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When mute and deaf gods and goddesses (and man-made beasts or mythical animals) in houses of idolatrous worship are masked to set an example for followers or pilgrims how they ought to behave themselves selflessly in public.
Some religious leaders reminded their members that masking isn’t just a socially responsible act performed towards their fellow believers and unbelievers, but also serves as a reverential act of mask worship.
by MathPlus May 26, 2021
Get the Mask Worshipmug. Also known as “Xi Math.” When a dictator figured out that the political calculus in cracking down on democracy, imprisoning political opponents, green terrorists, and kidnapped reporters or publishers, without trial, and enacting a prolonged lockdown due to Covid-19 in spite of the economic costs, are worth the risks in securing a third-term or lifelong presidency via nationalistic means, such as indoctrinating students and teachers via his socialist writings, illegally annexing foreign lands, and sanctioning nations that side with Taiwan.
The mathematics of Winnie the Pooh shows that the odds of the power-hungry president trying to reunify autocratic China with the democratic Republic of China in coming decades are in his favor, as his life goal is to be the modern-day Mao of Taiwan.
by MathPlus September 5, 2022
Get the The Mathematics of Winnie the Poohmug. When mainland Chinese security agents abduct those who publish or promote materials that depict China's communist leaders in a negative light, who are then detained without trial.
In the last two years, President Xi's agents had carried out a number of red kidnappings of booksellers in Hong Kong and Thailand, who didn't like the books they published about the Chinese government.
by MathPlus June 25, 2017
Get the Red Kidnappingmug. When math curriculums in China are expected to subtly incorporate some of Emperor Xi’s thought as well as to praise the mixed achievements of past and present mainland Chinese mathematicians and their IMO mathletes-medalists as part of the country’s rich mathematical heritage—when political ideology and mathematical glory could serve as a catalyst to raising the quantitative literacy or numeracy of a billion-odd people.
Brainwashing hundreds of millions of schoolchildren, including targeting those in the Chinese diaspora, with Xi math could usher in a new era in math education worldwide, which could challenge the elitist or supremacist position of Western math in coming decades—when exporting China math worldwide under the guise of raising global numeracy could be a modern form of intellectual colonialism.
by MathPlus September 5, 2021
Get the Xi Mathmug. When someone tries all deceitful ways to cover up any previous falsehoods, or to avoid looking incompetent, inefficient, or untrustworthy in the face of difficulties or new ethical challenges.
An unhealthy number of senior math and science editorial staff in Singapore, who are shortchanging dozens of authors and their publishers, have contracted the lie tumor, as they selfishly take up key positions that are beyond their abilities or capabilities.
by MathPlus January 3, 2019
Get the Lie Tumormug. One who enjoys math more than sex, money, and power—one who is so often engrossed with his proof that he forgets about his food.
Roy is a self-professed math addict, who admits that math is a way of life for him—without the cold and austere security of math, his life would be meaningless and futile.
by MathPlus June 24, 2018
Get the Math Addictmug. When you remember God’s repeated Goodness and Favor in your life—be it in delivering you from a difficult situation, healing you of a sickness or disease, or delivering you from your enemies—this is fuel for your faith that He will do it again.
The red seas He parted for you, or those times when He closed the jaws of the lions in the den, you know this is a history of God’s Love for you—when you see that His faithfulness to protect you and your family never ceases.
by MathPlus October 3, 2018
Get the A History of God’s Lovemug.