favorite abstract concepts

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. media pieces about media
  2. zeitgeist
  3. free speech
  4. self referential contradictions
  5. simplicity
  6. invisible pink unicorns
  7. the rights of man
  8. paradox
  9. chaos
  10. nothing

This is not to say that I like media pieces about media, but rather the idea of media pieces about media.

2

~ freedom
~ physics equations about velocity (do they count as abstract?)
~ chaos
~ truth
~ angels that dance on pin-heads

3

Poetic justice.

Synchronicity.

4

Calculus.

5

Does Schrodinger’s Cat count?

Well, it’s cool anyway!

6

Parallel universes

7

A limit.

Instructor: “So this expression approaches 0.”
Student: “What do you mean it approaches? Why isn’t it just 0?”
Instructor: “Well, if the numerator is divided by larger denominators, it gets smaller and smaller. Eventually it’ll approach 0.”
Student: “So it’s zero.”
Instructor: “No, it approaches zero.”
Student: “Argh!”

And you can’t forget indeterminate forms of limits.

Instructor: “Since this limit is infinity over infinity, we use L’Hospital’s rule.”
Student: “Doesn’t infinity divided by infinity cancel out to one?”
Instructor: “No, you cannot divide infinity by infinity.”
Student: “Argh!”

8

kasuo…aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgh!! Reading that just gave me a headache.

I am truly dyscalculic…anything beyond 1+1 is pretty much incomprehensible to me in any written form. Aren’t numbers abstract constructs anyway? My checkbook says they are…hmmm.

9

Arithematic be abstract concept, according to Gottlieb Frege; like the beard of the present king of france. Nobody pays much attention to his ideas these days anyway.

10

Heterochronicity.

11

I like to imagine a world without hypothetical situations.

12

Kinda reminds me that one problem with thirds. It goes something like this:

If 1/3 = .3333 repeating
and 2/3 = .66666 repeating
then doesn’t 3/3 = .9999 repeating?

let x = .999 repeating
10x = 9.999 repeating
10x - x = 9
9*x = 9
x = 1

So a person would think, “Damn, how can .9999 equal 1? Argh!”

13

Sex. Well, it’s an abstract concept to me…

14

Xeno’s paradox.

Time travel.

Irrestible force/Immovable object.

Trying to teach my Mom about computers.

15

Limitlessness and infinity. (Aren’t lazy 8’s pretty?)

16

Poetic Justice

17

Irony

18

What’s that theory called that ‘you will never be able to get where you’re going due to the fact that getting there involves getting halfway there, and as there are an infinite number of halves it is impossible to reach your destination’.

Oh, and Bob’s your uncle.

I really like Bob’s your uncle.

19

God with no beginning and no end.

Time with no beginning and no end.
Coincidence?

20

Lexicon already grabbed that one.

MR