Lesson Six | Questions | Open/Audio

[wiserthanusall]

When someone is asked if they were stranded on a deserted island, what one item would they want... why doesn't anyone ever choose 'a boat'?

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[gonnabeamighty]

Not everybody knows what a boat is.

[Simba sure didn't, before he came to Elegante.]

Rafikivision GO!

[wiserthanusall]

Ah, but then I must ask the question; how did you get to the island in the first place?

:>

[gonnabeamighty]

...I dunno. You swam?

[wiserthanusall]

If you could simply swim away, then you would not be trapped there!

[gonnabeamighty]

Well then there you go!

[Oh yeah. You're a smart one, Simba]

[wiserthanusall]

Indeed, you have proven yourself wrong, most handily.

[He's laughing, and it is most certainly at you.]

[gonnabeamighty]

[Shrug.]

Hakuna Matata. If the island's nice enough, why would you want to leave?

[wiserthanusall]

Ah, but that is the key! It is not a nice island. There is nothing there and no one at all!

[gonnabeamighty]

So the island's not nice because no one is there?

[Huh.]

Maybe that's not such a bad thing.

[wiserthanusall]

And nothing but sand. Starving is an inevitability, and many choose their favorite foods in response to the question.

[gonnabeamighty]

So what exactly is the point of the question? Is it some kind of human thing?

[wiserthanusall]

It is a game! Although it may be a 'human thing,' it certainly isn't so in this case.

After all, I am not human.

[gonnabeamighty]

Neither am I.

[And just for show, Oogway gets a 30 second clip of Simba, sunning himself on the top deck.]

Do all humans play such weird games?

[wiserthanusall]

Ah a Lion. [He's only mildly interested, really. Species lines have never had particular significance to Oowgay, a fact that has frustrated more than one of his students over the years.]

I would not know. I have not met many of them.

[gonnabeamighty]

[Doesn't bother Simba. He's chill with it. He's chill with everything.]

Hm. Well they're weird either way.