verbalobe ([info]pilgrim_eye) wrote,
@ 2008-05-02 15:40:00
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The "one word makes all the difference" department
My fortune cookie the other night:

"The current year will bring you much happiness."

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[info]lapis_lazuli
2008-05-02 07:52 pm UTC (link)
[info]hbergeronx got that one last night!

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[info]pilgrim_eye
2008-05-02 08:37 pm UTC (link)
There is definitely some odd cross-lj-user channeling going on these days.

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[info]jigsawn
2008-05-03 01:36 am UTC (link)
Trying to figure out which "one word" you're referring to.

If you were a white water kayaker, it might have been a good fortune with the word "year" omitted.

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[info]pilgrim_eye
2008-05-03 02:09 am UTC (link)
I guess I should start dreading 2009.

And kute on the kayaking :)

Edited at 2008-05-03 02:10 am UTC

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[info]jigsawn
2008-05-03 02:11 am UTC (link)
I'm not following. Because the current year will bring you much happiness, you think that implies the following year will be worse?!

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[info]pilgrim_eye
2008-05-03 02:52 am UTC (link)
No -- because the fortune tells me the current year will bring me much happiness, I think it implies the fortuneteller thinks the following year will be worse.

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[info]jigsawn
2008-05-03 02:59 am UTC (link)
OK, your "edit" of my comment is drawing a distinction between what the fortune says and what will actually come to pass. That's fine, but it's not the issue I was getting at. I don't see why one thing being good has to imply that another thing will be worse. That's what I think of as a scarcity mentality.

There's enough key lime pie to go around for everybody.

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[info]pilgrim_eye
2008-05-03 03:15 am UTC (link)
Yes, but the whole thing was really just a joke :) Me impersonating just such a "glass-half-empty" personality, and reacting to the fortune with a "current? The CURRENT year?! Oh my god, what about the REST of my life?"

But I'm enjoying the key lime pie, too :)

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[info]jigsawn
2008-05-03 03:26 am UTC (link)
Ah, I see. Pass the pie, please. :)

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