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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Subject: Re: A test of discernment/employment
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 17:45:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 17:45:14 1987
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In article <957@bc-cis.UUCP> preis@bc-cis.UUCP (David Preisler) writes:
>			A Test Of Discernment
>
>Please do exactly as instructed. Ask no questions. Under no
>circumstances are you to speak or ask a question.  Be sure to keep
>your eyes on your own paper.  When you have finished, sit quietly, not
>speaking a word.
>
>1.  Read all directions before you do anything.
>3.  Put your name in the upper right-hand corner of this paper.
>20. Now that you have finished reading carefully, do only sentence three.
>
	The test is a paradox.  More specifically, instruction 20 is a
paradox.  It instructs you to perform ONLY instruction three.  However, if
you, in fact, perform only instruction three, you have followed instruction
20 as well, which violates the conditions of instruction 20 (do ONLY three).

	Therefore, instruction 20 is invalid.  Pthphbtphpbthpttt!

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