Pythagorian Theorem of Riding
Wow! So I'm catching up on my horoscopes, and this is amazing. I actually followed Brezny's advice without even realizing it. The dogma was that I am too cool to ride a scooter. I finally relented and rented one (with a nudge from Britt, if she hadn't suggested it, I might not have done it). And what's changed about my worldview is that I can actually enjoy getting from point A to point B even though I am the slowest guy out there. While some of you have survived being passengers in a car driven by me, none of you know what goes on inside my helmet at a red light. I filter to the front, thinking nasty thoughts about what a bunch of tools these cagers all are, especially the idiots in North Carolina who honk at me as I neatly cut through the lanes. Losers. And I am appalled beyond belief at just how excrutiatingly slowly people pull away from a light, especially in North Carolina. In Barcelona, of course, people drive the way people should drive the world over. Fast. No dilly-dallying. So I thought I would need to be on my fast bike to enjoy riding here. But I'm on the slowest thing ever, and I'm actually digging it. AND I actually arrive calmer because I'm not freaking out over how slow everyone is the whole way there.
I'm glad that Pythagoras' dogma was shattered because everyone knows mere numbers can't provide the ultimate truth about reality. pffft.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras is
known as "the father of numbers." He taught that mathematics provides
the ultimate truth about reality. His otherwise productive career went
through a rough patch when one of his students found that the square
root of two is an "irrational" number that can't be expressed as a simple
fraction. "Impossible!" said Pythagoras. His system was built on the axiom
that there are no such numbers. Yet he couldn't refute the student's
proof. By some accounts, Pythagoras had the student drowned for his
impunity. The brilliant theorist couldn't deal with the threat to his dogma.
I bring this to your attention, Aries, because you have an opportunity to
do what Pythagoras couldn't: accept the evidence that your beliefs about
reality are limited, and incorporate the new data into a revised worldview.
I'm glad that Pythagoras' dogma was shattered because everyone knows mere numbers can't provide the ultimate truth about reality. pffft.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras is
known as "the father of numbers." He taught that mathematics provides
the ultimate truth about reality. His otherwise productive career went
through a rough patch when one of his students found that the square
root of two is an "irrational" number that can't be expressed as a simple
fraction. "Impossible!" said Pythagoras. His system was built on the axiom
that there are no such numbers. Yet he couldn't refute the student's
proof. By some accounts, Pythagoras had the student drowned for his
impunity. The brilliant theorist couldn't deal with the threat to his dogma.
I bring this to your attention, Aries, because you have an opportunity to
do what Pythagoras couldn't: accept the evidence that your beliefs about
reality are limited, and incorporate the new data into a revised worldview.