Jack’s Winning Words 9/13/19 “Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”  (Goethe)  Since Goethe was a philosopher, I was going to begin by telling a philosophy joke, but since only I would understand it…I’ll go straight to Wolfgang (Goethe’s 1st name for non-philosophers).  In my file of potential WW’s I have many of Wolf’s words.  He’s called the Shakespeare of philosophy, because of his many words.  Today you must endure what I enjoy…the study of thinking (i.e. philosophy).   ;-)  Jack FROM DR JL:     Hilarious!! Well done. And now, of course, I want to know the philosophy joke. 😂😂  ===JACK:  A renowned philosopher was held in high regard by his driver, who listened in awe as his boss lectured and answered difficult questions about the nature of things and the meaning of life. Then, one day, the driver approached the philosopher and asked if he was willing to switch roles for just one evening. The philosopher agreed, and, for a while, the driver handled himself remarkably well.  However, when the time came for questions, someone at the back of the room asked him, "Is the epistemological meta-narrative that you seem to espouse compatible with a teleological account of the universe?"  "That's an extremely simple question," he replied. "So simple, in fact, that even my driver could answer it."===JL:  I love that joke!!! FROM HUNGRY HOWIE:  Very funny===JACK:  I had fun doing it. FROM NORM'S BLOG:  what about all of the times between the joys and the not so enjoyable things, which must be endured, i.e. your normal day-to-day life? The philosophy embodied by the British saying, “Keep Calm and Carry On” seems most applicable to those times and actually serves the highs and lows of life very well, too. For a Christian that British saying might be translated into Pray and Persist.===JACK:  In the Christian Liturgy there are two major festivals, Christmas and Easter.  The Sundays between them (between Christmas and Easter and between Easter and Advent) are referred to as "Ordinary time."  While that time is "ordinary," the messages are often extra-ordinary.   Ordinary doesn't have to be boring.