Most readers of that book are still thinking about split brains, the Repugnant Conclusion, and Future Tuesday Indifference, among numerous other examples.
Moreover–and here the other reviewer was close–his postmodernism just doesn’t fly, because contrary to their opinions, there IS objective truth, as recent events have clearly demonstrated.
Algos is the Greek word for pain. Algor is Latin, to be cold. Neither is the root for algorithm, which stems instead from al-Khwarizmi, the name of the ninth-century Arab scholar whose book al-jabr wa’l muqabalah devolved into today’s high school algebra textbooks.
In civilized life domestic hatred usually expresses itself by saying things which would appear quite harmless on paper (the words are not offensive) but in such a voice, or at such a moment, that they are not far short of a blow in the face. To keep this game up you and Glubose must see to it that each of these two fools has a sort of double standard. Your patient must demand that all his own utterances are to be taken at their face value and judged simply on the actual words, while at the same judging all his mother’s utterances with the fullest and most over-sensitive interpretation of the tone and the context and the suspected intention. She must be encouraged to do the same to him. Hence from every quarrel they can both go away convinced, or very nearly convinced, that they are quite innocent. You know the kind of thing: ‘I simply ask her what time dinner will be and she flies into a temper.’ Once this habit is well established you have the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet having a grievance when offence is taken.
(The Screwtape Letters)
(via Andrew Rilstone)
In rasterizers, all objects that you see are empty shells. There are techniques that are used to allow you to cut open these empty shells, but this simply replaces part of the shell with another shell that shows what the inside looks like. Everything is a shell.
Is it wrong that I sympathize with the wolf more than the goats?
Probably not: “In China, sometimes [Wolffy] is seen as a respectable cartoon character/figure by older generations because of his faithfulness to his wife despite the fact that he fears her and also the fact that he has not given up yet on catching goats.”
Carefree Bro is an egg with a face. He has a carefree and easy going personality but is not always intelligent.
In the end of each episode, Wolffy always promises to come back, each time shouting his famed catchphrase: ‘Darn goats! I will definitely come back again!’
In Lamb Calendar 3509, the descendant of Martial Wolf, Wolffy and his wife Wolnie moves to the opposite of the river separating the forest and the Lamb Village, due to low hunting ability demonstrated by Wolffy and the fact that he is no longer regarded a proper wolf.
Gruenewald says his data also revealed that changing the order of the Bible, placing the more interesting sections up front and saving the boring bits for later, increased completion rates.