Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Phil:  "I refuse to be labeled an atheist, agnostic or true believer, for these appellatives offend my intelligence and deep appreciation of the logic of mathematics, the accumulated body of knowledge derived by scientific exploration, and the universe as we know it today.  For lack of a better word, I am an existentialist, epistemologically speaking. All things considered, what's the alternative? Oxymorons?  What part of know don't you get?"

Arthur C.  Clarke:  "I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."

Phil:  "I know all things exist and that is always true. Beyond that I can only believe."

Groucho:  "Hello I must be going."

Phil:  "I know I am!  What do you think?"

Rene Descartes:  "I think therefore I am."

B. Leach: "What are you thinking?  Don't even think it!"

(TTW)

Irving Berlin:  "Now, if you're blue, And you don't know where to go to. Why don't you go where fashion sits?"

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Phil:  "Legend has it Santa Claus is real. And apparently faster than the speed of light."

Gerald Ford:  "Whip inflation now."

Santa Claus:  "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on Cupid! on Donner and Blitzen!"

Freud:  "Ja, Herrin."

Carl Jung:  "The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

Stephen Wright: "When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.”

Bertrand Russell:  "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."

Phil:  "Every habit is a bad habit."

Bertram Russell:  "So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."

Lou Costello:  "Who's on first?"

Phil:  "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away."

Hamlet:  "Get thee to a nunnery."

Hippocrates:  “A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."

Isaac Newton:  Force equals mass times accelleration.

Stephen Hawking: "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason."

Blaise Pascal:  "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways."

Phil:  "One must be careful not to trivialize the obvious when attempting profundity for posterity."

Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Albert Einstein:  Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

Phil:  Where did all that energy go?  Oh dear, what's the matter now?  Dimensional phase change?"

Stephen Hawking:  "However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem."  "My goal is simple.  It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

Phil:  "There are limits of course.  Abstraction is always incomplete. There is only one complete model of Reality.  Full scale."

Stephen Wright: "You can't have everything, where would you put it?"

Isaac Newton:   “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

Phil:  "Did you see the Darryl Hannah version of 'Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman?'"

Barbara Seaman:  Condoms should be marketed in 3 sizes, jumbo, colossal, and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small.

Werner Heisenberg:  "It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consist only of processes involving exceedingly large numbers of atoms. Furthermore, it is very difficult to modify our language so that it will be able to describe these atomic processes, for words can only describe things of which we can form mental pictures, and this ability, too, is a result of daily experience. Fortunately, mathematics is not subject to this limitation, and it has been possible to invent a mathematical scheme - the quantum theory - which seems entirely adequate for the treatment of atomic processes; for visualization, however, we must content ourselves with two incomplete analogies - the wave picture and the corpuscular picture."

Phil:  "What's the matter?  Dimensional differential juxtaposition? Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?"

Ben Franklin:  "Time is money."

Phil:  "Can the human mind grasp a what's-sa-ma-giggy-do-hickie?"

Thomas Carlyle:  "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden."

Phil:  "Did you take two aspirins?"

Anonymous:  "Love makes the world go 'round."

Phil:  "If it's real, it has an electron volt equivalent."

Donald Trump:  “It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.”

Rosalind:  "Thou speak wiser than thou art ware of."

Phil:  "For a discerning standard model, that's a massive proposition."

Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Beach Boys:  "Hoist up your sails John B."

T. Boone Pickens:  "We’ve got all these politicians talking about better health care and what all, but believe me, we’re not going to have the money to take care of sick people.. or anyone else as far as I’m concerned.. if we don’t fix our energy problem right now. I’ve got an idea what to do. It might not be a perfect idea, but hell, none of my best ideas have been perfect."

Hypatia of Alexandria:  "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."

Mona Lisa: "Can you prove God exists?"

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "If I told you, you wouldn't believe me."

Mona Lisa:   "You know?"

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "You know!"

Mona Lisa: "I know?"

Leonardo Da Vinci: "That's right."

Mona Lisa: "How do you know?"

Leonardo Da Vinci: "That is correct."

Mona Lisa:  "Jackass."

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "Jackass?"

Mona Lisa:  "That's right!"

