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ZIZ218 Cambridge Union (10.11.2018)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Judaism - Theological Jokes

There is a whole sub culture of holo jokes in judaism. It's a subtle admission that when things are really horrible, to play this tragic game with dignity is obscene. So the joke goes like this: A couple of victims who died in ouswit drus Are now paradise and te ar walking around there. They sit on a bench on a nice fild meadow in paradise and tell amuse each other with jokes about their death in outswits. And they all laugh, that was funny.

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