These "More Rambles" pages were begun as a way to talk about things that don't quite belong in the regular journal, either due to length or spoiler-content. This is solely an addendum to my regular journal. Occasionally, journal entries will link here for extended commentary.
Several more people have guessed the correct answer, but most of you are still over-thinking.
To refresh, yesterday I posted the following riddle:
Imagine you are in a room with no doors or windows, and no openings in the floor or ceiling either. How do you get out?
Stop imagining!
Simple, isn't it?
This riddle reminds me of an old episode of WKRP in Cincinnati in which a censor wants to clean up the airwaves. He seems reasonable at first, but his demands quickly escalate. This was the final dramatic straw that broke the censor's grip.
- Mr Carlson: I had one of my disc jockeys, Dr Johnny Fever, give me the lyrics to a song. He wants to know if you'd let him play that song on the air.
- Dr Bob, reading: "Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine no possessions? Imagine all the people sharing all the world?" That sounds like communism to me, if there's no heaven, no religion and, I assume, no God.
- Mr Carlson: There's not an obscene word in here.
- Dr Bob: Not the way I see it.
- Mr Carlson: Does it go on your list?
- Dr Bob: Arthur, this is typical of the kind of secular, liberal humanist point of view that gluts our airwaves.
- Mr Carlson: Yeah, but we're not talking obscenities here anymore, Bob, we're talking about ideas -- political, philosophical ideas! First you censor a word, and then you censor the ideas.
- Dr Bob: The idea is man-centered, not God-centered. Man is an animal. The Bible tells us to put our reliance in God, not in our fellow mortals. Arthur, this song says there's no heaven.
- Mr Carlson: Ah. No, it says just imagine there's no heaven.
Imagination is not reality. I think it's an important distinction that seems to be getting lost in current political discourse. Hypotheticals are not facts. Analogy is similarity, not equality.
I didn't intend to turn this into a rant on current events <cough>Durbin</cough>, but I guess it needed to be said.
Imagine all the people living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
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