Thinking Outside the Box

[_maklelan]

Many people these days think deep inside the box. For every individual who actually thinks outside of it there are probably in the neighborhood of a million who are hopelessly trapped inside it while they insist on their clairvoyance and intelligence. I will provide a simple test to see how far inside the box the people on this board are:

What professional baseball player holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single season?

[_Rollo Tomasi]

What professional baseball player holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single season?

Rickey Henderson -- 130 stolen bases in 1982?

[_Mary]

OOOH....I know....I know...

How bout

A pink spotted elephant with purple striped rollerskates, eating a bowl of trifle and wearing a magicians cap!!!

(Do I pass??????)

:) :)

[_Mister Scratch]

I going to go out on a limb (or "out of the box"?) and guess that Maklelan is referring to a non-U.S. baseball player, perhaps somebody from Cuba, or Japan.

So, Mak: Am I right? Am I that one out of a million?

[_Who Knows]

I admit it - I was trying to think of only MLB players.

Scratch is probably right.

[_Who Knows]

Reminds me of a dumb riddle i heard when i was younger, that goes something like this:

A father and his son were driving in a car, and got into a bad accident. They were rushed to the hospital, but the father died on the way there. The son was rushed into the ER, but when the doctor saw the patient, the doctor said 'I can't operate on that boy - that's my son!'

How is this possible?

[_why me]

This can actually be a thoughtful topic. People thinking inside the box. One academic that I admire is Slavoj Zizek. He said basically that we have two freedoms. The first freedom is formal freedom. The second is actual freedom. In formal freedom, we are free to discuss inside a set of boundaries. But in actual freedom, we choose to step outside the boundaries and embrace true freedom, where we can challenge basic assumptions about life situations.

Most societies do have formal freedom but most never even achieve actual freedom, where individuals can freely express themselves and challenge the ruling elite of their society by offering alternatives to their rule. The press, and other media outlets are experts at giving us formal freedom but actual freedom is very difficult to uncover.

And so, most individuals think inside a box because they have been educated to do so. The people who go outside the boundaries are the radicals and the revolutionaries for change. How many people here on this forum are radical and revolutionary?...and by radical, I refer to getting to the root of life and to explore their place in society in diliberative dialogues for change.

Well anyway, the box idea spawned this idea...now back to baseball.

[_Bond...James Bond]

Reminds me of a dumb riddle i heard when i was younger, that goes something like this:

A father and his son were driving in a car, and got into a bad accident. They were rushed to the hospital, but the father died on the way there. The son was rushed into the ER, but when the doctor saw the patient, the doctor said 'I can't operate on that boy - that's my son!'

How is this possible?

His mother's the doctor!

[_Alter Idem]

Apparently I'm unable to think inside the box, since it requires sports knowledge, of which, I have very little.

[_harmony]

So are you asking if members of the LDS church think inside or outside the box? What about our leaders... do they think inside or outside the box? Is thinking inside the box safe? Is thinking outside the box dangerous?