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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 10/21/2001 9:58 AM (GMT -6) |   |
Have TWOs gotten
their fair treatment?
If not I have some!!
PotOnWheel
(ISA 64:8 "Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.")
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pia†desideria
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| Posted 10/22/2001 4:14 AM (GMT -6) | | Clement of Alexandria believed that the three levels of divine reality described in Plato’s Timaeus were evidence for “nothing else than the Holy Trinity” (Stromata 5.14). pia
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n/a
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| Posted 10/22/2001 4:47 PM (GMT -6) | | Hi! I was not paying attention to this thread,so I don't know if this has been used.
Today in Introductory to logic (philosophy course I am taking at Wichita State University ) I learned that in predicate logic, to prove if a syllogism is valid or invalid we use a simple ven diagram which consists of 3 circles ( I am sure all you brainiacs know this though).
All A are B
All B are C
All A are C
Also if it hasn't been used Three blind mice
Peanut,almond,and peanut butterM&M's,skittles, milky way all have three layers ( I am sure there are more)
We are 3 dimensional beings.I have drawn a blank ( I think some of these have been used,and if not I am glad I could help.
God Bless
3
Oh yeah hallelujah (Praise The Lord!)
These are kind of generic, but that is OKl
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trosie
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| Posted 10/22/2001 8:07 PM (GMT -6) | | I have another one for the THREE'S -- it's a lightbulb time for my brain!
In TNT there are THREE processes in a strategy :
ENTER --> OPERATE --> EXIT
Hope this wasn't already mentioned 
trosie
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whasssuuuppp
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| Posted 10/23/2001 12:39 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
So you're saying I'm crazy in a vernacular sense, you're crazy in a psychiatric sense, and might-be-don is most certainly crazy in the descriptive sense
For sure! But if Modes' signature is true, then we're all in trouble:
"to be neurotic is human, to be psychotic is sinful...."
Paul Tillich
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Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
A Haitian proverb
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Springs
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| Posted 10/23/2001 7:25 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
"Have TWOs gotten
their fair treatment?"
POW why don't you and Modes just start
your own threads!!!
-S
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trosie
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| Posted 10/23/2001 7:52 PM (GMT -6) | | Here's a few more THREE'S we reviewed from the TNT class.
There are THREE possible ways a person will respond when attacked :
ATTACK back, FLEE the situation, or SHUTDOWN
-ALSO-
Our brain is made up of THREE things:
Our MIND, our WILL, and our EMOTIONS
BLESSING, HONOR, and GLORY be to our God!
YEAH! I get to start off page "33"
trosie
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 10/24/2001 8:00 AM (GMT -6) | | About three pages ago, we discussed phi and how it relates to Fibonacci and Lucas numbers. This was significant to the threeness thread because Fibonacci numbers are the sum of previous two numbers, with the exception of the first three, 0.1.2. The pattern is found throughout nature.
The proportion of phi to 1 is called "the Golden measure" (or "phi ration" or "divine proportion"). If drawn on a line with a division, the proportion of the small segment of the line to the large segment is the same as the lage segment to the line as a whole.
1.(small segment) 1.61803 (large segment)
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In the words of Don Toman, "These thre unequal parts, small part, large part, whole line are unified through proportional similarity. The relatioship of one to 1.61803 is the only proportion that procudes an unequal division that retains essential unity. That is, the size or shape of the parts is defined by the size or shape of the whole to which they belong. The small part is a scale model of the large part and the large part is a scale model of the whole."
Look at your finger. He claims it closely approximates this proportion. So do your toes. He maintains the proportion was widely used in the astrology, architecture and art of ancient Inca, Aztec, Hopi, Summerians, Egyptians and Greeks. The pattern is exhibited most perfectly in nature in the pentagonal star (e.g. core of the apple) and equiangular spiral (e.g. rams horn, sea shells, galaxy spirals).
Now here's a question for Pia (or any other language buff out there). Telmon claims that the word "standard" was "coined to show forth the golden measure of a part to the whole in three parts being one, a unity in trinuty is what the word standard means. ST came first, the number 1 with st next to it (1st). ND came second, the number two with ND connected (2nd). RD came third, th enumber three with RD attached (3d). (all other numbers are assigned TH, as in fourth, fifth, sixth, etc...). " Hence you arrive at STNDRD. "
Is this true? This guy gives no references, and I'd be curious to know.
Doc
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 10/24/2001 8:04 AM (GMT -6) | | Heh, just noticed. We are now on our 33 page!!! I'm anticipating this page will contain many revelatory insights.
