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Originally Posted by recluse
There is a cake tin. Some believe there is a cake in the tin. Others believe the tin is empty. Until the tin is opened and the contents, or lack thereof are revealed, all either side has is their belief.
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Schrodinger's Cake may or may not in concept be a reasonable analogy for the philosophical idea that there is
some sort of nebulous, undefined creator, but then again, there are tests for specific claims of the cake hypothesis.
A dialog:
Cakeist: There's a Cake in that tin.
Acakeist: What, really? (Picks up tin, gives it a shake) Nothing moving in there.
Cakeist: The Cake is wrapped in tissue paper.
Acakeist: It feels pretty light.
Cakeist: It's an angel food Cake.
Acakeist: But the label says "fruit cake!"
Cakeist: Translation error. If you read the
original label, it would say "angel food Cake."
Acakeist: Hey, look, there's a scale! (Weighs tin.) Hm. 200 grams. That's no more than an empty tin would weigh. There can't be a cake in there!
Cakeist: The scale is wrong.
Acakeist: Nope, the tag show's that it has just been calibrated.
Cakeist: The men who built the scale just hate The Cake. If they were true Cakeists, they would know that their "scale theory" is flawed.
Acakeist: Okay, let's change the subject-- how old a cake is this?
Cakeist: It was made fresh yesterday.
Acakeist: But the tin is covered in dust! And the table around it! There's this ring of clean where I picked up the tin!
Cakeist: The dust was created at the same time as the cake to give the appearance of age.
Acakeist: Why?
Cakeist: It is not my place to question The Will of The Cake, but it must play some part in The Cake's plan.
Acakeist: Oh, look, a surveillance camera. Let's look at the tapes! (Goes through a month's worth of archives.) Heck, that tin has been here all month!
Cakeist: The men who built the video camera just hate The Cake. If they were true Cakeists, they would know that their "video camera theory" is flawed. Any
true history can not be in contradiction with a Young Cake.
Acakeist: Oh, wait-- I found this under a tape-- it is a receipt-- one tin of fruit cake-- bought 6 weeks ago!
Cakeist: That receipt is a lie engineered by The Custard.