Archive for the 'Reality' Category

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 7: Ad consequentiam

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 7: Ad consequentiam

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 6: Pyrrhonian skepticism

Monday, December 31st, 2007

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 6: Pyrrhonian skepticism

aka

  • “Play the Joker”
  • “Fifth wheel”
  • “Memetic Darwinism by psychological means”

This lengthy statement is the famous “Joker”, which is a well known defense move used by skeptics. I literally quote the English translation of Sextus Empiricus’s “Outlines of Pyrrhonism”.

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 5: Draw a metacomic

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 5: Draw a metacomic

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 4: Draw a distinction

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

On the Old Saw…
101 ways to cope with reality - Part 4: Draw a distinction

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 3: Memetic Darwinism

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

aka “Blame the messenger”

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 3: Memetic Darwinism

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 2: Ad hominem

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 2: Ad hominem

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 1: Sarcasm

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

In the beginning the Great Drawer created the pens and the papers. And the papers were without form, and void; and whiteness was upon the face of the deep. And the Hand of the Great Drawer moved upon the face of the papers. And the Great Drawer said, Let there be a metacomic: and there was a metacomic. And the Great Drawer saw that the metacomic was good. Here it is.

This comic blog is heavily inspired by xkcd and Decorum, but the emphasis is on philosophy and self-reference.

101 ways to cope with reality - Part 1: Sarcasm