Doc
ps. After I posted this, I see Trosie beat me to the punch by 8 minutes! (I was working on mine when she posted). Trosie is the annointed one of the 33 page! (which, by the way, has traditionally been understood to be the age Christ died). hmmmmm....
"Three is the magic number, oh yes it is, it's the Magic Number" - De La Soul
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pia†desideria
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| Posted 10/24/2001 8:54 AM (GMT -6) | | Kierkegaard says that the cure for despair is: “Get possibility, get possibility, possibility is the only salvation” (Sickness Unto Death, 38–39.
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n/a
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| Posted 10/24/2001 9:15 AM (GMT -6) | | Ummmmmmmmm, When my pinky on my left hand is down I have 3 fingers. I don't think because someone quotes something 3 times that it should count. Doesn't it kind of seem like were stretching it a little bit? Just a thought.
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pia†desideria
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| Posted 10/24/2001 9:33 AM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Doesn't it kind of seem like were stretching it a little bit?
Yep. I like this thread because it’s like those little word search/connect the dots activity books my parents gave me on long road trips. Well, I’m on a brain trip and posting on this thread is like playing connect the dots. pia
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pia†desideria
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| Posted 10/24/2001 10:32 AM (GMT -6) | | Am I the only one who reads grammar for fun? Here is one of my favorite passages from a classic grammar, Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, where E. B. White is reminiscing about his former instructor:
"Omit needless words!"—into that imperative Will Strunk really put his heart and soul. In the days when I was sitting in his class, he omitted so many needless words, and omitted them so forcibly and with such eagerness and obvious relish, that he often seemed in the position of having shortchanged himself—a man left with nothing more to say yet with time to fill. Will Strunk got out of this predicament by a simple trick: he uttered every sentence three times. When he delivered his oration on brevity to the class, he leaned forward over his desk, grasped his coat lapels in his hands, and, in a husky, conspiratorial voice, said, "Rule Seventeen. Omit needless words! Omit needless words! Omit needless words!" pia
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n/a
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whasssuuuppp
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| Posted 10/24/2001 1:41 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Doesn't it kind of seem like were stretching it a little bit?
At this point, of course!!! But we need at least one fun thread that doesn't require too much deep thinking.
Lespwa fe viv.
Hope makes us live.
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n/a
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| Posted 10/24/2001 4:55 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
At this point, of course!!! But we need at least one fun thread that doesn't require too much deep thinking.
true, but I saw this topic origanally started to find out about the signifacance with the number three. I guess after about 400+ posts it got a bit tedious, so I guess you can do whatever you want, just a thought.
"Evolution is both fact and a theory.It is a fact that evolutionary change took place. And evolution is also a theory that seeks to explain the detailed mechanism behind that change." Kenneth R. Miller
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 10/24/2001 5:15 PM (GMT -6) | | Okay, what's up. The last two times I've come on this thread I get a voice in my computer. This last time it was the voice of that space-guy on Toy Story saying, "There seems to be no signs of intelligent life anywhere." It repeats itself three times.
It's ONLY on this thread!
Anyone else getting this? (If not, I'm in trouble!)
Who put it here? Maybe Modes or Mephi or someother anti-threeness person
Curious
Doc
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Modes of Thought
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| Posted 10/24/2001 5:18 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Okay, what's up. The last two times I've come on this thread I get a voice in my computer. This last time it was the voice of that space-guy on Toy Story saying, "There seems to be no signs of intelligent life anywhere." It repeats itself three times.
It's ONLY on this thread!
Anyone else getting this? (If not, I'm in trouble!)
Who put it here? Maybe Modes or Mephi or someother anti-threeness person
Curious
Doc
"Three is the magic number, oh yes it is, it's the Magic Number" - De La Soul
Hey, see what happens the third time!
"to be neurotic is human, to be psychotic is sinful...."
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 10/24/2001 5:24 PM (GMT -6) | | Here I am, the third time, 3 minutes after ya Modes. And yes, the same Capitan ??? is still saying, three times, "there seems to be no signs of intelligent life anywhere."
Neat trick. But do you realize how chaotic this board would get if we all learned how to do this?
Hope it disappears soon. Adiaphora? HELP.
