My First Substack Humor Upload

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I'm as serious as cancer, but not 24/7/365.

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[Dave B]

Funny! Clever! Unexpected too! Kudos! Enough exclamations!

[Andrew Nelson]

A few more jokes of that kind:
Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender asks him, "Hey Rene, do you want your usual?" Descartes replies "No, I think not", and disappears in a puff of logic.
William Shakespeare walks into a bar. The bartender tells him, "Get out of here! You're Bard".
A neutron walks into a bar and asks "How much for a beer?" The reply is "For you, no charge".

[Hector]

I remember some of these from the old Facebook days! Very HUMEorous (sensational, he might say). I remember coming up with Rummy Brague and Bloody Marion (saturated by preference). Antonio Negroni?

How about:

Thales only orders water.

Nagarjuna walks into a bar but it's empty.

Nishida walks into a bar and orders absolutely nothing.

[BV]

Andrew and Hector,

Good ones!

An atom walks into a bar looking glum. Bartender: Whatsamatta pal? Atom: I lost my electrons. 'Tender: Are you sure? Atom: I'M POSITIVE!

As for Nishida, my undergrad teacher John Maraldo has a SEP article on him: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nishida-kitaro/

[Hector]

Merlot-Ponty

What did Maraldo teach you? I've only come across him in connection to Japanese philosophy. Have you read much Nishida?

[BV]

Hector,

I took a course on the Pre-Socrates from him, and one on phenomenology. He earned a doctorate from the U of Munich in 1970 with a dissertation on the hermeneutical circle in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, and Heidegger. He had a one-year job in the States and then took off for Japan.

As for Nishida, I have one of his books. I've read a little. But I am not sure wading through his vague and mushy prose is worth the effort.

[Hector]

Japanese philosophers often seem to be 'vague and mushy' in the Continental vein, rather like the French (but far less pretentious). It's something to do with the language I think, it's very easy to be ambiguous in Japanese, which makes it a great vehicle for poetry and koans but perhaps not so good for analytic precision.