Well we are warned , we have been labeled and next they will begin the Culling.
Out of curiosity why 40% only , did the other mathematicians pay someone off or get the socially correct answers ahead of time? Your Surgeon friend enjoys discriminating against Mathematicians. Being a devotee of maths has always been a challenge, society has never trusted mathematicians or scientists. We live in a society where intelligence is closely linked to concepts of evil. When in fact the worst atrocities in history seem to have been committed by seemingly normal people. Maybe this is the root of society's schizophrenia, it can not accept that normal people are very dangerous. Normal people externalize the consequences of their actions to a scapegoat and normal people wander about life free of guilt. The freedom of the Normal person is possible only while identifiable groups can be blamed. In this new global society groups struggle continuously to blame other groups for consequences affecting their lives. Global society composed of discreet societies is in a struggle to identify the traditional scapegoats. Many of the formerly small scapegoat groups are now capable of defending themselves from false accusations, so now we have to find new scapegoats that are easier to utilize. The anti science movement has been around for over 20 years, and has only had limited success so maybe now the shift is toward mathematicians since they do not seem to have any defenders and make a soft target. I can just see it now, the villagers storm the Math departments with pitch forks and torches ablaze crying out , "The mathematicians are in the tower let's burn the rats out of their lair." "Spare that one, he is only an engineer and can fix my toilet" "The rest are dangerous Schizophrenics we must sterilize this Building with blood and flame" That would be a great opening scene for a novel or movie, what went so wrong about the " Knowledge revolution"? Dr.Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2 (204) 2548321 Phone/Fax <mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca> vbur...@shaw.ca -----Original Message----- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: April 27, 2010 11:17 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] vol.82 That certainly explains a lot. --Doug On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:12 AM, peggy miller <highlandwi...@gmail.com> wrote: A note for all mathematicians in the group -- was told by surgeon in my writers group that 40% of mathematicians and all others who also are able to "see" existence of additional dimensions are now considered to be schizophrenics.
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