Mildly interesting: there's this oft-shared Vonnegut quote, "We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."
I believe the sense you get from that quote is a kind of hedonic nihilism - there's no point to life but hey, let's fart around.
I mean, look at these things. If you are a creationist and you aren't using them in your arguments for Intelligent Design, you're just pulling your punches.
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Someone tagged me into this as, in Drach's absence, the person on BlueSky most likely to know (without guessing) how navies handled cat poo. I am VERY offended.
But they're also right. 😆 Indeed Drach/Dr Alex and I were comparing notes on this back in November.
So thread: How cats shat on ships /1
What do experts say about jokes and being funny?
At the end of the nineteenth century, the philosophy of humour was considered central to understanding human nature. Plato, Darwin and key Continental philosophers like Bergson and Schopenhauer all wrote detailed accounts of it.
