<![CDATA[Existential Comics]]> Follow Existential Comics, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/existential-comics Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:22:30 +0200 <![CDATA[An Exact Scientific Birthday]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_73zuIfi3SpgpNaYRWadcX6 PERSON: " " PERSON: "Sorry, what was i thinking? Let's make a perfectly rational, empirically verifiable party." PERSON: "Happy birthday Wittgenstein!" ]]> Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_73zuIfi3SpgpNaYRWadcX6 <![CDATA[Nietzsche Returns]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5eGx_KC07mvGw5Ur-z5Bww PERSON: " " PERSON: "Nietzsche, we are your biggest fans! I use your ideas to prove feminists they are wrong online." PERSON: "I use your ideas to explain to my mom that because i'm an ubermensch i shouldn't have to do the dishes." PERSON: "I use your ideas to pick up women. I explain how eternal recurrance means they should sleep with me." ]]> Mon, 10 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5eGx_KC07mvGw5Ur-z5Bww <![CDATA[The Wisdom of Aristotle]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7C-Fm6UzHlyXKSkciKEY1s PERSON: "Aristotle, i've come from the future to show you all the wonder progress we've made! " PERSON: "Human knowledge has advanced so far that we can manipulate nature to communicate across the world, and we've even travelled to the moon!" PERSON: "Medicine has advanced where we understand the true causes and can cure most diseases." PERSON: "We live in a democracy, where every man and woman gets an equal vote." PERSON: "Do you have an insights with your ancient wisdom that could help us?" PERSON: "Yes. Why in the world do you let women vote? They are subhuman." PERSON: "Wait, you haven't heard me explain how non-greeks are natural slaves!" PERSON: "Alright, back in the time machine, Grampa." ]]> Mon, 03 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7C-Fm6UzHlyXKSkciKEY1s <![CDATA[Utilitarianism Man]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7vsbihfGNb2VRpWVnEcNkS PERSON: " " PERSON: "Don't worry, it is i, Utilitarianism man! I'll save the day." ]]> Mon, 27 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7vsbihfGNb2VRpWVnEcNkS <![CDATA[Anarchy on the Street]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6g-MTpsp31HHHnycKeoCpf PERSON: " " ]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6g-MTpsp31HHHnycKeoCpf <![CDATA[Immanuel Kant on Sex]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7EETeBVuLvuYMOI2eu70Rg ]]> Mon, 13 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7EETeBVuLvuYMOI2eu70Rg <![CDATA[The End of the Dinosaurs]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Ga5S5SkoNvS1Ly282xAAw PERSON: " " PERSON: "It looks like an asteroid coming to end life as we know it, Arthur." PERSON: "No, because not only are we born to suffer, we are born to be cowards and cling to life." PERSON: "If that were true, wouldn't everyone kill themselves voluntarily?" PERSON: "Either way, it looks like it is time. Goodbye Steve, and thank you for the stimulating conversation." PERSON: "Hey, we aren't dead! What gives?" PERSON: "God damnit, Steve." PERSON: "Sure." ]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Ga5S5SkoNvS1Ly282xAAw <![CDATA[The Owl of Minerva]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5_Sbv2v122g0GT5aWO9DEx PERSON: "O wise owl, we come to you with a dilemma. " PERSON: "We wish to know... what is the meaning of life, and stuff?" PERSON: "But the freedom to kill? Can one in good faith claim freedom for themself while annhiliating the freedom of others? Can we-" PERSON: "You know, actually that was a pretty good point..." PERSON: "...shit." ]]> Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5_Sbv2v122g0GT5aWO9DEx <![CDATA[Camus Teaches Elementary Scohol]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6NZWLXXsMbbwp41t9tiERU Camus: "Okay, and that concludes basic arithmetic. " Camus: "Now we will learn basic philosophy, starting with the most basic question you can ask." Camus: "Should we all just kill ourselves immediately, or what?" Camus: "Can anyone give me ONE good reason why would shouldn't all kill ourselves RIGHT NOW?!" Student raises their hand. Camus: "Yes." Student: "Because God loves us?" Camus: "Is that some kind of joke or are you really that stupid?" Camus: "I meant serious answers, like that life is still worth living because you can date a lot of hot babes in your life." ]]> Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6NZWLXXsMbbwp41t9tiERU <![CDATA[Lassie Saves the Day]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5WzqCoPQ19F4IAmcWJ0TmB Description: Lassie runs up to the Sheriff to get his attention. Sheriff: "What is it Lassie? " Lassie: "Ruff! ruff!" Sheriff: "Timmy? He has fallen in the well?!" Towns-person: "We have to do something!" Sheriff: "What's that, Lassie?" Lassie: "ruff ruff, ruff ruff ruff. ruff ruff, ruff ruff ruff. ruff ruff, ruff ruff ruff?" Sheriff: "We can cause more total good by raising money for clean water in Africa, because our only moral obligation should be to cause the most happiness, and the happiness of those across the world has no less worth than that of the people we know and love?" Towns-person: "Good job Lassie!" Sheriff: "Who cares about Timmy, in particular!" ]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5WzqCoPQ19F4IAmcWJ0TmB <![CDATA[Philosophy News Network: Street Philosophy]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7Svoujbtf0XH-fx8LWuXng Simone de Beauvoir: "We come to you live with breaking report, are your children learning dangerous philosophy....ON THE STREET?!" News Ticker:" NBC's “The Next Great Philosopher” canceled after everyone realized philosophy is boring." de Beauvoir: "It is estimated that approximately one in five teenagers will encounter some form of illegal street philosophy before the age of eighteen. Bertrand Russell comes to us with this shocking report." News Ticker: "Philosopher's union criticize the new infrastructure bill for lack of armchairs" Bertrand Russell: "Thank you, de Beauvoir. I are here with with an illegal street philosopher, selling his ideas in Paris. He prefers to stay anonymous." Althusser: "No, i told you, my name is Louis Althusser. You said this would be on television. I'm trying to become a famous intellectual!" Althusser: "Hey kid, want a structural critique of reformist socialism?" Kid: "Hook me up, man." Russell: "So tell me, why sell your philosophy here, rather than through the traditional structure of the university?"

