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The title of this book cannot describe the content of this book
American writer Eric Kaplan? Translated by Yuan Jing? Beijing United Publishing Company
To be honest, I don’t understand this book very well, but I still shamelessly recommend it. Because you probably won't understand it either. If you understand it, it means you are very smart, because I am smart and you are smarter than me, so you must be very smart. I think you will like this logic very much.
And this book also talks about logic. Its title is very strange, it is called "The title of this book cannot describe the content of this book". It is actually a book about philosophical concepts, through very humorous and absurd way to discuss logic, religion, humor, life, etc. with you.
Generally speaking, we all think that logic is a good thing. It will make you rational and quickly find solutions to problems. It seems that there is no problem that logic cannot solve. And if we are all rational, Life may be boring, but at least it won't lead us to act stupidly and inefficiently. Is it right? Yes, this is just like your brain always thinks that the brain is the smartest part of the body. Your rational mind tells you that if you want something, you have to find a way to get it. In fact, this is also the life concept of many of us, right? It is also like the emphasis in the workplace that "a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier." Because you will want to be a general, you will work hard to become a general. Therefore, the book uses a drama to explain the irrationality and tell you that rational people may also become mentally retarded:
The characters in the drama are me and you, and then you hold a bottle of soda and 100 yuan Money came on the scene, and then so did I.
I said: Do you want a piece of pizza?
You tell me: Think, great.
I said: If you give me a dollar, I will give you pizza in exchange for soda.
You said: OK, thank you.
Then, you exchange this for pizza, and now you have a piece of pizza and ninety-nine dollars.
I continued: You're welcome, but you actually want to drink soda, right?
You said: Isn’t it? The soda is very delicious.
Then I will tell you: I really have a bottle of soda.
You must want to say: This is the bottle I just gave you.
I will answer you: yes, but you want a bottle of soda now, how about a piece of pizza and a dollar in exchange for it?
If your motto is "If you want something, you have to find a way to get it", then you will trade with me. Then after 98 times, you have no money. Of course, I can still accept your credit card.
Maybe you think you won’t act like this, and it’s not really rational, but the real world is much more complicated than this show, and it’s not like adding a sandwich between soda and pizza to interact. It's so easy to change. You see, the stock market constantly releases various news, influencing people to buy and sell. Isn't this a real-life version of mutual exchange? I remember there was a story about a man who kept exchanging pins with each other, and finally changed to a villa. This is a true story that happened in the United States. Since exchange can obtain a premium from others, then someone must have suffered a loss because of the exchange. Even if the party who suffered the loss is willing to exchange, then this cannot be explained rationally. .
There are many things that cannot be solved by reason, such as religion. You can never prove whether God exists, just like books cannot prove whether Santa Claus exists. How to solve this kind of confusion in life? The book defines it as mysticism. Mysticism includes religion, but is not limited to religion. Religion has many "fuzzy" definitions to explain contradictions in real society. Take the Pali Tripitaka, for example, which accurately records every word and deed of the Buddha. There is a dialogue like this: A disciple asked the Buddha what would happen if he got rid of the upside-down dream and entered the paradise.
Hua Jia: "World Honored One, where will a practitioner be reborn after he attains the Tao?"
Buddha: "Hua Jia is not 'rebirth'"
"World Honored One, does this mean that he will not be reborn?"
"Hua Jia, it does not mean that he will not be reborn."
"World Honored One, since he is reborn, he will not be reborn." "Rebirth?"
"Hua Jia, no"
"World Honored One, will he neither be reborn nor not be reborn?"
"Hua Jia?" "Add, not"
Hua Jia's four questions are: "rebirth", not "will not be reborn", not "both reborn and not reborn", not "neither reborn, nor reborn". "You will never be reborn again." This contradictory answer may seem like nonsense, but it actually represents a mysterious high degree of unity. Religion often has this kind of incomprehensible high degree of unity. It can explain problems that cannot be solved logically. Only when you reach a certain level of wisdom can you achieve enlightenment. This unified perspective can solve some dilemmas or difficult choices, especially ideological issues. There is a mode of thinking called Toledo's law, which means that the test of whether a person's wisdom belongs to the upper class lies in whether his head can accommodate two opposite thoughts without affecting his behavior. In life, we call a kind of person "two-faced". This actually means that he treats others and himself with double standards. It is indeed very difficult to truly unify two opposite modes of thinking. We can't even use the word "both exists and does not exist". existence" to explain.
The conclusion is that mystics cannot be understood by logicians, and of course mystics often think logicians are inferior.
If we try to combine mysticism and logic, it becomes very humorous. No matter how they are expressed, mysticism and logic give a one-size-fits-all answer to the problem, which is too unsexy. Humor allows us to accept new concepts when we smile knowingly, and it also allows us to accept contradictory attitudes. You can see that many politicians in the West often turn passersby into fans with their humorous answers, while in China, officials’ humor can often help you deal with various embarrassing situations.
For example, the beloved Premier Zhou Enlai was once asked by a foreign reporter, "How much money does the People's Bank of China have?" Premier Zhou Enlai replied, "Eighteen yuan and eighty-eight cents," and then said, " The ten main and auxiliary RMB issued by the People's Bank of China have denominations of ten yuan, five yuan, two yuan, one yuan, five jiao, two jiao, one jiao, five cents, two cents and one cent, with a total of eighteen yuan, eighty and eight cents..."
If Premier Zhou had told foreign reporters the funds of the National Bank in a straight-forward manner, he had exposed state secrets accurately and wrongly, he was lying in public, and if he had said something mysterious and mysterious, he would have felt like an idiot. Having this kind of intelligent humor is not only a powerful counterattack, but also shows his own quality. Humor has always been able to build an intellectual bridge between mysticism and logic.
Attached is a joke from comedy master Robert Schmill:
God will give you as much as you can carry. But he must have misunderstood me. I am almost exhausted.
A pastor once said to me: "Death is not the end." I said, can you tell this to my uncle? After he died in 1976, he felt that he was dead, and a funeral was held, and he is still buried in the ground.
Whether it is logic, mysticism or humor, I can’t fully understand it. Just like life, the days always pass in a daze. Even if I have an epiphany at this moment, I will have an epiphany at the next moment. There are new problems. Reading is just like life. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. Reading is a process and an improvement in your understanding of life.
Yu Xuan
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
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