Mike wrote:
> 
> > This thought came about from
> > something my math teacher was saying about college courses where 1=1
> > cannot be assumed.
> 
> 1 is arbitrary. 
	Yes and no, saying that "one" or "1" (seen as a sequence of sounds or
symbols on the paper) refers to the notion of unity is indeed arbitrary,
but the notion itself is something else entirely...

> 1=1 is redundant arbitration.
	I noticed that "=" is not defined here, so 1=1 is not redundant, it's
just a partial definition of "equality". :) (This argument can go on for
ever since it has been proven that no language can completely describe
itself)

> 
> > As part of a psychology class required for becoming a
> > teacher, there was a test that said, "Prove to me that there's a tree
> > outside that window." The only person who got an A wrote, "Prove to me
> > there's a window."
> 
> Prove to me that course existed and I might believe you passed it.  I > hated
> professors like that.  Had an art teacher that forever berated me about
> doing anything realistic, so I drew slop with my eyes closed and he say > I
> improved.  Bah!
	Well, art is as much in the process of creation as in the way people
see it... If your teacher saw your first tries as very bad attempts as
realism and the last one as better abstraction, his remarks are
understandable.

> 
> Evil is when you do something to someone else what you wouln't want done
> back to you.  The exception being evil people who generally don't care > about
> anything or anyone.  But, you say, I could live in a world of evil > because
> evil would be good!  Well, since murder is considered evil from a good
> perspective, it would be good to murder in the evil world, therefore you
> wouldn't be alive for very long at all.
	Unless you murdered everyone before that :) May I simply point out that
the opposite of "murder is evil" isn't "murder is good" but rather
"murder is either good or neutral". Keep in mind that the world isn't
simply black and white, there are also shades of gray...

> 
> > Kind of like the way maps
> > from the Southern hemisphere show North going downward.
> > All this could lead to the idea that everything is a paradox.
> 
> There is a North and a South but there's no rule that says one is up or
> down.   And very few things are two game birds.
	True.

> 
> > Actually, that would then make this theory self-defeating, bringing > down
> > everything mankind believes with it. Which is maybe why arguments > always
> > seem to end with irrational statements and nothing gained.
> 
> Sometime people agree to disagree, while other times they use a bit of > what
> little they do agree on to come to a better conclusion.  I think you > just
> brought this up so you could steal my precious!
> 
> > Post your reactions to my paradoxism thoery. It's always fun to hear
> > people argue.
> 
> I think blue is the best color.
	So do I :)

> 
> -Mike

		Jerome

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