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Test

by on 23 February 2010 9:18 pm

Ignore, this will be gone soon.

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11 comments to Test

  • Joe D.
    February 24th, 2010 at 11:20 am

    Jason,

    Best thing you’ve ever written!

  • Matthew A.
    February 24th, 2010 at 11:57 am

    If this post is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

  • Greg Prince
    February 24th, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Ignore, this will be gone soon.

    He told me the same thing about Castillo.

  • Jason Fry
    February 24th, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    Glad you guys are enjoying it, at least.

    Technorati’s blog claiming procedure … ugh.

  • Inside Pitcher
    February 24th, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    True

    I mean B

    Damn test….

  • Joe D.
    February 24th, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    Jason,

    Nearly ten hours and it hasn’t gone yet!

  • Jason Fry
    February 24th, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    Don’t hold your breath. Technorati message says claiming procedure could take quite a long time. UGH!

  • Greg Prince
    February 25th, 2010 at 1:04 am

    The Mets are saying the Test post is day-to-day. Also, they’re gonna fly it from Atlanta to Colorado.

  • Dave Pucks
    February 25th, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    This six word post has changed my life. Let’s examine it in the rich detail that it deserves:

    First of all, the message asks us to ignore it. But in reading the post – we clearly haven’t ignored it. We could disregard it maybe in the future, but the act of reading it makes it impossible to have ignored it.

    And what is the point of the post’s reference to the fact that the post itself will be gone soon? Of course – we can only read that message when it is in fact not gone. So it is a useless and paradoxical point to make. It is a dangerous piece of anti-logic that can mess with the fabric of the space-time continium.

    And of course – with every passing hour – the message is not gone. So this simple six word message is both impossible and self-contradictory. Not only can’t we ignore it – it, in fact, was not gone soon.

    And that leaves us with nothing. That is, nothing but the cyptic title: Test.

    Test?

    What is that?

    A simple imperative. A request? No, I believe it is a demand. We must test. In our lives – in everything we think and believe. We must never accept anything at face value. We have to always Test – always try to figure it out – to verify – to confirm.

    And that, friends, is what this simple message has inspired me to do. Yes, I will test. I will look deeper, live fuller, question louder. And I will never, for an instant, forget that life, like the message, will be gone soon. Those fleeting moments are the very stuff that our life is made of.

    And all this is thanks to this earth shaking 6 word post – I will never ever forget that – and I will never ever be the same.

    Thank you, bless you, and for goodness sakes: Let’s Go Mets.

    David Pucks – blueshirtbrothers.com

  • mikeski
    February 26th, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Some of George Lucas’ best work, that one.