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Started by caulfield, May 27, 2011, 12:37:27 PM

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caulfield

May 27, 2011, 12:37:27 PM
This is a neat trick someone taught me.

Look up any word with a definition in Wikipedia and bring up the page. Then, click on the first available link within the article that is NOT in parentheses and NOT written in italics. Then keep on repeating this process for every resulting linked page.

Eventually you end up at "Philosophy".

It works so well that it blew my mind. A group of people in an online forum tried to break it and could only find TWO exceptions that loop back to themselves.

JRL

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May 30, 2011, 03:22:26 PM
Worked starting with "analog".
a group of us, on peyote, had little to share with a group on marijuana

the marijuana smokers were discussing questions of the utmost profundity and we were sticking our fingers in our navels & giggling
                 Jack Green

Syd

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May 30, 2011, 04:06:56 PM
Formula One took 22 clicks. It not really a phenomenon if you ask me. Everything is based on philosophy when you consider the definition. Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. That pretty much covers everything in existence. Not something that blows my mind, wikipedia is well connected throughout its articles.
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