*looks up Wittgenstein on Wikipedia*
HA HA HA I GET THIS JOKE!
*looks round*
*hopes nobody realises he's an uneducated pleb who's never heard of Wittgenstein*
*realises people can read these bits*
Oops :(
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Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:31,
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*looks round*
*hopes nobody realises he's an uneducated pleb who's never heard of Wittgenstein*
*realises people can read these bits*
Oops :(
The evening began at the gentlemen's club, where we were discussing Witgenstein over a game of Backgammon
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Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:32,
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at school together
rich gay jew with rich family who dominated the town. Right wing father resented this. Son followed dad.
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Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:38,
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So it's all Wittgenstein's fault
because he was rich and gay and had Jewish heritage (but was brought up Roman Catholic)?
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Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:40,
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I blame YOU
for Hitler.
and Wikipedia says "Despite his paternal grandparents' conversion to Protestantism, the Wittgenstein children were baptized as Roman Catholics—the faith of their maternal grandmother—and Ludwig was given a Roman Catholic burial upon his death."
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Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:42,
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and Wikipedia says "Despite his paternal grandparents' conversion to Protestantism, the Wittgenstein children were baptized as Roman Catholics—the faith of their maternal grandmother—and Ludwig was given a Roman Catholic burial upon his death."
Again according to Wikipedia
His father's parents, Hermann Christian and Fanny Wittgenstein (who was a first cousin of the violinist Joseph Joachim), were born into Jewish families but later converted to Protestantism
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Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:45,
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That's fine. I understand.
you can only belong to one religious cult at a time.
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Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:46,
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Or divine bigamy
Judaism was not always a monotheistic religion. You could just hang out with whatever God was being cool that week technically. Like maybe Vishnu is being kind of cunt because his new girlfriend makes him act like a jerk so you just call up Tao and ask if he wanted to go play beer pong at some Zoroastrian angel's house party.
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