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Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:28:19 +0100

And also a plus between "MD" and "3".

I hope BigThink sorts this bug out quickly, or I'll have to delay posting all that differential-calculus to prove that God exists [ or otherwise ].

Since I am an active supporter of "Open Source", please feel free to use this as you wish. Just give due credit to Mr. Adams, and myself.

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Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:45:28 +0100

Cosmos - "Man-of-the-Year" - yes. What kind of man is yet to be determined =}

So, there should be a plus between the [ ) and 63 ]? And that it? Or am I missing other(s)?

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Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:54:19 +0100

Sorry... It's not me. The BigThink comment-box is absorbing all the 'plus' signs. In the formula, wherever there is an operator missing, insert a 'plus'.

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Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:50:01 +0100

Erratum:

MoL = ( 42 * ( MD 3 * ( GD - 5 ) / 10 ) 63 ) / 13

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Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:46:33 +0100

The formula above is an abbreviated version of the most important formula of all. Due to overwhelming demand, I've decided to publish the original formula in its entirety.

MoL = ( 42 * ( MD 3 * ( GD - 5 ) / 10 ) 63 ) / 13

MoL == "The Meaning of Life"
MD == My Day: Rating on the B-D / G-D Scale [ from 0 to 10, respectively ]
WD == World Day: Rating on the D-D / U-D Scale [ from 0 to 10, respectively ]

In this normalised form, MoL equal to zero really does translate to the end of life as we know it.

Acknowledgement: With thanks to the late Douglas Adams, for his efforts in determining the cosmological-constant that makes this analysis possible.

[ Donny -- Is that the Man-of-the-Year edition? ]

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Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:11:46 +0100

I would have to say, that would definitely a B-D, especially if it involved a WMD, which would not be OK, unless there were a complete reversal ASAP. RSVP. =}

PS - Like your new "Postal" image. I'm jealous. But now you've got me thinking about coming up with something new.

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Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:42:55 +0100

D.M. -- [g]

Additional note about the value of "DR"...

If DR goes negative, it could be the end of the world [ or at least, the end of MY world ].

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Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:15:08 +0100

Don't feel bad Cosmo. I once heard that there really is no such thing an ORIGINAL discovery. Only the rediscovery of that which was already there.

I like your equation. I don't remember seeing that in Ignatius' text. You've incorporated the environment into the measurement. I'm interested to see how this would appear on a graph comparing DR, MD, WD and WMDs. Oops, how'd that last one sneak in there ;=}

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Bigthink — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:07:34 +0100

Oh D.M... you burst my bubble. I thought it was an ORIGINAL idea [grin].

But there is something interesting to take from this -- People can follow completely different spiritual and religious paths, and end up at exactly the same point.

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Bigthink — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:18:49 +0100

As a land surveyor, I know a little bit about precise measurement. Obviously to measure one's day to the degree that a surveyor would seems a bit silly, but to take inventory every day is a good thing.

A regular exercise in a study group I attended, "Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius de Loyola", required taking daily inventory of your day. It was important to be attentive to your FEELINGS and the attributes during various periods of elation and desolation that you're going through. The idea being that when you are elated, compare the attributes to when you were desolate and when you are desolate, try to remember the attributes of feeling elated. I idea being that one, you remind yourself that the state you're in is temporary and two to try and reinforce the positive.

I also had a professor who recommend this type of daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc. analysis. He stressed that this is how we can measure success at attaining our goals and where we need to make changes in either how to attain them or to change the goal itself.