i'm the planet whose core never cooled

[robotwarlock]

Sometimes having a strong command of the bare basics can make you feel like an expert. You listen to NPR for two afternoons in a row, and suddenly you're sure you have a grasp on economics. Watch a few games, compile your Fantasy Football team, and become a sage of athletics. It's the second round semifinals of olympic figure skating and you're

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[seandiablo]

wow.

see, i am not a mathematician, nor have i ever wanted to be one. numbers have always held some kind of specter of fear for me, because i have always been able to find answers to mathematical "questions", but i was unable to follow the rules and protocols(or at least explain away how i reached the answers i found).

you've essentially described chaos for me in a way that kind of validates something huge for me. what i have been able to pull from this, is that the tao is chaos. it is what it is, and it cannot be predicted nor can it be stopped. all we can do is react to it, and revel in it's beauty, which is just as simplistic as it is complicated.

thank you.

[robotwarlock]

math and i have a strange relationship. i've always enjoyed it conceptually, but my competitive/insecure side saw it as a hallmark of savantism, a kind of, "you know you're smart when..." i come up with all kinds of hair-brained ideas (geometric representations of political philosophies, for example) but, until recently, was too scared of what i might learn, or worse, what i wouldn't have the capacity to understand

[idle_chatter]

in my life right now, there is more change than i can shake a stick at. im a little wary about testing the waters, but nothing will happen if i dont dive in, huh?

[robotwarlock]

go for it, babe. we're right here behind you.