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Pretty sure it's not a duck... (dialup warning) (Original Post)
deucemagnet
Jun 2013
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Some people will never see past their rigid and inflexible definition of a duck.
deucemagnet
Jun 2013
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A HERETIC I AM
(24,503 posts)1. The next line in the argument would be...
"You can't prove conclusively that Winnie and Tigger are not in fact, Ducks."
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)2. Some people will never see past their rigid and inflexible definition of a duck.
progressoid
(50,442 posts)3. Right. Maybe its an allegory for duckliness.
Or perhaps there is a translation issue. The box is Aramaic but the puzzle is Latin.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)4. It's a duck.
Since the "female" with the pink balloons says it is a duck....oops, I forgot that I wasn't in the feminist group. Sorry, that just annoyed me.
And what will happen when every piece is in place? Don't be surprised if it is still a duck to many people. It must be a duck, or their life is a lie.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)5. It's a tricky question isn't it...
but I have a quote from Thomas Aquinos that proves that it's a duck, so that is that.
DetlefK
(16,438 posts)6. Ah yeah? Well, I've got a wager of Blaise Pascal!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)7. Also, there are "other ways of knowing" that something is a duck.
And clearly these other ways should be given priority over your lying eyes, brain, evidence, and reason.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)8. Our country was founded on ducks
and Duck help you if you don't believe it.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)9. One nation under Duck... nt