Oh Yeah? Well how do WE know?

Today in math, my teacher was ranting on and on about like 4 different formulas that would give us the area of a triangle. 4!!! Of course, being the critical and kind of bitter person that I am, I asked what proof we have of that being the area of a triangle; he tried to answer the question then went on about paying your agent or buying groceries or something like that. That took away my faith in math! It got me thinking; how do we really know that's the area of a triangle? How do we know that someone didn't just bribe the person who was in charge of making mathematical rules to believe his "theory"? What if, like 600 years ago, math was created and there was a LOGICAL explanation for everything and there weren't any random formulas that included the "magic number 1" (don't ask me, ask M. Sanschagrin, my teacher). WHAT IF, some moron thought it would be funny to teach his kids the wrong way to do math, a harder more complicated way to do math, and that caught on and that method was taught to future generations, and the moron who thought it would be funny to teach everyone the wrong way to do math equations is sitting up there in hell, laughing down at us because what we're doing is WAY OFF.

I'm not convinced that someone came up with the number pi (3.14159andsoforth) because of "science" and "math". I think he was just another moron who thought it would be funny to mess with today's idiots. They say that pi is an infinite number, HUH! I bet they claim that no matter how long they spend doing that procedure to get the decimals of pi they will never find the last decimal, so that people will believe that pi's an infinite number so that the OTHER moron who came up with the idea of pi wouldn't have to make up random numbers and figure out a way to convince the mathematical association or WHATEVER THE HELL it's called that the numbers are legit.

I would like to know who woke up one day and said, "Hey, I'm gonna make up a weird formula that somehow kinda works so that today's society can struggle and be stressed out even more then they already are", therefore they would look aged. Aging=money spent on creams and treatments to make them look younger, which leads to feeling younger -> money spent on yoga classes because yoga is "youthful"... leads to money spent on over priced clothes so they look young and hip, which eventually leads to kids, then money spent on math tutors because they parents can't help them while they're juggling partying with yoga classes, duh! IN THE END (da da da da, snare drum roll, spot lights flashing across the stage. A guy with an annoying voice holds a microphone and says...) MORE MONEY FOR HIM. See? Everything revolves around money. Give me anything and I will find a way to link it to making money. In the end, the people who make up the ministry of edumacation don't really care about the students, they care about how many millions they can fit into their pockets:)

Another thing that cracked me up, is that our teacher told us that when we alter an equation or fraction or something on ONE side, we have to do the same thing to the other side so the world stays balanced. WHAT IF, the world was unbalanced to begin with, so in our attempts to balance things, really, we're leaving it unbalanced. Just saying...

Anyway, ginger and peach tea (it's a new tea that I'm trying out) in hand, I leave you yearning for the next post. And there will be one. Aaa, maybe. lol.