Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 22:00     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

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.

55 F.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 21:55     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

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
Post 06/09/2025 21:08     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

No, never heard of it
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 18:27     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

F 56
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
Post 06/09/2025 17:52     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

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


Same.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 17:44     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

Sturgill Sumpson song.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 17:15     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

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
Post 06/09/2025 17:10     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 13:34     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

Yes, use it frequently, female, 43
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 12:56     Subject: Re:Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

Yes. Female, 50
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 12:41     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

Isn't it the name of a John Green book? Millennial, no "gender identity."
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 12:28     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

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
Post 06/09/2025 11:51     Subject: Turtles all the way down’. Do you know or use this expression?

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


It's a lower class saying.