“An ideal gift for people who don’t read books.”
“Jokes about impermanence that will last forever.”
“The book that happened while you were making other plans.”
“For people in recovery from the self-help industry.”
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All humor is philosophy. But Ludwig Wittgenstein went further and wrote: “An entire treatise of philosophy could be written that consists entirely of humorous statements.” Evan Hodkins similarly wrote: “The next religion will consist of a catalog of jokes.” The Mexican poet Cesar Cruz once said: that all art should “comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable.” And now, dear reader, you have fatefully stumbled upon a collection of original jokes that combines all three concepts, in easy-to-digest, bite-sized nuggets!
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(Publisher’s Note: Dear Readers, Taste in humor is very personal. If you try this book and like it, please think about leaving a review. 🙂 If you didn’t connect with the concepts, thank you for taking a chance on something new! ~And have a wonderful day!)
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(From the Preface:) It’s rare to find a trifecta of thought streams and modalities as unexpectedly intertwined as what we find in this one-of-a-kind collection of original (one-line) jokes — aphorisms (or “laughorisms”) known as The Eisenberg Principles. In these one-sentence vignettes, the fields of philosophy, physics, and psychology marry into uproariously funny trysts of paradoxical play, each one like a piece of deluxe brain-candy which is no less serious in its treatment of the human condition as it is absurd. We are not only afforded a chance to glimpse into the thoughts of this wondrously twisted thinker, we are challenged to follow him into the surprising and impossible rabbit holes of language he unearths on every page.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time — and still retain the ability to function.” This catalog of jokes, like a set of modern Zen koans, puts you through this test, playing with the principles of paradox, polarity, and incongruity to take you from the comforts of cliché to the chasms of contradiction with just a few strokes of a pen.
From the book: “When we said humor can lead to enlightenment, we were not joking.”
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