How many existentialists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to change the lightbulb and one to observe how the lightbulb symbolizes an incandescent beacon of subjectivity in a netherworld of Cosmic Nothingness.
How many philosophers does it take to change a light bulb?
Depends on how you define ‘change’.
How many monists does it take to change a light bulb?
Don’t be silly, there is only ONE monist…
Two philosophers sitting in the garden on a glorious summer’s day. One turns to the other and asks
“Have you read Marx?”
The other one replies
“I have, they must be from these wicker chairs.”
Why do anarchists only drink herbal tea?
Because all proper tea is theft.
More scientific than philosophical, but not worth starting a whole new thread for…
Argon and Helium walk into a bar,
a horse with a long face punches Argon.
The Barman reaches for a shotgun,
but Helium says, “hey don’t worry, he won’t react”…
Is it OK to post a philosophy joke video, just in case someone here hasn’t seen the old Youtube clown philosopher (who appears in a series of videos that are usually set up as 2-party debates between an atheist and a Christian). In the first vid the clown philosopher subs for the Christian and takes on the atheist, in the second, he takes on the Christian.
If this is not the appropriate thread for the clown philosopher, please delete with my apologies. But you really got to love this “philosopher”!
P.S. Grab either clown diatribe for your philosophy of religion class and you’ll probably get a good grade. I did. Yes, as shocking as this seems, I really did pass philosophy classes, in grad school, yet! Terrifying thought isn’t it? Especially for you smart guys who sat near me struggling for grades, although you REALLY understood the stuff, while I was ace-ing the class not grasping diddly squat.
For any others in need, I share the secrets of my pseudo-success: 1) Overkill. Term papers whose bibliography was longer than the entire papers of most other students. And, shhhh, it was all secondary sources. Like I ever read Principia Mathematica? Yeah, right. 2) Superlative spelling and grammar skills when needed. 3) Merciful professors who realized I was hopeless but sincere, and/or who NEVER wanted to see me in their classroom again! 4) Memory tricks which got me through most tests – but ask me anything two days later, and, duh…
My dad told me a variation of this joke when I was little. The confusion that ensued must have been comical because he refused to explain the “joke” for quite some time. I believe his version went something like this–
“Why doesn’t a chicken wire canoe float?
Because ice cream has no bones!”
Another one everyone would have likely heard before…
A theoretical physicist is in a bar drinking next to an empty stool, glancing at it every so often. The barman eventually asks him why and he says,
“According to quantum physics, a beautiful, blonde perfect woman could suddenly materialise out of all the many possibilities and form in her macroscopic self right here on this seat beside me and want to go out with me”
The barman says, “There are a few beautiful women in here; why don’t you ask one of them if they’d like to go out with you?”
The physicist replies, “Pfft, yea like that’ll ever happen!”