There are three things I can think of of which there are no degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1.) Originality
2.) Perfection
3.) Infinity<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1.) Originality<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a friend who says it makes him crazy when people refer to things as being \u201cvery original,\u201d or \u201cthe most original\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2.) Perfection<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even though people might occasionally refer to one specimen as being \u201cmore perfect\u201d than another, what they are really saying is that it is closer to<\/em> perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They say nobody\u2019s perfect. And they\u2019re right. Because every time somebody is they kill them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.) Infinity<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I once had this Polish algebra teacher who tried to tell us that the subset of all integers is greater than the subset of even integers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I really don\u2019t know why I felt the need to mention that he was Polish. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m looking to use this column to perpetuate any negative stereotypes or anything like that. So forget I even mentioned it. In fact, he wasn\u2019t Polish at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I once had this Irish algebra teacher who tried to tell us that the subset of all integers was greater than the subset of even integers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This fact may seem readily apparent to the finite and uncomprehending minds of most mathematicians, but it shows a complete lack of understanding as to the true nature of infinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because infinity is different than the way most people normally think about things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can take away from infinity again and again and yet it is never diminished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, you can divide infinity almost infinitely*, and yet each part remains an infinity unto itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So dividing an infinity in two by taking out every other number has absolutely no reducing effect whatsoever upon the whole. You\u2019re still dealing with an infinity. In short, you\u2019re still going to be counting forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *The idea of something being \u201calmost infinite\u201d is of course every bit as asinine as my algebra teacher. But I use the phrase here as meaning any number short of infinity itself (which actually isn\u2019t even a number).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also because saying you can divide infinity infinitely would be the same as saying infinity divided by infinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that\u2019s not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s not good at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n TODAY\u2019S LESSON HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER \u201cJ<\/a>\u201c AND THE NUMBER 42<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are three things I can think of of which there are no degrees. 1.) Originality2.) Perfection3.) Infinity 1.) Originality I have a friend who says it makes him crazy when people refer to things as being \u201cvery original,\u201d or \u201cthe most original\u201d. And he\u2019s right. He is crazy. 2.) Perfection Even though people might…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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