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Mathematic’s books 

The best (mis)use of an apostrophe spotted outside a city bookstore in mainland China.
An English tourist (who is a linguist professor back home) was reported to have experienced a seconds-long stroke on seeing the “Mathematic’s books” classification, and the cashier on seeing her customer’s dizziness immediately jumped to her rescue.
Mathematic’s books by Fasters December 11, 2022

Shelf Interest 

When the types of books on someone’s bookshelves arguably gives a good insight of their personality, character, or (hidden) identity.
Jack’s shelf interest focuses on true crime books. What are the odds that he’d be a potential serial killer waiting to strike?
Shelf Interest by Fasters December 10, 2022

The Number of the Feast 

When environmentalists are debating what percents of someone’s income must be spent on food to avoid food wastage, while alleviating global poverty—they argue that food is too cheap to provide sufficient income for small farmers, who are the world’s poorest or hungriest people.
The Pinocchio-in-Chief wanted to boast about his skin-deep knowledge about the number of the beast to his MAGA evangelical donors, but they ended up talking about the number of the feast instead.
The Number of the Feast by Fasters December 10, 2022

Goblin Math 

A term that gained currency during the pandemic, especially after repeated lockdowns and potential mental breakdowns, to describe the type of negative, irrational, selfish, or self-defeating behavior that plagued many math educators worldwide, because they were tired of conforming to the social or unreasonable expectations of the authorities, or had little respect for vampires or hypocrites with a say in their pay.
Be it adhering to lockdown rules, working from home, or attending to parents’ complaints, demands, and threats, math teachers and tutors had descended into a goblin math state, when they’re waiting to be fired if they didn’t call it quit themselves.
Goblin Math by Fasters December 5, 2022

Piocracy 

A form of government in the metaverse ruled by a rogue figure, human or humanoid, who or which is backed by radical elements of the Numerati, who share an obsession about all things pi-related—their goal is to decipher the sacred meanings of the digits of the transcendental number π in order to unearth the secrets of the universe.
What are the odds that piocracy isn’t some digital form of fringe governance, but one that is planned by extraterrestrials that are keen to subject earthlings under their control?
Piocracy by Fasters December 5, 2022

Is Pi Catholic or Protestant?

When theomaticians and philosophers couldn’t see eye to eye based on the number π’s oft-conflicting or mixed interactions with other numbers or constants whether her allegiance is with the Vatican or with the Church of England.
Does π subscribe to the Pope’s or to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s theomatical teachings on how rational and irrational numbers ought to behave themselves in private and in public? Is pi Catholic or Protestant?

Faith Is a Feeling.

Not the faith described in the Bible, which doesn’t depend on the storms and successes of life, but rather is based on the unshakable (certain, secure, and sure) promises found in the Word of God—faith is the substance (or assurance) of things hoped for, the evidence (or conviction) of things not seen, as revealed in Hebrews 11:1.
If “faith is a feeling.”—which is dictated by emotions resulting from the ebb and flow of life—it’s no surprise that this kind of fleeting or worldly faith doesn’t resonate with those who demand proof before belief.
Faith Is a Feeling. by Fasters November 28, 2022