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ashling

(25,771 posts)
Fri Mar 14, 2014, 03:29 PM Mar 2014

Donut Philosophy through history

Last edited Sun Mar 16, 2014, 12:36 PM - Edit history (1)

[font size = 3]Heraclitus: You can’t eat the same donut twice.

Plato; All donuts share an ideal ‘donut-ness’.

Aristotle: A donut contains its donut-ness.

Augustine: Donuts need grace to be fully donut.

Descartes: A donut’s hole proves the existence of the donut.

Hobbes: Life is nasty, brutish, and short, but a life without donuts would be crueller.

Locke: Donuts taste good to me.

Hume: Donuts exist because I imagine donuts.

Kant: A ‘donut’ equals my total experience of donuts.

Wollstonecraft: Women deserve donuts, too.

Mill: Donuts are good if they make people happy.

Kierkegaard: I have faith that donuts are delicious.

Marx: Everybody deserves donuts.

Nietzsche: Stop at nothing to get your donut.

Saussure: Beignet/Krapfen/Ciambella/Buñuelo = ‘Donut’.

Wittgenstein: Fried pastry, zero, parking lot spin, spare tire.

Beauvoir: Patriarch is responsible for the shape of the donut.[/font size = 3]

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Donut Philosophy through history (Original Post) ashling Mar 2014 OP
You need this ashling Mar 2014 #1
John Maynard Keynes Paulie Mar 2014 #2
And in a depression ashling Mar 2014 #3

Paulie

(8,462 posts)
2. John Maynard Keynes
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 01:06 PM
Mar 2014

Demand for donuts increases supply of donuts.

Fred the Baker - time to make the donuts

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ashling

(25,771 posts)
3. And in a depression
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 02:26 PM
Mar 2014

people should be put to work making more donuts


this concept covers every discipline:

Geology: The continents are layered donuts with the oldest on the bottom - and the donuts are splitting apart

Law: Res Ipsa Donut

Accounting: Balance the donuts

Geometry: The shortest distance between two donuts is an eclaire

Physics: A donut in motion tends to roll. A donut at rest is breakfast.








































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