RE: [MET] Thought Flow Fun

Here's a fun thought/story that came my way yesterday.

In the pattern, it says in so many words that when you hand over a
question to this processing system, you'll have a chance of getting an
answer somewhere along the line.

So, someone mailed me and said that they had put a dilemma to the
system, namely whether to buy a blue or a red sofa for their sitting
room, but no answer had materialised and it had been over 8 hours
since they did it.

Even as I was trying to work it out, instantly, a memory flashed into
my mind.

A scene from a Simpsons episode, where Homer Simpson goes on a 6 month
deprivation trek to the top of a mountain in the Himalayas to ask 2
important questions of the holy guy who resides there.

When he gets there and it's time for the questions, he asks, "Where's
the toilet?", followed by, "Are you sure?"

And that was that.

I nearly fell of my chair, I was laughing so hard.

Let us propose for a moment, that we are dealing with an information
processing system that indeed, passes through the Akashic records in
some form, is in touch with Jesus, Mohammed and the legion of White
Knights and then some.

So kind of questions are we asking of this ultimate oracle?

Are they worth answering?

Were they ever?

That, in and of itself, is just funny and certainly put a whole lot of
*my* questions in perspective in an instant.

I also immediately thought (ah, sweet thought-system, doing it's best,
once again!) that for the questions worth asking the answers might
well be something I'm least expecting. Those answers are going to be
"other" than I would have expected, using my linear experience and yes
but and what if processes - of course they would be, else the
thought-system could have worked them out by now.

This is getting very interesting and I shall keep an eye out for the
answers - only chances are, that I am looking for all the good old,
wrong things in the wrong places, and so we might as well sit down
now, put the impatience over the top of our heads and round the back
and seriously, prepare for some surprises :-)

SF

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Received on Tue Apr 08 2003 - 06:58:14 BST