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About me: Live long, and prosper \V/,
Name: f241vc15
Nickname: f241vc15
Member since: 2009-02-05 17:15:06
Website URL: http://f241vc15.wordpress.com
About me: Live long, and prosper \V/,
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Gather ’round kids, it’s time for math!
August 5th, 2010 at 10:23 pmThe pseudonym that I use is this one, f241vc15. I think sir Nemenzo definitely has seen my blog, since if you’ll check/search my blog, I posted there one email conversation of ours (with his permission of course) about God and such.
If you’re a little bit more sociable online (unlike me
) You might want to join the Facebook and Yahoo! Group of the Filipino Freethinkers UP Diliman chapter. It’s headed by, obviously, UP students and even faculty and is already an established org in the university. You could probably send a request email at:
ffupdiliman@yahoogroups.com
or just pipe your request/s through me.
Facebook group is at:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=270348458229&ref=ts
Some of these info you may have already found out through this site which I co-manage with other filipino freethinkers users.
Regards,
f241vc15 \\//,
Gather ’round kids, it’s time for math!
August 5th, 2010 at 10:20 pmThanks re: my other blog. Mostly it’s about techie and geek stuff specifically computers. But maths and sciences are definitely part of the geek culture, so there you go. Then I add some bits of poetry and comic books and such.
I’m a masters student at the department of computer science, but my laboratory and field of research is under theoretical computer science, so you can imagine lots and lots of maths there. 
I’m also under the tutelage of sir Henry Adorna, among others, who have their PhDs in math. I also communicate with Dr. Nemenzo from math from time to time. 
I checked your blog. I hope I get more free time so I can read the interesting articles I scanned there. Really nice stuff + presentation.
Good thing your search somehow yielded a few Filipino math bloggers. It would be quite a bleak thing if there weren’t any.
Re: including it in your blog carnival, sure. Be my guest.
Thanks for the link and I hope to get more time for blogging, including maths, soon.
Gather ’round kids, it’s time for math!
August 5th, 2010 at 2:08 pm@Guillermo
Thanks amigo.
If you’re still interested you might want to check my other maths related posts here: http://f241vc15.wordpress.com/.
Happy reading fellow Filipino.
Btw, are you by any chance from UP/UP Diliman?
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:44 pmAs long as it’s ‘not harmful’ amigo, yes.
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
July 27th, 2010 at 10:31 amHehe, quite apt @wes. Quite apt.
I’m not sure if he/she is messing around or who’s side he or she is on.
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
July 26th, 2010 at 9:19 pmWhoa. Seriously?
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
April 15th, 2010 at 7:05 pm@tasyo
And by flawed logic sir, you somehow mean what?
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
April 9th, 2010 at 12:20 am@Jungle Boy
We’re talking about the FF forums here aren’t we?
Anyway, in general relativistic sense, a universe with only one ’stream of time’ and which allows one to travel back in time has a lot of paradoxes in it, so I think it’s quite unlikely that a universe like that exists.
In the many worlds hypothesis though, you can travel back in time to change things, although that ‘time’ where you traveled back to won’t be the ‘time’ you were initially from. Instead, you would have traveled to another parallel universe, with the only difference between the two universes is that one is a chronologically earlier version of the universe from where you came from.
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
April 8th, 2010 at 10:46 pm@Jungle Boy/Carlos Gonzales
“Accept what you cannot change, Change what you can”
Quite right more or less I suppose. But then, ’something which one can’t change’ can be something relative also no?
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
April 8th, 2010 at 10:04 pm@Jungle boy
I don’t think that should really be a problem, unless push comes to shove I think.
Anyway, like I said, you can just mostly participate online (like I do, since I’m quite busy) or you can also attend FF meetups or major events. Your call, as long as you don’t further contribute to the mass delusion that concerns most religions.
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
April 8th, 2010 at 10:52 am@Wes
Damn, that is such a great idea.
Maybe I should have reposted it since it got a bit buried, no? 
Then people who’ve not seen it yet will go like WTF? (What’s This F241vc15?). 
I’ll see if I can make something like this soon, or fit the occasion, if I’m not too busy with professional and personal stuff.
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
April 7th, 2010 at 11:05 am@Jungle Boy
Oh I hardly think you wasted my time. Thanks for dropping by the FF site though, and please feel free to come back again and maybe even tell it to some of your own friends who need respite from the inconveniences of belief and religion. Maybe some time in the future you or your friends won’t be too mum and will be a little more outspoken with your non-beliefs.
