Looking for a Black Cat in a Dark Room

[Tamrin]

Psychology—looking for a black cat in a dark room.

Behaviourism—not looking for a black cat in a dark room.

Sociology—looking for a black cat in a dark room in which there is no cat.

Economics—looking for something in a dark room, tripping over a chair and saying it was a black cat

Metaphysics—claiming that you've found a black cat in a dark room in which there is no cat.

Science—looking for a black cat in a dark room with an infrared camera.

Mathematics—building a room, turning out the lights and then filling it with black cats.

Art—taking a white cat out of a dark room with only a black cat inside.

Ethics—wondering whether or not it is right to keep a black cat in a dark room.

History—looking in any room for a cat that's no longer there.

Secular Humanism—closing the door to the dark room, black cat or not.

Scientific Creationism—seeing a tan cat in a bright room, then turning out the lights and claiming there's a black cat there.

Physics—putting a black cat in a dark room, rotate it, flip it, drop it, smash it, nuke it, and still claim the black cat is in there.

English—writing about a black cat in a dark room using a white cat in a bright room as a metaphor.

Politics—denying you were ever in a dark room with that cat.

Freemasonry—any suggestions?

[Tamrin]

Freemasonry—being told in a dark room that you represent a black cat and you are then congratulated for having found it.

[jmd]

or how about:

Making darkness visible by removing the hoodwink, allowing the light to suffuse the room, and observing whether or not there is a cat, and if so its colour.

(but of course, as we are met not as operative but accepted and symbolic masons, it is the moral to be derived from the contemplation of the cat to which we should draw our attention... etc )

[prometheus]

Freemasonry - Finding multiple rooms with only One Supreme black cat within them then offering to others ways to find their own rooms and cats while providing all the tools and training to make this occur, as long as they promise to teach others only this specific way and under specific conditions, excluding all those who cannot make and keep this promise.

[OwenKL]

Perambulating a dark room until you find a cat.

[Tamrin]

Aug 13, 2008 10:09:46 GMT 10 OwenKL said:

Perambulating a dark room until you find a cat.

With my luck, I'd step on its tail in the dark and end up scratched and bloodied.