Confusion and Logic

[geko]

is a camel involved?

no

 

quicksand?

no

 

is the stick really a stick? (like from a tree)

it's a piece of wood, a stick - yes

[geko]

is it a stick of gum?

no

[IrishEyes]

is he a alive?

is he standing up?

is he a pilot?

[Drakon1323]

Is he naked?

yes

 

Is he in Africa?

irrelevant

 

Is he hungry?

irrelevant

 

Is he alone?

yes

 

Is he part of a movie crew?

no

So a movie crew is relevant?

???

[Tormod]

Is he cool? :)

[Drakon1323]

are you sure its not dessert ?

I can come up with a couple for that:D

 

 

Its not golf, is it?

does he have anything to do with sports?

[geko]

is he a alive?

yes

 

is he standing up?

yes, but he may sit down if he wants

 

is he a pilot?

tricky one. he may be, but wouldnt have to be

[geko]

So a movie crew is relevant?

???

 

the reason i answered no is because then you get the feeling that he's there alone.

[geko]

Is he cool? :)

 

he's alone in the desert, his balls are swinging in the slight breeze, he's feeling pretty cool :)

[geko]

are you sure its not dessert ?

lol yep

 

Its not golf, is it?

no

 

does he have anything to do with sports?

some may call it a sport - but i would say no

[Drakon1323]

Anything about a biblical story?

(or at least any popular ones?)

[maddog]

are you sure its not dessert ?

I can come up with a couple for that:D

 

 

Its not golf, is it?

does he have anything to do with sports?

 

Golf, in the Buff ??? :)

 

He's naked in the desert with a stick in hand.

 

Is he walking with this stick ? :)

 

Maddog

[Bahaichap]

Two passages for logicians to tease over.

_________________________________________

 

Twentieth century man has lost a meaningful world and a self which lives in meanings out of a spiritual centre.....The decisive event which underlies the search for meaning and the despair of it in the twentieth century is the loss of God in the nineteenth century....Without a consciousness of truth itself doubt of truth would be impossible. -Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be, Collins, 1952, p.155.

 

and

A NEW SWEETNESS

 

His brain was working incessantly, ideas were springing up and moving about all the time. His thoughts seethed, new ideas flowed into his mind. His soul, or mind, lived by the thought which the heart whispered to it. These whisperings were intense impressions which lived in the heart. From these impressions, intensities, a theme, a plan, a harmonious whole developed, crystallized. The artist executed the latter and the poet the former process. -Ron Price with appreciation to Jacques Catteau, Dostoyevsky and the Process of Literary Creation, Cambridge UP, NY, 1989, p.10.

 

For years unformed intensities,

crystallizations gathering, gathering,

travelling ‘round his vena cavas, aorta,

ventricles, veins and arteries, blood-red,

hot, cold, endlessly flowing, renewed,

repeated, again and again, back-and-forth,

waiting for form, recrystallization,

metasomatism*, destination, separation,

place to call home, description, words,

plan, theme, specificity, honing,

harmonious whole, exit, conduit:

amidst constant dialogue

with endless streams of writers,

thinkers, scientists, social scientists

to engage in the greatest dogmatic,

theological, intellectual, dramatic exercise

in history: the unification of the planet

and the oneness of the hearts of humanity.

 

He’d found a mysterious new universe:

underneath, within, far above

which tasted of a new sweetness he had never known

and flowed off his tongue with swiftness and ease.

Sometimes, just sometimes, it stuck to his palette:

the vividness, the crystallization, the transformation

did not occur and the mind was as dry as the Tanami.**

 

Ron Price

17 April 1996

 

*replacement of one mineral or assemblage by another without any melting. Magmatic gases and high concentrations of certain elements are involved.

** a desert region in the Northern Territory of Australia I visited when I worked in Katherine.

[IrishEyes]

Thanks for that interesting interlude, Bahaichap. And welcome to our Forums. Please feel free to INTRODUCE yourself in the Introductions Forum. We'd love to hear more from you!

[IrishEyes]

geko---

 

is the stick a weapon?

is he using it to help him walk?

is he naked because he wants to be (by coice)?

was he on an airplane? (your answer to the pilot question was kinda weird, so i'm being less specific)

is he injured?

[Turtle]

Is he prepared and/or motivated to make his stick into a bullroarer & call to some :) friends far off to come to him?

[geko]

Anything about a biblical story?

(or at least any popular ones?)

 

no