not a word you spoke is relevant. i said nothing about associating pythagorean philosophy with religion. math is the language of the universe. everything from geometry, music, physics, the motion of stars, the motion of tiny particles can be calculated and understood in numeric form. one of the few philosophers who knew mathematics was extremely important to understanding the world. while aurelius stood by a dying empire, nietzche sat around moping and hoping, marx was being wrong about everything, pythagoras understood and explored the philosophy of math. that philosophy is the reason we have nasa. that philosophy is why the moon rockets are named apollo.
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