Our Cousin Spade

Cliffy

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Judeo-Christianity is the Monsanto of Religion.

Spade,

I nearly swallowed my dentures!! Can I use it or have you copyrighted it?
 

SirJosephPorter

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For my mathematician* cousins:
I had two parents; but so did you!
And, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents, and so on.
2, 4, 8, 16, ... a geometric progression.
Go back 1000 years or 40 generations (assuming 25 years per generation)
That's 2^40 ancestors alive 1000 years ago.
But, 2^40 is about 1 099 511 628 000.
Hah! There weren't over a trillion people alive on Earth 1000 years ago - neither my ancestors nor yours.
It is a much, much smaller web of interrelationships. We indeed are cousins and not as long as 1000 years ago.

* "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." -- Charles Robert


Spade I remember reading a sci fi story a while ago, called ‘Population Implosion’. The whole book was about the stories which made fallacious arguments, but which appeared to be logical on the surface.

In ‘Population Implosion’, the author made the very same argument to show that population of the world is decreasing, and not increasing. Each human being has 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 etc. ancestors. So 32 human beings are reduced to one. Hence, the population of the world is decreasing.

As to interrelationship, sure we are all related. A character in Gilbert and Sullivan’s 'Mikado' put it in a much better way.

POOH BAH. Don't mention it. I am, in point of fact, a
particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite
ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that
I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic
globule.



We can all of us trace our ancestry back to protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
So we are all of exclusive ancestry, we are all related.
 
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SirJosephPorter

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  • "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." -- Charles Robert

As to that, that is also my definition of science, of scientific research. But then what is religion?

Religion is a blind man looking for a cat in the dark room which isn’t there, but the man shouts from time to time “I found it, I found it” and damns all the other men to Hell because they haven’t found it.
 

bobnoorduyn

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  • "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." -- Charles Robert
As to that, that is also my definition of science, of scientific research. But then what is religion?

Religion is a blind man looking for a cat in the dark room which isn’t there, but the man shouts from time to time “I found it, I found it” and damns all the other men to Hell because they haven’t found it.

But then again, if you don't follow the "religion" of man made global warming you are shunned, if you speak out against it, or any other government sponsored orthodoxy, you will be damned :violent3:
 

Spade

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Cousin Spade, if you'll allow me to call you that; Off topic but since this thread is dedicated to you, (maybe we should have an "ask Spade" thread) I have a quick question for you. My daughter and I don't speak much considering it costs about 2 bucks a minute so we don't get into the minutae of grammar and syntax. As you know, she is attending Университет Санкт-Петербург; the address they give is spelled Университетская. She rattled off something about male-female, something the english language doesn't express for inanimate objects; is that the reason for the "tskaya" suffix on so many words? Я не знаю, Спасибо.

Yes, it's a female-gender adjectival ending. It converts a male "sky" into a female equivalent.
 

Tyr

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Yes, it's a female-gender adjectival ending. It converts a male "sky" into a female equivalent.

Really? Hmmmm. I would have never guessed

"I did think people deserved to know why you called them cousin because I was sure that they were either just a tad curious or maybe even thought you might be a raving lunatic"

Don't look into the light. Don't loo....



 

Spade

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Really? Hmmmm. I would have never guessed

"I did think people deserved to know why you called them cousin because I was sure that they were either just a tad curious or maybe even thought you might be a raving lunatic"

Don't look into the light. Don't loo....




Warning, Tyr! To view, use welding glass number 14!
 

Spade

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Reason #5 is one of the following
I use "cousin"
A. In reply to a poster to affirm their point of view. I am sayinfg, "Hey, I agree, and could not have said it better myself!"
B. In reply to a poster to contradict their point of view, and if they think me a "dumb arse" for contradicting them, well they and I are related. We're both "arses"!
C. Because they really are my cousin.
D. I come from a small Prairie town where practically everyone was related.
E. I was part of a community that lived "community"
F. I am totally insane.
G. All of the above
H. None of the above!

Well, maybe...
 

Francis2004

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Reason #5 is one of the following
I use "cousin"
A. In reply to a poster to affirm their point of view. I am sayinfg, "Hey, I agree, and could not have said it better myself!"
B. In reply to a poster to contradict their point of view, and if they think me a "dumb arse" for contradicting them, well they and I are related. We're both "arses"!
C. Because they really are my cousin.
D. I come from a small Prairie town where practically everyone was related.
E. I was part of a community that lived "community"
F. I am totally insane.
G. All of the above
H. None of the above!

Well, maybe...

I am sayinfg????