Subj : Re: religion quiz
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 03:42:56

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96C9C5A0D13473v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>> news:Xns96C9C3FE62D1A3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
>>> 
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>>> news:Xns96C9C241E5EBD3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:Xns96C9C1AA69D4E3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96C9C06B3B8BD3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> K <notme@nothere.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96C9DA5B9F8E0notmenotherecom@ 216.196.97.142:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>>>>>>>>>> news:3o6djfF4fd01U1@individual.net:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=10907
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> atheism     100%
>>>>>>>>>>>> Satanism     88%
>>>>>>>>>>>> Paganism     58%
>>>>>>>>>>>> agnosticism  58%
>>>>>>>>>>>> Buddhism     46%
>>>>>>>>>>>> Islam        42%
>>>>>>>>>>>> Judaism      33%
>>>>>>>>>>>> Christianity 13%
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hinduism      0%
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Not sure on the Satanism part, but other than that, I'd say 
>>> it's
>>>>>>>>>>>> pretty spot on.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>  I rather get the feeling that the person who devised the
>>>>>>>>>>>  quiz 
>>>>> sees
>>>>>>>>>>>  both 
>>>>>>>>>>> satanism and atheism as the same thing. For some reason a lot
>>>>>>>>>>> of the religeous types I've met think that just because you
>>>>>>>>>>> don't believe in god you are working for the other side. It
>>>>>>>>>>> never 
>>> really
>>>>>>>>>>> seems to sink in that 
>>>>>>>>>>>  I don't believe in either heaven or hell. It's one of those
>>>>>>>>>>>  beliefs 
>>>>>>>>>>> without any evidence that seem to abound when you mention you
>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>> an athiest, like the one that because we don't follow the
>>>>>>>>>>> rules layed down by some guy off his rocker in the desert
>>>>>>>>>>> that we have 
>>>>> no
>>>>>>>>>>> morals at all. 
>>>>>>>>>>>  Ted
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I got a high atheism score and a low satanism score. Face it; 
>>>>> you're
>>>>>>>>>> just evil.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>  I'm not evil I'm just differently moralled.
>>>>>>>>> I think part of it is that I don't see life as being sacred and
>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>> prefer that people followed their own moral codes that they had
>>>>>>>>> thought about rather than blindly following whatever doctrine
>>>>>>>>> was layed out by priests of any denomination.
>>>>>>>>>  It's that free will thing, they talk big about it but when
>>>>>>>>>  push comes to 
>>>>>>>>> shove....
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> (The above was what we like to call "A Joke".)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Just a piss poor one.
>>>>>>>  I knew you went being serious, hence the light hearted response.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Woohoo!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> (What just happened?)
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I dunno, I'm still waiting for you to get my topology joke.
>>>> 
>>>> What? When?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> DOES NOBODY BOTHER TO READ MY BLOODY POSTS!!
>>>  Your post: "see if you can find an introductory book on topological
>>>  surgery. Or look on the web. The web knows all."
>>> 
>>> My Post: <looks on the web> COOL, very pretty. OF course now I have
>>> the contents 
>>> from my mug of tea all over the place.
>> 
>> Haaaaaahaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaa...
>> 
>> (Seriously, what? Is that some kind of bizarre Klein Bottle joke? I
>> don't get it.)
>> 
> 
>  I thought that one of the standard classes of topology shapes is a 
> sphere with a handle type attatchment, which can be deformed in many 
> ways,for example into a mug shape. Now do you get it? Or am I just 
> totally wrong about what I though I knew, which is more likely.

Ah...

(You're talking about a 2-D handle body...a closed surface in R^3 with, for 
lack of a better term, handles. If you have n handles, the surface has genus 
n. Cool fact: take any tiling of one of these things with polygons, the 
number of faces(F), edges(E) and vertices(V) is related by V - E + F = X(g), 
where X is supposed to be the Greek letter chi and represents the Euler 
characteristic of the surface. This is related to the genus, number of 
handles, by X(g) = 2 - 2*g. If you try it on a sphere, which has 0 handles, 
you end up with the classic polyhedral formula.)

((I need to shut up now.))

-- 
Jim

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