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Riddle Thread

Shawn January 26, 2020 at 19:57 8200 views 38 comments
I would like to start a riddle thread.

Here it goes;

What happens when the all seeing eye turns inward?

Comments (38)

Nils Loc January 26, 2020 at 21:52 #375879
Quoting Wallows
What happens when the all seeing eye turns inward?


Sauron looks at orc porn when his gaze is directed within.
Shawn January 26, 2020 at 22:11 #375884
Reply to Nils Loc

More like the one on the back of the dollar bill.

:sparkle:
Sir2u January 26, 2020 at 22:24 #375887
Quoting Wallows
What happens when the all seeing eye turns inward?


They see all of the inner shit. :chin:
Shawn January 26, 2020 at 22:25 #375888
Reply to Sir2u

Probably, but not the answer.
Nils Loc January 26, 2020 at 22:36 #375891
There is far too much for an-all seeing eye to see.

What animal sees with the all seeing eye?
Shawn January 26, 2020 at 22:38 #375893
Quoting Nils Loc
There is far too much for an-all seeing eye to see.


But when it looks at itself inwardly what do you think happens?
Nils Loc January 26, 2020 at 22:45 #375900
Reply to Wallows

Depends on what self is doing the seeing?

It sees whatever it intends to see, which is the self it already intends for its focus.

A brain has to decide what to see given it has infinite options of focus and range. It's predetermined to see what it sees by natural law.



Shawn January 26, 2020 at 22:59 #375910
Still not the answer.
Nils Loc January 26, 2020 at 23:20 #375921
Reply to Wallows

You're going to have to see the answer for us.

God is always looking at nudes. He is constantly unclothing the world and driving spiritless machines to replicate. He's a psychopath. If he is a cyclops that just makes him more creepy.


Shawn January 26, 2020 at 23:25 #375923
Reply to Nils Loc

Keep on trying. Last poast was interesting.
Nils Loc January 27, 2020 at 00:04 #375927
The eye sees through itself to see what it was already looking at, itself looking at itself, but looking at itself is no different than looking outwards at the world. The eye's self is the world.

What it sees outwardly constitutes a vantage from a distinct point of view and that view is a kind of inward looking because it is distinct (a point focus), which makes the world sensible.

If this is the Eye of Providence, then its is a mere surface painting, or a dream image, which causes us to paranoid about what we think we ought to do against what we want to do. God's Eye is the security camera of Thrasymacus, whose justice is the right of kings. It means: "Watch out, for you are being watched."


Baden January 27, 2020 at 00:05 #375928
:eyes:

Nils Loc January 27, 2020 at 00:06 #375929
Reply to Baden

It's single, not a pair. One Eye.
Baden January 27, 2020 at 00:07 #375930
Reply to Nils Loc

Yes, exactly.
Baden January 27, 2020 at 00:09 #375931
You win anyway. You have the jiviest words today. I have but emojis.
Nils Loc January 27, 2020 at 00:11 #375933
Reply to Baden

You have two eyes of a moderator and the power to silence fools. :P
Baden January 27, 2020 at 00:12 #375934
Reply to Nils Loc

:naughty:

@Wallows Probably your best OP.
god must be atheist January 27, 2020 at 01:23 #375968
I would say the all-seeing eye sees everything no matter where and in which direction it is pointed at. By definition.

I know the winner has been chosen already. But I had to put in my answer.
Shawn January 27, 2020 at 06:01 #376034
Let me offer another hint...

"A more perfect union"...

How else can that be stated by the Eye of Providence?
Shawn January 27, 2020 at 06:12 #376037
Here's another one:

What happens when a double agent becomes a triple agent?

god must be atheist January 27, 2020 at 07:05 #376045
Quoting Wallows
What happens when a double agent becomes a triple agent?


Oh, that's easy: the litmus paper turns blue.

(I realize this was a stupid answer I have given, but hey, it's 2:06 in the a.m. hours here just now.)
Shawn January 27, 2020 at 15:50 #376146
Reply to god must be atheist

It really isn't that complicated. Although, those two are pretty cool, yes?
Shawn January 27, 2020 at 17:31 #376188
Fine...

Who does a triple agent work for?
Nils Loc January 27, 2020 at 18:25 #376217
How long do we have to wait for the answer of the riddle?


Shawn January 27, 2020 at 18:43 #376225
Quoting Nils Loc
How long do we have to wait for the answer of the riddle?


I'm still waiting for answers.
RegularGuy January 27, 2020 at 22:29 #376330
Total self awareness
Shawn January 28, 2020 at 04:02 #376414
What happens when a union is perfected?
Shawn January 28, 2020 at 07:08 #376473
Ok, no more hints after this one.

When a union is perfected it becomes complete...
god must be atheist January 28, 2020 at 10:55 #376511
A triple agent works for himself.
Shawn January 28, 2020 at 14:17 #376557
Reply to god must be atheist

That's one answer, what's the other?
Shawn January 28, 2020 at 14:17 #376558
:lol:
ZhouBoTong January 29, 2020 at 02:24 #376808
Quoting Wallows
What happens when the all seeing eye turns inward?


Nothing, it was already all seeing.
Shawn January 29, 2020 at 03:49 #376819
Quoting ZhouBoTong
Nothing, it was already all seeing.


Are you sure about that? Because the union was never perfected to start with. So, something must have had to ontologically happen to the All-Seeing-Eye when it turned its gaze inward.
ZhouBoTong January 29, 2020 at 04:08 #376824
Quoting Wallows
So, something must have had to ontologically happen to the All-Seeing-Eye when it turned its gaze inward.


If it is truly "all seeing" it can never "turn" its gaze. That implies limits of its vision before it "turned inward". If I see ALL, what happens when I turn my head? I still see all. Now if we are calling something "all seeing" that is actually not "all seeing" due to some un-perfected union (I am not exactly sure what this is referring to), then obviously things change.
Shawn January 29, 2020 at 04:13 #376827
User image
ZhouBoTong January 29, 2020 at 04:52 #376838
Yes, that is what I pictured as the all seeing eye.

So the "union" is the completion of the pyramid? So it is not "all seeing" until it rejoins with its base? Why do we call it the "all seeing eye" if it actually has rather limited vision due to its incomplete nature?

It seems you are creating dogma for a non-existent entity?

To be fair, I am probably just missing the joke, as usual. Carry on.
Shawn January 29, 2020 at 05:25 #376854
Reply to ZhouBoTong

Nah, your ahead of the game. I doubt I'd have the godlike courage or ability to look inwards.

Maybe it crystalized or blinked.
Nils Loc February 02, 2020 at 19:49 #378093
So there is no answer. Ha!

The Eye of Providence brings to mind political conspiracy (Illumanatism), what with its Masonic origins.

Because God is now dead, his eye has been inherited by the special interests of the state, which gain more power through the market of surveillance capitalism and state corruption.

If the eye turns against itself it could mean self-exposure of the surveillance activities of a neofascism.

When the Eye turns Inward and the mouth speaks to the public, it Wikileaks a tear for the state of the nation.