Never go drinking with philosophers
April 6, 2007 2 Comments
Nietzsche Ale: God is passed out on the couch.
Rand Brewery’s “The Foamyhead”: Screw off! Buy your own!
Plato’s Pilsner: “It’s almost perfect!”–Socrates.
Locke Lite: I’ll drink you under the tabula!
Pascal’s Lager: Go ahead, have another. You’ve got nothing to lose!
“I drink therefore I am” – Rene Descartes (according to Monty Python)In fact how about the philosopher’s drinking song? Immanuel Kant was a real pissantWho was very rarely stable.Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggarWho could think you under the table.David Hume could out-consumeWilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have ‘Schopenhauer and Hegel’]And Wittgenstein was a beery swineWho was just as schloshed as Schlegel.There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya’Bout the raising of the wrist.Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.Plato, they say, could stick it away–Half a crate of whisky every day.Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.Hobbes was fond of his dram,And René Descartes was a drunken fart.’I drink, therefore I am.’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=653s-FBXpTA to watch it
It’s not philosophy, but…Beer is the mindkiller. Beer is the little death that brings total oblivion. I will face my beer. I will permit it to wash over me and through me and when it is gone I will turn the little eye to see it’s path.When the beer is gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.