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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

So, the Pope's a Catholic...

It was almost enough to make me want to convert. And then His Holiness has to ruin it by regurgitating eco-propaganda about the rain forests.

4 comments:

furriskey said...

If a bear falls silently in the rain forest, does anybody hear?

paul ilc said...

If the bear falls "silently", then by definition no-one can "hear" him fall. If he falls dead and alone, he makes air waves of x frequency. If they hit the eardrum of a sentient being, his fall is heard. Sound qua the relevant air waves exists objectively and can be measured. Sound qua the experience of air waves hitting an auditory nerve is a 'subjective experience'.

And that applies to the bear's farts as well.

Enoch_Root said...

Unless of course the bear is a Papa Bear.

In which case he probably gets feisty when poachers come along and threaten his cubs.

Frank P said...

... and if anyone claims that they do, would it be a bear faced lie?