Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Richard Fulmer ·
August 6, 2012 at 11:37pm
Sometimes a question is the best response.
Answer: I am a true solipsist. (Gorgias)
Question: So why tell me?
A: There is no truth. (Gustave Flaubert)
Q: Is that true?
A: Knowledge is unknowable. (Francisco Sanches)
Q: How do you know?
A: It is irrational to assume that tomorrow will be anything like today. (David Hume)
Q: So you learned to speak, read, and write because…?
A: All cultures are equally valid. (Franz Boas)
Q: Including those that teach that all other cultures are invalid?
A: Truth is created, not discovered. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Q: Did you just make that up?
A: There is no free will. (Baron d’Holbach)
Q: What makes you say that?
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May '10
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Whenever I see the bumper sticker, "Question Authority", I want to ask, what gives you the right to put that on your car? But I seriously doubt that anyone who displays such a sticker is actually intelligent enough to understand its silliness.
Jun '12
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Just ask them if they question anything any given Democratic President does.
If they can honestly answer yes, they're exceptional.
Jul '11
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A. We are the ones we've been waiting for (Obama)
Q. Which god do you worship?
Dec '10
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Ah, turning the assertion in on itself. That move, right there, accounted for about 80% of the useful class conversations I managed to kick off (N.B. the n on that total is very small) while securing my Philosophy BA.
Mar '11
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Not a question, but I still like it:
"God is Dead" (Neitzsche, 1882)
"Neitzsche is dead" (God, 1900)
Jun '12
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In their wonderful book I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist, Norman Geisler and Frank Turek call that the Road-Runner Technique, because it leaves the other person standing on thin air like Wile E. Coyote, and only just now realizing it.
Nov '10
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Thank you, Richard. Like!
Dec '11
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
A: I am for marriage equality. (Fred Cole)
Q: Honey, what are you babbling about and have you taken the trash out yet?
Edited on August 7, 2012 at 12:25amMay '11
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A: Shoot first. Ask questions later!
KAPOW!!!
Q: Why?
Sep '10
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Jeff Richter: Not a question, but I still like it:
"God is Dead" (Neitzsche, 1882)
"Neitzsche is dead" (God, 1900)
· 5 hours ago
"God is not dead - He is merely unemployed" - Pogo, late 20th Century.
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Star Trek, Original series, “Conscience of the King.” Kirk is pretty sure that the actor in the Shakespeare troupe performing on the Enterprise is, in fact, Kodos the Executioner, a notorious colonial administrator who massacred citizens to keep famine from killing everyone.
“Captain,” said Kodos the Executioner to James T. Kirk. “Who are you to judge?”
Kirk stops, glowers, spits it out:
“Who do I have to be?”
I’ve always loved that, even though it’s not as useful a rejoinder unless you say it Kirk style.
Oct '10
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Perhaps lacking brevity this day, the response would be.
1. The sky is blue, water's wet.
2. Gravity sucks ! Thats an old person reference, Ha !
Jun '10
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Bob Croft
Jeff Richter: Not a question, but I still like it:
"God is Dead" (Neitzsche, 1882)
"Neitzsche is dead" (God, 1900)
· 5 hours ago
"God is not dead - He is merely unemployed" - Pogo, late 20th Century. · 52 minutes ago
G. K. Chesterton explained why he's "underemployed": “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
Wonderful thread. I love this stuff. I just wish I was clever enough to create it.
Jul '11
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Of course he is underemployed. Haven't you been paying attention to the unemployment numbers lately. There is a good chance he has given up and left the workforce.
Nov '11
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DocJay: A. We are the ones we've been waiting for (Obama)
Q. Which god do you worship? · 7 hours ago
A: We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Edited on August 7, 2012 at 3:05amQ: Were we worth the wait?
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
Hold on: wasn't the title of this post the title of a long-running Mad magazine series? If so, *clap*
Nov '11
Re: Snappy Questions to Stupid Answers
The title is a twist on Mad's "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions"
Apr '11
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"Let's go with 'Snappy' for $400 please, Alex."
Sep '11
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Q. Do I exist?
A. I talk to myself, therefore , I am
Jun '12
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A: There is no absolute truth.
Q: Are you absolutely sure about that?