From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 13:33:53 MDT
[athe nonrex]
didn't win, but it had some interesting things to say to me about how i (how else can i interpret it?) wasn't playing fair:
<snip>
You were thinking of nothing.
Can you buy it at a store? You said Yes, I say No.
[many times have a walked into a store, and bought nothing]
Can you put something into it? You said Yes, I say No.
[by logical default, you can put something into nothing...or am i mistaken?<where '0=nothing' and 'N=something' you can always add N to 0>]
Can you eat it? You said Yes, I say No.
[once again, many times have i eaten nothing]
Does it come in a box? You said Sometimes, I say No.
[you've never received a box with nothing in it?]
<snip>
[rhinoceros]
That reminded of the old party game where someone thinks of a weird story and the rest try to figure it out by asking questions and getting yes/no answers.
There was a story where someone died of a heart attack while returning to his village from the city. The questions went like this:
Did something happen? Yes.
Did he see something? No
Did he hear something? No
Did he smell something? No
Did he taste something? No
Did he touch something? No
Did he remember something? No
... What the hell?
The trick was that seeing nothing was disturbing for him in the context of the story.
---- This message was posted by rhinoceros to the Virus 2003 board on Church of Virus BBS. <http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=54;action=display;threadid=28757> --- To unsubscribe from the Virus list go to <http://www.lucifer.com/cgi-bin/virus-l>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jun 25 2003 - 13:34:44 MDT