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We Do Not Write About (Free verse) by faithmairee we do not write about
what we do not know
the so-called visionaries
in a frantic world
savoring chances taken
mourning lost opportunities
advancing with unmatched passion
a mere reflection of our double-life
we do not write about
what we do not know
but of the esoteric
world inside our heads
of displaced bullets
or the bothersome sometimes
bull-headed black holes in our souls
we do not write about
what we do not know
but of pain and suffering
or pleasure (possibly pure ecstasy)
and sometimes someone listens
to the stirrings of our souls
Up the ladder:
Black Woman
Down the ladder:
La Belle Epoque
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Posted: March 12, 2006 12:34 PM PST; Last modified: March 12, 2006 12:34 PM PSTWeighted score: 5.166884 Overall Rank: 5008 Comments:
I think it would be stronger using "I" instead of "we." Some people do write of what they don't know. To say that you do not, is really the only thing you can say.
Stop writing about what you don't know. Or do. I don't care.
I don't know what the square root of infinity is, My guess is 183. There, I just wrote about something I don't know. See we do write about what we don't know.
So now you know and knowing is half the battle, YOOOOO Joe!
We so do know the square root of infinity.
"There was a young man from Trinity,
Who solved the square root of infinity. While counting the digits, He was seized by the fidgets, Dropped science, and took up divinity."
The square root of infinity is infinity.
But [square root of infinity] < [infinity].
Oh, see now I totally understand.
Don't ask me to explain. Mathematical operations on infinity is about the time my synapses fried in Math School.
I have an automatic delete button in my brain. If I don't use a certain tid bit of knowledge within a certain amount of time it gets deleted from my memory banks. It's a wonderful thing to have an unclustered mind.
There are more infinities than one.
No there aren't. And if there were, yikes, where would we store them?!
We seem to be stuck with having smaller and bigger infinities. One infinity can be a subset of another. Yet they are nonetheless the same size, or so it seems.
Yes it can. Imagine a graph on which y = the square root of x. Or if you can't, here's wikipedia's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Squar
Naturally, x > y for all x > 1. Now follow the graph right until you reach infinity. x will still be greater than y, but x will be infinity and y will be infinity.
I believe this is the first time you have ever agreed with me. You should be ashamed!
I've agreed with you dozens of times. I'm not, however, agreeing with you now. There is not more than one infinity.
If by infinity you refer to the universe, then I believe another 'infinity' would make space for itself while not taking up any more space in any other universe.
If you mean infinity in a purely conceptual manner, well I reckon I could get you a decent filing cabinet.
YOUR GIFT:
- If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. - A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our mindsâit is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense, and this [sense] alone, I am a deeply religious man. - I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. Einstein Today's his birthday
I think I'll appreciate it more seeing that Einstein's quote pretty much sums it up for me.
You wish to awaken moi? I feel so useful and unique. However, the square root of infinity is far away from 183, so far I have no idea how far.
Let's say you work out that the circumference of a circle is 183. Obviously you used pi(a number with an infinite sequence following the decimal point). This means infinity can exist within 183. A better example: Say mathematicians come up with a distance that is equal to 1/183 the square root of infinity(let's call that distance a Dovina) then a Dovina x 183 = infinity squared. 183 then becomes infinity squared.
You still seem to think infinity is a real number.
"infinity can exist within 183". Yes, and even easier than your example. Like this:
183.000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000 => infinity dovina = 1/183 of the square root of infinity dovina = (square root of infinity)/183 dovina x 183 = (square root of infinity) (dovina x 183)^2 = infinity So, 183 does not become infinity squared. (dovina x 183)^4 becomes infinity squared. But that's not the point. The point is 183 becomes the square root of infinity divided by 1 dovina.
My point is that to say infinity is any further away from 2 then 5 is silly.
For ALL x, x-2 > x-5.
Infinity is exactly 3 further away from 2 than 5.
You're being silly. It's subjective like saying Dovina is the square root of infinity. 3 is only the difference between 2 and 5. Infinity has nothing to do with it. That's like if someone asked you how far away from New York is an undeterined spot and you said "Oh about 300 miles further from the spot then Texas.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/
I meant "undetermined".
Well, it would be more like asking how much farther the undetermined spot is from NY than Texas when you know it's on a line connecting the two cities and also past Texas, heading away from New York. But not much more. I'm brushing up on number theory and learning all kinds of stuff I never wanted to know again.
But then part of the spot is being determined as in it must be somewhere along that straight line. You're saying infinity is a number which would place it in line with any string of numbers.
Infinity is not a number but a concept. You might as well say 183 is closer to heaven than 182. http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view
Pi has an infinite number of digits to the right of its decimal point, as you say. The number you define as Dovina is infinite in magnitude. Do I think infinity is a real number (in the way that 183 is)? I don't know, it boggles my senses.
See, I was closer than you thought but you should have realized I was being a smartass when I said 183 to begin with. I certainly realize that you were being a smartass.
Smartass!
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Last two lines are awesome...out of curiosity, 'stirrings' made me also think 'strings' (of our souls) - was that intentional?