Goodbye, wrongboy!

[UserGoogol]

This sketch (http://youtube.com/watch?v=AbYBPOH7LrY) was done by Exit 57, a sketch comedy series which aired on Comedy Central for a season in 1995-6. It has Stephen Colbert in it and Strangers with Candy veteran Paul Dinello. (Well, Strangers With Candy started after Exit 57 was cancelled, but he's still a veteran.) It's about a community college student talking nonsense to his philosophy proffessor who grows full of rage by the end of the sketch.

I think it contains a fairly interesting message about philosophy which may be of interest to you all.

"There is, therefore, there exists everything is or nothing is. Nothing is and were dreamed of something that isn't either."

"I thought you were wrong before, but compared to now, you were right."

[JamesDillon]

This sketch (http://youtube.com/watch?v=AbYBPOH7LrY) was done by Exit 57, a sketch comedy series which aired on Comedy Central for a season in 1995-6. It has Stephen Colbert in it and Strangers with Candy veteran Paul Dinello. (Well, Strangers With Candy started after Exit 57 was cancelled, but he's still a veteran.) It's about a community college student talking nonsense to his philosophy proffessor who grows full of rage by the end of the sketch.

I think it contains a fairly interesting message about philosophy which may be of interest to you all.

"There is, therefore, there exists everything is or nothing is. Nothing is and were dreamed of something that isn't either."

"I thought you were wrong before, but compared to now, you were right."
Interesting video and it reminds me of all too many conversations in which I've participated here and elsewhere, but what is the "interesting message about philosophy" that we're supposed to derive from it?

[Z]

The 'deeper' the philosophical rant, the more likely it is to be wrong?

[UserGoogol]

Interesting video and it reminds me of all too many conversations in which I've participated here and elsewhere, but what is the "interesting message about philosophy" that we're supposed to derive from it?

That's pretty much it, I was just trying to be coy so people didn't feel I was making fun of them personally.

[JamesDillon]

That's pretty much it, I was just trying to be coy so people didn't feel I was making fun of them personally.

Ah, got it :) I'll have to incorporate "Goodbye, wrong boy!" into my rhetorical style at a much earlier point in conversation; it'll probably save me a lot of frustration in the future.

I should add that I didn't find the video all that funny, because until the very end it sounded a lot like any number of conversations I've actually witnessed in philosophy classrooms. But maybe it's an instance of, "It's funny because it's true."

[Kopji]

There's a new word: 'wikiality' to go with 'truthiness'.
This is when something is true because enough people vote.