Doc
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n/a
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| Posted 10/24/2001 5:55 PM (GMT -6) | | Hey Doc! It was me. The same guy that told you about the scrolling text. It is another html code, I can turn it off. It is ironic though, just when I was being skeptical about the power of threes, I subconsciously looped it 3 times, amazing
God Bless Dr Boyd
can you please find out when there will be more new sermons on the woodland hills site? I already got all 4 of the prayer myths plus sabbath prayer and prayer in the abyss. I will continue to lift you up in prayer (is prayer still affective even when the individual praying is having troubles?)
Please Keep rockin on 4 (not 3) jesus, by the grace of GOD!
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trosie
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| Posted 10/24/2001 5:58 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Trosie is the annointed one of the 33 page! (which, by the way, has traditionally been understood to be the age Christ died)
What a priviledge to be the one to post on page number 33 and then realize that this number represents the year Jesus died and conquered sin!
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Doc: Heh, just noticed. We are now on our 33 page!!! I'm anticipating this page will contain many revelatory insights
Revelatory insights on this page? Hmmm?
May God's Peace, love and joy be to you all!
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n/a
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| Posted 10/24/2001 6:01 PM (GMT -6) | | There it goes, it is all gone
C ya later buzz light year wave
hey this is the third line, ah ha ha h ahhah
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 10/24/2001 6:09 PM (GMT -6) | | Something to ponder:
The ancient Greeks, I'm told, didn't generally regard the numbers 1 and 2 as numbers, but as the foundation for numbers (the "father" and "mother" of all numbers). The first number the recognized as a number was THREE.
Expressed geometrically, this formed what is called the Vesica Pisces. It is two overlapping circles (called in math the Twins of pollax). The space between them was seen as the point of union, the golden mean, the birth place of creativity. Some argue that this was the origin of the Ichus (fish) symbol (take away the outside circles, leaving the middle with a slight trail, and you get a fish shaped object. Indeed, the meaning of Vesica Pisces is "fish bladder"). It symbolized birth and renewal.
Interestingly enough, the ratio of the axes of the form is the square root of 3. In the words of on one web site (not a Christian site), this " alludes to the deepest nature of the triune which cannot be adequately expressed by rational lang uage alone." http://www.intent.com/sg/
Doc
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 10/24/2001 6:19 PM (GMT -6) | | Boy, we breezed through page 33 in a flash, didn't we?
Thanks faithful for turning of that annoying Buzz Light Year! it was cute. And by the way, I think there IS something to the tendency to repeat things in threes. If the threeness theory holds up, the most fundamental rhythm in creation is threefold. It's the fundamental pulse of things, evidenced (for example) in the prevalence of Fibonacci and other phi ratio patterns in nature. So perhaps there is a natural tendency to reiterate things in a threefold way. It's perhaps not as much a "stretch" as was suggested on the previous page.
I'm now reading a fascinating and entertaining book by Ian Steward -- an incredible scientist and writer (he wrote the well known book, Does God Play Dice?). It's called What Shape is a SnowFlake, and its all about the fascinating patterns in nature. He doesn't hone in on threeness, but he is keen on the Fibonacci sequences and the prevalence of phi rations -- which, I have argued, are rooted in a threefold pattern.
For what its worth
Doc
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 10/24/2001 6:47 PM (GMT -6) | | Just some information:
As said earlier, the Golden ration exhibts a) a three fold relationship between self-similar parts to the whole and b) the phi ratio which, I have suggested, is rooted in a threefold numerical sequence (e.g Fibonacci numbers). This is, in part, why I think the Golden ration, the Golden mean, phi, Fibonnaci and Lucas numbers are of interest to the threeness thread.
Pythagoras said, "The Golden Ratio manifests in the whole of creation. Take the ratio of the length of a man and the height of his navel. The ratio the sides of the Great Temple ... Because the ratio of the whole to the Greater is the ratio of the Greater to the lesser."
We’re seeing the beginnings of fractal thinking here. Phi is inherently fractal in its nature.
For further research:
For a GREAT introductory site on the Golden ratio, seehttp://members.tripod.com/~ColinCool/Pages/Welcome.html andhttp://www.markwahl.com/golden-ratio.htm
Perhaps even better (and more aesthetically pleasing) see http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/8228/
And for a extensive introduction to Fibonacci numbers and the Golden ration, seehttp://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html
For an interesting brief example of someone (Charles-Edouard Jeannere)utilzing the Golden ratio in contemporary architecture, see http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/2944/cor.htm andhttp://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/2944/grop.htm
Three on people.
Doc
"Three is the magic number, oh yes it is, it's the Magic Number" - De La Soul
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