Then you’d be really the odd one out.

roughbarked said:

Then you’d be really the odd one out.

Perhaps there’s nothing really wrong with you, either.

I like “what if?” questions. The answers are always illuminating.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Then you’d be really the odd one out.

Perhaps there’s nothing really wrong with you, either.

I like “what if?” questions. The answers are always illuminating.

What if you found a what if question that didn’t have any illuminating answers?

Would that be illuminating?

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Then you’d be really the odd one out.

Perhaps there’s nothing really wrong with you, either.

I like “what if?” questions. The answers are always illuminating.

Except if the question was What if there was no light?

Tamb said:

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Then you’d be really the odd one out.

Perhaps there’s nothing really wrong with you, either.

I like “what if?” questions. The answers are always illuminating.

Except if the question was What if there was no light?

Oranges would lose their apparent colour?

if there was something wrong with all of us then nothing would be wrong with any of us..

Arts said:

if there was something wrong with all of us then nothing would be wrong with any of us..

Beautifully enhanced.

Arts said:

if there was something wrong with all of us then nothing would be wrong with any of us..

I don’t understand this logic.

Michael V said:

Arts said:

if there was something wrong with all of us then nothing would be wrong with any of us..

I don’t understand this logic.

when everyone is super, no-one is

Arts said:

Michael V said:

Arts said:

if there was something wrong with all of us then nothing would be wrong with any of us..

I don’t understand this logic.

when everyone is super, no-one is

Sorry. This makes no sense to me.

Arts said:

if there was something wrong with all of us then nothing would be wrong with any of us..

Except for the weird odd-ball who had nothing wrong with them.

Michael V said:

Arts said:

Michael V said:

I don’t understand this logic.

when everyone is super, no-one is

Sorry. This makes no sense to me.

you can’t measure how great a person is if there is nothing to measure against. Superman, for example, is special because he is powerful and can fly and is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound which none of us can do… but if we all could do that, then he would be average like all of us…

Arts said:

Michael V said:

Arts said:

when everyone is super, no-one is

Sorry. This makes no sense to me.

you can’t measure how great a person is if there is nothing to measure against. Superman, for example, is special because he is powerful and can fly and is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound which none of us can do… but if we all could do that, then he would be average like all of us…

Like all the inhabitants of Krypton (Prior to its destruction)

Arts said:

Michael V said:

Arts said:

when everyone is super, no-one is

Sorry. This makes no sense to me.

you can’t measure how great a person is if there is nothing to measure against. Superman, for example, is special because he is powerful and can fly and is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound which none of us can do… but if we all could do that, then he would be average like all of us…

But what of the exceptional person who is more average than everybody else?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Arts said:

Michael V said:

Sorry. This makes no sense to me.

you can’t measure how great a person is if there is nothing to measure against. Superman, for example, is special because he is powerful and can fly and is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound which none of us can do… but if we all could do that, then he would be average like all of us…

But what of the exceptional person who is more average than everybody else?

Like in the old USSR. First among equals.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Arts said:

Michael V said:

Sorry. This makes no sense to me.

you can’t measure how great a person is if there is nothing to measure against. Superman, for example, is special because he is powerful and can fly and is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound which none of us can do… but if we all could do that, then he would be average like all of us…

But what of the exceptional person who is more average than everybody else?

yes, that demonstrates the point.

People teaching first aid classes hate the “what iffers”…

to be honest it doesn’t really seem valid to hold that if every natural number is nonzero then all natural numbers are zero

Arts said:

if there was something wrong with all of us then nothing would be wrong with any of us..

Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: “But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way.”

“Then,” said Yossarian, “I’d certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn’t I?”

SCIENCE said:

to be honest it doesn’t really seem valid to hold that if every natural number is nonzero then all natural numbers are zero

^^^

SCIENCE said:

to be honest it doesn’t really seem valid to hold that if every natural number is nonzero then all natural numbers are zero

But then equating complex natural phenomena to binary mathematical properties probably isn’t really valid either :)

The Rev Dodgson said:

SCIENCE said:

to be honest it doesn’t really seem valid to hold that if every natural number is nonzero then all natural numbers are zero

But then equating complex natural phenomena to binary mathematical properties probably isn’t really valid either :)

oooh. I wonder how many circles we can make :)

Arts said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

SCIENCE said:

to be honest it doesn’t really seem valid to hold that if every natural number is nonzero then all natural numbers are zero

But then equating complex natural phenomena to binary mathematical properties probably isn’t really valid either :)

oooh. I wonder how many circles we can make :)

We’ll need to do that in the complex plane.

sibeen said:

Arts said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

But then equating complex natural phenomena to binary mathematical properties probably isn’t really valid either :)

oooh. I wonder how many circles we can make :)

We’ll need to do that in the complex plane.

Aye-aye.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Then you’d be really the odd one out.

Perhaps there’s nothing really wrong with you, either.

I like “what if?” questions. The answers are always illuminating.

What if you found a what if question that didn’t have any illuminating answers?

Would that be illuminating?

Yes!
I’ve been trying to find one, so far without success.

The Rev Dodgson said:

SCIENCE said:

to be honest it doesn’t really seem valid to hold that if every natural number is nonzero then all natural numbers are zero

But then equating complex natural phenomena to binary mathematical properties probably isn’t really valid either :)

but we aren’t, like the other contributor we’re talking about something versus nothing, and wrong versus not wrong

… which seem pretty binary and mathematical to us …

Arts said:

if there was something wrong with all of us then nothing would be wrong with any of us..

A world in which
it’s normal to be abnormal