Re: The Suspicious Journals of Ross A. Kosmanson :-)

On 3/26/2025 1:24 PM, The Starmaker wrote:

take 2 eggs and put it in front of you...
Where is the number 2?
>
at the sign post up ahead..
You just crossed over into...The Platonic Zone!
DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUUUUNNNNN!

I thought the Platonic Zone sounded like
DEEDLE deedle DEEDLE deedle...

and circles don't exist.
and law of physics don't exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPS5Yw_YsHA
Death's speech in Hogfather (Discworld) (1m54s)
⎛ ...
⎜  SUSAN:
⎜ Now. Tell me...
⎜  DEATH (Susan's grandfather. By adoption.):
⎜ ...what would have happened if you _hadn't_ saved him?
⎜  S:
⎜ Yes.
⎜  D:
⎜ The sun would not have risen.
⎜  S:
⎜ Then, what _would_ have happened?
⎜  D:
⎜ A mere ball of flaming gas
⎜ would have illuminated the world.
⎜  S:
⎜ Alright, I'm not stupid.
⎜ You're saying that
⎜ humans need fantasies to make life bearable.
⎜  D:
⎜ No.
⎜ Humans need fantasy to _be_ human.
⎜ To _be_ the place where the falling angel
⎜ meets the rising ape.
⎜  S:
⎜ With Tooth Fairies. Hogfathers.
⎜  D:
⎜ Yes.
⎜ As practice, you have to start out
⎜ believing the _little_ lies.
⎜  S:
⎜ So we can believe the big ones.
⎜  D:
⎜ Yes.
⎜ Justice, mercy, duty, that sort of thing.
⎜  S:
⎜ They're not the same at all.
⎜  D:
⎜ You think so?
⎜ Then take the universe and grind it down
⎜ into the finest powder,
⎜ and sieve it through the finest sieve,
⎜ and then show me
⎜ one atom of justice,
⎜ one molecule of mercy.
⎜ And yet.
⎜ You try to act as if there is some ideal
⎜ order in the world.
⎜ As if there is some, some _rightness_
⎜ in the universe by which it may be judged.
⎜  S:
⎜ But people have got to believe that.
⎜ Or what's the point?
⎜  D:
⎜ You need to believe in things that aren't true.
⎝ How else can they become?