You’re welcome btw.
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
April 6th, 2010 at 9:46 pm@Jungle Boy
I would suggest you read this earlier post of mine regarding answering the questions of people regarding your stand or what you believe in:
http://f241vc15.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/academic-answer-to-the-question-am-i-an-atheist-or-an-agnostic/
It’s by renowned logician and philosopher Bertrand Russel.
Again, you can’t really be a freethinker if you don’t use reason and logic and science to reach your conclusions. Good luck on your endeavors and please do visit this site or our members site for more info and conversation regarding topics under the freethinking umbrella.
Oh and keep coming back here for announcements of meetups and FF activities around and outside the Metro. I’m quite sure a lot of people here would like to see another freethinker get added to our events.
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
April 6th, 2010 at 12:09 pm@Jungle Boy/Carlos Gonzales
Oh that’s quite unfortunate, for you to have gone through that experience. A lot of parents think they’re doing doing their kids a lot of good via proselytizing to them, which is such a shame.
By zombie you mean something like a thrall to their beliefs, is that what you’re saying?
I wonder though what your stand is now? Theist? Deist? Agnostic? Atheist?
You can check the rest of the ‘belief spectrum here’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of_theistic_probability
I myself am more of a 6.
So, are you willing to send to your friends or relatives my short message above?
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
April 5th, 2010 at 10:50 pm@Carlos Gonzales
I think I know what you just said here, since I grew up in quite religious families, both mother and father side. But something being the norm doesn’t make it right or true, no? Or to put and look at it from another cliche, might doesn’t make right.
Maybe that so called atheism phase of yours wasn’t really about atheism but as you said, you about being angry at your family. I don’t think that’s what atheism is all about or at least, non-belief and freethinking.
We’d like to hear/read more of you though. Thanks for dropping by and sharing your thoughts.
A Quick Scientific Limerick :)
April 1st, 2010 at 8:28 amHehe
What a delightfully surprising limerick you got there @innerminds.
I’ll try to take your challenge up if I’m not too busy.
A Quick Scientific Limerick :)
April 1st, 2010 at 7:52 amHaha
Nice one innerminds.
Here’s a part of a longer limerick I wrote for a special lady friend of mine:
I know you’re quite busy
And so am I, silly
But I can spare some time
to share to you a rhyme
Even though you won’t quite miss me
The other parts I’ll just leave out of here.
Any other limerick takers here?
A Quick Scientific Limerick :)
March 31st, 2010 at 9:01 amHey thanks @innerminds.
I’ll try to cook up a freethinking limerick soon.
Detached by Familiarity
March 11th, 2010 at 8:54 am@innerminds
I guess you could say I’m itching to write my next piece as well.
Unfortunately lots of work is keeping me away from wearing my ‘writing cap’.
Hope to post another piece here sooner than later.
Detached by Familiarity
March 10th, 2010 at 1:57 pmAmen to that.
Nice inspired and inspirational post Garrick.
Welcome to the FF site as well.
Hope to see more of you and your friends from the UPD chapter writing here. 
If There Was An Intelligent Designer
March 8th, 2010 at 11:29 am@innerminds
nice short piece you have here. Quite a good analogy, observation, and conclusion.
@frank
I quite agree. We all know at the very least that omniscience and omnipotence are logically mutually exclusive.
If I'm a non-believer, why patronize theist music, film and other forms of artwork?
March 8th, 2010 at 12:31 amI suppose they are quite limited in that sense. In films as well.
They’ve been picked apart for being secular? Oh that’s too bad. Yes religion can be quite inhibiting, especially if you’re a fundamentalist, for obvious reasons. The more moderate ones, they can still be inhibited, or rather, confused or bothered by the seemingly conflicting views of religion and what they seem to enjoy. Thus is the point my post was trying to make: there is a way out.
If I'm a non-believer, why patronize theist music, film and other forms of artwork?
March 7th, 2010 at 1:24 pmDamn straight.
I wonder how religious people would appreciate art if they knew it was made by a non-religious person?
Short review on ‘The Big Bang Theory’ episode ‘The Einstein Approximation’
February 28th, 2010 at 10:14 pmOh I do too. They are indeed priceless no?
Sorry guys, I'm reconverting...
February 26th, 2010 at 11:36 amYes Buddhism isn’t really a religion per se. Not like the other ‘ism’ religions who have deities giving humans moral codes or compasses.
And your observations and opinions are very much welcome @Sathepine. Thanks again, and keep them coming.