Galileo
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.
rebecca borgstrom
I defeated his minions, and he cackled and said, "Exactly as I planned."
I discovered his secret fortress. "Exactly as I planned."
I breached his defenses, and still he said, "Exactly as I planned."
I slew him in single combat, and with his dying breath he gasped, "Exactly as I planned."
I stood over his grave and I said, "You never really got the hang of planning, did you?"
rebecca borgstrom
"Assume Q," she said. "As we know Q implies R, we can derive R. Knowing P implies not R, we can derive not P."
In the background, she heard the Queen of Unreason screaming. She did not stop.
"We also know Q implies P. Since we assumed Q, we know P. Having both P and not P for a contradiction we know our assumption is wrong: thus we know not Q."
The screaming cut off suddenly, as if the Queen's lungs had turned to vapor. Tiffany cautiously opened her eyes. The Queen smiled.
Tiffany's brow furrowed. "Did I make a mistake?"
"No," the Queen admitted, her fangs snowy white. "I just got bored with being vunerable to logic."
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