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "You know?"

Mona Lisa:  "I know."

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "How do you know?"

Mona Lisa:  ;)

Patsy Cline:  "I'm Crazy."

Alfred E Neuman:  "What?  Me worry?"

Mr. Ed:  "Wilbur."

Phil:  "Did you see the movie 'The Man Who Would Be King?  How about 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?' 'The Godfather?'"

Governor David Paterson:  "Did you see 'The Boys from Brazil?'"

Joe Cocker:  "I get by with a little help from my friends."

Ringo Starr:  "So this is America. They must be out of their minds."

Kenneth Starr:  “Let me share with you a bit of the record in the case.”

John Lennon:  "He blew his mind out in a car."

Lee Harvey Oswald:  "I'm a patsy."

LBJ:  “I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.”

Jack Ruby:  "I thought I'd be a hero."

Thomas Rudman-Brown:  "The best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone.”

Glenn Beck:  "It's morning in America!"

Robin Williams:  "Good morning Viet Nam"

Paul Harvey:  "Good Day!"

Wilbur:  "Hello, Ed"

Louis Armstrong:  "Hello Dolly."

Martin Short:  "The callalillies are in bloom today."

George Segal:  "What's going on?"

Yogi Berra:  "It's deja vu all over again."

Marvin Gaye:  "What going on?"

Joe Dirt: "Yeah, I'm cool."

Phil:  "Is the source of all religious fanaticism the false assumption that 'nothing' is a noun?" Or does the trouble lie with the human trait that would attempt to exploit the lemmings' true quest for life?"

Lou Costello:  "What are you asking me for?"

Robin Goodfellow:  "If we shadows have offended think but this and...."

Abu: "I am Abu the thief. Son of Abu the thief. Grandson of Abu the thief."

Howard Hughes:  "Now regarding the Japanese Zero... The Japanese Zero was a shock..... "

Hamlet:  "To be, or not to be.  That is the question."

Erique Claudin:  "I'm famous..... just not too many people know it"

Hamlet:  "And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Ronald Reagan:  "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Irving Berlin:  "The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl."

Phil:  "I've been rich and I've been poor,  Ritz is better, Puttin'."

Harpo:  "     "                                                                                                       

Hamlet:  "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!  Nay, come, let's go together."

Phil:  "When is Eternity not Eternity?"

Groucho: "You Bet Your Life!"

Dalai Lama:  " Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."

Hamlet:  "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all..."

Margaret Mead:   "It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly."

Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Bill Gates:  "The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

George Washington:  If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Annie:  "The sun will come up tomorrow."

Albert Einstein:  "One sees that in this paradox the germ of the special relativity theory is already contained. Today everyone knows, of course, that all attempts to clarify this paradox satisfactorily were condemned to failure as long as the axiom of the absolute character of time, or of simultaneity, was rooted unrecognized in the unconscious. To recognize clearly this axiom and its arbitrary character already implies the essentials of the solution of the problem."

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "The unconscious.  Yeah, Right."

Phil:  "What's on the other side of our Universe?"

John McLaughlin:  "Many universes?"

Phil:  "We need a place and time before spacetime."

M. C. Escher:  "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check."

Salvador Dali: The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

Phil:  Multiverse. Right.  An infinitely variable spiral hyperchronospheric cosmological mobius strip.

Donald Trump:  "As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big."

Carl Jung:  "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

Gypsy Rose Lee:  "Let me entertain you."

Phil:  "From a quantum dramatics perspective her quarks are astonishing! Galactically speaking, of course."

McMurphy:  "I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this."

Groucho:  “Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?”

Phil:   "Reality!  A dynamic equilibrium of Multiversal (infinite universes) Mandelbrot curvature in ID (infinite dimensions)."

Janet Jackson:  "Wardrobe malfunction."

Phil:  "The PolyMcMurphic Law:  In our Multiverse, everything that can go wrong has already gone wrong...an infinite number of times!"

Yogi Berra:  "It's déjà vu all over again."

Phil:  "Any news?"

Chauncey Gardner:  "I like to watch."

Phil:  "Strunk said it best."