Althusser: "Because the university is part of the ideological state apparatus which controls and re-enforces the hegemonic ideology of the ruling capitalist class. " Althusser: "Also, have you seen the academic job market?" Russell: "So what-" Althusser: "Hey!" Althusser: "Zizek, stop stealing my philosophy!" Zizek: "The concept of owning ideas is part of ruling class ideology!" Althusser: "I know, that's MY idea!" Russell: "Back to you, de Beauvoir." News Ticker: "The Hard Problem of Consciousness solved after everyone agrees they are sick of talking about it." de Beauvoir: "Thank you, join us next week for our report on epistemological skepticism. What is impossible to know? And can it kill you?" News Ticker: "Aaron Rodgers draws controversy after admitting he doesn't believe in counter-factuals" ]]> Mon, 08 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7Svoujbtf0XH-fx8LWuXng <![CDATA[Explaining Capitalism to Aliens]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_46WQDqmsLVbn-fx8LWuXng Alien: "Explain to us: how do you decide how to allocate resources, and who does what work, on Earth?" Human: "So you see, on Earth we have a free market, so resources are efficiently allocated to meet the needs of the people, based on market principles like supply and demand. " Human: "Entrepreneurs own the factories, and workers sell their labor to them." Alien: "How can you “own” a factory?" Human: "That's easy, you just have a piece of paper saying that you do, and the State enforces it with police." Alien: "But what I don't understand is why do the workers obey the people with the pieces of paper that say they own everything?" Human: "No, they aren't obeying them, they are entering into a free contract in order to earn the money they need to survive. " Alien: "That sounds a lot like how we kept beasts of burden as slaves in our primitive societies. " Human: "No, you aren't getting it, it is freedom." Alien: "I don't understand, why don't the workers, being the larger class, simply destroy and eat the smaller class who commands them?" Human, looking annoyed: "Let me show you some of the charts again..." ]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_46WQDqmsLVbn-fx8LWuXng <![CDATA[Nietzsche Fights the Law]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_45BAGS1jGG2aJCIqJppjfU Nietzsche: "Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. " Nietzsche: "That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of “world history,” but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths -" Judge: "Okay, I'm going to stop you there. All we really need to hear is why you feel you aren't liable for this parking violation." Nietzsche: "To understand this story, we must begin at the beginning." Nietzsche: "The Greeks, from whom we all inherit our culture, had a struggle of two sides, the Apollonian and Dionysian, each side-" Judge: "Okay, I'm going to stop again. The officer who gave you the ticket didn't show up so you win by default." Nietzsche: "Yes, i am the ubermensch, I've overturned 2,000 years of christian morality based on resentment! I am the greatest!" Judge: "Please leave." ]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_45BAGS1jGG2aJCIqJppjfU <![CDATA[In Which Bertrand Russell Asks Out a Girl]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5RChocopv8SUTXPGaG87AR Frege: "Look Russell, it is simple. You just have to state your case with rigorous mathematical precision, and you will be sure to have success. " Russell: "But what if she says no, Frege?" Frege: "Think about it logically. What is the worse case scenario? That she says no and you won't get a date, which is the exact same state of the world if you don't ask her out at all." Russell: "Hmm, i guess you are right." Russell: "Excuse me, miss, i was wonder if...perhaps...sometime you wanted to go on a date with me?" Woman: "No." Rusell: "Oh, okay then." WomanN: "One more thing though, have you ever wondered if the set of all sets that do not contain themselves contains itself or not?" Frege: "What happened Russell? You look like you've seen a ghost! Did she reject you?" Russell: "Frege, you might want to sit down." ]]> Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5RChocopv8SUTXPGaG87AR <![CDATA[Sun Tzu vs Machiavelli]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_67vkhmTwbo0mnhpmeYcemU Sun Tzu, playing cards: "Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. This is how i will defeat you Machiavelli." Machiavelli: "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves, Sun Tzu." Sun Tzu: "Ah yes, but i always appear weak when i am strong, and strong when i am weak." Machiavelli: "He who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived, but i'm afraid it is not i." Sun Tzu: "If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by." Machiavelli: "But you are forgetting the most important lesson of warfare: life is short and we all must die." Sun Tzu: "Ah yes, but what does that actually mean for the game?" Machiavelli, angrily: "It means: play your god damn turn already! Why do you always take an hour?" Sun Tzu: "Fine, geez, okay. You took just as long, calm down. Queens?" Machiavelli: "Go fish." ]]> Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_67vkhmTwbo0mnhpmeYcemU <![CDATA[Immanuel Kant's Day Off]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Mqw1CzkV-LrmyhX6zo8SW Kant's friend: "Kant, you have to take a break from just doing philosophy! " Kant: "But that's all i want to do." Kant's friend: "Just give it a try." Kant: "Fine." Kant, at the beach: "i don't like this." Kant, on a Ferris wheel: "i don't like this." Kant, parasailing: "i don't like this." Kant, at a dance club: "i don't like this." Kant, eating ice cream: "i don't like this." Kant's friend: "But why don't you like any of it?" Kant: "Ah yes! Why?" Kant: "Why indeed?" Kant, writing philosophy: "This i like." ]]> Mon, 04 Oct 2021 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Mqw1CzkV-LrmyhX6zo8SW