What does a sincere pumpkin look like/


let alone the most sincere?

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There is a lot to unpack here.

1) It's not a sincere pumpkin, it's a sincere PATCH. "Pumpkin patch" refers to the whole field of pumpkins, not just one pumpkin. Therefore, there's no 'sincere pumpkin', there's just a 'sincere patch'.

2) The whole point is that it's subject to interpretation, so no patch can EVER be 'sincere enough'. Also, who says it's about looks? It could be about feel, atmosphere, pumpkin-leaf-ratio, pumpkin-to-pumpkin-relation, the quality of the soil (whether artificial fertilizers have been used, for example, or whether it exists on an old, ceremonial indian burial ground)

3) It's a METAPHOR for religious people ALWAYS coming up with excuses and rationalizations so they don't have to abandon a comforting blind belief or lie, but can cling to it ever more powerfully. Linus simply invented a rationalization so he can keep his irrational belief regardless of facts, or what happens in the real world.

That the 'Great Pumpkin' never appears, thus, can never be caused by the fact that he doesn't exist, but can always be explained away by simply his patch not having been sincere enough. Compare this to 'not having strong enough a faith' or something, so THAT is why the miracle didn't happen.

It's all a metaphor, you are taking it too literally - it's igenious, too, just like the trumpet stuff, but people cling to the trees and do not see the forest.

So we get posts like yours and that other poster asking about whether the adults ever "speak clearly", clearly missing the point about the trumpeting. Talk about WOOSH-posts..

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