Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar A short course in logic.

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The relativity of time:

"A snail is mugged by two turtles; when the police ask him what happened?
The turtle says, "I don't know it all happened so fast."

Joking, and Learning, About Philosophy
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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar A short course in logic

A perfect illustration of something you learn in logic

Informal fallacies
post hoc ergo propter hoc

This older guy marries a younger woman and no matter how hard he tries he cannot satisfy her. He goes to his rabbi, the rabbi
He says, “rabbi what should I do about this?”
The rabbi says we had this problem before what you do is get a younger guy to stand by the bed and wave a towel over you while you are making love to her
He does. And she feels nothing at all. He goes back to the rabbi. And the rabbi says

“ Yeah we have had this problem too, what you do is make a slight adjustment, you put the younger guy in bed with your wife and you wave the towel. So he goes home and does this and she screaming with ecstasy and he looks down and says “SCHUMCK that’s the way you wave a towel!

[Jacob]

Decent joke, highly valuable lesson.