A strange Zombie in a Box Monster appeared late Sunday evening

UEFA: Champions League Winners

2024 Real Madrid 2 Borussia Dortmund 0

2023 Manchester City 1 Inter Milan 0

2022 Real Madrid 1 Liverpool 0

2021 Chelsea 1 Manchester City 0

2020 Bayern Munich 1 Paris Saint-Germain 0

2019 Liverpool 2 Tottenham Hotspur 0
2018 Real Madrid 3 Liverpool 1
2017 Real Madrid 4 Juventus 1
2016 Real Madrid 1 Atlético Madrid 1 (5-3 pks)
2015 FC Barcelona 3 Juventus 1
2014 Real Madrid 4 Atlético Madrid 1 (et)
2013 Bayern Munich 2 Borussia Dortmund 1
2012 Chelsea 1 Bayern Munich 1 (4-3 pks)
2011 FC Barcelona 3 Manchester United 1
2010 Internazionale 2 Bayern Munich 0
2009 FC Barcelona 2 Manchester United 0
2008 Manchester United 1 Chelsea 1 (6-5 pks)
2007 AC Milan 2 Liverpool 1
2006 FC Barcelona 2 Arsenal 1
2005 Liverpool 3 vs AC Milan 3 (3-2 pks)
2004 FC Porto 3 vs AS Monaco FC 0
2003 AC Milan 0 vs Juventus 0 (3-2 pks)
2002 Real Madrid 2 vs Bayer Leverkusen 1
2001 Bayern Munich 1 vs Valencia 1 (5-4 pks)
2000 Real Madrid 3 vs Valencia 0
1999 Manchester United 2 vs Bayern Munich 1
1998 Real Madrid 1 vs Juventus 0
1997 Borussia Dortmund 3 vs Juventus 1
1996 Juventus 1 vs Ajax 1 (4-2 pks)
1995 Ajax 1 vs AC Milan 0
1994 AC Milan 4 vs Barcelona 0
1993 Olympique Marseille 1 vs AC Milan 0
1992 FC Barcelona 1 vs Sampdoria 0
1991 Red Star Belgrade 0 vs Marseille 0 (5-3 pks)
1990 AC Milan 1 vs Benfica 0
1989 AC Milan 4 vs Steaua Bucharest 0
1988 PSV Eindhoven 0 vs Benfica 0 (6-5 pks)
1987 FC Porto 2 vs Bayern Munich 1
1986 Steaua Bucharest 0 vs Barcelona 0 (2-0 pks)
1985 Juventus 1 vs Liverpool 0
1984 Liverpool 1 vs AS Roma 1 (4-2 pks)
1983 SV Hamburg 1 vs Juventus 0
1982 Aston Villa 1 vs Bayern Munich 0
1981 Liverpool 1 vs Real Madrid 0
1980 Nottingham Forest 1 vs SV Hamburg 0
1979 Nottingham Forest 1 vs Malmo 0
1978 Liverpool 1 vs Club Brugge 0
1977 Liverpool 3 vs Moenchengladbach 1
1976 Bayern Munich 1 vs Saint Etienne 0
1975 Bayern Munich 2 vs Leeds United 0
1974 Bayern Munich 4 vs Atlético Madrid 0 (replay after 1-1)
1973 Ajax 1 vs Juventus 0
1972 Ajax 1 vs Inter Milan 0
1971 Ajax 1 vs Panathinaikos 0
1970 Feyenoord 2 vs Celtic 1
1969 AC Milan 4 vs Ajax 1
1968 Manchester United 4 vs Benfica 1
1967 Celtic 2 vs Internazionale 1
1966 Real Madrid 2 vs Partizan Belgrade 1
1965 Internazionale 1 vs Benfica 0
1964 Internazionale 3 vs Real Madrid 1
1963 AC Milan 2 vs Benfica 1
1962 Benfica 5 vs Real Madrid 3
1961 Benfica 3 vs Barcelona 2
1960 Real Madrid 7 vs Eintracht Frankfurt 3
1959 Real Madrid 2 vs Reims 0
1958 Real Madrid 3 vs AC Milan 2
1957 Real Madrid 2 vs Fiorentina 0
1956 Real Madrid 4 vs Reims 3

Originally published January 24, 2007

If you are going to slap someone, slap yourself (Better to just not slap at all)

 

Brain 'software'

Do you have monkeypox?

