Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If yes, explain and what is your age and gender identity?

It's a lower class saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If yes, explain and what is your age and gender identity?

It's a lower class saying.

Yeah. Stephen Hawking and Supreme Court justices are so low class.

[Anonymous]

Isn't it the name of a John Green book? Millennial, no "gender identity."

[Anonymous]

Yes. Female, 50

[Anonymous]

Yes, use it frequently, female, 43

[Anonymous]

Yep 46, Indian origin.


http://myspiritualitydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-cosmic-turtle-and-four-elephants-in.html

[Anonymous]

I believe I first ran into it reading Terry Pratchett book in high school. But I have also read the John Green book and A Brief History of Time.

[Anonymous]

Sturgill Sumpson song.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only from the title of the John Green book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_All_the_Way_Down_(novel)

Same.

[Anonymous]

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I had never heard the phrase until the John Green book and even then, I didn't know it was a common idiom until the last few months when it seems to be everywhere.

[Anonymous]

No, never heard of it

[Anonymous]

I am pretty sure it has to do with crazy people having crazy and wrong opinions about things, like the fact that a turtle is holding up the whole world, and doubling down on them over and over again, in such a way that that the craziness multiplies and becomes recursive forever and ever, amen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe I first ran into it reading Terry Pratchett book in high school. But I have also read the John Green book and A Brief History of Time.

Same references, but add philosophy major.

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