The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVII

[Chukchi Husky]

Fair enough, but Christians are forever finding things that happen to come in threes and saying it symbolises the Trinity.

"See that plant? It's got three leaves so it represents the Trinity." "Uh-huh." "See that that mountain? It has three peaks, so it represents the Trinity" "Right." "See those mice? There are three of them, so it represents the Trinity." "But there are four mi-" *crunch* "It represents the Trinity."

It's a fixation.

I keep hearing this all the time, how everything happens in threes because of the Trinity. The main two are how movement is in three directions, and how time is in three forms (past, present and future).

 

[bhsup]

Ignore them. Heathen trinitarians. Unitarians are the one true path.

 

[Borachio]

The rule of three: set up, development, punch-line.

Goldilocks and the three bears, three bowls of porridge and three beds.

3 Billy goats gruff. 3 little pigs.

But 7 dwarves? What went wrong there?

 

[Gori the Grey]

^Each dwarf is reckoned as 3/7 of a full person.

It's not an episode of fairy-tale history that we're terribly proud of.

Fair enough, but Christians are forever finding things that happen to come in threes and saying it symbolises the Trinity.

"See that plant? It's got three leaves so it represents the Trinity." "Uh-huh." "See that that mountain? It has three peaks, so it represents the Trinity" "Right." "See those mice? There are three of them, so it represents the Trinity." "But there are four mi-" *crunch* "It represents the Trinity."

It's a fixation.

Kinda like how communists see a looter stealing Nikes as a sign of inevitability of a workers' revolution?

Anyway, see the above post? It has three paragraphs. Even deniers will find themselves inadvertently manifesting the truth.

 

[really]

Who owned the Bank of England before it was nationalised in 1946?
Private investors, other banks?

A quick google is only producing conspiracy theories.

 

[Borachio]

Wiki just says stockholders. So, presumably private investors. Which might, of course, include other banks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England

Do you think it might have been the Rothschilds?

 

[Hygro]

The rule of three: set up, development, punch-line.

Goldilocks and the three bears, three bowls of porridge and three beds.

Seriously, what did any of that have to do with anything. I've been wondering this for a few weeks: There's this house, the owners leave, a tress-passer comes, the owners come home and eat her. So what's up with the porridge being different temperatures and all that? It seems like filler.

 

[Borachio]

I'm not sure. I have read up about the possible meanings of some fairy tales. Some explanations are more plausible than others, iirc. I don't remember what the meaning is behind Goldilocks, though.

I suspect that fairy tales are just tales without any particular meaning. So maybe they are just fillers in their entirety.

The rule of three, although not invariable, is just a handy way of structuring an orally transmitted story, imo.

And the business with the porridge, the beds (and the bears) is just the rule of three applied three times. A trinity of trinities. They pop up with some regularity too.

People, I think, liked to amuse, and be amused, with tales through long winter evenings. Before books, radio, television and the internet. And, of course, electric light.

A lot of it is about filling in time.

 

[Traitorfish]

Seriously, what did any of that have to do with anything. I've been wondering this for a few weeks: There's this house, the owners leave, a tress-passer comes, the owners come home and eat her. So what's up with the porridge being different temperatures and all that? It seems like filler.

I figure it's a critique of Aristotelian ethics. "Sure, your Golden Mean seems well and good, but will it save you from enraged bears!?"

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I keep hearing this all the time, how everything happens in threes because of the Trinity. The main two are how movement is in three directions, and how time is in three forms (past, present and future).

Kernels, hulls, and popped.

 

[really]

Wiki just says stockholders. So, presumably private investors. Which might, of course, include other banks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England

Do you think it might have been the Rothschilds?

I was reading up a bit on the history of the bank and was intrigued that it was privately owned. I was just curious how ownership and governance worked.
(It was established just before the act of union, hence BoE rather than BoGB)

One of the conspiracies I saw before giving up was that only the building was privatised, the bank is still privately owned by the Rothschilds etc. It hurt my head.

 

[Arakhor]

Ignore them. Heathen trinitarians. Unitarians are the one true path.

Fight the oppression and live for heterousianism!

 

[Borachio]

I was reading up a bit on the history of the bank and was intrigued that it was privately owned. I was just curious how ownership and governance worked.
(It was established just before the act of union, hence BoE rather than BoGB)

One of the conspiracies I saw before giving up was that only the building was privatised, the bank is still privately owned by the Rothschilds etc. It hurt my head.

Yeah. That last one is a complete myth, apparently. Even the Bank itself seems surprised by it. (Which probably means it's totally true. The Rothschilds are phenomenally, unbelievably, mind-bogglingly wealthy.)

 

[timtofly]

Seriously, what did any of that have to do with anything. I've been wondering this for a few weeks: There's this house, the owners leave, a tress-passer comes, the owners come home and eat her. So what's up with the porridge being different temperatures and all that? It seems like filler.

Life is not binary?

 

[Borachio]

Where are all these lurkers people keep talking about?

I've not seen any sign of them.
.
Hello? Hello? Is there any one there? Testing, testing. One, two,... One, two... *taps microphone*

 

[cybrxkhan]

They're everywhere. You can't hide from them. You can't reason with them.

Be wary, Borachio!

 

[bhsup]

Where are all these lurkers people keep talking about?

I've not seen any sign of them.
.
Hello? Hello? Is there any one there? Testing, testing. One, two,... One, two... *taps microphone*

They're everywhere. You can't hide from them. You can't reason with them.

Be wary, Borachio!

cybrxkhan speaks truly, Borachio.

 

[Zelig]

 

[Borachio]

cybrxkhan speaks truly, Borachio.

OK.

Oi! You lot! Yes, YOU. *squints at screen*

Come down here a minute. I want a word.

 

[Mise]

A lot (most?) of those are bots I think.