Lateral Thinking Vs Logical Thinking

Phew!! I am actually blogging…never THOT i would be doing something like this..given the flow of my thots…and my poor translation of what goes on in my "Monkey Mind".Brace urself , it might get lost in translation..

Anyway..my Name is Prem and welcome to my Other Thots!

How does lateral thinking work?The traditional Western thinking system, commonly know to us all as logical thinking , was fashioned by the Greek gang of three - Socrates,Plato and Aristotle , more than 2300 years ago. It has sequential,judgemental and adversarial characteristics.while logical thinkings has immense strength, it tends to have some limitations. one of which is its inability to be creative.Thus, lateral thinking was introduced to supplement logical thinking.
Well to demonstrate the power of lateral thinking lemme tell you a story of a "damsel in distress".Can you help her and save her from her misery???

Well the story goes like this…"Many hundred years ago in a small Italian town , a merchant had a misfortune of owing a large sum of money to an AH LONG(a Sicilian Along..wow!).The Ah long, who was old and ugly, fancied the merchants beautiful daughter.So he proposed a bargain.He said he would forgo the merchant’s debts if he would be allowed to marry his daughter.Both the merchant and the daughter was horrified by the proposal.So the cunning Ah long sugessted that they let providence decide the matter.He told them that he would put 2 pebble - 1 white and the other black , into an empty bag.then the girl would have to pick one pebble from the bag.If she picked the black pebble , she would become his wife and her fathers debts would be forgiven.If she picked the white pebble, she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven.But if she refused to pick the pebble, her father would be thrown into jail.As they talked the Ah long bent and picked up 2 pebbles..the sharp eye girl noticed that he had picked up 2 black pebbles and put them in the bag.He then asked the girl to pick a pebble to decide her faith as well as her father’s".

If you were to advice her, what would you tell her??

Careful logical analysis would produce 3 possibilities :
1)The girl should refuse to take the pebble.
2)The girl should show that there were 2 black pebbles in the bag and expose the Along as a cheat.
3)The girl should pick the black pebble and sacrifice herself in order to save her father from his debt and imprisonment.

Whats your take or rather…."THOTS" on the above??!!