) is because the Aztecs' mass sacrifices built up such a large extra positive balance.

Those shootings in France yesterday gave me an idea:

A scatological porno movie about mohammed.  I'm not sure of the details, but possibly it includes a scene with Mohammed and either Jesus or Abraham reenacting "Two Girls One Cup", occuring some time after mohammed's wives leave him and become lesbians because his penis is too small.

Hmm, I like the idea but it is not quite funny enough. Your anger is showing through, and getting angry at a provocative act is letting the terrorists win.

Maybe something more like this?
[TRIGGER WARNING, ARISTOCRAT JOKE WARNING]
http://www.aristocratsjokes.com/

I prefer to tell a version 0f the Aristocrats Joke that ends with the guy getting sued for plagarism by the producers of Jackass

-A sci-fi retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, set on Pluto. The entire thing somehow turns into an allegory for the controversy that surrounded Pluto's demotion to a dwarf planet, and from there turns into a parody of heavyhanded political allegories.

-After the second coming, Jesus demands royalties on biblically based movies.

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-The reason why there haven't been miracles since biblical times is that god has withdrawn from the world like John Galt. Contrary to both his expectations and those of the early Christians, this did not bring about the end of the world within the lifetimes of the first Christians.

Oh, my idea was just speculation on another possibility for before the big bang

Also, the female spotted hyena copulates and urinates through it's enlarged, penis-like clitoris.

Although unlike this fly it doesn't use it for penetration, it pulls it back and stretches the opening to allow penetration by the male, sort of like extreme sounding.

When I first saw this thread's title for some reason I read it as "penectomy" instead of "petroconomy". I wonder what Freud would have to say about that.

Homeopathish?

No, that's for a hypothesis which is demonstrably incorrect, but still gets trotted out anyway

A hypothesis that can't be tested is called "unfalsifiable"

"What can go wrong" most of the time isn't some sort of horrible 100 meter tall spider. Usually it results in something that just can't survive.

As a huge nerd I feel compelled to point out that the 100 meter spider probably couldn't survive either. It's weight would scale up disproportionally to the strength of it's muscles or the structural integrity of it's exoskeleton.

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Also, going back to big bang related stuff, has anybody else thought about the possibility that the big bang was the result of a Big Rip in a previous universe, or rather from the effect of the big rip on a hadron in that universe?
When the repulsive force of dark energy began to rip its component quarks apart it would instead be converted into a prodigious quantity of matter due to Color Confinement

Workers at a science museum foil burglars with Home Alone style traps devised from the science demonstrations, after security is incapacitated.