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No, you misunderstand. I'm not saying that God came to our mathematicians in a blinding flash of inspiration. I'm saying that the very existence of all the crazy shit we have is totally awesome. Euler's Identity for one. The wonderful thing about math is that it's a universal language--it reveals truths inherent to the universe, things that are true whether we discover them or not. And some of those truths are so whacked-out crazy awesome that, well, they're like works of art. Literal works of art.So...because to our monkey brains, something seems unusually elegant, it must be because some divine agent thought of it? Rather than, you know, things just happening to be that way?
The bloodstained tower of alien geometry.^My heart!
Just drain or pump it out after you're done incapacitating the gobbo.I suggest putting a small quantity of magma into the tile, maybe 1/7 or 2/7, just to burn their legs.Hmm, nice idea. But won't it burn dwarf who come to chop him? And there's problem with leaving the rest floor clean from magma...
It's no big feat. It happens all the time.Not often enough.
Anyway, a topic for discussion if you (not you specifically to Khan, but to the thread in general) wish: lady at my university says she's Jewish and Christian because those are the only two religions that teach their followers to be nice to one another. I already know she's full of crap, but what do you think?I think it's quite poor to require religion in order to be nice...also, to be nice to one another among the faith? That's easy. Try being nice to someone who believes differently. I know I've given up on that.
