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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Today's #flashfiction #TheThoughtContest

“Failure is not an option!”
Schoolhouse Rock*


      Today I was playing a game I got for my birthday. Armored Core 2. An old game I played when I was young and decided to get once more from Bookmans. It's a game where you pilot a giant robot and customize it by using money you get from the missions you accomplish(buy parts like legs and stuff). The way this beef-your-robot-up formula drives the game was the following moment:

I start my mission just rolling along in my giant robot.
Bullets fly from multiple directions at me. They are being shot at me from enemy flying giant robots. I think it's about six to eight but I died before I could count them all.
I am confident my robot is going to need a bigger boomstick.

Anyway, while I go to the giant robot store, onto the flash fiction!


The Thought Contest


       The two smartest men in the world prepared themselves to determine which one was truly more intelligent. (The two smartest women had their contest yesterday, Jenny won.) Just as the women did in their contest the men hooked their brains up to mind reading helmets. Their thoughts would be broadcast for the world to hear on national television live as they watched the men battle. The way that had been chosen to determine intelligence in this contest was who could think the greatest thoughts and dominate the others. Whether or not determined it fairly was debatable.
      On the left side of the room sat Tom dressed in a fancy suit. On the right side of the room sat Hank dressed in a nice suit. To the audience these men weren't really people. Hank loves boats. Tell an audience member that and they wouldn't care. For this all those two men were are intelligent men proving who was smartest, for the worlds entertainment, during prime-time TV. Up next: Football.
       Tom started the battle thinking of geometry. Geometry beyond the normal 3D but into directions beyond that. Mathematicians talk about directions beyond up, down, left, right, forward and back. Way to show off Tom! But that was the point. As a counter Hank thought of time and every single way it is considered and not considered a dimension. Tom brought the subject to pondering something more philosophical. To show the audience how deep he could get.
      Between the two men a screen showed representations of their thoughts along with words and scientists analyzing the helmets would pick them apart too. The screen's images mostly sufficed, almost like being at school. Where a teacher would use a projector to display an image and some words to explain it.
Both men, like many intellectuals, had used these machines before. Tom decided to go for a shock value. The deep philosophical subject he wanted to ponder, that could tie into time was death. Time causes decay. He used that train of thought to bring death to the board. Representations of Tom's concepts of the end of it all, the experience of cessation of existence, or the afterlife, and his own ideas of immortality and its consequences came to light.
     For a split second Hank thought he couldn't possibly top that. A thought he didn't like getting up on the screen. But then he thought of something to top death in philosophy. Deep in science. Deep in everything. The opposite of death, life. He thought of every aspect he could about it. The biological aspects of life. The spiritual aspects of life. And the entire thought contest started to fold in on itself as he began to ponder the consciousness aspect of life. A display of thoughts representing thoughts thinking of thoughts folding on thoughts. Tom couldn't keep up with the speed that Hank could think these thoughts and their complexity and he couldn't come up with anything to compare. The contest was won. Hank reigned as the smartest man in the world.
      The next day the smartest man and smartest woman attempted to have an intellectual contest. But they found each other attractive and both their minds thought simple thoughts of how into each other they were. That intelligence contest was inconclusive.

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