List #7,548,922 of essential philosophical truths:

[DFW]

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[Proserpina]

1. Politics is losing the white cat in the dark room and claiming it's black

[bigwillq]

2. Snort

[Buzz Clik]

3. +1

[hunter]

4. Reality is being trapped in a dark room with a pissed off bobcat.

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[Proserpina]

5. Been there, done that, got the scars to prove it! Thanks for the laugh!

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Glad it arrived safely

XKCD

[hunter]

13. .

[ProfessorGAC]

6. I Like It

That's funny! The last line kills me.

[Octafish]

8. THAT's not a cat. That's Pikachu in black and white.

[MisterP]

9. that *is* how the "science" route usually ends up

or the cat's dead because you turned the flashlight on

[jdadd]

11. Leave the flashlight off

The cat could be alive, or dead.....

Schrodinger.

[MisterP]

14. funny thing is, the creator doesn't seem aware of that obvious joke

[Octafish]

17. I learned that in civics at Communist Martyrs High School.

I mean, "physics."

[MisterP]

21. hey, even I Bernard Cohen managed to mix up "superstitious" and "Commie"

if he wants to conflate nagas with the Khmer Rouge he's free to do so--but the consequences may be stranger than he expects

[GeeNeeUs]

10. .

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[valerief]

12. Love it!

[Tab]

15. Errr, you sure that is #7,548,922?

I think you missed one and it should be 7,548,923.

We're nothing if not accurate here.

Thanks

[DFW]

18. That'll teach me to proofread!!

Hey, I was close....

[Hortensis]

16. Like it, DFW!

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.” ― Isaac Asimov

[DFW]

19. Asimov was brilliant, had few peers in the candlepower department.

This is another favorite of mine in the same vein:

"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature, unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping." -Hubert Reeves

[Hortensis]

20. Yes, a good one. I went looking for quotes from Carl Sagan,

and found some of the wonderful ones I vaguely remembered, but I searched "science" too, and was really struck by how many of the quoted philosophers are people of science who've spent much of their lives looking to the cosmos.

Neil Degrasse Tyson totally charmed and impressed me when I heard him mention that he never steps outside without looking up at the sky. How terrific is that?

“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Scuba]

23. Excellent!

[smirkymonkey]

22. K&R

[bhikkhu]

24. Budhism is like being in a dark room with a black cat and asking

what is the significance of the dark room and the black cat? Is who is looking not the real question?

[DFW]

25. I usually refrain from burdening the DU boards with this kind of thing

But it seems the time of year for it.

And anyway, I just got back home to Germany from France and Belgium, and I am DONE for this year with work travel.

Free at last, free at last, you can bet your sweet ass I'm NOT free by a long shot (what were you thinking?).
BUT--I'm free for a couple of days. I'll take it.

Until I have to be in South Carolina on Saturday evening, that is!