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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

I'm a simple man. I see a relative of A'Tuin, I upvote.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"in philosophy" :

(...) expression "turtles all the way down" to indicate an explanatory failure based on an explanation that needs a potentially infinite series of additional explanations (...)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I love this image from Wikipedia for the article on the phrase.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

See the TURTLE of Enormous Girth, On his shell he holds the Earth...

From the Dark Tower novels if someone wonders. Also sort of It too. Stephen King, just in case, sure many didn't want to Google.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yes great book series. Funny because been reading the Disc world books by Terry Pratchett.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

They don’t want you to know the truth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

it's turtles all the way down

https://youtu.be/67FpatjHdxo