Joney, I envy you still "getting to know" Leonard's work
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Paula, although I am sociable I too love my own company.
Ah yes, that's another nice thing about LC people; they don't need to have it spelt out that you just want to be left alone (for god's sake!). Apart from when you don't, that is.
Pete wrote:
Diane
You state that it's a one way ticket but you fail to mention the destination. If there is no destination then there is a danger of arriving back where you started but if that is the case then it would have to be a return ticket. This paradox you have expertly created is further complicated by the fact that you say 'the train don't stop'. By not using the correct grammar of ' the train doesn't stop' you have added that extra dimension of uncertainty. Being on a train that 'don't stop' has different consequences to one that 'doesn't stop' and I congratulate you on that inference. Returning to the one way ticket that has no destination (although possibly I should have not have used the word 'returning' to commence the sentence as that equally adds a mental conflict... but I will leave it in anyway to help promote the paradox) it needs to be said that a ticket for 'anything' has a cost and because the destination in unknown then the cost, which should be in proportion to the length of the journey, cannot be shown on the ticket.
Good evening Pete!
1. Of course it's a paradox. Name one thing in life that isn't a paradox.
2. It doesn't add a mental conflict. Accepting the paradox eases mental conflicts.
3. The train definitely don't stop. I think you'll find Elton John said, "this train
don't stop here anymore". Surely he'd know.
4. I assure you that you can't get a return ticket. You are born on a train. It's one way. There is only one destination. You can swap carriages if you like. But it don't stop.
5.
Now, here's the tricky bit....
someone standing in a field watching this train go by sees us all on the same journey but those on the train are all holding tickets with no destinations....yet each passenger has paid their own price without knowing where the train is going. Each individual on the train perceives the person standing in the field as 'one who cannot get on the train'. The same person in the field perceives the train as 'one I don't want to get on'...for he or she sees the faces of those looking out. The irony is that there's only one train and if this person, in later life, regrets not buying a ticket then there is no train to get on..for it is one way and not returning. You may argue that it is all relative anyway because with no ticket there still exists a train...but can you have tickets for no train?
Would you mind writing out the equation for that problem. And then solving it. You are correct that it is all relative. If I didn't have to take all my relatives on the train, I might have had a far smoother journey.
6.
So I ask 2 questions...
1. Joney... Did the train actually stop for you to get on? If it did then there must have been an opportunity for others to get off yet Diane states that 'you can never leave'..which I presume is the same for everyone. Again Diane, I salute you!
2. Diane..have I passed the test?
3..and where's the buffet car?
damn..that was 3 questions.
We have already covered this. Please pay attention. LC world is, as I have mentioned once before on here, like the Hotel California: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
7. Pete, you will know if you have passed the test. Mathematicians are the only people who really know any actual answers to anything. Aren't you?
8. I don't know, where
is the buffet car? I usually wait until I see someone wobbling past, precariously balancing a coffee and a bag of sarnies, to figure out the right direction. But, the buffet car don't matter, cos, you know, you gotta stay hungry...
It's not a case of 'us and them'.
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