Welcome to The Club v3.4 Fall 2023

Maybe we should stop it with the elderly jokes. They’re getting old.
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Never compare our lot
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this or that had been otherwise.
Never dwell on tomorrow;
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University Philosophy 101 taught
me one very important lesson. 8 am
Monday morning is way too early to
be subjected to University Philosophy
101. The only other thing I gleaned
from that “morning after” class was
if you missed any of them (which was
fairly common at that hour and day),
you could borrow notes from students
who took that class up to 30 years ago
and simply modernize a couple of the
“current” analogies. The curriculum
never ever changed since the ancient
Greeks first fashioned it out of their
lofty ideals and deep bath tubs. Those
guys would probably do well in today’s
society, but unfortunately they would
likely be pontificating these deep
thoughts from beneath a paper hat. I’m
sure if Plato were alive today, many of
us would be more than a little surprised!
Here in what we like to consider
modern day civilization, we tend
to remember our silver screened
philosophers like Arsenio Hall, who
used to scratch his chin and ponder out
loud “Hmmm?” Jerry Seinfeld would
start out many a routine with “Why is
it that..?” And another great thinker,
George Carlin, even philosophized
about his never ending name: “Ge Or Ge
Or Ge Or Ge” Still, with my modest B- in
that early morning philosophy class, I
sometimes find myself in that curled up
“Thinker” pose with conundrums that
would surely send Nietzsche searching
for God. I know I’ve stayed up all night
wondering where the sun went after it
sunk into the horizon until, finally, it
“dawned” on me. And I’ve spent the
better part of an eternity rounding off
infinity in more than one math class.
But you will have to agree that some
of these musings constitute earthshattering
morality. I mean does killing
time actually harm eternity? How much
deeper would the oceans be if sponges
didn’t grow there? And why is it that
almost every famous landmark in the
world is located right next to a souvenir
shop?
Others queries are closer to home,
such as: How come the label always
falls off my tube of Krazy Glue, yet glue
doesn’t stick to the inside of the glue
bottle? And if you wanted to recycle
your blue box, what would you put it in?
Further, when they manufacture that
Piece of Mind
By Joan Richardson, London • From Daytripping July-Aug 2003
21st Century Philosopy: Plato vs Pluto
environmentally damaging Styrofoam,
how do they package it for shipment?
Maybe they just cut it up into those
little noodles first and save themselves
a whole lot of bother?
Philosophy to me has always been
unintelligible answers to insoluble
problems. I mean have you ever
imagined a world with no hypothetical
situations? What DO you call someone
who hates bigots? Why have worlds
never been conquered by people
named Alexander the Average, Ivan
the Bland or Attila the Ho Hum? And
if a tree falls in the forest and no one is
around to hear it fall - where are they?
Of course, if you prefer not to warp,
er, wrap your mind around these
mind-bending conundrums, you might
consider the more pedantic second
thoughts like: What colour do Smurfs
turn when you choke them?; or Why
don’t sheep shrink when they get wet?;
or How do you know when it’s time to
tune your bagpipes?; and What, exactly
is the speed of dark? My Dad used to
say “Any philosophy that can be put
into a nutshell, belongs there.” But
then Willie Nelson must have added
“Anything that is too stupid to be
discussed intelligently must be sung.”
Personally, I’ve always had more
trouble with physics class and the
concept of time, than anything that
philosophy professor doled out year
after year after year. In light of the fact
that I can receive e-mail from a pal in
Australia and answer it a full fifteen
hours before it is or was or is about to be
sent - see? I told you it’s a problem for
me. So, if I go to all the trouble of saving
time, when do I actually get it back,
and does it accumulate any interest
in the interim? If one day we end up
travelling at the speed of light, will the
luggage handlers then have to lose our
baggage in advance? And exactly how
many weeks are there in a light year?
Boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
Well, all this weighty pondering is
starting to tax my little blonde-covered
airhead, so I’d best go lie down, but I shall
leave you with a quote from yet another
deep philosophical (and somewhat
tattered) T-shirt. The Big Questions: 1)
Know thyself (Socrates); 2) To thine
own self be true (Shakespeare); 3)
Never wash whites with colours (Mom).
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