In the world's most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrodinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament.
Compared to the second most famous, but ironically similar: "Does this dress make me look fat?"
Where your relationship is also in an "uncertain predicament" -- being both dead and alive -- until the question is answered.
Even though the right answer is diametrically opposite, this is equivalent to the question: "Would you take a bullet for me?"
Interestingly, it's not enough to just answer the question correctly. The person answering the question also needs to do so within milliseconds of it being asked. So even the timing of the answer leads to it's own uncertainty.
One of the many counter-examples that truth is NOT binary.
The other classic is:
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Again the correct answer is:
Mu. The question is invalid -- you are presupposing existing conditions that never existed. How do you stop something when you never started it in the first place???
Actually the answer is no. "Stopped beating" described a transition from "beating" to "not beating". Since "beating" never occurred, the transition never occurred either.
You are not married, are you? The correct answer is "no". This is the least bad answer. Do not elaborate. There is no good answer. A possible alternative is to pretend not to hear, mumble an excuse, and run away.
Piece of cake (Score:5, Funny)
In the world's most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrodinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament.
Compared to the second most famous, but ironically similar: "Does this dress make me look fat?"
Where your relationship is also in an "uncertain predicament" -- being both dead and alive -- until the question is answered.
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It's not the dress that makes you look fat, it's the fat that makes you look fat.
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In the world's most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrodinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament.
Compared to the second most famous, but ironically similar: "Does this dress make me look fat?"
Where your relationship is also in an "uncertain predicament" -- being both dead and alive -- until the question is answered.
Even though the right answer is diametrically opposite, this is equivalent to the question: "Would you take a bullet for me?"
Interestingly, it's not enough to just answer the question correctly. The person answering the question also needs to do so within milliseconds of it being asked. So even the timing of the answer leads to it's own uncertainty.
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>>> "Does this dress make me look fat?"
There's only one valid answer to this question:
"You look marvelous, darling. Would you like to go to dinner?"
You get reassurance, followed by a quick change of subject before she realizes that you haven't answered the question. But it only works once...
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"Does this dress make me look fat?"
If you are fat: yes!
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> "Does this dress make me look fat?"
The *correct* answer is:
I love you regardless of how you look.
One of the many counter-examples that truth is NOT binary.
The other classic is:
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Again the correct answer is:
Mu. The question is invalid -- you are presupposing existing conditions that never existed. How do you stop something when you never started it in the first place???
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"Does this dress make me look fat?"
The *correct* answer is: I love you regardless of how you look.
You realize that means "yes" - right? :-)
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It's fine, as long as she doesn't.
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The other classic is:
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Actually the answer is no. "Stopped beating" described a transition from "beating" to "not beating". Since "beating" never occurred, the transition never occurred either.
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The *correct* answer is:
I love you regardless of how you look.
You are not married, are you?
The correct answer is "no". This is the least bad answer. Do not elaborate. There is no good answer.
A possible alternative is to pretend not to hear, mumble an excuse, and run away.
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The least bad answer is to avoid the question altogether and answer something along the lines of "I like $her_favorite_dress better".
Or, if you're horny, "I'd prefer you to not wear anything right now..."
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The correct answer is, "Why the fuck would you ask me a question the answer to which is guaranteed to piss you off? Just fucking yell at me already."
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No... in this case your relationship is alive until the question is answered, when it certainly dies no matter what you answer.