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wljewell - Member

God loves you . Lost me, pal . . . expand . . . Remember, I love you, too Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ, Pristinus Sapienter (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)

Posted 1 year ago #

mkochan - Moderator

Yes, but -- he says he is talking about verbs and nouns and such, OS.

OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

Posted 1 year ago #

pouliot - Member

Posted in another forum:

...wonderful passage where 7-year-old Alice tells pompous Humpty-Dumpty that he really cannot make words mean whatever he likes.

Hard to find a place for this response so I stretch the envelope here.

But Humpty was a mathematician; only Alice didn't grasp this.

Note

We let X denote the set of all fields having the universal set as a subset...

Let X be the number of pies Jack can bake with help from Jill and Simple Simon...

See I can make them mean anything.

It's all in the axioms you see...

Posted 1 year ago #

pouliot - Member

To: MKochan

RE: "about verbs and nouns and such"

No problem. Let G be the set of all verbs and let J be the set of all nouns. Now we can begin the discourse on G & J, or J & G if you would prefer.

Regards,: Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic & amateur whatever)

Posted 1 year ago #

mkochan - Moderator

You are so funny...

I cry "uncle" -- everything is math!

Now le't see your formual for the Holy Trinity, Smarty.

Posted 1 year ago #

lpioch - Moderator

Let "I" be The Father

Let "A" be The Son

Let "M" be the Holy Spirit

The Union of "I", "A", and "M" is also the Intersection:

"I AM"

Posted 1 year ago #

pouliot - Member

To: LPioch

RE: "The Union of "I", "A", and "M" is also the Intersection:"

Excellent. You are the star student today. Take a bow. It also has the advantage of being the self-consistent Truth which requires no bending by Humpty.

Regards,: Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic & amateur whatever)

Posted 1 year ago #

wljewell - Member

God loves you . C'mon, pouliot - lpioch is a scientist so her mathematical apparency may be more esoterica out of biochemistry or astrophysics. Read John chapter 14, and you'll find the Trinity is neither unionized nor intersected. Now, I see that after inviting just such esoteric stretches, now you claim Humpty Dumpty is bent. You next will claim the Queen of Hearts was a Nostradamus-like proto-beast prefiguring Hitler. SEE? Now I've gone and lost myself . . . :) ;) Remember, I love you, too Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ, Pristinus Sapienter (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or ... yahoo.com)

Posted 1 year ago #

lpioch - Moderator

Aw...C'mon PS.

You, a man of faith (higher than the sciences), should recognize that mathematics is a language only of the created. By definition, it is limited. It can only do what it is supposed to do. And it does it as best as it can.

Kinda like us humans.

But it can still offer a brief, however small, glimmer to the great infinite and unknown.

Posted 1 year ago #

mkochan - Moderator

Pope Benedict likes math. He said that we should ponder the fact that mathematics -- a creation of the human intellect -- correctly models the created world. This demonstrates that both the human mind and the universe have a single intelligent source.

Posted 1 year ago #

pouliot - Member

To: P.S.

RE: "union & intersection in the Trinity"

Perhaps I took the proposition light-heartedly or as a metaphor. I can't help but have a nagging feeling that with a careful distinction or two, the illustration wouldn't be much worse than that of St. Pat & the clover.

Regards,: Old Sigma (Cradle Catholic & generally inveterate amateur)

Posted 1 year ago #

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