-------------------------------- We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
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I understand that over the years several states have tried to pass laws declaring that pi is 3 because 2 Chronicles 4:2 says "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
Asked if he wanted to meet Goodwin, the professor later recalled that he "declined the courtesy with thanks, remarking that he was acquainted with as many crazy people as he cared to know."