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I'm going to argue today that the social media applications that we all know and love, or love to hate, are actually going to help free us from some of the absurd assumptions that we have as a society about gender.

So today, I want to show you three projects that reconsider the vast properties of commonplace experience and try to do something better by doing something more absurd.

So tackling a tiny challenge without giving up, even one as absurd as snapping your fingers exactly 50 times or counting backwards from 100 by seven is actually a scientifically validated way to boost your willpower.

But helping Africa has been turned into a theater of the absurd.

This was absurd.

It would be absurd if we were to engage again in the kind of operations we were engaged in, in Iraq and Afghanistan if we were to suddenly find ourselves in a situation in which we were imposing anything other than a democratic system.

Now I realize that it is a little bit absurd to compare the behavioral repertoire of a human to a fly.

I decided I would destroy my own argument by creating an absurd proposition.

You'll start talking about the latent bestiality in all humans, or some such thing, which is quite absurd, of course.

Proust is trying to show us that jealousy feels intolerable and makes us look absurd, but it is, at its crux, a quest for knowledge, a quest for truth, painful truth, and actually, where Proust is concerned, the more painful the truth, the better.

Now that sounds absurd in Singapore to say that, because here shipping is so present that you stuck a ship on top of a hotel.

So I'm smiling with a little bit of embarrassment right now, because obviously, it's completely absurd that a single person, let alone a planner, could save a city.

The universe is absurd, but we can still construct a purpose, and that's a pretty good one, and the overall mediocrity of reality kind of resonates nicely with the mediocrity we all feel in the core of our being.

GG: No, I consider that absurd and idiotic.

He was told about the rise of the ocean, and he said, "I find it absurd to change my behavior today for something that will happen in a hundred years."

I watch "The Bachelor" and romantic comedies, and I have absurd fantasies about fairy tales coming true.

This is Zeno of Elea, an ancient Greek philosopher famous for inventing a number of paradoxes, arguments that seem logical, but whose conclusion is absurd or contradictory.

This conclusion is clearly absurd, but where is the flaw in the logic?

In fact, the structures required for such incredible flexibility were once considered so complex that Charles Darwin himself acknowledged that the idea of there having evolved seemed absurd in the highest possible degree.

So it looks like Amaro gets to keep most of the gold, and the other pirates might need to find better ways to use those impressive logic skills, like revising this absurd pirate code.

Like, in this case, this one scientist finds this one shard of what she thought was wood, and because of that, science has a totally new and totally counterintuitive theory about why this absurd Dr. Seuss-looking creature looks the way it does.

What if, instead of accepting this absurd choice, we took it on ourselves to fight this dangerous, binary thinking?

While this may sound grim, the absurd blends its hopelessness with humor.

This was a key feature of his trademark uneven tempo and black humor, which became popular throughout the Theatre of the Absurd.

So this is absurd, right?

To appreciate how absurd that is, imagine if we did other things in our life that way.

Isn't it absurd that we created cars that can reach 130 miles per hour and we now drive them at the same speed as 19th-century horse carriages?

It would seem absurd, but that's exactly what should happen, and what progressive people, forward-thinking people should be doing and advocating, along with the corresponding increase in the consumption of plants.

I know that's an absurd notion.

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