Do you live on planet earth or some ridiculous action movie?

[Chang Style Novice]

It seems to me that the posters on this board basically fit into one of these two categories; which describes you better?

[Xebsball]

Action movie, and i get to wear a red cape 24/7. Let me know if you need anything.

[eulerfan]

Characters in ridiculous action movies think they live on planet earth.

[GeneChing]

Of course, it's one of the B rate movies with lots of ninjas

[Liokault]

I kind of feel like i am living in a poor Woody Allen film.....only in black and white.

[MonkeySlap Too]

I'm not sure, but there's a strange gelatinous blob coming towards me, and I'm wearing a red shirt...

[NorthernMantis]

Well an action movie definitely.

I've already had 3 duel to the death matches in my back yard next to the 35th chamber that I built (there wasn't rood for the 36th and all the others) and I haven't even left the house yet.:D

I still have to battle my way through the supermarket filled with with challengers and go through a cool fight scene at the mall to impress the chics Jackie Chan style. Oh and don't get me started at the about the Chinese restaurant I 'm going to.

[Chang Style Novice]

Maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a lot of hilarious macho posturing around here that's so over the top it would make Samuel Jackson embarassed. I find it a lot more bothersome than the offtopic natter and the silly jokes.

I'm not going to name names here (I've done so plenty elsewhere) but how can anyone really believe that rolling or sparring with someone from another school is a life-or-death struggle? How can anyone really believe that you must live by the code of the warrior or die like a lowly worm? How can anyone really believe that one's martial arts practice is the only thing that matters?

[Mr Punch]

How dare you call my action movie ridiculous?!

I'll fight you at dawn using only a paper and comb!

[NorthernMantis]

Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
Maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a lot of hilarious macho posturing around here that's so over the top it would make Samuel Jackson embarassed. I find it a lot more bothersome than the offtopic natter and the silly jokes.

I'm not going to name names here (I've done so plenty elsewhere) but how can anyone really believe that rolling or sparring with someone from another school is a life-or-death struggle? How can anyone really believe that you must live by the code of the warrior or die like a lowly worm? How can anyone really believe that one's martial arts practice is the only thing that matters?

Ok to answer your questions

1)I dont' believe it's alife or death struggle but I believe to an extent you need to have that type of mentality. To me sparring is a game where you try to see how you can use your techniques. It's really fun.

2)Well I try to live by a "code" ,or martial morality, but mainly my Christianity decides on how I live that code. The reason why I follow it is because I chose to and it appeals to me. I don't follow it like how most people view it . This isn't a shaw brothers movie but some people treat it that way. More often that not some people's code is nothing more than a combination of hippy budhism,shaw borthers flicks,Japanese bushido, and karate kids movies.

For example. Most of you might remember that little stinch I had with my ex-friend. When we sparred and put him in an arm bar he told me it wasn't honorable and that my style wasn't honorable. What the heck?:eek: :confused: His view of "honor" was very distorted due to the large amounts of anime that he has seen. Honor ,for me, is doing the right thing. When you defend your families life that is honorable, when mother Teresa went through out al of her life living with poor poeple and helping them that is honorable etc.. For him honor was a ritual that you did to impress others to make them respect you. Anime is cool but man some people take it too far.

3)Martial practise isn't the only thing in mylife. As you can already tell I'm very much a loyal catholic (almost fanatic) and hold God above anything else even beyond my kung fu. Kung fu isn't my life but it's a big part of it. I know that there are other big things that are a major part of my life like family,work,relationships etc.. I see my role in the martial arts as a gift from God and it has to become an enlightening experience for me. Some people choose other hobbies like moutnain biking, art, basketball, singing. This is how I relax and express myself.

[Chang Style Novice]

Well, you're not one of the nutters, NM. I never thought you were.

[NorthernMantis]

lol I try to control myself and try to maintain a "normal" behavior in front of others. It's cool:D :cool:

[Badger]

I live on Cartoon Planet & Taz says Hello.





Badger

[Chang Style Novice]

Taz is much to uncouth for us evil cartoon animal geniuses to associate with.

(sniff)

[eulerfan]

Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
How can anyone really believe that you must live by the code of the warrior or die like a lowly worm? How can anyone really believe that one's martial arts practice is the only thing that matters?

Well, think about how easy that must be. To just pick something and devote yourself to that one thing, convince yourself that it's the most important thing in the world. You don't really have to worry about anything else. You can judge yourself on nothing but how well you do at that one thing.

You don't have to worry about what it really means to be a good person. You don't have to seek real truth or try to understand the world you're living in.

Think of how stress free such an existance would be?

I'm a little bit envious of these people, I don't mind telling you.

[rogue]

I live in a porn flick. Well a porn flick made by really conservative, chaste Mormons.

[fa_jing]

Eulerfan - Perhaps they have chosen this with their pre-reflective conciousness as their fundamental project of being. However, it may be a simple instance of inauthenticity. Considering that this is not a true project for most of these people, in fact they will avoid real tests of their martial skill. They deny their facticity - that they exist in the world.

Can you tell what my lunchtime reading was? :)

[Leonidas]

didn't you know? where all on a giant game of simlife(albeit, with a really powerful 3D engine) controlled by software engineers from the tenth planet in our solar system? spaceship sightings and abductions are just them tweaking the system.

dont be alarmed.






































































..........................dont tell anyone i told you...........

[Mr Punch]

Northern Mantis
More often that not some people's code is nothing more than a combination of hippy budhism,shaw borthers flicks,Japanese bushido, and karate kids movies.

Oh bugger. You got me then!

I started MA because of buddhism. I watch Shaw Bros flicks only now, for the hell of it. I think bushido, much as it has a lot of old nonsense still holds true in terms of old values that we may or may not aspire to... especially the bit from the Hagakure about never leaving your house before picking your teeth... And the Karate Kid movies are great!

What's your problem!?




Eulerfan, are you involved? With boyfriend? Encumbent other? I would like to marry you...! And you think I'm joking...!

1) Very easy. That's what I'm trying.

2) What does Eulerfan mean?

3) Marry me.

I'm not an internet pervert BTW, but give me time...!
:eek: :o :p

:rolleyes: :D

[Silumkid]

How dare you call Taz uncouth. Our lawyer, Harvey Birdman, will be in touch. Hope you don't have pets...Avenger "loves" them.

[SevenStar]

Originally posted by Leonidas
didn't you know? where all on a giant game of simlife(albeit, with a really powerful 3D engine) controlled by software engineers from the tenth planet in our solar system? spaceship sightings and abductions are just them tweaking the system.

dont be alarmed.

..........................dont tell anyone i told you...........

I almost spit my tea on my monitor when I read that :D :D

[SevenStar]

I am a bounty hunter and live on a spaceship called "Bebop"

[neptunesfall]

hm. rogue took my answer.

[eulerfan]

Originally posted by Mat


Eulerfan, are you involved? With boyfriend? Encumbent other? I would like to marry you...! And you think I'm joking...!

1) Very easy. That's what I'm trying.

2) What does Eulerfan mean?

3) Marry me.

I'm not an internet pervert BTW, but give me time...!
:eek: :o :p

:rolleyes: :D [/B]

Thank you very much.

I'm not involved but I do have a rule about turning down marriage proposals from strangers who live halfway around the world.

All is not lost, though. I'm going to tell you what eulerfan means and you are going to love this.

I am a fan of a mathematician named Leonhard Euler. What he did borders on the mystical.

He discovered a number, referred to as 'e'. It is trascendental, like pi. It never ends. 2.718281828459045235360287471352662497757247093699 95957496696762772407663035354759457138217852516642 74274663919320030599218174135966290435729003342952 60595630738132328627943490763233829880753195251019 011573834187930702154089149934884167509........... ...........

This number, raised to the power x, equals its own derivative and its own integral. That means that e^x is always equal to its own rate of change. Now, take e, this transcendental number, raise it to the poxer of pi, another transcendental number, multiplied by i, the square root of -1, this is an imaginary number that doesn't exist, and you have -1. Euler showed that.

This is just the tip of the iceberg that is his life's work. He was the most prolific mathematician of his time.

[SevenStar]

After reading that, my head hurts. does euler have a formula that can fix that? :D

[neptunesfall]

so, like, he was, like, smart and all that?

[eulerfan]

He was blind for the last 17 years of his life. So he just did all of his calculations in his head.

I think it's safe to say that his intelligence was above average.

[neptunesfall]

dood....woah.

[eulerfan]

Oh yeah. It's all quite tubular.

[Leonidas]

ok, so where did he discover the number 'e'? was he smarter than einstein? cuz im telling ya, that dude was pretty smart



didn't he just re-discover infinity?

i been knowing about infinity for years.

can i be a genius too?

[Chang Style Novice]

"He discovered a number, referred to as 'e'. It is trascendental, like pi. It never ends. 2. 71828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369995
95749669676277240766303535475945713821785251664274
27466391932003059921817413596629043572900334295260
59563073813232862794349076323382988075319525101901
1573834187930702154089149934884167509............. .........

