11mo ago

The fool should learn to fly.

What would you expect from a seahorse though, am I right?

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There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys. How’s the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"
— David Foster Wallace, This is Water
- That joke works until you realize we're perfectly aware of the existence of air.
  
  Yeah, but would you be aware if you hadn't learned about it in school?
  Oh wait. Fish spend lots of time in school. Dang.
- “Fish forget they live in water; people forget they live in the Tao” -Confucius?
  
  What the hell is Tao?
- Immediately thought of this.
How many ways can we rewrite the allegory of the cave?
- Of the what?
  
  Plato's cave allegory.
I have a friend who believes in magic, and that we can't see it for the same reason this sea horse is confused about the ocean
- Jesus do be like dat
Stupid seahorse can form complex sentences but can't analyze the water around him like some kinda simple animal!!
- You mean the aether
  Right?
I thought the seahorse was talking about the microphone
- Why would you think that? It literally reacted to what the guy said about water.
You want a shower thought? H2O is just another gas, compressed. We live in the ocean too, just the upper part with lighter gases.
- It is not. Both gases and liquids are fluids, though.
  
  Do I look like a scientist to you? I can barely keep from falling into the lower ocean.

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