The Big questions

there we have a thread i wanted to try for not reason where we ask big questions and discuss. starting now.

also your questions can be not so big, just fun. try not to troll too hard, it gets awfully easy.



Question 1. whats better. Fleeting happiness coupled with defeat or just a constant dull semi defeat?

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i don't even remember what spawned this , i was too worried about eating Twinkie Wiener Sandwiches...

well i will have to say feeling happiness coupled with defeat would be better, because at least you have extremes, rather than just a constant dull drum.

yeah but those extremes are awfully crushing, couldn't it be seen as better to live a moderate life despite that Life not being crazy happy all the time? perhaps even just a little melancholy? All that blinding happy followed by a fall into massive sadness, that's got to be tiring.

I realize i am not making the "dull" life less negative than originally, but i don't think i can defend constantly sad.

i would get rather bored honestly, and probably lose perspective on myself if life were that boring. theirs a phrase that comes to mind, though only partially applicable. "its better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all." kinda holds true in this situation imo.

and sure it would get tiring, but everything gets tiring if it keeps happening. living in a constant dulldrum would be even more tiring simply due to the fact its constant... its like watching daytime TV. its all the same, its all pretty boring and uneventful, and at the end of it all you are exhosted somehow.

yeahh.... and I've run out of defenses for something I don't believe... oh well. New question.

I pose 2 queries.

1. If a herring falls in a shrubbery, does it make a ni?

2. is there a type of joke that does NOT require some form of deep understanding of one or many topics to be funny? Such as a deep understanding of humanity, science, spirituality, history, culture, swallows, ect... if said joke exists, how is it funny?

Are we counting knowledge held in common to count as knowledge or just special knowledge, like that of a specific show or context? If knowledge that we all hold is not counted then I think that certain funny sounding words or sentences can count. and its possible slap stick doesn't at all.

But maybe peekaboo is a good example of such a possible joke. Babies find this funny, I think, because its strange to them. the persons there and then not, and then suddenly there with an exclamation. this kind of joke is funny without any knowledge of the game at all. If we can find an analogous situation for older people you may just find your non contextual joke.

I'd say this one counts as one not requiring special knowledge and only a general understanding of semantics:

Two idiots are walking down the street.
Suddenly one stops and says, "Okay that's enough. Now I want to walk in the middle."

I guess the question whether it is also funny is another one