This number, raised to the power x, equals its own derivative and its own integral. That means that e^x is always equal to its own rate of change. Now, take e, this transcendental number, raise it to the poxer of pi, another transcendental number, multiplied by i, the square root of -1, this is an imaginary number that doesn't exist, and you have -1. Euler showed that.
"

uh....what? Is a poxer anything like the guy I have for a userpic? 'Cause that's as close as I get to understanding anything you said.

full disclosure: once upon a time I did pretty well in trig class, but I'll bet I'd flunk a test now.

[eulerfan]

Originally posted by Leonidas
was he smarter than einstein? cuz im telling ya, that dude was pretty smart



didn't he just re-discover infinity?

i been knowing about infinity for years.

can i be a genius too?

Now I'm nonplussed.

Say you were a huge Bruce Lee fan. Somebody asked you about it and you started praising him. Then somebody else asked, "Was he a better athlete than Mikhail Baryshnikov? Cuz that guy's an amazing athlete."

You'd say, "Well, I'm not sure. They didn't really do the same thing. I like MAs so I can appreciate Bruce Lee better."

I can tell you that I'M not smarter than einstein. To prove it, I have no idea what you mean by the re-discovering infinity question.

[eulerfan]

"uh....what? Is a poxer anything like the guy I have for a userpic? 'Cause that's as close as I get to understanding anything you said."

excuse me, pardon me..POWER. not poxer. power.

[Chang Style Novice]

Okay. Much better. I at least understand the concept of 'raising something to the power of' some number. But I am ignorant enough of higher math that you could have given me some bogus definition of a poxer and I'd have swallered it hook line and sinker.

Um...I'm pretty tough on crossword puzzles, though.:D

[fa_jing]

Originally posted by eulerfan


......................

This number, raised to the power x, equals its own derivative and its own integral. That means that e^x is always equal to its own rate of change. Now, take e, this transcendental number, raise it to the poxer of pi, another transcendental number, multiplied by i, the square root of -1, this is an imaginary number that doesn't exist, and you have -1. Euler showed that.


Uh ...e is cool and everything. What is it, [1 + (1/x)] to the power of x as x goes to infinity, or something? I can't quite remember. But I was slightly dissapointed by the proof that E to the I-pi +1 = 0. That seemed so mysterious to me in high school when my teacher, a PHD in physics mentioned it to us. But, considering that the power of anything to an imaginary power is defined in terms of PI and radians, that proof is somewhat circular, as I recall. Not to diss Euler. I think he was the author of several theoroms we studied in Differential Geometry, a 400-level course I got an "A-" in my senior year. However, I can only lament that I gained that grade and most of my other, more average grades through lots of cramming in the last week or two leading up to the test. I was able to score decent marks, but the information was not retained for very long.

Gauss may have been slighter sweeter, but Euler was right up there.

Just ribbing you, and keep at it! What do you plan to do with your degree? I miss the academic life - didn't appreciate it enough while I was there. Really, it was some of the other students, mostly but not entirely other majors, clueless to the world, that annoyed me, as well as the overall society. I missed out on some great courses that I could have put more energy into. They shouldn't send you to college right after high school.

[Braden]

Transcendental? Heh... never heard them called that.

I think of them as 'translation factors'; for example, between our language and the language of change, for e. More or less poetic than 'transcendental'?

[Chang Style Novice]

Interesting quibble, Braden. I understood "trancendental numbers" well enough from context, but I thought fractions that trailed on and on without ever repeating were just irregular, not trancendental.

[eulerfan]

fa_jing

You're exactly right. That's what it is. That's the limit.

The proof I've seen wasn't circular.

The taylor series expansion of e is the summation n = 0 to infinity, x^n/n! . That's how I've seen the proof of euler's equation done. With the taylor series expansions for e^ix, cos(x) and isin (x).

You find that
e^(ix) = cos(x) + i sin(x)

Plug in pi for x, i sin(x) disappears and you have cos (pi) which is, of course, -1.

It's nice.

Anyhoo, it looks like I might end up in petrolium consulting. What was your course of study?

[neptunesfall]

apparently you missed the sarcasm:p

[eulerfan]

Originally posted by neptunesfall
apparently you missed the sarcasm:p

Me? If I did, I continue to miss it. I can be almost exceptionally dense. Don't let the math talk fool ya. I'm quite the tard.

[NorthernMantis]

Originally posted by Mat


Oh bugger. You got me then!

