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Post by goldilocks on Sept 12, 2019 17:28:40 GMT -5
Are we thinking too logically? I hear so much deductive reasoning relating to this Chase. Maybe that's where we are going wrong. How do you not think logically is what I want to know? Incoherent, confusing, irrational, without reason? Those thoughts make me itchy and uncomfortable.
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Post by davebakedpotato on Sept 13, 2019 2:26:59 GMT -5
Yes Drift, I'm not sure it's possible to be 'too logical', unless you are using it at the expense of imagination.
Forrest has a lot to say about logic and imagination, if you can bring these to bear on the poem you're in good shape imo. This means using your left and right brain.
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Post by goldilocks on Sept 13, 2019 6:15:06 GMT -5
I totally agree with both of you Drifter and davebakedpotato.
Drifter, after that last quote you mentioned he also said, "That's an awesome recipe." So guts is the bravery we need, plenty of searchers use logic but imagination is so subjective. So for Forrest, 'Fake it till you make it' applied so while he believed he didn't have the smarts he used the above recipe to succeed, and so should we.
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Post by Jenny on Sept 13, 2019 6:58:18 GMT -5
All in balance......
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Post by goldilocks on Sept 13, 2019 9:11:13 GMT -5
He titled SB 166 Graveyard Logic.
Actually, the title of the chapter in OUAW is called "Divorce Logic". I wonder why the subtle changes within the story and the differences in title.
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Post by goldilocks on Sept 13, 2019 13:36:51 GMT -5
In TTOTC in the "Gold and More" chapter Forrest talks about paying too much for the bronze chest and says, "...once in a while something comes along that is so special as to discount all logical rules of value." I'm thinking we have to throw all logical rules out the window as it pertains to the poem (punctuation, word definitions, interpretations of words etc.), and maybe even as it pertains to his special spot. It's Forrest's logic we are seeking, not our own.
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Post by richard on Sept 13, 2019 15:06:54 GMT -5
In TTOTC in the "Gold and More" chapter Forrest talks about paying too much for the bronze chest and says, "...once in a while something comes along that is so special as to discount all logical rules of value." I'm thinking we have to throw all logical rules out the window as it pertains to the poem (punctuation, word definitions, interpretations of words etc.), and maybe even as it pertains to his special spot. It's Forrest's logic we are seeking, not our own. You are correct in your thinking to a point. But to solve the poem we ourselves must recognize that if Forrest spent 10 to 15 years constructing this poem, then he used logic and psychology, in doing so. There can be no other explanation for the time duration of completion. The solve for this poem lies in deductive reasoning, the use of logic, and imagining what the possibilities of what he has said could mean, and then verifying what you perceive may have been implied in an obscure manor. Remember, " It doesn't matter who you are, It only matters who they think you are." My answer to Forrest is, It does not mater who they think you are, it only matters who you think you are. |
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