Orange. Is it a flavor? Is it a color? Is it a fruit? Is it technically just a word, with a definition that happens to be all three? Isn’t weird that somewhere along the path of the creation of the English language, that orange took those meanings? Maybe in some parallel universe orange is the word for Satan, and the converse. Imagine buying Satan flavored candy, or painting your walls Satan, or eating a Satan. Same applies to every word. What if the laws of nature had the same principal? In some parallel universe there was no such thing as friction, and we would slide to kingdom come, or if atoms didn’t bond correctly. If human beings weren’t the dominant species, what if mice ruled the world? Would the try and catch and kill us? Would they still have wars? Would they discriminate against each other? Would they have religion? Or do these all have to do with human behavior and brain function. What if we didn’t live on Earth? If we were just single cell organisms on Mars, would all those be true? Would philosophy still exist? Would language exist? How about time? Would time be of the essence? Will it be that way in time? Does life cycle between the planets? Would I have to do this blog? Would we finally find out what perpetual motion is? Would we know the ever burning question of who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? I deny ever taking it.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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Clever blog, Zach. True confession: if there was a cookie in the cookie jar, I stole it!
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