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It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

-P. J. O'Rourke

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It's Much Better To Have Your Arguments

P. J. O'Rourke

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

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Was he joking? was he being sarcastic? aggressive? impertinent? or just courteous? there was no telling from his impassive face. what a country, he thought despairingly. in russia you always knew. if a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.

Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "i wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.

It is not given to man to know the whole truth. his duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. god alone knows absolute truth. therefore, i have often said, truth is god. it follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. this is god's attribute alone. relative truth is all we know. therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

Laughter, on the other hand, " petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. joking is a barrier between man and the world. joking is the enemy of love and poetry. that's why i tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: boccaccio doesn't understand love. love can never be laughable. love has nothing in common with laughter.

My serve has killed a small dog ... i'm joking, i'm joking! the dog was huge!

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

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