2006-12-09 04:58:38 · 6 answers · asked by Captain Reynolds 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
If it becomes a best-seller, then it is a success, so one has failed... so it is an overall failure.. & therefore a success...
If it doesn't succeed (become a best-seller), then it succeeds, so therefore it is an overall failure...
If it is an overall success, then it is a failure... but if it is an overall failure, then it is a success...
& so on...
However, if it is never written, then it is a failure, which makes it a success, which makes it a failure... & so on....
Now think about the thought; if I write a book about how to fail....
This thought has succeeded by becoming a thought... so it will have successful antecedents... so the whole system is biased from the outset... (had the thought not occurred, then it would have the opposite bias)...
Now, all that has happen'd on thinking of the first question is that one has exited one reality & entered another...
The prior reality (where you had not thought of the question) was a failure...
Yet that reality continues for most people who have not posed the question...
Finally, if you ever forget this question, then you enter a reality where the question no longer exists (from your point of view)...
Do you enter the reality that you were previously in? or is it some duplicate or likeness of the previous state or reality?
Only by forgetting the question, can one say that the question has failed utterly, thus having succeeded... giving one a tremendous feeling of success, but, of course, having forgotten the question, one cannot remember why one feels such positive feelings...
This is why people who don't do logic are happier than those that do....
Is that happiness true happiness? Of course not... but this is not realized by those who do not do logic... rarely, you will encounter those who regularly jump from one reality (one of the realities of logic) to another (one of the realities of non-logic)... Schrodinger was one...
They are probably happiest, as they get 'fresh' 'highs' on a more frequent basis than those who are logic-y or non-logic-y...
& it is a perfectly legal high too....with few of the disadvantages of using other 'legal' narcotic activities (boredom of meditation, the pain of exercise, the responsibilities of parenthood & so on)....
Naturally, contraception has made a lot of this kind of thing no longer as popular as it once was...
& hooray for that...!
K
2006-12-09 05:24:04 · answer #1 · answered by K V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's a failure.
If you write a book on writing a book on how to fail and it fails, THEN you've succeeded.
Of course, your success means you are unqualified to write such a book anyway and nobody should have bought it.
Just desserts, really.
2006-12-09 05:01:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope -if you write a book about how to fail and it fails then it means you have failed to get your point across successfully.
;-)
2006-12-09 05:03:17 · answer #3 · answered by Catie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it just shows u that he realy knows how to fail, there is sure no success in his writing
2006-12-09 05:03:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how you define success. If you define success by thouroughly doing what your book says to do - then I guees this would be seen as successful. If success involves money and fame - then you have not achieved it.
2006-12-09 05:01:17 · answer #5 · answered by smellyfoot ™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no cause the book failed to tell us how to fail...
2006-12-09 05:05:53 · answer #6 · answered by tst1980 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