{"id":48553,"date":"2016-02-09T03:32:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T03:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48553"},"modified":"2016-02-09T04:59:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T04:59:35","slug":"on-myth-magic-rare-canned-meats-and-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48553","title":{"rendered":"On myth, magic, rare canned meats, and mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — a tale of Guru Nanak — & the things you can buy on Amazon these days ]
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\"boy_nanak\"<\/a>
\nPainting by PM Wylam<\/strong> of Guru Nanak Dev Ji<\/strong> as a young boy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is said that in his schooldays, young Nanak<\/strong> who, as Guru Nanak<\/strong>, would go on to found the Sikh<\/strong> religion was in math class when the numbers one, two, three<\/strong> and so forth<\/del> fourth<\/strong> were explained, and objected when the teacher began to talk about two<\/strong>, on the grounds that he hadn’t yet fully grapsped the number one<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Respect. <\/strong><\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Putting that another way, the number one<\/strong> is at least as fascinating in its own possibities as it is with the series of integers that follows it — you may recall my earlier discussions of one<\/a> and its possible opposites<\/a> in earlier posts:<\/p>\n

\"OppositeOne\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

Here the conversation takes a completely different turn..<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s in the spirit of that kind of mythematical<\/strong> — or perhaps better in this case, mathemagical<\/strong> — thinking that I offer this equation: <\/p>\n

\"Unicorn<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m inclined to think they’d somehow cancel<\/strong>, or at the very least balance<\/strong>, each other out. I wonder whether Amazon <\/strong>has an algorithm that knows that, yet.<\/p>\n

Really, I had no idea one could buy dragon’s meat in a can, nor that of unicorns. <\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

I found out about canned unicorn and dragon while while reading up on Tactical Bacon<\/strong> in a spell of NSFW research<\/a> on the Malheur <\/strong>business:<\/p>\n

\"tactical<\/a><\/p>\n

Oy, the world we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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