The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> 2 + 3 = 4

2 + 3 = 4
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Friday, February 15 2008, 20:02:57 (CET)
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….I saw Minime the other day. He was in his backyard with hammer and nails and tape measure and saw and all sorts of tools….said he was going to build an Assyria. I said that was nice and asked how he would do it. He showed me a drawing that had all the measurements and supplies listed. He said Assyria would have 2 doors in front and 3 in back…he explained more doors were needed in back of Assyria in case someone rushed in the front door to persecute him. He asked me to look over his plans and I couldn’t help but notice that his math was all wrong. He had written “Need Five Doors” alright…but in adding up the two in front and the three in back he’d arrived at four doors instead of five.

I didn’t want to say anything right off…so I continued looking over the list but I noticed he’d continued using the basic principle…making the same mistake; that is whenever he added two number he always managed to get an answer that was one less than what it should have been. For instance he’d written down 40 2X4s of redwood plus 60 of pine and came up with a total of 99 pieces of lumber. The same thing with bags of cement, electrical wire, fixtures and roofing tiles. He knew what he wanted to make, but his math was all wrong. Should I let him alone or try to correct him?

I figured an Assyrian ought to know better so I said I believed he was adding figures incorrectly and his Assyria would collapse…if he ever got it up in the first place. Well, you should have seen him carry on. He threw his hammer at me and said I was his enemy…said I hated him…hated Assyria too. He said I was negative…a shit-head and had been too long with monkey virgins.

I said all that may be true but how did it change his math? It was really very simple to learn the right way…I said there were books in places called libraries…he said he already knew and didn’t need to be insulted by me. He said his parents and teachers had taught him what he needed to know and he wasn’t going to turn his back on them….”Did they build an Assyria?”, I asked him. “No’, he said…”but that’s because people like you sold them out to the Kurds”.

I could see this wasn’t going anywhere…he kept on about how he’d been persecuted all his life….how no one apologized to him for all the wrongs he’d suffered and now, just when he was going to fix things and get an Assyria all his own, here I come along and find fault with his plans.

Well, I left him then. What could I do? Not only was he math-challenged but he couldn’t tell friend from foe. He figured I was his enemy because I pointed out his errors in math, which he refused to change because his family had taught him, even though they never actually built anything themselves using such weird math. But he said it was because of persecution and said I was just doing the same. So I left him to get started on Assyria.

I’m going back tomorrow and see how far he got.



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