...frolic in happiness, or wallow in misery?

Wallow in misery of course, because life is about pain, and you're better off facing the inevitable as soon as possible...

Ralf
P.S.: Sorry, couldn't resist ;)

Which is better, eternal happiness or a ham sandwich?

Eternal happiness, you say, because obviously nothing
could be better than eternal happiness.

On the other hand, a ham sandwich is better than nothing.

Therefore a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness.


the mathematician Raymond Smullyan in his book entitled
"WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS BOOK?"

WALLOW IN HAPPINESS IF POSSIBLE, ROTCLAR

Here is a question for you:

What does the moon weigh, not with earth scales but referring to scales at the moon's surface---in its own surface gravity?

Say you could scoop up a sextillionth of the moon's material and weigh it at the moon's surface and whatever the force was multiply it by a sextillionth to get an estimate of the entire moon's weight in its own gravity.

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the idea of geometric mean:


Many here must know the idea of Geometric Mean.

Tony mentioned the Golden Section recently and
that number is the geometric mean between ONE and
ITSELF PLUS ONE.

The geometric mean between A and C is a number B
such that B/A equals C/B.

To get from A up to the mean you go by the same
factor you would use to get from the mean up to C.

so A, B, C is a geometric series

Example 15 is the g.m. between 3 and 75 because
3,15,75 is a geometric series.

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I wish we had the gumption to keep the old 28 pound force unit "quarter" (also sometimes called "tod") and
adjust it to 27 pounds.

THE WEIGHT OF THE MOON would be the geometric mean between quarter force and the universe's unit force.

Moonweight would be sextillion quarters and the natural unit force sextillion moonweight.