Classroom fun with math.

Apologies for the slowness of writing. Class has got me completely focused and will continue to do so for quite some weeks ahead. However, I had to post this, one of my favorite math discussion question answers.
Question: If If a <> -b.. Why?

Answer:

Sure number lines work for some people, but to me they just look like a jumbled mess of dashes and numbers. So i must explain it the way I comprehend it.
We need to look at the thing in the middle of those two letters. The <.
When I was in junior high, I had trouble remembering which direction meant what concept. My teacher gave me a great explanation. <> look like crocodile mouths. Crocodiles like to eat, and since they are predators, they dont go for the little mice, they go for the big cats. The <> always point to the larger number because the croc wants to eat larger amounts.
1<2>-2
5<10>15
If you can remember that concept, you can remember which direction the <> go towards generally in math. So, which one means less than and which one means more than? I also had trouble remembering until I thought about how we read. In English, we read left to right. With Less Than, we hit the tiny point first. Tiny = less = <
With More Than, we hit the wide-croc-mouth part first. Crocs want more, and they open up wide mouths to eat. Wide=more= >.

So, now that we know what those symbols mean, looking at the question again:
if a < b = If a is LESS THAN b,
then -a > -b = then negative a is MORE THAN negative b.

Now learning coding, I learned about if-then statements. IF 1 is true, THEN 2 is true. So we must assume both are true with the way this sentence is coded. But is it?
We must also assume that a has more weight than b, b has more weight than c. If we assume that first part of the sentence is true, that crocodile sure would like to eat a bigger letter, which means a < b. Yum!
Going to the negatives, if a is the least of the letters, well, nothing weighs nothing (but nothing)....and if you listen to quantum physics, this may not even be true. So I like to assume that everything has a weight. So if a weighs something, then -a must weight less than something, and -b must weigh even less. Poor crocodile isn't gonna get much to eat here but he still wants to eat the heaviest of the letters. So -a > -b

And that...is how i know that the question posed by Chris is true, thanks to the help of crocodile mouths, computer coding, and quantum physics.

