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ChildOfReason · November 7, 2013 at 5:42 pm

Assume you are outside of a room. This isn't just a regular room. It is a room with a tv in it, and as a child, you were taught that it was on channel 7 all the time.
In fact, there is even a TV guide you get in the mail every week, and you had been taught that the only way to make it into the room is to devote your life to the TV.
One day, you press your ear against the door.
If you hear nothing, examine argument A, if you hear a noise, go to argument B.

A. If there is no noise, it is more logical to assume that the TV is off.

B. If you hear noise, you can not be sure that it's channel 7.

**Minimalist** · November 7, 2013 at 5:44 pm

C. Goddidit

~~freedomfromforum~~ · (This post was last modified: November 7, 2013 at 6:41 pm by freedomfromforum.)

(November 7, 2013 at 5:42 pm)ChildOfReason Wrote: B. If you hear noise, you can not be sure that it's channel 7.

Yes, I can in fact, be very sure what channel is on in the next room. In the TV guide it says that Starsky and Hutch come on Channel 7 at 4:00PM, and sure as shit, every day at 4:00PM when I put my ear to the wall I hear the theme music for Starsky and Hutch, and tires screeching. Want further proof? The TV guide says that The Dukes of Hazzard comes on channel 7 immediately following Starsky and Hutch, and again, sure enough, I hear Waylon Jennings and banjo every day at 5:00PM. So there you go. The TV guide says it, and I believe the TV guide Tongue

**Esquilax** · November 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm

Channel 7 sucks, though. Perhaps you'd like to start devoting your life to channel 10? It's much better, even if you can't hear it right now. It must still be there, right? If you have faith enough to just Ask through the door for the channel to be changed, See that nobody answers you, and then Knock on the door to get in, you'll be rewarded with all the riches of channel 10, like Homeland, and Sleepy Hollow. Tongue

Captain Colostomy · November 7, 2013 at 6:46 pm

Does the door have a transom window? Maybe I'll just take a peek first...

Better yet, I can give the knob a jiggle.

Honestly, though...fuck TV. It's a mindless diversion, and there is better shit to occupy my time here on the outside.

(Unless it's a porn channel, of course...)

**BrianSoddingBoru4** · November 7, 2013 at 6:46 pm

Here's a simpler one:

Someone attempts to sell you a product that no one has ever seen, touched, or used - but it has 100% customer satisfaction.

Why on earth would you buy it?

Boru

Captain Colostomy · November 7, 2013 at 10:13 pm

(November 7, 2013 at 6:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Here's a simpler one:

Someone attempts to sell you a product that no one has ever seen, touched, or used - but it has 100% customer satisfaction.

Why on earth would you buy it?

Boru

Jesus! Put me down for two!

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