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[Jaysen]

reason has never been one of your strengths....

That's why we love you so much?

[gr]

I was going to add to that, but I just Kant.

[vic-k]

I was going to add to that, but I just Kant.

I hope you're not so proud that you Kant ask for help. Aboard Scriv, helping each other is our raison d’être.
I have a cornucopia of superlatives (if I can remember where I left the friggers), to place at you disposal, should you so desire.
Vic

[Jaysen]

See... reason is over rated when you have wit. I suggest we all do as Vic-k... dispose of reason in favor of wit.

Although... could the universe handle more than one vic-k? This could be dangerous.

[vic-k]

could the universe handle more than one vic-k?

P'rhaps not the old version, but the latest holographic iteration probably could
https://www.theguardian.com/science/sho ... f-universe

[gr]

...could the universe handle more than one vic-k? This could be dangerous.

What the 'verse were you thinking?!!

[vic-k]

What the 'verse were you thinking?!!

Imagine a universe with two of me! Yeah!
Comma Abuse would become a universal religion, as Scientology paled into insignificance. Hmmm ... could be good, eh?

[Jaysen]

What the 'verse were you thinking?!!

Imagine a universe with two of me! Yeah!
Comma Abuse would become a universal religion, as Scientology paled into insignificance. Hmmm ... could be good, eh?

Imaging the sitcoms that would be generated simply from the two yous having a conversation. Endless entertainment.

[vic-k]

the two yous having a conversation.

Humankind is already a basket case. I couldn't inflict two of me on them.
Neither could I ... they're suffering enough as it is.

[devinganger]

dispose of reason in favor of wit

Well sure, if you have to. Some of us have both.

[yosimiti]

What's with this whole thing about reason and wit?

They're yin and yan to each other. To borrow from McCarthy, they are "each the other world's entire"

To borrow from Shakespeare, "they are two spent swimmers that choke their art"

Mutually interdependent to the extent that they are dependently mutual.

I can't think of anything else intelligent to say. So I'll just leave things at that yo.

Back to Kant.

[devinganger]

What's with this whole thing about reason and wit?

They're yin and yan to each other. To borrow from McCarthy, they are "each the other world's entire"

To borrow from Shakespeare, "they are two spent swimmers that choke their art"

Mutually interdependent to the extent that they are dependently mutual.

I can't think of anything else intelligent to say. So I'll just leave things at that yo.

Back to Kant.

I prefer the "Reese's Peanut Butter Cup" theory.

Except I can't eat peanut butter, so not like that. Back up...oh, here we go.

It's like a cake donut. You have the cake part, and the hole part. If you don't have the cake, you have nothing and that is sad. If you don't have the hole, you have an unfrosted cupcake and that is just SAD.

Only by having both the cake and the hole do you have a cake donut.

And then you eat it, and you are HAPPY, and then you have nothing, and that is sad.

Pretty sure someone called Marie sad something about eating cake, but I Kant remember exactly what. All I know is I have an empty Plato.

...what were we talking about again?

(Thanks, guys, I really want a cake donut or six now.)

[vic-k]

...what were we talking about again?

unfortunately, its encroachment is insidious and relentless.

[Jaysen]

What's with this whole thing about reason and wit?

They're yin and yan to each other. To borrow from McCarthy, they are "each the other world's entire"

To borrow from Shakespeare, "they are two spent swimmers that choke their art"

Mutually interdependent to the extent that they are dependently mutual.

I can't think of anything else intelligent to say. So I'll just leave things at that yo.

Back to Kant.

And you've made my point.

Folks are typically too busy being focused on "reason" to find and exercise wit. Rarely do you find wit in the absence of reason though. Those that choose to let reason be the slave to them, opposed to the current trend of being a salve to reason, tend toward positive outlooks and humorous wit. I offer our precious Mr K as a prime example of the latter.

[Jaysen]

I prefer the "Reese's Peanut Butter Cup" theory.

Except I can't eat peanut butter, so not like that. Back up...oh, here we go.

It's like a cake donut. You have the cake part, and the hole part. If you don't have the cake, you have nothing and that is sad. If you don't have the hole, you have an unfrosted cupcake and that is just SAD.

Only by having both the cake and the hole do you have a cake donut.

And then you eat it, and you are HAPPY, and then you have nothing, and that is sad.

Pretty sure someone called Marie sad something about eating cake, but I Kant remember exactly what. All I know is I have an empty Plato.

...what were we talking about again?

(Thanks, guys, I really want a cake donut or six now.)

I see the cake as wit, and reason as the hole. Even without frosting the cake is more enjoyable than the hole. And I know enough "holes" to tell you that reason can make a person very unenjoyable.