# Mindless Perspectives Some Intuitively Mutilate Simultaneously **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623 "2013-04-24T21:41:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/41 "2013-04-26T05:44:53Z")
Had you been a genuine scientist you would have used a spork rather than a spoon. The details – they trip up the pretenders every time ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/42 "2013-04-26T06:14:13Z")
There is no spoon. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/43 "2013-04-26T06:16:21Z")
There is something that many people _call_ a spoon. But that is not its true name. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/44 "2013-04-26T06:55:10Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Had you been a genuine scientist you would have used a spork rather than a spoon. > > The details – they trip up the pretenders every time Good sir, it appears that you forget yourself. May I remind you of the unified utensil code of the Northern Hemisphere: Ixnay on the orkspay and asspay the untblay. So it is written. And yea thou shalst bring thine own lighting device, for it was surely you that absconded with mine own whilst we last did burn one. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/45 "2013-04-26T07:14:02Z")
We must study different in schools of utensils. The first rule of my Spoon Club is we don’t talk about spoons. But you, sir, have broken that rule. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/46 "2013-04-26T09:21:32Z")
The spoon that can be held is not the eternal spoon. The spoon that can be named is not the eternal name. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/47 "2013-04-26T10:57:16Z")
There is certainly a lot to enjoy about the thinking of **shadowofneo** , but I think my favorite in this thread is this. [QUOTE=shadowofneo] Do you realize that if there is more than we know, a binary result occurs, there either is or isn’t more than we know. [/QUOTE] I stand in awe of the logic. If A is true, A might be true. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/48 "2013-04-26T12:12:48Z")
How can you be two places at once if you’re not anywhere at all? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/49 "2013-04-26T12:17:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > How can you be two places at once if you’re not anywhere at all? Been there, done that. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/50 "2013-04-26T12:57:57Z")
I learn so much from this board. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/51 "2013-04-26T13:09:58Z")
Me too - that it was a wise decision to give up drugs. Although if I hadn’t, I _might_ have understood the OP. Regards, Shodan fnord ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/52 "2013-04-26T13:26:39Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I learn so much from this board. Don’t try to use it for anything. You might get hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/53 "2013-04-26T13:28:55Z")
No, really - just the other day I was able to “reach out and create whatever I wanted”, just like the OP said. Mind you, I was standing at the salad bar at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/54 "2013-04-26T14:34:00Z")
> [@shadowofneo](#): > > You don’t see the universe as open source ripe with multiple interpretations Is there a reason we should see the universe that way? > [@](#): > > if you can’t see what I’m saying using that jargon, you are obviously not into theoretical physics. He just demonstrated that he knows much, much more about physics than you do. The whole “let’s consider the philosophical implications of quantum physics” game is fun, but let’s not mistake it for actual science. > [@](#): > > What I am saying is that the solution to the universe and it’s orderly chaos is not going to be found with numbers or extrapolation. It won’t be found in word salad either. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/55 "2013-04-26T14:49:15Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Me too - that it was a wise decision to give up drugs. Although if I hadn’t, I _might_ have understood the OP. > > Regards, > Shodan > > fnord Reading the OP and the OP’s subsequent posts, I’m thinking “mushrooms”. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/56 "2013-04-26T15:48:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > No, really - just the other day I was able to “reach out and create whatever I wanted”, just like the OP said. > > Mind you, I was standing at the salad bar at the time. Oh sure, it starts with something as innocent as a salad bar but the next thing you know you’re riding that FTL horse, suffering from spatial phase sickness and then dieing within minutes. Don’t say you weren’t warned. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/57 "2013-04-26T15:53:42Z")
I’ve heard rumors that there can be more than one salad ingredient in the same bowl at the same time. That just blows my mind! ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/58 "2013-04-26T16:10:14Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’ve heard rumors that there can be more than one salad ingredient in the same bowl at the same time. That’s due to the Inverted Phase Variance of lettuce when we modulate the Taste Vector and make it go Retrograde via Forced Forcing. It happens if we modify the vibrations of salad and turn it into bacon by sheer force of will. Evinced, as science has long known, by the phenomena of Spontaneous Baconation.[sup]\*[/sup] \*terms, claims, syntax, grammar, and semantic content may potentially diverge from “science jargon”. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/59 "2013-04-26T17:23:54Z")
If it’s not a Ti spork, what’s the point? Lightweight, elegant and immune to time insulation post prandial co-valent dingus events. Although, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to slip this spatial/temporal universe and go into the ones we’ve read a la Hienlien’s Number of The Beast? Mmmmm, Bacon ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623/60 "2013-04-26T17:27:55Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > That’s due to the Inverted Phase Variance of lettuce when we modulate the Taste Vector and make it go Retrograde via Forced Forcing. It happens if we modify the vibrations of salad and turn it into bacon by sheer force of will. Evinced, as science has long known, by the phenomena of Spontaneous Baconation.[sup]\*[/sup] > > \*terms, claims, syntax, grammar, and semantic content may potentially diverge from “science jargon”. But if your inverse the retrograde pull of the Hollandaise over the radishes, the bacon will go through six degrees of separation, preventing the sublimation of the abstract through opposite determinism. Or not, if it’s Wednesday. Oh, dear, my mindless perspective just intuitively mutilated simultaneously. Time for a Rolaids. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mindless-perspectives-some-intuitively-mutilate-simultaneously/656623.md?page=4)