Friendly neighbour, Mr. Bobby Buff, picks me up for our sometimes Friday night chat.

Buff (Still wearing pandemic mask): Do you have monkeypox?

Me: Uh...no.

I paid $18 for parking today & then played elastic man

• I paid $18 for parking today in Vancouver.

• When I pulled into the parking lot, there was one decent spot for a my SUV, but the car to the right, was too far to the left, but still in the spot.

• So, when I parked, I had to park too far to the left, but still in the spot.

• When I returned from my appointment, there was a new vehicle to my left.

• The photos show how much room I had on my driver's side.

• So, I played elastic man and entered my vehicle through the passenger door and stretched my way over.

• This was a first elastic man episode since the Maple Ridge, Walmart a few years ago, but the parking was free there.

• On a positive note, even after this, with my next appointment and a sleep apnea related MD checkup, my blood pressure was 103 over 66, checked three times by a nurse.

• That was a pleasant surprise and even low, by my almost always low, blood pressure standards.

The consequences of good acts, most of the time, does not necessarily, cancel the consequences of bad acts, some of the time

The consequences of good actions, most of the time, does not necessarily, cancel the consequences of bad acts, some of the time. (Morality and Ethics)

The consequences of pleasant acts, most of the time, does not necessarily, cancel the consequences of unpleasant acts, some of the time. (Pragmatic living)

Photo: Leeds, England from trekearth.com

Only three NHL franchises have won 3 or more consecutive Stanley Cups

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If the Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight, and then go on to win the Stanley Cup this playoffs; they will become only the fourth franchise in the over 100 year history of the National Hockey League, to have won 3 or more, consecutive, Stanley Cups.

I was blessed to have viewed the New York Islanders third consecutive Stanley Cup win, live at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver as a teenager.

Tampa Bay Times, Elite 8: Lightning join exclusive back-to-back Stanley Cup club, July 7-8 2021

Be careful which motivational speaker's advice you follow

Mixed signals ∴ = Lack of taking risks

Mixed signals therefore equals lack of taking risks

Sofia is a believer and quite sharp and intentionally at times, satirical. I agree with her, a man should assume that mixed signals from a woman is a no, at least until those red and amber lights become green. BTW, I act accordingly. I do not primarily go on feelings or thoughts, of interest on my part. In western society, women choose men, at first. Consistent green means I take more risks...

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Basically, one of my moves...

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Good gun defence, as in keeping hands up and attempting a double-hand defence.

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LANGER, SUSANNE K (1953)(1967) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, New York. (Philosophy).

 

Brief Bullets reply to what Arne sent me: Math has a fatal flaw/certainty

 

This posting was updated for an academic article on academia.edu for October 22, 2023

Fatal flaw/certainty

Preface

In 2022, a friend sent me the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo

Cited from You Tube

‘Not everything that is true can be proven. This discovery transformed infinity, changed the course of a world war and led to the modern computer.’

Cited references from You Tube

References:

Dunham, W. (2013, July). A Note on the Origin of the Twin Prime Conjecture. In Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 63-65). International Press of Boston. — https://ve42.co/Dunham2013

Conway, J. (1970). The game of life. Scientific American, 223(4), 4. — https://ve42.co/Conway1970 Churchill, A., Biderman, S., Herrick, A. (2019). Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete. ArXiv. — https://ve42.co/Churchill2019

Gaifman, H. (2006). Naming and Diagonalization, from Cantor to Godel to Kleene. Logic Journal of the IGPL, 14(5), 709-728. — https://ve42.co/Gaifman2006

Lénárt, I. (2010). Gauss, Bolyai, Lobachevsky–in General Education?(Hyperbolic Geometry as Part of the Mathematics Curriculum). In Proceedings of Bridges 2010: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture (pp. 223-230). Tessellations Publishing. — https://ve42.co/Lnrt2010

Attribution of Poincare’s quote, The Mathematical Intelligencer, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 1991. — https://ve42.co/Poincare

Irvine, A. D., & Deutsch, H. (1995). Russell’s paradox. — https://ve42.co/Irvine1995

Gödel, K. (1992). On formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica and related systems. Courier Corporation. — https://ve42.co/Godel1931

