Received valuable insight on the insidious nature of belief this morning whilst dishing out some Whiskas rabbit in jelly.
The 'new cat' was breakfasting when another cat appeared at the kitchen door. At first I thought it was one of the other long-time resident cats seen in a half light, the point is, I didn't immediately see there were two new cats even when they were in the same room, talk about seeing what you believe.
Turns out I've been rather amusingly duped, cuckolded and sold a pup, commenting on the 'new cat' every time I'd seen it, when in reality I've been seeing two new cats that look different, sound different and have different behaviours.
It's like those Gestalt drawings when the old woman suddenly snaps into a young woman and then you can't understand how you couldn't see the young woman in the first place. Maybe it's like the failure of the Aborigines to see the approach of Captain Cook's ship, but they could 'see' the rowing boats.
The only thing I had noticed was that the 'new cat' was sometimes very friendly, getting right under your feet and at other times it would seem a lot more nervous and scoot away as soon as you went to stroke it.
The frightening thing is: if you can't see that there's two different cats instead of one, in a small house, reality must be so different from one's perception, which at the same time seems beyond all doubt...
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Reality doesn't necessarily provide a sufficiently stable frame of reference to generate doubt in your perceptions.
Have you considered cross dimensional activity? At any time did the "two" cats occupy the same space at the same time? That would have generated a completely noticeable rift in the continuum.
If you can get them to make contact with each other, without them both disappearing in a spectical of blinding light, you can be sure that they are individuals.
Gone is the overtly policitally incorrect excuse of "They all look the same to me."
Perhaps you should do a DNA check on Isabelle (or yourself) on a routine basis as there may be an unnoticed third person helping themselves to meals, credit cards, marital favours etc
Technical stuff eh?
Exam Question Ex.
If x represents the area of a house in metres squared explain how to find y the area of litter tray per cat given the weekly consumption of Whiskas Supermeat before the claim of Tesco 'Hygiene' litter is invalid.
What is meant by Insanitary Conditions?
25 Marks.
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