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  1. I'm sittin' in a railway station, got ticket for my destination....
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  3. "Other cults have survived over a hundred years without the original leader. The Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh Day Adventists to name a few. I don't understand why they keep propagating while others flash out in less than 20 years." Maybe they just have better marketing techniques.
  4. I was just kiddin' around when I made the musician comment. A "gig", in musician-speak, is a job. ex: "I have a gig this weekend at Louie's Bar and Grill." (Or maybe the gig is at Dooj's House of Rum & Pasta.)
  5. Have you ever noticed that, when a dog chases its tail, the result is zero?
  6. "zero is the key that unlocks all numbers and value." From the standpoint of mathematical history, that is simply not accurate.
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  9. When division is explained at the elementary arithmetic level, it is often considered as a description of dividing a set of objects into equal parts. As an example, consider having ten apples, and these apples are to be distributed equally to five people at a table. Each person would receive 10/5 = 2 apples. Similarly, if there are 10 apples, and only one person at the table, that person would receive 10/1 = 10 apples. So for dividing by zero – what is the number of apples that each person receives when 10 apples are fairly distributed amongst 0 people? Certain words can be pinpointed in the question to highlight the problem. The problem with this question is the "when". There is no way to distribute 10 apples amongst 0 people. In mathematical jargon, a set of 10 items cannot be partitioned into 0 subsets. So 10/0, at least in elementary arithmetic, is said to be meaningless, or undefined. Similar problems occur if we have 0 apples and 0 people, but this time the problem is in the phrase "the number". A partition is possible (of a set with 0 elements into 0 parts), but since the partition has 0 parts, vacuously every set in our partition has a given number of elements, be it 0, 2, 5, or 1000. If there are, say, 5 apples and 2 people, the problem is in the word "fairly". In any partition of a 5-set into 2 parts, one of the parts of the partition will have more elements than the other. In all of the above three cases, 10/0, 0/0, and 5/2, one is asked to consider an impossible situation before deciding what the answer will be, and that is why the operations are undefined in these cases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero
  10. The History of Zero Our name "zero" derives ultimately from the Arabic sifr which also gives us the word "cipher". ... the mathematical conception of zero ... was also present in the spiritual form from 17 000 years back in India.
  11. You have a gig? Gee. I didn't even know you were musicians, :P
  12. Hmmmm? "Special knowledge that no one else really understands." Now where is it I've heard that before?
  13. Extract has a more intense flavor and doesn't adversely change the viscosity of the batter. edit oops. Just realized you said "with", not "in".
  14. I asked for a reference, not a deduction.
  15. Ok I know what your reference is for "God is love." What is your reference for "Love is zero."?
  16. That is almost word-for-word from one of the older classes or Way Magazine articles. I can't remember which one at the moment.
  17. I read quite a bit as a kid and then as a young adult. After I became involved with The Way, my reading became restricted to materials that supported Way Theology. After all, that practice was specifically encouraged in "The Class" and then again in Renewed Mind and Dealing With the Adversary. ("Put aside all your secular materials----") Now my reading has become become rather limited, though this is due to my eyes tiring easily, not because of TWI..
  18. If you ever make it to Cleveland, be sure to make a stop HERE.
  19. How does this relate to living life on a day-to-day basis? (BTW----Wierwille was not a "DR.")
  20. Does anyone have a geneology chart for Taj (The Woman and the Wonder) by Sandra Wilson?
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