Funny letter I found!

[Confectrix]

Lex:

The instrinsic logic of the statement was false. The very sentence is illogical.

You are correct in saying that it follows a certain logic of humor.

But in itself; it is illogical.

That is all I am saying.

Also, what is the humor in insinuating that humanity is infinitly stupid?

The decadence of our being is quite common...and troubling.

Yours,

[Lexington_Steele]

The purpose of the statement was not to create a logical argument. It was to create a pseudological argument for the purposes of humor.

From top to bottom every word in the quote attempts to serves a specific purpose and successfully fulfills that purpose. There is a logic behind the use of every word. Whether or not humans really are infinitely stupid does not effect whether or not the purpose of the statement is achieved. Is see that as logical statement. Trying to make a mathematically logical argument there would have been illogical.

As far as trying to argue that humans are not infinitely stupid, that is tough to do. Where do you put the boundaries on human stupidity where every type or example of human stupidity would fall into.

As for why it is funny, who know where humor comes from.

Why is a chicken crossing the road funny?

People often make fun of other people and we call them jokes. People laugh at the darwin awards.

I maintain that it is a good signature

[Confectrix]

Lex, maybe you didn't read what I said. Let me restate here for you to reread again:

"You are correct in saying that it follows a certain logic of humor."

Humans are not infinitly stupid because they are a finite being. Elementry logic. Really 6th grade logic.

I'm done with this one.

Squeeky is cracking down.

[Lexington_Steele]

Why can't a finite creature contain something that is infinite?

Is your imagination finite?

Is there a finite amount of music that can be written?

[Camping Carl]

Trin Tragula-for that was his name-was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosipher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.

"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day. And so he built the total perspective vortex-just to show her.

And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

-Quote from The Restuarant at The End of The Universe
Douglas Adams 1980

[Destroyeron]

[Confectrix]

Thanks camping. I really needed that.