On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, comex wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:04 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I pledge that the Earth is square.
>
> Depending on your interpretation of Rule 1742, you may be required to
> "act in accordance with" this contract by pretending that the Earth is
> square.  However, there is no Rule that forbids you from *creating*
> such a contract.  You could do something like:

The whole question is what material effect keeping or breaking this
contract has.  "The earth is square" is no weirder an abstraction than
pretending that you have a piece of farmland that grows numbers.

-Goethe



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