NO BRAINER DAY
I think, therefore I am. –René Descartes
I overthink, therefore I post. –mistermuse
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Lately, I’ve been burning too much mental energy cooking up posts to roast Trump (e.g., I almost said toast rump); the heat is turning my face red and giving me the thinking blues:
Frankly, friends, I think I need to cool it before the strain becomes a drain on my brain and gives me a pain. Fortunately, Feb. 27 is NO BRAINER DAY — a perfect day to post a post which requires little or no thinking. But before you Trump reprobates snidely ask how that would make this post any different from my previous posts, answer me this: how much thought do you think The Donald gives his tweets? Even a smart-ask Trumpite should allow that mistermuse be entitled to one day of devoting the same paucity of gray matter to his post that your Orange Oligarch devotes to his tweets every day.
With that in mind, I’m giving the rest of this tome over to posting what others thought when they thought about thinking/not thinking. Do I think their thinking will make you think you’re thinking what I’m thinking about thinking/not thinking? Just a thought.
So, let’s get quoting before I change my mind and start thinking again:
I think that I think; therefore, I think I am. –Ambrose Bierce
[I think that I think, therefore] I yam what I yam. –Popeye the Sailor Man
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. –Thomas Edison
Ours is an age which is proud of machines that think, and suspicious of men who try to. –Howard Mumford Jones
The best way [for a woman] to win a man is to make him think you think as much of him as he does. –Evan Esar
In America, we say what we think, and even if we can’t think, we say it anyhow. –Charles F. Kettering
In closing, did you know Rodin’s THE THINKER was originally called THE POET:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker
I happen to know that THE POET didn’t appreciate the name change, thus this reaction:
Mused The Poet to a passing skunk,
“What good is being called The Thinker?
To some day convey the aura of a President,
It should Don the wrap, like you, of The Stinker.”
calmkate 12:20 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
Kettering says it best … take deep breaths, calm down … your blood pressure is thru the roof young man ❤
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mistermuse 1:39 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
I think what Kettering said applies more to Trump and his supporters, Kate. How does one calm down so long as such a dangerously immoral man remains in power? Call me overly concerned, but Like Popeye (and Trump), “I yam what I yam.”
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Yeah, Another Blogger 9:06 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
I’m with you on Trump. He stinks up the joint.
Neil Scheinin
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mistermuse 9:51 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink
You got that right, Neil. The most worrying thing is that the joint he stinks up is The White House.
Correction: he stinks up the country, if not the whole world.
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scifihammy 8:13 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
I like Your quote. 😀
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mistermuse 9:46 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
May I quote you on that? 🙂
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scifihammy 10:58 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink
haha For sure! 🙂
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rivergirl1211 9:18 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
You’ve given me a lot to think about there…
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mistermuse 9:43 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
You go, rivergirl!
On second thought, stay — I need all my brilliant, witty, adorable followers (and you too)! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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mlrover 9:32 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
I think, therefore I am. –René Descartes or I overthink, therefore I post. –mistermuse
I like yours better.
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mistermuse 9:38 am on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
I think I love you for that. 🙂
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mistermuse 12:40 pm on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
Manoloprofe, thank you for the like. I read your latest post about William Tell, but there appears to be no way to leave responses on your blog, so I’ll leave my response here:
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Eliza 2:54 pm on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
Thanks for the smiles
Happy Wednesday
Love, light and glitter
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mistermuse 6:39 pm on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
Thanks for the comment. I’ll take the love and the light, but leave the glitter to pop artists and Hollywood celebs who (apparently) can never have enough!
Take care, and remember what Abe Lincoln said: “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” 🙂
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Richard A Cahill 10:46 pm on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
I think you failed to write a trump-free post, Sr. Muse. As far as wishing not to abuse Trump in prose, been there, tried to do that, failed miserably myself. I feel your pain.
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magickmermaid 7:41 pm on February 28, 2019 Permalink |
A very well-thought out post! 😀
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mistermuse 7:50 pm on February 28, 2019 Permalink |
I think so too, therefore I thank you! 🙂
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masercot 7:38 am on March 1, 2019 Permalink |
I do love me some Bessie Smith…
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mistermuse 12:48 pm on March 1, 2019 Permalink |
Hopefully, there’s something here to please every reader (except Trump supporters, some of whom may know how to read, and happen upon this post).
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Resa 8:34 pm on March 3, 2019 Permalink |
Nice post! I like the Popeye “Yam am”
Don’t hear much about Popeye, anymore. He’s too, anchored in the past. 😀
My cat is named Jeep, after Eugene the Magical Jeep! True!
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mistermuse 10:57 pm on March 3, 2019 Permalink |
Sorry to say, I’ve never heard of Eugene the Magical Jeep. However, I have heard of Puff the Magic Dragon, so I hope that counts for something! 🙂
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Paul Sunstone 2:03 am on March 4, 2019 Permalink |
I’ve come to believe that for most of us, “thinking” is not much different than exploring the insides of our boxes. The boxes our parents, teachers, peers, culture, etc. give us to play around inside of. Now and then, we make an important discovery. “The walls are brown!”
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mistermuse 9:53 am on March 4, 2019 Permalink |
So much for thinking outside the box! 🙂
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Susi Bocks 12:27 am on March 7, 2019 Permalink |
I think I need to think about all this carefully. 😉 BTW, “I overthink, therefore I post.” Spot on, Mister Writer! I thoroughly enjoyed your mini-rant. May you be able to de-stress a bit.
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mistermuse 9:36 am on March 7, 2019 Permalink |
Well, Susi, I think you should know I think so much of you, I’m adding an ‘e’ (for ‘esteemed’) to your name:
🙂
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Susi Bocks 10:52 am on March 7, 2019 Permalink
Dawwwwww! That’s sweet! 🙂
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Silver Screenings 11:08 am on March 7, 2019 Permalink |
Hey, I didn’t know The Thinker was originally called The Poet. I always learn something when I come here.
Also: I love the quote about our society being proud of machines that think, but distrustful of people who try to. Very well said.
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mistermuse 7:14 am on March 15, 2019 Permalink |
Thanks for the comment, SS — I thought I had replied before, but apparently I forgot. Apparently I need a machine that thinks for me, or at least remembers for me! 🙂
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kutukamus 2:20 am on March 15, 2019 Permalink |
Now this ‘no-brainy’ is something to think over, really 🙂
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mistermuse 7:19 am on March 15, 2019 Permalink |
Thanks for the comment and the ‘Like.’ That makes 60 Likes, which I like because I like Likes.
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