A little comedy break....

Idolater

"Foundation of the World" Dispensationalist χρ
When my son was only about 3, someone asked him if he had any brothers. He replied, "No, but I have a sister and she has a brother."

I thought that was pretty clever for a 3 year old.
Wait, so he meant he doesn't have any brothers, but that since he has a sister, and he is a boy, therefore someone in the family definitely does have a brother, it's just not him? Like, it was the state of having a brother that he interpreted the question to mean? "Are you in the state of having a brother?" "No, but my sister is in that state"? Is that what he meant? Or does he have a brother, but he just thinks of his brother as his sister's brother?

It really is. Perhaps foreshadowing a mind that, more than the average person, will delight in thinking analytically.
I identify as analytical. Who's your favorite thinker and why is it Ludwig Wittgenstein? :)
 

7djengo7

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What came to mind with my first glance at this is: "Why do you deserve it, St. Anthony? Why do you deserve anything? Well, are you not the desert father?"
 

7djengo7

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I identify as analytical. Who's your favorite thinker and why is it Ludwig Wittgenstein? :)
I've never read much by him (though I've always meant to get around to reading more), but somewhere I've got a book of, like, "pensees" by him, that I flipped through years ago. The thing I think I remember from it, and only vaguely, is where he was musing about the absurdity of saying something like, "I think it's raining, but it's not."
 

Derf

Well-known member
Wait, so he meant he doesn't have any brothers, but that since he has a sister, and he is a boy, therefore someone in the family definitely does have a brother, it's just not him? Like, it was the state of having a brother that he interpreted the question to mean? "Are you in the state of having a brother?" "No, but my sister is in that state"? Is that what he meant? Or does he have a brother, but he just thinks of his brother as his sister's brother?
They were both in the state of Colorado at the time. 😀
 
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