MISTER POO

Sometimes people say to me - “Mister Poo - what is phenomenology?”

I always point them to the example of the toad in the bowl.
If no one is there to see the toad in the bowl - then does it really exist? Or is it just a malformed shit of the universal mind? With warts.
As so [...]

Look at this big fat fucker.
David Hume was famous for revolutionising Anglophone philosophical thought in the 18th century by rejecting God and standing up to the church in favour of the new rationalism and empricism. He was also a big lad.

So, one fine day in Edinburgh - and Hume’s out and about in Edinburgh - [...]

Mister Poo sincerely asks. Nietzsche says nihilism is a “will to nothingness” and should be opposed. He calls it the poisoning of the human soul.

What do you think he meant?
Could he not face a world full of nothing, as Depeche Mode put it. Nietzsche always urged man to higher things but where is he now?
Dead, [...]

“The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.”
This is what Friedrich Nietzsche said and this is a picture of a sewage treatment plant:

Being the kind of dude he was, Nietzsche probably wasn’t thinking of sewage treatment plants when he wrote that but who [...]

Austrian 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was unbelievably wealthy and was the best-known brain of the early 20th Century, famous amongst intellectuals the world over. So why the mardy mug?

Well, old Ludo reckoned at first that the facts of science told us everything but, later on , realised he was just talking and it meant [...]

Some people say to me: “Mister Poo - what is existentialism really?”
I can only answer in vagueries for that is what it was all about. If Descartes (a Rationalist) said “I poo therefore I am”, Nietzsche (an Existentialist) said “This poo is only any good because I made it”.

Later on, Albert Camus (a Frenchman) said [...]

Wiktionary is like Wikipedia except its a dictionary.
It reveals what words mean and how to say.
I examine ‘poo’ and discover how to pronounce in English. It rhymes with “-u”.
I discover that poo is a countable noun, also a concrete noun (same as “fuckbuddy“) and that it has synonyms which range from crap, dung, faeces, poop, [...]

Karl Marx is always depicted in art as an old. But he used to be younger, as you can see.

 
Marx’s theory of art said that art must be ideologically active, that it must be part of the class struggle against a persistent power structure.
This mean the final defeat of communism as a philosophy would be [...]

George Berkeley was an Irishman, a philosopher and a sufferer of constipation although he doesn’t look too troubled in this picture.
In fact, he looks like he’s deciding between biscuits.

He lived 200 years ago and his thoughts can be summed up by “To be is to be perceived”.
He means that if the other man cannot see [...]

Not every day can Mister Poo go…

Philosophy:
American President Roosevelt told his people that they had nothing to fear but fear itself. I know this is only rhetoric - facing, as I do, the real fear of a 3-day, 4-flush turd.
I am not ashamed to admit to you, my friends, that as much as I hope [...]