Continuing Our Discussion: "What is a Self Evident Truth"

Charles Darwin:  "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."

Walter Kornbluth:   "She's a fish!"

Beach Boys:  "Help me Rhonda, get her out of my heart."

Phil:  "Happiness starts with a smile."

Dalai Lama:  "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Thomas Jefferson (with Ben Franklin editing):  “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

Gloria Steinem:  "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Carrie Nation:  ““Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.”

Teddy Roosevelt:  "Speak softly, but carry a big stick."

Al Capone:  "Speak easy, but carry a baseball bat."

Helen Reddy:  "I am woman, hear me roar."

Tony the tiger: "They're grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!"

Tiger Woods:  "Could you just maybe delete my name from your cell phone.  That would be huge."

Phil:  "...and ends without one."

Topic: A Self Evident Truth

Phil:  "Double speak is to 1984 as polyverse is to______________?"

A.  The Voyage of the Beagle

B.  Mein Kampf

C.  The Trail of Tears

D.  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

E.  The Koran

Sgt. Pepper:  "Lucy in the skies with diamonds"

Jerry Falwell:  “Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.”

Sammy Sosa:  "Baseball has been good to me."

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776:  "When in the course of human events....."

Sigmund Freud: The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

Phil:  "A great orgasm, Einstein.  The purpose of the libido is the propagation of the species.  And by the current numbers on world population, that repression thing of yours has yet to commence."

Joe Montana:  "There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass."

The Idaho Couch Potato:  "This Spud's for you."

Bud Abbott:  "I don't know."

Phil:  "I've been to Helena and back!  You should see my car!"

Charles Foster Kane: "Yes. Dear Wheeler: you provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war."

Carrie Prejean:  "It's so embarrassing."

Alfred Hitchcock:  "Good Evening."

Maria:  "Fly me to The Moon."

Marilyn Monroe:  "Happy Birthday Mr. President."

Mick Jagger:  "I can't get no satisfaction."

Phil:  "I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of The Free Wankers Society.  The Free Wankers Society, bah!   What Free Wankers Society?  There is no Free Wankers Society."

Woody Allen:  "Don't knock it.  Its making love to somebody you really care about."

Dr Ruth:  "Remember to wear a condom."

Popeye:  "Shiver me timbers, Olive."

Phil:  "Maria?  Well....she's good, but she's no Maria. U? :)"

NASA's mission statement:  "Panspermia." 

Mick Jagger:  "You're So Vain."

Phil:  "Is that a Freudian slip or Victoria's Secret?"

Sigmund Freud:  "Man, ist wenn verliebt, sehr verrückt."

Leonard Bernstein:  "I feel pretty....."

Professor Henry Higgins:  "By George, I think she's got it!"

Clarke Gable:  "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn."

Bud Abbott:  "Oh, that's our short stop."

Phil:  "But love is real, symbolically speaking, Ann."

Rumi:  "There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth."

Brooke Medicine Eagle:  "Spirit of the Wind carry me.  Spirit of the Sky spread my wings and fly."

Emilia: "'Tis neither here nor there."

Marcellus:  "'Tis gone!"

Joe Namath:  "Hut one. Hut two. I want to kiss you."

Jim Morrison:  "Come on Baby light my fire!"

Pepe LePew:  "Je t'adore, mon cheri."

Jose Feliciano:  "Girl we couldn't get much higher."

Elton John:  "Like a Candle in the Wind"

Peter:  "Puff the magic dragon..."

Rif:  "When you're a jet..."

Friedrich Nietzsche:  "Also sprach Zarathustra"

"Erin Pavlina:  "In summary, if you want to learn to astral project there’s no reason why you can’t.  But it will take a commitment and some high awareness."

Mitch Miller and the Gang:  "By the light of the Silvery Moon"

Dennis Connors:  “Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.”

Phil:  "Ready about!  Hard alee!  Nice smile!"

Adam:  "Do you know the difference between a jib and a gybe?"

John Cameron Swayze:  "It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking!"

Bob Dylan:  "The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind."

Bob Denver: "Far out"

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: "Yogic Flying"

Clarence Darrow: "Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."

Robin:  "Holy Smokes, Batman!"