               _.'^^'. 
 _      _.-' ((@)) '.   ./\/\/\/\/\/\,.---.__
..'o'...-'      ~~~    '~/\/\/\/\/\/\__.---.   `-._
:                          /\/\/\/\,-'              `-.__
^VvvvvvvvvvvVvVv                   |                     `-._
;^^^^^^^^^^^`      /             `\        /               `-._
```````````````'.`                `\     (                    `'-._
         .-----'`   /\              `\    )--.______.______._______`/
        (((------'``  `'--------'`(((----'

The Alien is still chuckling.

See Ziztur's post and comments first.

Continued from Comment left on Ziztur's blog within the Circle-Of-Light Spiritualist Church review posted on March 16, 2009.

In response to the copyright mention:
I have not a clue as to where this "fully copywrited" stuff came from. It is new, and in my perspective, very off-putting to potential new members, or visitors even. Considering no other church says anything like this, I am inclined to learn more as to why this was added to the service, as it sure as hell was not even after the reformat of the service they did some years back. I am inclined so much that I do believe I shall be going to the church again a little earlier, and not only inquiring about the change, but also letting the pastor know of this joint venture of describing churches, and inviting them to read our reviews on the service. Now copywrite usually refers to printed matter only, so the only thing I can imagine is that they do not want that "yellow sheet" being duplicated and spread around.
The alien can only think "Why wouldn't they want it spread around?" The image on the yellow sheets (Named "Wingman") was given to myself free and clear years ago when I had volunteered to do a website revision for the church (a failed venture). I am not sure now as to if that would be the reason for the copyright, or if it was the words itself. In which case, they have already failed as evident Here, and Here, as only two of many examples. So generally, the Alien remains confused and may just go get some clarification on this small matter.

Now as for a few other small things:
I am going to use generic terms here and I do not necessarily mean all people believe in this, but this is what I have come to witness in my time with this church.
-Everyone has spirit guides.
-Each spirit guide has a purpose. Some may be joy guides, those who bring fun into our lives and remind us in small ways to play. Some may be more...specialized...in certain things, such as philosophy (Hence Dr. White), some more in Botany (such as a guide I had for a short time named Rellish), some more in protection or native beliefs. Each person has multiple guides.
-Each of them communicate to us in ways we do not quite mentally understand - these guides are what give us those gut feelings, that small push in a different direction, that still small voice inside. However, some are able to "stand between the worlds" and speak with their/your guides directly to get one specific message to you that may mean something to you right then. These people are trained ...and I must specify this here and now - I HAVE been through the training.
I do not believe nor see any sort of brainwashing to the training, no leads in certain direction to classify people and give them a message based on their looks or reactions (ergo a certain famous psychic we all know).
-Meditation is proven to work. Now I must admit, I am not as up on where to pull the specific, peer-reviewed references from as Ziztur is so good at doing. However, there seems to be enough evidence on Google for such a claim, since I cannot access the same journals and information as some of you all can. If you all would be so kind as to help or prove this statement wrong, please feel free to send me some for or against peer-reviewed scientific evidence as such. Please keep in mind this beginning statement still falls under the generic-terms notation above.
---end notes of church
Ziztur, I saw, I do believe, what your message was supposed to mean for you. I shall tell you at another time as it is a bit more personal. Not that I am seeing something within the message, but I think I may just be seeing the point the message was trying to make to you.
Flimsy, your message had a meaning but not the one you worked it to be. However, as I am still getting to know you, I do not think I may be right as to what your message was about, but regardless, I think I may have also seen the point of the message. We shall discuss it at another time if you choose to. As for now, this post is getting rather long and I'll end it here but will be open to comments and questions the best that I am able to answer them.
The Alien is a funnel mind. Open at top, not so much deeper within.

The Alien is highly amused by failblog.org.
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Look at the side over here - fill in the words mentally ------> ^^^^
since the photo cuts off a bit.

The Alien had a dream.

Thursday night or so, she dreamed that she was at church with Ziztur and Flimsy - only the church was one that the Alien was familiar with. It was her old church, one she attended for many years of her own volition. Upon waking, and at a reasonable hour, she texted Ziztur with the idea. Ziztur of course agreed.
So today we went to the church of the Alien's recent past, a Spiritualist church. Meeting with old friends she has not seen in a year, walking around the building the church is held in (A store), and sitting down in those familiar seats to attend the familiar setup was both exciting and foreign. To know what the true purpose of our visit was and yet being in such a place where I once felt normal and accepted (and to some extent, still do), was strangely comforting - and the alien means those two words seperately.
One of the old friends offered her normal service of healing before the service, and frankly, I was looking forward to such an opportunity as with the past months of sickness and stress, it felt rather needed. Some do not believe in spiritual healing methods such as pranic or energy healing, however once again, despite all of the skepticism gained over the past many months listening to more skeptical podcasts and reading skeptical books and athiesm-directed blogs, the Alien is once again positive in her old belief system of energy healing is still true to this day. Specifically, when this old friend "threw off" quite a bit of "bad energy" from the Alien, and the alien felt noticibly lighted, commenting in her mind as such. Not five seconds later, the friend said "I bet you feel a lot lighter on that side now".
Quite.

The Alien will not comment on the church service directly, as her viewpoint is quite skewed having been part of the church for so long - Ziztur and Flimsy will have more neutral opinions. I shall however say that the message portion of the service had a message that intregued me and I shall be looking into it a bit more, as it may resonate with what the Alien is feeling currently -as she had not even a hour earlier mentioned getting back into an old hobby which was mentioned that I should do by the messagebearer. This is where the Alien stops believing in mere coincidence and once again starts believing in what she knows to be true. She may no longer attend that church due to feelings about some of the people and service, but one thing she discovered long ago about herself still remains constant.
The Alien is still a Spiritualist.