Consider the dilemma faced by an engineer, a psychologist and a theologian who take shelter in a hunter's cabin deep in the wilderness of northern Canada during a sudden blizzard.
The hunters had heard that the locals in the area are quite hospitable, so when no one answers their knocks, they go in. The cabin is a simple place, but nothing about it is unusual except a large cast-iron pot-bellied stove that is suspended in midair by wires attached to the ceiling beams.
"Fascinating," says the psychologist. "It's obvious this lonely trapper, isolated from humanity, has elevated this stove so he can curl up under it and vicariously experience a return to the womb."
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"Nonsense," replies the engineer. "The man is practicing the laws of thermodynamics. By elevating his stove, he has discovered a way to distribute heat more evenly throughout the cabin."
"With all due respect," interrupts the theologian, "I'm sure that hanging his stove from the ceiling has religious meaning. Fire lifted up has been a religious symbol for centuries."
At that point, the trapper opens the door and they tell him why they're in his cabin. Then they ask why he had hung his heavy pot-bellied stove from the ceiling.
"Well," he says, "had plenty of wire, not much stove pipe."
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The hunters had heard that the locals in the area are quite hospitable, so when no one answers their knocks, they go in. The cabin is a simple place, but nothing about it is unusual except a large cast-iron pot-bellied stove that is suspended in midair by wires attached to the ceiling beams.
"Fascinating," says the psychologist. "It's obvious this lonely trapper, isolated from humanity, has elevated this stove so he can curl up under it and vicariously experience a return to the womb."
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"Nonsense," replies the engineer. "The man is practicing the laws of thermodynamics. By elevating his stove, he has discovered a way to distribute heat more evenly throughout the cabin."
"With all due respect," interrupts the theologian, "I'm sure that hanging his stove from the ceiling has religious meaning. Fire lifted up has been a religious symbol for centuries."
At that point, the trapper opens the door and they tell him why they're in his cabin. Then they ask why he had hung his heavy pot-bellied stove from the ceiling.
"Well," he says, "had plenty of wire, not much stove pipe."
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