in the background, coming from the TV, i heard the statement "everybody's fingerprints are unique. there are no 2 fingerprints alike", and whilst i have always known that to be the case, it nevertheless through me out of my track of concentration (which was unrelated to what was on the TV).
i suddenly thought in a completely disengaged way "oh really? well my fingerprints are not on file, so how can you claim that no one else on earth has the same fingerprints as i do if you do not know what fingerprints i have ?!?!"
i knew it was a stupid thought, but i was drawn into it because it seemed so funny to me.
i then thought that if i was in the presence of someone who continued arguing with me that my fingerprints were unique, that i would retort with "even if you did know what my fingerprints looked like, there would still be the majority of the population of the world who's fingerprints remain uncharted, and so your notional assertion that my fingerprints are unique can not be validated"
i am very often sidetracked by my residual oppositional defiance disorder, and i hear things said that i have a fundamental itch to refute, even though i agree with them.
to throw crudely formed cognitive spanners into the works of well oiled philosophical machines is unfortunately rather fun for me.
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so i was drawn off my serious mental destination by my shallow inclination for philosophical discord that is an artifact of an aspect of my being that i wish did not tickle my "fancy".
the more i say, the more convoluted my sentences become, so this is a good time to say .."hooray"