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even and odd - 03-08-2006, 03:50 PM

It is my belief that I have a particularly powerful nac for seeing the hidden meanings which have been instinctually and intrinsically embedded in our language by our own ancestors. For example, I ask questions like this, "is there a reason that the word correct means not only scientific truth, but the best of all possibilities and a good thing as well? Similarly, is there a reason that the word wrong refers to something that is scientifically untrue, as well as something that is the worst possibility, and a bad thing? Does this dual meaning in our language connect physical truth with emotion and morality, imlplying that truth is the best possible thing, untruth the worst possible thing, and is it our own subconsious engineering of language through time which has inadvertently and unwittingly brought this truth to light?" More examples exist.

For example, why is it that we have come to know the term as "mother nature." Why not father nature? Also, why is it known as father time, instead of mother time? Is this just meaningless, or is it?

Having introduced this phenomenon whereby one word or phrase general implies another thing which seems to be unrelated, but may not be, allow me to now talk about even and odd. As you all know, counting numbers are either even or odd. Why is it then, I ask you, that the odd numbers are, well, odd. They are the oddballs, the misfits, the miscreants. Whereas even numbers, they are so nice and even. So is their an intrinsic meaning for valuing even numbers better than odd ones? In other words, why don't we consider even numbers to be odd? Perhaps there is some reason in the universe for this. I'm not suggesting that you know, rather, I'm suggesting that you don't.
  
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