Re: Random question time: Can a state protect its laws as intellectual property? - Edit 4
Before modification by Burr at 27/02/2010 05:37:48 PM
If you were to give yourself one superpower, how would it kill you?
Anything I imagine would instantly become true. You might think I'd accidentally imagine a monster and get eaten. But I could instantly fix the problem by imagining the monster disappearing. Furthermore, the constant, instantaneous feedback would be a perfect mental training scenario. I'd eventually learn such mental discipline that I'd become a boddhisatva. I would then realize that I should imagine everyone else having this superpower as well. Having done so, we would all escape this world by imagining ourselves ceasing to exist.
Bonus logic bomb:
In a language without hypothicals, how would you construct this question?
"In the referred language, what is the referred way for you to construct this question?"
You can answer a question with a question, but can you question an answer with an answer?
Thing1 answers, "Of course you can't."
Thing2 replies, "Bullshit."
(Dang. I suppose it's debatable whether a reply counts as an answer, in which case we're back to the same question again.)
Random question: If you broke your leg on the moon, do you reckon you'd know it?