Something Meaningful In Your <3 <3 <3 Life

Zach Galifianakis Live @ the purple onion embodies everything I believe is funny, good performance  and good art. Comedy is universally considered one of the lowest forms of entertainment, but why? Because people like Ron White exist. Jokes that play on nothing and vulgarity are stand up comedy. From the first minute Zach Galifianakis steps on stage, minutes late because he didn't know when the show started, it is him against the audience. He isn't trying to humor them, but rather himself. His word play, self-righteousness, and nonconformity within the structure of a stand up routine, make a most entertaining performance  I was talking to a gurl who said after five minutes of it she turned it off because it was so hard to watch. I was shocked because I hadn't even noticed that his performance could make someone uncomfortable. It also might have been that every time I watch it, I've had my hands on my face crying with laughter. Galifianakis gives artfulness to comedy and can make any day for me a good one. Thank you my bearded friend, I'm sorry the hangover destroyed your life (which in fact is true, from the few interviews he had been forced to give).

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Matt

"If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love them. They're exactly... well, they're not exactly alike, but they're a little bit alike." 

CANDIDE, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

The punishment never fits the crime. The umbrella like punishments we have established for dealing with the "criminal" have never done justice to the victim or the criminal (victim of the system). The overwhelming similarity  to me at least, between Candide and the modern world is that Candide is being punished by a world in which all he did was exist. He did not create or even choose to take part, but suddenly like birth, is placed with no training or prior knowledge to guide him. The world then takes advantage of him and begins to ravage and rip him apart piece by piece. Punishment for existing it seems, but it's the best of all possible worlds!
---I had been sitting in the greenery on Jackson and State when I was approached by a homeless woman who asked me "did I believe in god?" I said no, I wasn't opposed to god, but it didn't have much relevance in my life. Words frothed from her chapped gums as she screamed at me "Who do you think made all this!" "God has a plan for all of us, God is good, God is great, I would be nothing without god." How fucking depressing. She was indeed Candide. She knew no better than just to put faith in god. Her existence was far from good, she was missing all but seven teeth, but the world was good because she knew god was up there looking down. The indifference of the world was crushing her every second that she lived. The system created so that the majority could at least be fed and housed was up in a tower shooting down any potential she had. She was being punished by the world like Candide. Did she deserve this punishment, I don't think so. Who deserves to have all but seven of their teeth lost. Who deserves to wear a pink shirt so soiled by dried dirt and spit that you would mistake it for grey? Who deserves to have eyes the murky mix of yellow and red from their last drug intake. The world punishes, who? The unluckies, the Candides. Candide was kicked out of the castle, flung into the real world because he tried to kiss a girl. Put into the ocean without a lifeboat because he tried to live life, his crime doesn't fit the punishment, nor do most people's for that matter. It's the fact that life sucks and then you die, for those unlucky people who get the wrong end of the stick. The person who kisses the girl right as the king passes.

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HowDoWeKnowWhatWeKnow?

Bertrand Russell described this as the problem in Philosophy.

Question:
Have you ever had a "Deep" coversation with someone//group of people where it ended in someone saying "everything is relative, this could all be a dream, nothing has to be real." Aside from that guy being a grade-A Ashhole, he's wrong. So if you were that guy, don't be, you were wrong, dead wrong sucka.

We know things relatively speaking, because of what Russell describes as Sense Data. I know that my desk will still be here after I open my eyes from the sensation it gave to skin, the smell it has, the color of it, the taste if I was so inclined to lick it. How can we deny our sense data? There is no probable reason to and so we must accept that what we sense is real. With that though, we must accept that when our senses are cut off (blinking) we cannot know what that the obeject which exists strictly by sense to still be in existance but we can assume. Knowledge then is a conglomoration of sense datas and assumed sense datas which are to be ascribed as "real". There for knowledge, relative to our own expirences, is a history of sense datas.

Well then what about things we are told? We didn't see, smell, touch, taste, hear the Civil War.

That is knowledge by discription. Knowledge by description comes from our understanding of the reality of objects which would have existed within the described. How do we know that the Civil  War happened? Well we know people are real, we know of the existance of clothing, fields, etc. Therefore we can assume it was real.

~Now to which parts of history are true or not is another quetion, the answer from which I can not steal from my dear Welsh friend Bertrand.

History is the acceptance of truths based on singular or multiple perspectives which detail an event unfolding a specific way. Therefore history will always be "true" and "mistold" at the same time. With the passing of time, ascriptions of previous and future events and their effects on to said historical event, and from which perspective the event was looked upon (each perspective including the previous criteria), how can we know anything definite about the past. So! If everything we know besides what we expierenced is history, we know very little for sure. All we can do is assume, and you know what that does. No wonder humans have described themselves as idiots.

Bertrand Russell

Also, The Problems of Philosophy is free on Amazon.com for Kindles. Gud Reed.

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