2 + 2 ≠ 4: That Math Stuff Is Just A Western Social Construct Anyway
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago
PJM.
“Nope the idea of 2+2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing,” wrote Marshall (HT: Disrn). Never mind that the Arabic numeral system we use is not, you know, “Western.”
Marshall goes by the pronouns “she/her” and describes herself on Twitter as a “teacher, scholar, social justice change agent, Chicagoan, PhD student, architecture enthusiast, wannabe math person, BLM always…”
2 + 2 ≠ 4 is alright if you don’t mind buildings and bridges falling down, and machines not working right, and engineers not held liable in court for calculations with errors. As to the second comment, “Never mind that the Arabic numeral system we use is not, you know, “Western,” that’s as ridiculous as the idiotic twitter post she cites.
Numbers aren’t Arabic, or Chinese, or Western, or anything other than logic. Mathematics is a reflection of the mind of God. It’s the way the world works because it was made by Him and it’s how man thinks because we are made in His image. 2 + 2 = 4, sin(θ), cos(θ) and pi() are all what they are, and dN/dt = P -λN solves in closed form to (P/λ)(1 – exp(-λt)) not because someone says so, but because God says so, and thus it will always be, never to change, not even in eternity, because God is immutable.
Mathematics allows man to take dominion over the world, as ordered by a Holy God, for the glory of His son. It allows man to create, to construct, to repair, to ameliorate, and to make life better.
So I assume that it’s okay with Brittany Marshall if she and other blacks are rolling over a bridge the moment it collapses, the bridge being designed by black engineers who do not believe in mathematics or physics.
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On July 8, 2020 at 10:54 pm, penses said:
Mathematics, the music of the spheres. The Universe is God’s celestial symphony. A perfect harmony. Classical symphony’s are pure mathematics. Bach was the greatest composer that ever lived and he dedicated all of his works to God.
“Johannes Kepler a Protestant in Germany, was a brilliant mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and devout Christian who cited God many times in all of his writings. He felt it was his Christian duty to understand the creation of God and the universe, and that God had used a mathematical plan for the universe’s design. He also felt that man, being in the image of God, was fully capable of understanding the universe. Like Plato and Pythagoras, Kepler felt that God must have created the universe according to a mathematical plan”–conservapedia.com
Kepler wrote in book five of his work, Harmonices Mundi:
“O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee! … The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.”
Kepler compared the celestial orbits of the planets with polyphonic harmonies in music. He wrote:
“Holy Father, keep us safe in the concord of our love for one another, that we may be one just as Thou art with Thy Son, Our Lord, and with the Holy Ghost, and just as through the sweetest bonds of harmonies Thou hast made all Thy works one; and that from the bringing of Thy people into concord, the body of Thy Church may be built up in the Earth, as Thou didst erect the heavens themselves out of harmonies.”
“In 1613, while at Linz, Kepler published his own calculation of the exact year of the birth of Jesus Christ. He it was who first concluded that the Julian-Gregorian calendar systems were off by four years, and that Jesus was born in 4 BC (Julian calendar), not AD 1.”
STEM is on the chopping block and with it Western Civilization. What palefaces need to get through their thick heads is that cancel culture means just that, the elimination of EVERYTHING white. Every significant advancement in science that has been done or invented made has been done by a white Christian MAN. Ok, how about all those atheists and agnostics that played a part. They would not have contributed anything without the protective embrace of the Savior of Science, Jesus Christ. Under that mighty Umbrella of God’s Grace Christian Civilization was able to put a man on the Moon.
Meanwhile Asia, Africa and the Americas were navel gazing when they weren’t worshiping rocks and clouds and trees.
Boeing is the latest example of the results of convergence. Planes falling out of the sky. A rocket launched that could not achieve earth orbit. And corporate America is doubling down. They are not going on a knee. They are getting on their knees.
Vibrants are the appropiationists because they do not have a culture. Every thing they claim as their’s has been stolen from other cultures. Just one example, images of dreads on the heads of ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Etruscan, Trojans and other palefaces are numerous. The list is endless.
What they don’t understand they wish to destroy.
On July 9, 2020 at 6:39 am, ragman said:
A quote from Eric Blair’s(Orwell) “1984” goes something like this “2+2 can equal 5 unless you’re building guns or airplanes”. Apparently when “designing” the 737Max Boeing never got the memo that 2+2 must equal four. As for bridges falling down, look no further than the collapse of the bridge in Miami a few years ago. Minority designed and destined for failure from the getgo.
On July 9, 2020 at 8:24 am, Ned said:
You can bet”her” maths improve on payday.
On July 9, 2020 at 8:36 am, Fred said:
I can’t do maffs, so I leave it to the experts. See how that works? They should try it.
On July 9, 2020 at 9:18 am, Ned2 said:
Classic “doublethink”
Orwell’s laughing his ass off.
On July 9, 2020 at 11:49 am, scott s. said:
Being a computer scientist, I have studied number and algebra theory so for example, 2+2 != 4 in Mod 3 arithmetic. An accessible book that is an enjoyable read (if you have an interest in math) is “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid”.
On July 9, 2020 at 11:55 am, Herschel Smith said:
@scott,
We don’t have to overly-complicate the main point with mod, hex or binary arithmetic. My main points stand true for any system, as long as consistency is maintained.
On July 9, 2020 at 2:39 pm, Houston said:
The only “Social Construct” those people can actually speak to is this whole Transgender/multigender load of BS. Math and Biology are sciences not social constructs. Biology tells us that in regards to the human being there is male and female. Every other gender identification is a social construct.
All these people prove to us and everyone who reads or hears their ramblings is that they are idiots.
On July 9, 2020 at 2:50 pm, MARIO V ALBANO said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjntrebxj8