Here's the game. There's a room. It's completley dark. You are standing in one corner and I'm standing in another. We can't see each other or anything else. Suddenly, a small spotlight shines down directly in the center of the room, onto a pedestal. Sitting on the pedestal is a crystal cube of many colors. From your corner, you see greens and yellows. From my corner, I see blues and reds. The bottom of the crystal cube is hidden from both of us.
After ten long seconds, the light goes out. We each get one minute to describe the cube. The person who comes closest wins.
You describe it as a crystal cube colored green and yellow.
"No dope," I say. It's blue and red.
Are we both wrong? Are we both right?
Let's play another game. Describe God.


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