I started MA because of buddhism. I watch Shaw Bros flicks only now, for the hell of it. I think bushido, much as it has a lot of old nonsense still holds true in terms of old values that we may or may not aspire to... especially the bit from the Hagakure about never leaving your house before picking your teeth... And the Karate Kid movies are great!

:rolleyes: :D [/B]

Only if your martial code was molded by all that lol. Hey man I still watch shaw brothers flicks and I prefer them more than your regular flying, three long punches and a stance movie hero now adays:D

[NorthernMantis]

Originally posted by SevenStar
I am a bounty hunter and live on a spaceship called "Bebop"

lol Hey didn't I jsut see you kick the bucket last Saturday? Or maybe you're the guy with the beard. No wait your Edward! lol I know you can't be the dog.

[Chang Style Novice]

Thread drift is a beautiful thing.

[Royal Dragon]

"How can anyone really believe that you must live by the code of the warrior or die like a lowly worm? How can anyone really believe that one's martial arts practice is the only thing that matters? "

Reply]
I have been trying to convince myself my Kung Fu is all that matters for years, but life keeps getting in the way :D

Oh, and on that number "E" thing, As a life long Shop dude, I can comment by telling you guys that on the tape measure, the little lines are 1/16", and the biggers ones are 1/8" Followed by 1/4" and 1/2".

And if the burner manifold is 33", and the base plate is 32" (on the 36" unit), you won't have room for the ignition tube, so you'd better make the lower pan 32 & 3/16" regaurdless of what the specs or blueprints say. :rolleyes:

[eulerfan]

Okay, I get it. To be fair, I was answering a question, though. I guess I responded at too much length and depth because I was really passionate about it. That happens, right?

I didn't think I was talking that far over people's heads. What I chose to demonstrate the beauty of the man really only required an understanding of powers, derivatives and integrals. You really only need to have taken calculus in high school to understand those.

I think you could cut me a little slack. Give me a smidge of elbow room.

I need it. I'm supposed to be holding an egg under my armpit.;)

[fa_jing]

:) Yes, right the beauty of the proof is in the Taylor expansions, thanks for reminding me. Once you have the e^(ix) = cos(x) + i sin(x), the rest follows more simply. Math is so amazing, I was already thinking of getting back into it a little, but your post has really increased that urge. I was a Math and Physics major, now I am a computer professional 6 years out of school. What I do now is not so inspiring, but does pay the bills for my family and is moderately stimulating, as well as not being a difficult job most of the time. Eventually I would like to do computer work that supported scientific research, but even if that does not come to pass, I will look back into what I studied, especially the elegant math-based stuff, for pure enjoyment. There's a couple of my old textbooks that I'd like to get a hold of.

[Royal Dragon]

He he he he. :D

[eulerfan]

Originally posted by fa_jing
:) Yes, right the beauty of the proof is in the Taylor expansions, thanks for reminding me. Once you have the e^(ix) = cos(x) + i sin(x), the rest follows more simply. Math is so amazing, I was already thinking of getting back into it a little, but your post has really increased that urge. I was a Math and Physics major, now I am a computer professional 6 years out of school. What I do now is not so inspiring, but does pay the bills for my family and is moderately stimulating, as well as not being a difficult job most of the time. Eventually I would like to do computer work that supported scientific research, but even if that does not come to pass, I will look back into what I studied, especially the elegant math-based stuff, for pure enjoyment. There's a couple of my old textbooks that I'd like to get a hold of.

I know what you're talking about.

I have a friend who got his degree in physics. He's in petroleum consulting and that's why I will probably end up in that field. It really does come down to who you know. He's always offering to help with problems and projects. Gets an almost erotic excitement from it. I love it because he's much smarter than me so it's more challenging and I have someone to lean on if I get lost. But it's also kind of scary because it makes me realize what road I'm about to take. I'm going to start really missing theory, too. Blech.

Keep me abreast if you do get back into it. This is cud I love to chew. :D

[I.M. Toast]

its a four hour black and white french film with two guys drinking coffee and talking how much better life would be if it weren't for the lowly bougeouise. This converstion is broken up by the occasional "obsession commercial"-like scene of dark self reflection filled with angst and confusing dialog.

And the subtitles are all bright yellow.


I.M.T.

[Hai_To]

I was a math major and this thread is a beautiful thing.:D

[Hai_To]

Oh, and I live in the real world. How else can you explain the way women avoid me.

"Stop following me."
"I'm calling the cops."

D@mn hippies.

