He came with God's perfect law
And left the whole world stunned.
He came, and dazzled, and grew to all
A man who was God's bastard son.
Beelzebub, a Satyr red,
In hoofed haunches stormed
He, like Emperor of Rome, it seemed
Made play like he was stormed.
Their two armies did collide
And piles were the bodies made.
One man with an old, old story
Was wise to them, and was a saint.
He saw the White Rider with his reel
Take his hordes through the country gate---
Two great bastions of that Roman World
Would do battle, and many men's a mortal fate.
For neither to the left or right
Is what Christ had told us that day.
Do not fall from the narrow road
And enter through the wicket gate.
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1 =/= 2
1 can never equal 2. That's impossible. Except to say that 2 inches equals 5.08 centimeters, but there's a conversion formula for that. We need to relearn number theory, as a society. So we don't end up making 1=2, as it never will.
[If] you subtracted out a similar term, and unbalanced the equation, [or something like it] the equality has to be equal the whole time, for it to work. We used to know that... it was the whole premise of my High School Education. I think the Internet made people braindead.
[T]his is a qualm I have with the internet, that it's literally making people forget some of the most basic things.
{}Some people try to make that point, [like in common core math, or they call math a "Western Concept"] these days. It's a strange world we live in.
I don't know... I was taught the equation has to always be equal, hence the term equation. You see where you reduced it, it's no longer equal.
In fact, in language that's how we have knowledge, too, is when empirical facts start equating, or things in the real world start being described. Like Geometry. Not many people relate math back to geometry, but that's where our entire knowledge of number and algebra comes from, is studying shapes, and deriving axioms of logic around it. And in fact, the evidence for the Bible does this very well, in archeology, ethics and also psychology.
Tatian
[W]e have almost the entire corpus of the Gospels in the Diatesarron, and in them, from at the latest 180AD, we see statements of Christ's divinity. And he was a heretic who wrote it, but they're all quotations from the Gospels, directly. We can safely assume the Gospels are 100% perfect. He was trying to unify them, when we need them in those four separate sources, to account their witness, but it's all there, and early. And we know from that, the Gospels are highly established, as they're being referenced to, to compile the document. And Mark is the least quoted of all four.
The Greatest Dialogue in History
"Are you a king?" asked Pilate.
"You say that I am. And for this reason I was born, and is the reason I came into the world so I could bear witness to the truth. Everyone that is of truth, listens to Me," replied Jesus.
"What is truth?" the Prefect scoffed, like any modern man would. "I find no guilt in this man."
The Beauty of Number
Everything has number involved with it, from chemistry, to geometry, to physics. It's just the numbers work in proportion and relation to each other by equalities. Even the imaginary numbers are real, as they represent something, just in a higher dimension.
I can easily show you negative 9. It will plot on a graph, and work inverse in relation to the geometric figure. So, take a leaf, and do calculus with the curve for the leaf's edge, you'll find you need negatives for some of the curve and rate of change, to fully document the leaf, as some of the leaf's structure overlaps with the others in new dimensions of space. Like, you have a square represented on that x/y graph, the numbers are going to relate to actual geometry, and negatives are going to plot different points onto the graph, and create different lines and different dimensions, only equal to the equation.
Money's [also], not imaginary. Without it, you'd have no marker for received debts, or work. Like you need money to mark how much capital you have, and how much you've worked, and keep track of that, because without it, you'd have no way of keeping track of labor or production costs, which is real. Like your entire dollar bill is backed by capital, labor and how much work is invested into the economy, which is why a Banana Republic can happen, when there's nothing real--no labor or capital--backing the currencies, it causes inflation. Which is also why currencies spring up in every society, be it smoked meats, or sea shells, or sand dollars, or beads, or even dollar bills.
The Mosaic
It claims Christ is God
In 270AD, before Constantine.
Yet, so does Ignatius and many other
Apostolic Fathers, and so does Paul.
And so does Matthew, Mark and John.
It is rather muddying the waters,
But if Christians have faith in it,
I will not dash it to pieces.
This World is Too Cruel and Complicated for Me to Understand Anymore.
Papias is clearly relating the “Elders” to the “Apostles” so when he qualifies “The Elder John” he can only mean the Apostle John, as why include that epithet otherwise, and not for Aristion, whom he calls both “Disciples”. Other Fragments relating Church History show that Papias may have dictated the Book of John from the very same. And Papias also authenticates the episode of the woman caught in adultery.
The Holy Bible
No Santa Clause dawns its pages
But a truth about life, without illusions.
People suffer, and especially the good.
There are very few happy portraits
In the holy scripture, but rather mourning
At every page, and war... even love is strife.
"Vanity vanity", thus let me mourn here
A little while, and hate my life.
So I may enter into a better Earth
And better Heaven, where I can have
My sweet and fat; and holy laughter.
A Rare Beauty
A rare beauty indeed,
In intelligence, and body and face and form
And in her personality, too.
She makes me question,
When seeing women who pale in comparison
Having to maintain their own looks---
They are not too smart,
They are not too beautiful,
They are not too good for marriage;
I realize she is superior,
Thus, I will not shame her inferiors anymore.
She talks of her cohort's self deceit
And I say, "Let them be a little deceived
"If you are the standard."