riddle picture 2

[Olaf Doschke]

Hi folks!

This is a fun puzzle. What is this picture showing?

http://www.setmics.de/test/riddle.jpg

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Diancecht]

God is Love.
Love is blind.
Therefore, God is blind.

God is blind.
Stevie Wonder is blind.
Therefore Stevie Wonder is God
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People tell me I'm nobody.
Nobody is perfect.
Therefore, I'm perfect.
Only God is perfect.
Therefore, I'm God.
Stevie Wonder is God.
Therefore, I'm Stevie Wonder.
Grr, I'm blind!

Cheers,
Dian

 

[BobRodes]

<If you get somewhere strange, it's probably because you started somewhere strange.

I agree. Most of us live in a pretty strange place, too....

 

[KornGeek]

Diancecht,

That is one of the funniest posts of all time. Thanks!

 

[traingamer]

Bad logic

God is blind.
Stevie Wonder is blind.
Therefore Stevie Wonder is God.

Good logic

God is blind.
Stevie Wonder is blind.
Therefore:
God & Stevie Wonder are both blind.
Stevie Wonder may or may not be God.

Rhetorical questions gleefully answered!

 

[sleipnir214]

traingamer:
There is something my great-aunt Johnnye taught me that I think you need to hear:

Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story.


Want the best answers? Ask the best questions! TANSTAAFL!

 

[KornGeek]

For traingamer's sake (who is correct by the way), I'll paraphrase Diancecht's post:

God is Love.
Love is blind.
Therefore, God is blind.

People tell me I'm nobody.
Nobody is perfect.
Therefore, I'm perfect.
Only God is perfect.
Therefore, I'm God.
Grr, I'm blind!

Not as funny, but more consistent with rules of logic.

 

[BobRodes]

<Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story.

The corollary to which, perhaps more importantly, is never let a good story stand in the way of the facts.

<People tell me I'm nobody.
(etc)

Why, thank you, Korngeek, I've been looking for a proof of my divinity for some time now.

 

[traingamer]

It's a disease.
Others in my family have it worse. My brother will hate a movie because, "There was a native-only-to-Colorado bird in that scene that was supposed to be in Switzerland".

 

[BoxHead]

Interesting thread...


I looked at the picture expecting an
[tt]Old lady with babushka -vs- young woman with a feather[/tt]
sort of thing.

I noticed that where I have the 'current time of day' on my desktop, this person has the 'current year' so I thought it was maybe the desk top of someone with an advanced case of ADD.

I tried squinting to see if it was a hidden picture and relaxed my mind like a Rorschach ink blot...

Reading the thread, however, I see that the riddle is more of an existential Puzzle for Programmers than I would have guessed.

The only thing I'm sure of; Hermann Rorschach is spinning in his grave.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Hi BoxHead,

yes, the discussion got a twisted spin. It's interesting, what a controversial discussion this has triggered.

In the last year, there was a thread in the "Making an impression" Tek-Tip forum (

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=1256)

about on online multiple choice test about how consistent one is, when choosing a religious or scientific view about god or his/her/it's existance. Unfortunately I can't find that thread or that online test.

The outcome of the test is, that most people are not 100% consistent about their point of view. So there is no point in proving a flaw of logic on the conclusions, which lead to anyone's life motto, especially if that motto is not controversial.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[ESquared]

See a new thread I started in Squaring The Circle, BattleGround God - Belief Consistency Test.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Hi ESquared,

thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Gooser]

Maybe I missed it... what was that a picture of?

--Gooser

 

[monksnake]

I'm getting in on this really late, but I believe it's a picture of your desktop?????



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[Olaf Doschke]

it's still there.

The joke is, that it is not the background picture alone, but the desktop WITH the usual shortcut icons.

Bye, Olaf.