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How Would Schopenhauer React?
« on: May 24, 2018, 01:43:08 pm »
Do you know how some people say, "What would Jesus do?" ?

Well, while reckoning on how to prevent the many books on top of a long cabinet from weighing down the thin top layer of wood beneath them and coming down upon my body which sleeps on a cot pressed up against the closed cabinets, I found something that relieved some of the stress and humiliation of finding myself having to deal with yet another ridiculous, almost comical, situation.

I imagined how Arthur Schopenhauer might react were he transmigrated into being me on this very day.

How would Arthur react to having to clean his mother's carpets with a machine rented from Home Depot?   Fortunately, once a maintenance worker, always a maintenance worker, so it will all go rather smoothly in between cigarette smoking breaks.  On top of that, after returning the machine, he will have to get an eight foot (by 20 inches) plank of wood into a Toyota Yaris.     He would probably have the wood delivered.  Me?  I prefer to let it hang out the hatch-back and tie down the hatch.  It's a short drive.   

(An aside: Who the fuuck would even want to be president of the United States?   I can barely handle life's little day to day challenges.  Imagine the arrogance one must have to want to be the Head Gort in Charge.  That goes for all of them who even WANT to be in charge, not just poor old Mr Money Bags.)

The humorous aspect of this is that it was only because of having to clean the carpets that this Schopenhauer disciple even folded up the cot and thereby opened the dusty old cabinets, which is when I noticed the ceilings of both cabinets bending in their respective middles.   The weight of all the books and math notebooks had bent the wood over an inch in the center.   The carpenter who had built the shelves years ago had not designed them to suppot any weight at all on top.  That is, the top board  is attached to the sides, not attached from above.  In other words, they do not overlap where there is support, but are merely attached to the side!

Anyway, as I am on my way out to pick up the machine, I wanted to log this quick observation that it may be possible for me to inject some humor into my daily life if I imagine how Schopenhauer would deal with any of this.

Well, the easiest solution is to place an 8 ft long, 12 to 20 inch plank of wood across the top so as to distribute the weight of the books.  That will hopefully prevent the books from conspiring with gravity to crush my skull as I sleep on the humble cot just beneath them.

Unlike Isaac Newton, I would not discover gravity, but it would be gravity which discovered me ... discovered me retarded after suffering severe trauma to the head via mostly math books.

Imagine the irony in that!

Then I could honestly tell people that, while I tried to prevent myself from becoming brain dead from too much alcohol consumption, I became brain dead from too many math books (landing on my head).

And so it goes.    ::)
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