Feda

Yesterday at lunch break, to relieve symptoms of monday syndrome, i was having a cup of filter coffee with beloved friends who work nearby. A huge guy with a black Besiktas (a major football club in Turkey) t-shirt came by the coffee place. The t-shirt had the turkish word "feda" and a couple of arabic words written on it, caught my friend's attention who eventually told me that "he has the t-shirt."



I didn't really get what he meant, nor really cared. Until i got home and noticed my facebook wall was swarmed with the slogan. My googling skills led me to this bizarre story below;

"Mr Seref  ,the founder of Besiktas Football Club, was in his death bed when his doctor was by his side trying to talk some sense into him:

• Ah my dearest friend. You know you're sick. You should be lying down on your bed, but instead it's still Besiktas and Besiktas..
  

Mr Seref replied faintly:

• It worths. (Feda)"
  

You may say it's just a crazy ass tearjerker hooligan crap. I thought that too, until i saw this crazy remark at the end of the story:

"No-one hears him say that."

Ok. First things first. I have to mention the dude is already lying in his bed when his doctor asked him to do that. I can forgive that. But breaking down the walls of the knowledge concept is unacceptable. If you think i am just being over sensitive you may stop reading now, others who became curious just read on and help me find the right answers.

Unfortunately my googling skills were not really sufficent on this one. The knowledge concept is a shitty concept i just made up. To put in the simplest way:

If actually no-one heard what he said, we wouldn't be aware of it. Therefore we wouldn't be printing damn t-shirts and making a fortune out of it.

The closest i get with my wikipedia searching skills was this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls


Actually this is not what i was looking for. The article was on a philosophical thought and i think it's just being narcissist cause what it's saying was "If an occurence wasn't percieved by a being, no-one should be able to make sure it really did happen" It's just saying science is not enough. Or god doesn't exist.

Very similar concept is "The Schrödinger's Cat" For those who never heard of it, get off of my blog now! Just kidding. Mr Schrödinger was a very intelligent man who argued about the following mind-fuck:

"A cat is kept in a box with no access to the outside world and there is also a radioactive substance in the box that have infinite possibilities of when it will get activated or will it ever get activated. For an observer who is outside the box, the cat is stuck in the ultimate form of being dead and alive at the same time"

A modern approach will be that you are both dead and alive if you fuck a hooker from Ghana until you got an Aids test.

Sorry i got drifted away. Actually what i was trying to find was "If you read in a book that an old woman saw a cat in her dream and died the same night, won't you have a couple words with the author of this shitty story?"

If we are to think narrative should have boundaries, we must first think a narrator can not tell us something after the last point he has access to a typewriter (or twitter). Therefore we can assume that he "lived to tell the tale" Also we must first accept that every bit of knowledge we have on this world is limited to perception of us or of the people who had access to that knowledge.

Further thinking on the subject may lead me to ask the following questions "Can a narrator die in a story?" "What is the boundaries of fiction story-telling?" "Am i going to get killed by Besiktas Hooligans after this blog entry?" "Is there a hooligan who has enough English to read this thing?"

Sorry someone knocked the door i'll back in a minute.

- Who is it? What? No, wait! Arrrrgghh..

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...It worths. =)