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Yes, that is where you start questioning everything. If you never run into that situation and follow instructions to the letter the system will reward you to such extend that you cant imagine anything wrong with it.

You will forever think you can have a negative number of baskets with a negative number of apples in each and by those means create as many apples as you like without involving trees in the process. Like Jesus.



As as lesson, "question authority" is twice as long lesson a "obey" and equally as pithy. Would you mind sharing a time where you found it was better not to question things so we may better understanding what values of "everything" you find useful? Presumably you are no longer two, and answer every question with "why". (Especially the question why, itself.")


Jesus worked on a bit higher level of mathematics. He literally Banach–Tarskied the bread.


I had to look that one up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox

Which made for a nice chuckle and once I'd explained it to myself.


Talk about your empty calories




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