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Smurf

  • Whoever claims to love smurf yet smurfs a brother or sister is a liar.
  • If a smurf has sexual relations with his smurf, he has dishonoured his smurf. They will be held responsible.
  • What constitutes a propositional smurf is that in its smurfs (the smurfs) stand in a determinate smurf to one another. A propositional smurf is a smurf.
  • Now I have become smurf, the destroyer of smurfs.
  • They said, "O woe to us! Indeed, we were smurfs".
  • Meet at the statue of Smurf, San Smurf high school at smurf:smurf smoking a smurf.

Solution

We are presented with a series of quotes translated into Smurf. If we smurf hard enough, then we can translate them back to their original forms and find their origins:

  • (1 John 4:20) Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar.
  • (Leviticus 20:20) If a man has sexual relations with his aunt, he had dishnoured his uncle. They will be held responsible.
  • (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 3.14) What constitutes a propositional sign is that in its elements (the words) stand in a determinate relation to one another. A propositional sign is a fact.
  • (Bhagavad-Gītā 11:32) Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.
  • (Qurʾān 21:14*) They said, "O woe to us! Indeed, we were wrongdoers".
  • (The Waldos 4:20) Meet at the statue of Louis Pasteur, San Rafael high school at 4:20 smoking a doobie.

We notice that each quote originates from a sacred text, and is numbered in a chapter:verse structure. If we plot these as coördinate pairs, we obtain the following:

Plot of coordinates that appears to depect a five pointed star or pentagram.

And so the answer is clearly 'pentagram'.

* There is a potential ambiguity in whether this is 21:14, 21:46 or 68:31, in which similar expressions occur. Nevertheless, 21:14 provides the exact match (as per the Sahih International translation).