bore me to tears

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1. on January 18, 2010 at 4:46 am Daryl P Cobranchi

   Heh! If you can Christian Math…

   
   
2. on January 18, 2010 at 7:08 am Nance Confer

   So, between these two courses, we’ll never solve another crime again. Way to go????

   
   
3. on January 18, 2010 at 7:59 am JJ

   You people don’t get it yet? That’s the whole goal in this war against reason, to undermine reality and reason to the point that people have to depend on the faith peddlers

   
   
4. on January 18, 2010 at 10:54 am Audrey

   The idea of xian CSI is funny enough, but I have say… that bird… he cracked me up! LOL!

   
   
5. on January 18, 2010 at 11:57 am Lynn

   Daryl:

   Christian Math

   Christian Math is for those times when 1 is not 1, but 3. :)

   And, the Worldview component protects children from secular mathematicians who promote Satanic notions such as “irrational numbers” meant to mislead people into thinking that Truth is “relative,” and not Absolute.

   
   
6. on January 18, 2010 at 12:01 pm Lynn

   Math can be just as dangerous as science, you know.
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7. on January 18, 2010 at 12:41 pm Lynn

   JJ:

   You people don’t get it yet?

   Yes, there are so many layers to this story; it’s why the bird is speechless. :)

   Hey, we should play “Name the Layers.” :)

   
   
8. on January 18, 2010 at 12:52 pm Lynn

   By the way, I’ve posted on homeschooling Christian math before. :)

   Homeschooling math got you down?

   
   
9. on January 18, 2010 at 1:59 pm JJ

   Young Son has a fun book called “Number Freak from 1 to 200: the Hidden Language of Numbers Revealed” by Derrick Niederman.

   You can look up any number and it has its own little bio that integrates mythical math of Christendom with a fuller world view. For example, how about the unlucky 13, or the number 42 from Hitchhiker?

   (Too bad 666 is beyond the book’s scope!)

   The fact that the Last Supper was attended by 13 people appears to have been retrofitted to explain the fear [of 13] ditto for the arrest of the Knights Templar.

   [When lunch or dinner parties numbered 13] FDR would ask his secretary to join the guests . . . in France there’s even a word for this: a “quartorzieme” is a professional fourteenth guest. . .

   Not every culture hates 13. The Egyptians regarded 13 as a sacred number and despite FDR’s [triskaidekaphobia] the number has a unique place in American history. Everyone knows about the original 13 colonies as represented by the 13 stars and stripes of the original flag. But look at the back of a modern one-dollar bill:
   13 stars above the eagle
   13 steps on the pyramid
   13 letters in Annuit Coeptis
   13 letters in E plublbus Unum
   13 vertical bars on the shield
   (etc — it goes on)

   But 42′s bio is even more complex and mystical; no wonder rival believers must discredit it with their own math!

   In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the computer Deep Thought was asked to calculate the Ultimate Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, and the answer was “42.”

   “I checked it very thoroughly,” said the computer, “and that quite definitely is the answer.

   I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.”

   The book goes on to explain many things about the number 42 that truly ARE eerie, and fascinated mathematician Lewis Carroll for one . . .