[African Tiger]

Dah, dah, dah DAH! Dah, dah, daaaaaaah. Dah, dah, DAH DAH! Dah Dah, Dah Dah DAH! (Indiana Jones theme)

African Tiger stars as himself in,

"Newark Black Belt Jones and the Temple of Booty"

Who needs a whip, when I have the 'fro? And where's my White She Devil, Wendy?

[Arioch7]

**** IT SEVENSTAR!!! I was just going to ask if I could live in a Anime film world and you beat me to it.

I smoke, drink, shoot and do Martial Arts so I am obviously more suited to be on the Bebop then you!

[Serpent]

Originally posted by eulerfan

Don't let the math talk fool ya. I'm quite the tard.

Thank god for that! If you were that informed in all aspects of your life you'd be one scary person! ;)

As for the topic, all life is illusory anyway, so what's real? Real life or a movie, it's all the same thing baby. Pass me next year, would you.

[African Tiger]

Boy, this thread went all over the place, didn't it?

Sort of like Ralek, going all over the place, looking for his self-esteem. He gave up searching for his manhood, when he found out that Janet Reno took it.

.....sorry, I'm really high right now...... So if that paragraph offended anyone, tough s h i t

[Serpent]

Don't bogart man. Pass it on.

[rubthebuddha]

like any of you need any more. this thread has gone from a facetious question of reality to higher-level math and then back again. i think you're doing just fine without a fifteenth bowl.

[SifuAbel]

AT,

remember , puff puff pass, puff puff pass. It aint a microphone.

[eulerfan]

Originally posted by Serpent


Thank god for that! If you were that informed in all aspects of your life you'd be one scary person! ;)


Yeah, if you had any idea the kind of messed up situation I got myself into seven months ago and am only now getting myself out of...you'd be like, "****! This chick is retarded."

[guohuen]

ffffffffft. ft ft. Hit?

[Ford Prefect]

I think one word best describes this forum as a whole:

Insecurity

Not everybody falls into this category, but the majority do. I get a lot of laughs here.

[FatherDog]

If I'm in an action movie, it's a pretty **** boring one. All I do is go to work, go to the gym, and visit with my girlfriend on weekends.

Well, since a lot of my time at the gym is spent training, maybe the last couple years have been part of a montage sequence...

[rubthebuddha]

fatherdog,

prepping for that big, climactic event that will shake the whole movie?

[FatherDog]

rubthebuddha

Yeah, I'm gearing up to take on Apollo Creed, clearly.

[Merryprankster]

Now see here! When eulerfan FIRST popped up here, I suggested that I should brush up on my natural logs, and NOW we're having the discussion of transcendental numbers? Bah.

I live in a Kung Fu action flick.

[SifuAbel]

hssssssssss........... 'ere

[apoweyn]

i might live in a john woo flick. or at least part of a john woo flick. my entire work day has been in slow motion. all i need now is for someone to kick my door in and unload two berettas into me. [yawn]

[ewallace]

Any more of this math formula posting and I will be forced to jeopardize my freedom and release security sensitive air force database query code. I must defend myself from jibberish by using my jibberish to defeat your jibberish. Comprehende?

[eulerfan]

How about physics formula postings? I could post some formulas about spring problems where, in this simple harmonic, back and forth motion, you intorduce a KY factor. ;)

Really. The other physics and math people can back me up on this. With simple harmonic motion, you use KY.

[ewallace]

There is no formula for that. Only more attentive preparation is required. :)

[SifuAbel]

I thought KY was for sex.

[Serpent]

Fffffffffffssssss... KY! *giggles*

Who's next?

[rubthebuddha]

ewallace,

need some backup? i could dig up my old pascal and cobol books.

[ewallace]

Couldn't hurt. I could always cut and past the some 30,000 + lines of ASP code for one report (of many, many reports) that is used.

[Mr Punch]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
I think one word best describes this forum as a whole:

Insecurity

Not everybody falls into this category, but the majority do. I get a lot of laughs here.

Delete 'forum'. Insert 'world'.

Best place I've been to yet.

Eulerfan, we do not compute. You are quite safe.

Unlike Stumblefist, who is in danger of losing himself to a transcedental psyche.

Love n peace,

ya ****ers,

I Am The End Credits!

[Merryprankster]

With simple harmonic motion, you use KY.

Personally, I've found that simple harmonic motion doesn't require KY.

On the other hand, wild animal syncopated thrusting action usually benefits from a little of that stuff...

:D

[Turiyan]

When I was 7 years old. This is what I thought:

"I know everything... My mother doesnt know how much money she has in her purse... I'm a ninja..."