rubah
08-17-2005, 12:36 AM
I was thinking today about how my dad and I had a discussion a long time ago about the things in life that are mutually inclusive.
I'm sure everyone's familiar with mutually exclusive, where two things never come into contact with each other in any context, like intelligence and newbies ;), or existence as an odd number and existence as an even number.
This is the obvious reciprocal-- Two things that *always* come into contact in every context.
They're rather hard to think of.
The best I've gotten so far was "Christmastime and the month of December" because, as it currently stands, christmas tends to happen every 25th of december, and every month of december has a 25th day, which happens to be Christmas. I am assuming of course, that people will continue to celebrate christmas, and that if we time traveled back a few thousands of years, that we would celebrate Christmas if we realized that it was infact the 25th of December xD
Other ideas that were brought up:
Mass and gravity,
Space and Time,
People and Stereotypes,
"you can't have a pigeon without it being sexy."
"But is there such a thing as a sexy non-pigeon?"
"no. pigeons are pretty much the only sexy things on the planet."
Music and a rhythm,
BST and Milo the Monkey,
Birth and Life,
Arguments and Opinions,
Evilness and math,
Buddhism and the Buddha,
Respirating and Life,
Dead people and cemetaries,
hats and food.
How many of the above can you refute? (I know most of them can be, but I want so see if you had the same explanations for them xD)
Add your own, also.
I'm sure everyone's familiar with mutually exclusive, where two things never come into contact with each other in any context, like intelligence and newbies ;), or existence as an odd number and existence as an even number.
This is the obvious reciprocal-- Two things that *always* come into contact in every context.
They're rather hard to think of.
The best I've gotten so far was "Christmastime and the month of December" because, as it currently stands, christmas tends to happen every 25th of december, and every month of december has a 25th day, which happens to be Christmas. I am assuming of course, that people will continue to celebrate christmas, and that if we time traveled back a few thousands of years, that we would celebrate Christmas if we realized that it was infact the 25th of December xD
Other ideas that were brought up:
Mass and gravity,
Space and Time,
People and Stereotypes,
"you can't have a pigeon without it being sexy."
"But is there such a thing as a sexy non-pigeon?"
"no. pigeons are pretty much the only sexy things on the planet."
Music and a rhythm,
BST and Milo the Monkey,
Birth and Life,
Arguments and Opinions,
Evilness and math,
Buddhism and the Buddha,
Respirating and Life,
Dead people and cemetaries,
hats and food.
How many of the above can you refute? (I know most of them can be, but I want so see if you had the same explanations for them xD)
Add your own, also.