seraphimsigrist was sharing limericks

[arisbe]

This just turned up in my email:

There was a young man who said, "Though
It seems that I know that I know,
What I would like to see
is the "I" that knows "me"
When I know that I know that I know."

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[tiwonge.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks.

My first online handle was DesCartes. This limerick is particularly appropriate for Descartes' philosphy. I just put it down as my profile on that account.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Hm. Maybe more Kant or Shankara, where there is a transcendental consciousness behind the empirical ego?

[tiwonge.livejournal.com]

I guess it's appropriate as a critique of Descartes' Meditations. Who is this "I" that thinks?

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

And the "I" that observes the thinking...

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

On the subject of (clean) limericks...

night.

There was a time traveller named Bright
Who travelled much faster than light.
He left one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous