V - GOD = 0 Translation please?

[imenja]

I saw this being written by a skywriter a few minutes ago. Only God was inversed, a mirror image. The pilot had forgotten to write it so that it could be properly read by those on the ground.

So what is the V? I get the zero. It's possible he was going to finish the zero end of the sentence, but it looks like a math problem to me.

[progressoid]

1. Could it have been a "U" instead of a "V"?

As in; without god you are a zero?

(that's me a zero and proud of it)

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Hmm that sounds like something someone would write in the sky about

God. They care enough to make skywritings about God, most likely they are fundy.

[imenja]

6. funny they didn't think to turn it around properly

Skywriters tend to know those things.

[imenja]

4. of course

I should have realized. Only it looked like a V, not a U. It must have been a U.

God's everywhere today. I was on a state university campus and folks were there passing only little miniature bibles, just psalms and versus. I brought it up to the VP of the Campus, but she said she thought it was allowed. I wouldn't think it should be, not if other faiths weren't represented.

[kmla]

9. IMHO - it SHOULD be allowed - as long as other faiths are

allowed to pass out literature and information if they choose to do so.

You can't force faiths to participate if they do not choose to do so, and conversely you cannot penalize those faiths that wish to spread their word or doctrine just because others choose not to be represented.

Equal rights/equal access, and all that...

[imenja]

13. setting up tables on state property, accosting students

as they leave the classrooms? I'm a Christian, but it doesn't seem right to me.

[kmla]

14. Well, a republican voter registration table doesn't seem like a good

idea either, but they certainly have the right to do it. ;)

The right of free speech is extended even to those who wish to speak about religion. As it should be. As a citizen, we have a right to say "No, thank you." when asked if we would like to discuss it.

[imenja]

15. it's not comparable to Republicans and you know it

separation of church and state. The state cannot promote any religion. If the state allows a religious group to use its facilities to proselytize, it promotes religion. I've never seen a student religious group operate in this way, why should strangers be able to wander on campus to do something student groups don't? I have never seen any other non-student group pass out any material on campus.

The student groups set up tables that let students know about them so they can join if they like. This crowd surrounds the entrance of the building, and thrust a bible into the hand of everyone who walks by.

[Abelman]

16. But other religions can do it as well

if they wanted to. There would be no stopping them.

[imenja]

19. well they don't

and I've never seen ANY non-student group distributing information/ religious materials or propaganda before. And because I have never seen it I wonder if it is even allowed for non-student groups to use university property to promote their causes.

I suppose they should be granted additional rights simply because they are rude and enter a university without invitation or permission.

[Abelman]

28. Check with your university's programming department

or the Dean of Students. They will tell you the policy on off-campus groups being on campus.

Public University's are public spaces, which means people are allowed free speech rights. Generally, they must get permission from the Dean or whatever, but people passing out evangelical pamphlets isn't an isolated incident. If they get venomous and don't take no for an answer, then they are infringing on other's rights and should be reported.

Otherwise, I don't care what the group is. They have the right to share their views.

[imenja]

33. they definitely did not have permission

because the Vice President of the Campus had no idea they were there. I will take your advice and check the policy though.

[kmla]

23. Well, then if you use that argument, there would be no

...Fellowship of Christian Athletes on any public college or high school campus...

Providing either a meeting place or a central distribution place for dispensing literature is by no means a "promotion of religion". It is simply providing equal access to a student or civic group. I have no problem with it, as long as the same access is provided for ALL religious groups. Even those who would be considered "out of the mainstream."

From dictionary.com

Promote:

-To contribute to the progress or growth of; further.
-To urge the adoption of; advocate:

Providing a table or meeting place for distribution of literature (religious or not) falls far short of the definition of promotion.

And you know it.

[imenja]

24. you have not paid attention

These are not student groups. Student groups set up all the time: Jewish groups, Muslim groups, Catholic and Protestant. That is not the issue. What I am talking about is a church group, unaffiliated with the university, who comes in and uses state property for their own purposes, unrelated to the running of the university. It assumes privileges no other group, secular or religious, pretends.

Unlike the student groups, they don't simply set up a table and allow interested parties to approach them. They pursue the students and block the entrance way.

[ContraBass Black]

29. It depends on how agressive they are.

Calling out to people: fine.

Reaching out towards people, literature in hand: annoying.

Blocking people's paths: Oh hell no.

[giant_robot]

20. Actually, if U-GOD=0, adding GOD to both sides of the equation,

we get U-GOD+GOD=GOD, since GOD cancels out of the left hand side of the equation, U=GOD!

I'd always suspected...:tinfoilhat:

[ContraBass Black]

30. Somebody didn't do their math.

[benburch]

3. Maybe...

"You'll go nowhere without god."

[bobthedrummer]

5. I wish we would have skywriters in N.E. Wisconsin, all we have today

are more chemtrails spreading out.

[bbernardini]

7. Whatever it is, it's not as good as the sign at a church I frequently pass

1 Cross
3 Nails
4 Given

[imenja]

8. okay, call me a slow learner

but what happened to 2? And shouldn't four be sacrifice or Resurrection?

[kmla]

10. It's one of those math problems...

1 + 3 = 4

If you stack them, it looks kinda like those second grade math worksheet problems that we did as homework

1 cross
+
3 nails
_______

4 given

[imenja]

11. I don't like it. It's not catchy, clever, or anything.

Whatever happened to a nice psalm?

[GiovanniC]

12. It's Actually

1 Cross
+ 3 Nails
------------
4 Given

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. We had a church with one that read "What's Missing in Ch__rch?"

Get it? :eyes:

Someone stole it a while ago and they didn't replace it. :hi:

[ContraBass Black]

31. But that leaves one of his hands or feet unnailed!

Or maybe we were forgiven after the first three and the other was extra.

[ZenLefty]

17. That's only true if V = GOD

Solving for V, that is. :shrug:

[imenja]

21. had to make this tough by throwing in algebra

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Zen is good for that kind of thing...

;) :hi:

[ZenLefty]

25. I never thought it would be a linear equation myself.

I always thought it was something like:

GOD^2 = father^2 + son^2 + holy ghost^2

[imenja]

26. show off

:eyes:

What do the wrong way around greater/less than signs mean? My math skills are pathetic.

On second thought, don't worry about answering. I won't understand it.

[ZenLefty]

27. If it points right, it's greater

5 > 4
Five is greater than four

x > y
X is greater than Y

y < x
Y is less than X

Buddha > Krishna
You get the idea. :D

[imenja]

32. obviously I know that

but yours went up, not left or right.

[ZenLefty]

34. Oh, those things...

Exponents.

x^2 = x squared, or x to the power of 2.

Having a squared variable in an equation means it's not linear. Because if you draw it on graph paper it comes out curved (a nice parabola, technically).

[progressoid]

35. Blasphemer - God is a NOT a parabola

Everyone knows God is a dodecahedron

[sans qualia]

36. Wow

I have a philosophy of religion professor who says that God is identical to the "maximally inclusive object," the proper class of all sets. He calls this object V. What an interesting coincidence. Although skywriting does seem like the kind of thing he'd do, just to fuck with people...

[imenja]

37. woah

I took the first poster's assessment that it probably was meant to be a U as convincing. It probably still is. If a person was familiar with this philosophical/ mathematical equation, don't you think he would have figured out how to flip his writing to be properly read from the ground?

[sans qualia]

38. Yes.