On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 2:32 PM 'Brent Meeker' < [email protected]> wrote:
>> OK, but the very definition of "The Helsinki Man" is the man who is >> experiencing Helsinki right now today. Or at least that's the definition on >> Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, but on other days of the week the >> definition is the man who REMEMBERS experiencing Helsinki today, and on >> those days the Helsinki Man would be a fool to expect that the Helsinki Man >> would experience one and only one thing tomorrow. > > > * > I did use proper nouns. So what is John Clark's answer to the > question what did the Helsinki man expect regarding his future just before > he pushed the button? * > There are a lot of generic men in Helsinki so John Clark neither knows or cares what a random sample of one of them would expect to happen in that very odd circumstance, but if John Clark were the Helsinki Man then John Clark would expect that John Clark would see both Moscow and Washington. *> My guess would be that he expected to experience being in either Moscow > or in Washington,* > Some Helsinki men might expect that, and some Helsinki men might expect to see Santa Claus's workshop. Who cares? Some crewmen on Christopher Columbus's ship expected the ship to fall off the edge of the world but I don't care because despite expectations that isn't what turned out to have happened. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2d%3D03nfscUk8GNEKqSprjWobVB4optFq4zMdeX%3DxuFMg%40mail.gmail.com.