Russell, B., & Whitehead, A. (1973). Principia Mathematica [PM], vol I, 1910, vol. II, 1912, vol III, 1913, vol. I, 1925, vol II & III, 1927, Paperback Edition to* 56. Cambridge UP. — https://ve42.co/Russel1910

Gödel, K. (1986). Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume I: Publications 1929-1936 (Vol. 1). Oxford University Press, USA. — https://ve42.co/Godel1986

Cubitt, T. S., Perez-Garcia, D., & Wolf, M. M. (2015). Undecidability of the spectral gap. Nature, 528(7581), 207-211. — https://ve42.co/Cubitt2015

(End) 

Fatal flaw/certainty

As a non-mathematician, I am not qualified to opine on the view that math has a fatal flaw. But, I can comment where academic disciplines, somewhat overlap. In the video, at approximately the eight second mark forward, the presenter mentions (paraphrased) that we never know everything with certainty. As mathematics is not my academic discipline, I accept what is stated, as a view within that academic discipline. Although I can reason that there is debate within that academic discipline and in all academic disciplines. My educational background in philosophy (philosophy of religion, in particular) and philosophical theology, has dealt with absolute certainty and reasonable certainty. 

Within my academic work, I have noted: I can have reasonable certainty that I exist, but not absolute 100% certainty. I will admit I had an adviser and professor at Trinity Western University that disagreed with my view on certainty. He stated that the gospel was 100% absolutely certain. But I held to and hold to, that only God has the ontological ability of absolute certainty. I have reasonable certainty in regard to the gospel as being true. During my MPhil/PhD theses work, when I had to study Kant and Wittgenstein, I further developed partly through the Cambridge Philosophy Dictionary, an understanding that there is humanly, no absolute, 100% certainty. Reasonable certainty is that internally and externally premises and conclusion (s) are consistent and not disproved by counter propositions and conclusions.

In regards to approximately the 35 second mark, forward in the video, I will reply that infinity in mathematics is not the same as infinity in theistic, philosophy of religion or philosophical theology. Within my PhD work, there were some identical terms I would define one way within philosophy and another way within social research methods/statistics. In other words terms can have different definitions in different academic disciplines. 

I hold to, within theistic, philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and theology, that God alone is the only infinite entity. God alone as an actual entity, is limitless, but not logically contradictory with attributes. I do understand that in mathematics and physics, infinity is defined differently, within a different context.  

https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-infinity-in-math.html 

Cited 

‘Infinity is not a number, it is not a place, and it is not something that is just really big. In this lesson, we will talk about what infinity really is!’  

Cited

‘What is Infinity? ''To infinity... and beyond!'' If you've ever seen Toy Story, you've probably heard this famous phrase said by Buzz Lightyear. Have you ever wondered what 'infinity' means? Is it a place? Is it a number? Well, in math, infinity is the idea that something has no endpoint and goes on forever. The symbol for infinity looks like a sideways 8’ 

https://brilliant.org/wiki/infinity/ 

Cited 

‘Infinity is the concept of an object that is larger than any number. When used in the context "...infinitely small," it can also describe an object that is smaller than any number. It is important to take special note that infinity is not a number; rather, it exists only as an abstract concept. Attempting to treat infinity as a number, without special care, can lead to a number of paradoxes.’  

(End) 

In mathematics and science, infinity is more so an abstract concept. Whereas within much of theistic, philosophy of religion and philosophical theology and biblical theology, God, the first cause, the uncaused caused, is considered an actual, infinite, eternal entity. Apart from more philosophical approaches, this is also revealed within Biblical scripture in what can be named biblical theology as opposed to philosophical theology. 

BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.  

BRYMAN, ALAN (2004) Social Research Methods, Oxford, Oxford University Press.  

DAVIES, BRIAN (1999) ‘Infinity’, in Alan Richardson and John Bowden (eds.), A New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Kent, SCM Press Ltd.  

ERICKSON, MILLARD (1994) Christian Theology, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House.  

KANT, IMMANUEL (1781)(1787)(1998) Critique of Pure Reason, Translated and edited by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.  

KANT, IMMANUEL (1781)(1787)(1929)(2006) Critique of Pure Reason, Translated by Norman Kemp Smith, London, Macmillan.  

