Subj : Re: packets
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Fri May 15 2020 18:02:24

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 08-May-2020 09:32 <=-

 NB>>> Being able to think logically, as well as outside the box, are both
 NB>>> useful skills....  ;)
 BM>> And some times be able to think in a logical true/false manner, other
 BM>> times to not be constrained by all the rules.
 NB>> Generally depends on the actual situation at hand, which is most
 NB>> useful... :)
 BM> Yes.  Thinking outside the box is sometimes helpful to break through
 BM> the 'barriers' -- the barriers are only barriers because we think they
 BM> are barriers.  At other times the barriers are artificial yet real at
 BM> the same time: I would love to replace the tree that died in the back
 BM> yard for shade but it's going to take twenty years to grow that big.

As for that, there are some shade trees that grow fairly quickly...
might not take twenty years to get a decent replacement, just not the
same type of tree... :)
 
 NB>>>>> ... Of people born in 1839, 100% who ate carrots are dead!
 BM>>>> That seems proof enough carrots are bad for you!!
 NB>>>> Faulty reasoning, just like one might do with the below.... ;)
 NB>>>> ... 100% of people who breathe die.
 BM>>> Stop breathing and save yourself!!
 NB>>> But when one stops breathing one does die...  ;)
 BM>> Use a respirator?
 NB>> That only works for a while.... eventually one still dies...
 BM>> As do all things.
 NB>> Yup.
 BM> Death is a requirement but preferable to think for living.

After all, living is where one can think... ;)

ttyl       neb

.... Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

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