Silly guy he had 3 wishes.
Thats potentially 18 beers.
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
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Honestly one of the most memorable games from Fairly Odd Parents was how everyone's first wish from the genie was a sandwich
Apropos of nothing, I really enjoy his horrible gremlin version of Marx. The comic before this one has him trying to shoplift "a large turkey" by tucking it under his shirt and trying to convince GEM Anscombe to slip a brandy down her trousers because "they'll never suspect you". It's all very affectionate and tbh not entirely unfair, always gets a chuckle out of me.
Yeah I posted that one too. It's my favorite web comic by miles
okay fuck I need to watch this show lmao.
I met the Koala so to speak. I was on 3 tabs of acid and I'm pretty sure it was riding the carousel at the House on the Rock.
Lower Decks is great. The only reason it doesnt beat out tng for my second favorite trek show behind ds9 is yhat there juat isnt enough of it
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Why is it absolute knowledge is always presented as horrifying? What if its something comforting? Like the point of existence is simply to be.
I think if it was something like that, it would be horrifying to someone like Nietzsche, not to everyone.
the truth about the universe be like 'aristotle was right about some things. wrong about others. its okay. calm down' and then the philosophers lose their minds
because we are subjective beings with a specific perspective and identity, to have absolute objective knowledge would force a shift in perspective that obliterates the self and any sense of perspective or identity
Funny I ask this and later am presented with a video that contained the five stages of alchemic transformation, the first being putrefaction. Yes, I now see how it could form a rather immediate "black sun" effect on someone even if the knowledge gained wasn't necessarily horrifying.
Nietzsche believed in endless struggle and totally self-determined values, so the sort of information he was given here, if it included the conviction that it was true, probably would very deeply disturb him.
Also separate from that, "absolute knowledge" seems like it would be an extremely dizzying thing. Even if it was positive overall, I think it would still result in someone being quite shaken. Speaking for myself, I of course would say "the meaning of life" or any understanding of "the point of existence" as a prescriptive value statement are fantasies, but supposing they were real, direct knowledge of "objectively true" values is something many people agree humans do not have access to, so even if that's a valid idea, you can reasonably argue that that kind of thing requires transforming someone's mind in order to be able to meaningfully hold that information*, just like how we might more readily agree that on some level "the truth of the universe" might involve things so distant from anything we were evolved to handle or could ever encounter in the real world (not to mention so much information) that it would likewise involve changing our underlying cognitive capacities.
*this looks like a leap, but I would argue that totally inaccessible structures of truth just happening to look like the ones we've just sort of imagined on our own is at least as big of an assumption.
Yeah, feels like the better question is why Nietzsche, specifically, would make that wish when he should know it would mortify him.
It would be a lot to take in at once. It would be cool to see people get over it after having time to sit with it. Or maybe tou wouldnt since you have absolute knowledge and therefore already know how to process it.
wow ok strong 
vibes here.