KANT, IMMANUEL (1788)(1997) Critique of Practical Reason, Translated by Mary Gregor (ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.  

KANT, IMMANUEL (1788)(1898)(2006) The Critique of Practical Reason, Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, London, Longmans, Green, and Co.  

KANT, IMMANUEL (1791)(2001) ‘On The Miscarriage of All Philosophical Trials in Theodicy’, in Religion and Rational Theology, Translated by George di Giovanni and Allen Wood, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.  

KLEIN, PETER D. (1996) ‘Certainty’, in Robert Audi, (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.  

LANGER, SUSANNE K (1953)(1967) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, New York. 

Oxford Dictionary of Science, (2010), Sixth Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.  

THIESSEN, HENRY C. (1956) Introductory Lectures in Systematic Theology, Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.  

WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG (1951)(1979) On Certainty, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

Bullets: My good friend 007 sent me this article-Age gap, paying for a butt lift & too pretty to work

• Image: EON Production 

• Over the last few years, I have made good friends with '007', a successful Christian intellectual & BMW owner.

• We met in some local Christian singles groups, and soon realized that these were significantly problematic. 

• Neither one of us follow any strict age rules in regards to potential romantic relationships, other than following the laws of the land, and following the New Testament ethic.

• 007 sent me the following link today...

• Relationship rules: I’m 21 & have a 54-year-old boyfriend – who buys me anything I want March 22, 2022 

• Cited: 'Since going public with Michael, 54, she has gushed about what he has bought her in a series of TikTok videos.' 

• As my relationship experience is limited and not typical by western standards, I do not assume I will relate better to someone of any particular adult age. 

• I am not interested in becoming a step anything...

• I focus more on a shared Christian worldview, and potential mutual attraction. 

• Philosophically, I reject any notion that an age gap necessarily makes true love unrealistic, and that a younger woman must be bought. 

• For example, within academia, as a theologian and philosopher of religion, I have met three older male theologians in my life that have married significantly younger women.

• For me, the young women that might have some potential romantic interest are basically always academically orientated, Christian believers. 

• I like intellectual women.

• Cited: 'Furthermore, he has paid for her Botox, lip injections, and a Brazilian butt lift most recently.'

• To be clear, I would have no butt lift, breast implants, Botox or any other similar requirement for a young woman. 

• I also believe that in today's western world, a young Christian woman is wise to have a career objective and financial stability. 

• With education and training it takes time to have a career.

• I know from personal experience.

• But, for the most part, eventually, financial responsibilities should be shared.

• As someone youthful and very active, I would never be looking for a future nurse or baby-sitter. 

• I saw part of documentary once where this western, male senior citizen lived in the Philippines and married a much younger local woman.

• He sat in his chair most of the day and waited for her to do everything.

• Very unimpressive man, IMHO.

• God-willing, I have no intentions of retiring and plan to be in the workforce, until I die.

• I do believe in biblical marriage within love and truth. Ephesians 5:25, English Standard Version (ESV) Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...

• I do not believe in weekend 'hangouts' at my place etcetera, to keep this rated PG.

• Cited: 'During one of her TikTok clips, she admitted to using him for money, that she was too pretty to work, and that she was a sugar baby. Nicole has also expressed a desire to marry him and live together.'

• Not my type...Too pretty to work, sigh.

Begging the question, briefly

Begging the question, briefly

Photo: u gliggett vancouver 1950s

David A. Conway and Ronald Munson in The elements of reasoning explain begging the question (Petitio Principii) as when the issue at hand is begged and not really addressed. Conway and Munson (1997: 132). 

This is when some reason offered for some conclusion is not really different from the conclusion itself. Conway and Munson (1997: 132). This is stating a conclusion that also serves as a premise. Conway and Munson (1997: 132).

If one does not have an argument, to avoid this informal fallacy, it is better to make a statement (proposition) (assertion). I created problem of evil, propositions within my British MPhil/PhD questionnaires, which led to surveys.

BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) ‘Begging the question’, in Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.  

CONWAY DAVID A. AND RONALD MUNSON (1997) The Elements of Reasoning, Wadsworth Publishing Company, New York 

PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London. 

SANFORD, DAVID H. (1996) ‘Circular Reasoning', in Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

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