Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

One day, the lawyer decided to get away from the pressures of lying to people and go skiing for a week. Just as luck would have it, a few moments after he had just started skiing, he heard a rumbling. In a few seconds he saw a huge mass of snow rushing towards him. Luckily,…

A duck hunter, proud of his markmanship, took his son out one morning to witness his skill. After some time a lone duck flew by. “Watch this,” whispered the dad, as he took aim and carefully fired. The duck flew serenely on. “My boy,” said the hunter, “you are witnessing a great miracle. There flies…

A blonde girl just stepped into the bathtub when the doorbell rang. “Who is it?””Blind man,” came the response. Feeling charitable, the blonde dashed from the tub without bothering to put on any clothes, grabbed her purse, and opened the door. The man’s jaw dropped and he stammered, “Wh-where do you want me to put…

Man: Do you serve breakfast here?Waitress: Sure; what’ll it be?”Man:Let me have watery eggs…some burnt toast…and some weak coffee, lukewarm. Waitress: Whatever you say, sir. Man: Now, are you doing anything while that order is going through?Waitress: Why…no, sir. Man: Then sit here and nag me a while…I’m feeling homesick.

A minister wound up the services one morning by saying, “Next Sunday I am going to preach on the subject of liars. And in connection to this, I’d like everyone to read the Mark 17. “On the following Sunday, the preacher rose to begin and said, “Now then, all of you who have done as…

“I caught a 250-pound marlin the other day!””That’s nothing. I was fishing the other day and hooked a lamp from an old Spanish ship. In fact, the light was still lit!””If you bow out the light, I’ll take 200 pounds off the marlin. “

There once was a redneck who decided to buy a chain saw. A logging foreman sold him one that he guaranteed would cut down 15 trees in a single day. A week later, a very unhappy redneck cam back to report that the saw must be faulty. He only cut one tree per day. The…

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. “In English,” he said, “A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative. “A voice from the back of the room…

A pipe burst in a doctor’s house. He called a plumber. The plumber arrived, unpacked his tools, did mysterious plumber-type things for a while, and handed the doctor a bill for $800. The doctor exclaimed, “This is ridiculous! I don’t even make that much as a doctor!” The plumber waited for him to finish and…