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   Mars Sellus to Doc Hammerslack   
   Re: O.T. --- Today's Gas Fill Up --- O.T   
   20 Feb 26 12:41:45   
   
   XPost: rec.food.cooking, can.politics, alt.illeglas   
   From: zed@is.dead   
      
   On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:24:45 +0000   
   "Doc Hammerslack"  wrote:   
      
   > At Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:15:52 -0700, Mars Sellus  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:39:19 +0000   
   > > snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > Doc Hammerslack  wrote:   
   > > > [...]   
   > > > > > the only issue with simulation theory is zeroes. 0 X 2 = 0 ^   
   > > > > > 2. In the form 2a, why does 2 * 1 = 1 ^ 2? Certainly, 2*2 =   
   > > > > > 2^2 = 4. Very much so. 1 is an infinite number   
   > > > >   
   > > > > 2 * 1 != 1 ^2.  Your original equation was constructed using 0,   
   > > > > which is a notorious sucker of mathematical sense.   
   > > >   
   > > > Zero can be extraordinarily beautiful, consider e.g. Euler's   
   > > > Identity, the sexiest formulation of zero that ever there was.   
   > > >   
   > >   
   > > Yet we remain trapped in a misdirected matrix.   
   >   
   > Euler's Identity shows that things are deeply intertwingled.   
   >   
   > But I think our world is natural.[*]   
   >   
   > [*] for varying values of "natural".[**]   
   >   
   > [**] The so-called "divine order", the Logos[***], seems to be   
   > part of it.   
   >   
   > [***] Not the Christian one, the one from 500 years before   
   > the fourth gospel was written.   
   >   
   This DNA lab also cycles through dominant species from time to time.   
      
   Reptiles of course had no religion to speak of.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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