topic# 15 I know where I will wear this dagger then...

The start of this blog topic coincided with the addition of some strange murals to the walls of the Commons. One of them had a painting of Yoda on it and a quote from him which read, "Do or do not there is not try." Ironically, not far away there was a painting of someone trying to lasso the moon. The caption on that one read, "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you will land among the stars."
    We have many sayings on this topic: "He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day." "Whatever you do, do with all of your might." "It is better to yield to a greater power than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed." "Set your sails with the wind." ...
 These all sound like reasonable sayings, but they contradict each other so much. I personally think that they are all true but only in limited circumstances. For example AEsop's saying: "What ever you do, do with all of your might." would often be true for consequential matters, but for trivial things like whether the sun rises in the east or not if someone is so stupid as to believe that it doesn't then it is a waist of one's time to try and persuade them otherwise.


Personally I am most stubborn not in arguments with other people, but in the solving of puzzles. I will sit for hours in front of my computer looking for the one lone bug in my program which causes sporadic detection of keys. It may not even greatly effect game play, but I will look for it either until I find that I forgot a semicolon or an extra equals sign or until it is so late and I so tired or hungry that I decide that any more looking will be futile. When the latter happens I usually come back latter to find that it was a very stupid error. Letting a problem be and coming back to it later is often a very successful way of finding a way to solve it; I should probably try and do that more often.