Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 13, 2022

Hard to argue with that

…I guess that’s the idea

Ludwig’s composition “Für Elise” was, well, for a lady named Elise that he was trying to woo, was it not? Didn’t work so well on Elise’s part.

cool down Lucy!

If there’s no way to prove it, it’s just a hypothesis, not a theory.

Wait till Lucy finds out Beethoven kept composing even after he became deaf.

Considering the time period. I’m sure that Herr Beethoven had a mistress or two around him most times. Seeing that human nature hasn’t changed in the last five or six thousand years. And that Herr Beethoven was that time period’s equivalent of “Top 10” pop musicians, for many years. Rubbing elbows, (so to speak), with nobles and royalty and other well to do type folk. Those types always seem to have no trouble finding ladies to “hang out” with, no matter what time period you are talking about.

Does this mean that Evolution is a perfect theory?

Going down the road of terrible “ifs”, huh, Lucy?

Let us wage war on the nonbelievers.

I have a similar theory that proves God’s existence: it is that all the rivers flow precisely under the spots where, millennia later, humans would build bridges. Isn’t it incredible? Doesn’t it prove the existence of a superior intelligence?Try to prove me wrong.

Beethoven was married to his music.

She’d make a good Q-Nut.

Just like the theory of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.

Lucy has the makings of a politician!

Marriage didn’t hurt Anton Dvork who was a great family man. He and his wife had 9 children while he composed the same number of symphonies plus tons of other great works.

That’s not a perfect theory – that’s a safe theory. (But if you can’t test it… is it science?)

I envy Beethoven, he didn’t have to hear all the nagging

It is very hard to conceive how Beethoven’s music could have been any “better” than it was. Silly question.

It’s possible but highly unlikely….

If Lucy keeps it up,Schroeder will become progressively deaf.

In science, if there is no way to test it, it’s not a theory. It’s not even a hypothesis.

Lucy’s statement is so bad it’s not even wrong – to echo Pauli

A theory that’s impossible to prove or disprove is called mythology.

Sorry Lucy, but Schroder can probably compare all the various composers who were married who composed before and after they got married to determine if your theory has any merit.

Easy to ‘prove’ a theory about someone who’s dead. At least the late great Norm McDonald had evidence to back up Germans loving David Hasselhoff, who at least is still living.

The whole point of Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, is that marriage can be the greatest thing in the world. (The story is about the wife of a man who was taken by the secret police, how she disguises herself as a young man, gets a job at the prison where he’s being kept, and breaks him. out.) But not every man or every woman is up to that, perhaps especially artists.

Lucy’s facts are distorted as she pleases.