by folding down the Ideal to embrace the Earth and sealing it with our kiss, we symbolize how we dedicate our ideals to overcoming our animal nature, even as we enclose it, for without the complement of our animalism, the yin to our yang, our ideals would be dysfunctional and empty
from Prof Schombert via The Beast
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When I first talked about rings, I said that a ring is an algebraic
abstraction that, in a very loose way, describes the basic nature of integers. A ring is a full abelian group with respect to addition - because the integers
PZ disagrees with my suggestions about strategies for defending evolution.
A comprehensive article at The New Yorker on Perelman, Poincaré conjecture and the politics of math. Perelman, as you might have read, refused the Fields medal - the nobel prize like award for math. From the article,
Bush may like to think he is non-abelian, but we know he has a nilpotent subgroup.
Not only does he have a nilpotent subset of ideals, but the interesection of his prime ideals is nilradical!
Phbt!
No! You've got it all wrong! We're not using our ideals to overcome our animal nature, we're trying (ideally) to synthesize our ideals with our animal nature.
And here I thought envelopes were all about our inner desire to lick everything (the modern no lick envelope is a result of oppression from social conservatives.)
naively, you may think this is just about infantile oral fixation, but I think that was sublimated through the Stamp of Authority
clearly the self-adhesive stamp is a repressive conservative invention
we will refrain from commenting on the trite Freudian symbolism of the clasp-and-hole manilla envelope...