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Also On The Equator...


Lyger

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WHAT IF... there was a fence going around the Equator? Who would be inside the fence, and who would be outside the fence?

 

Or better. Let's say there's an imaginary planet with this fence around its Equator, and the fence is built so that it lies PERFECTLY on one plane, right on the middle line of that planet, with EXACTLY the same amount of atoms on both the North and the South sides of that plane. The north pole is EXACTLY as far from the fence as the south pole is. The North population is exactly the same as the South population, and the mass of the North and everything on it is the same as the South, etc. And since the fence is a complete circle, well there must be something INSIDE the fence, right? It can't just be something separating North from South, can it? A divider goes in a straight line. But something that fences something in goes around.

 

What if the South won a war with the North and built the wall? Would it be keeping the North out or keeping the North in? Would the North be prisoners or would the South be fortified? What if the North won the war?

 

What if the South was agressive and kept trying to fight with the North, and the wall was built by some higher authority to prevent them from fighting? Would it be holding the South back or protecting the North?

 

It's like the glass half-empty or half-full thing I suppose. It's all about perspective.

 

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Truly when we think we have trapped others behind a fence of our own words and hurt - we have truly fenced ourselves in a war of pain.

 

See. Im fillysofikal

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A Hen that has lived on top of the fence and

has never been to the North or South lays an

egg on the fence. It stays on top.

Who owns it, North or South?

 

Try that one on for size.

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THAT is an even better one!

 

If someone from the South throws a knife over the fence and it stabs someone from the North in the heart, who owns the knife?

 

XD

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And what if that person from the South was in the North and bought the knife on the equator and the person from the North was in the south? And assuming this fence would be the same height all around the world, would if constitute trespassing/war if a North ship crossed into the South in the Ocean by accident since the fence was miles below?
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If the north builds a wall against the south for fortification against a the war for one molecule. Lets say there are an odd number of molecules does north or soth get the molecule.

 

Would the walls be made of stone or brick?

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If the south build a wall to defend from the East, while the East defends from the North, and the West defends from the polar bears, how many chickens will lay eggs on the equator?

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Ookay... What if the North would kill anybody that goes onto the fence from the South, and the South kills anybody that goes onto the fence from the North, and they were just laying against it? They would still be on their side, but what if they were killed?

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(I'd actually like to revise my previous statement. I think cannibals would be anthrotrophs, not homotrophs, since after all homo in Greek means "same," not "man" like it does in Latin. Unless you want to mix languages. :P)

 

(Although it just occured to me that they could be homotrophs in the sense that they're eating the same thing as what they are...)

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(I'd actually like to revise my previous statement. I think cannibals would be anthrotrophs, not homotrophs, since after all homo in Greek means "same," not "man" like it does in Latin. Unless you want to mix languages. :P)

 

(Although it just occured to me that they could be homotrophs in the sense that they're eating the same thing as what they are...)

That's why homogenized milk never made sense in Latin. I mean, it'd be like saying "Manitized milk". Thanks for the language lesson. :)

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Yes, that was actually why I used the homo- preffix, it was in the homo-hetero sense, not as in homo, hominis. I do try to not mix Greek and Latin roots: Philip Reeve did that in his term "interpolitan." I mean it makes sense since there are no more countries and it's all cities now, but international is from Latin roots, so it should prolly be "interurbitan" or "interurban."

 

Though anthrotroph does make sense too.

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Try this one on for size: What if there was nothing? You can' really describe it or imagine it, but you know after chewing on the thought that there must have always been something. But the thought still chews on your mind. Like one of those questions that will drive you nuts after a while.

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It isint like the glass is half empty or the glass is half full at all, Its that the glass dosent exist. Both answers in any of those questions is the true answer, and so by both answers being true, both answers void each other, meaning there is no answer.

 

If that makes sence.

 

Basically I'm saying there is no right asnwer, as both answers are correct. But by human belief, you can't have two right answers in a right or wrong scenario, and so if both answers are correct, then that means there isn't a RIGHT answer, which would stand to reason that an answer does not exist.

 

Which essencially means that "*Head ker-'splode*" is the only logical answer by human nature.

 

EDIT:The other way to look at it would be . . . What is inside the fence? The planet. On a circular object, "Inside" would be defined as the area within the circle. If you go with north or south, you are basing "Inside" on above or below the surface. But the real surface is the planet, but only on a flat, 2 dimensional level.

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