The moderator told me questions like this aren’t stupid and they’re the point of this community.
I want an answer.
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That depends on whether the angels in question are bosons or fermions—which in turn depends on how fast they’re spinning (so the dance they’re performing may also be relevant).
ooh quantum angels! i love it when two things i can’t ever understand combine powers
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Please answer my question.
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What species of grass do you think will produce the most acceptable results should I touch it? Do you think Kentucky bluegrass is the best?
I hear what you’re saying, my point is invalid because I haven’t touched grass, so I need you to answer this question.
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I’d say since angels are imaginary, √-1 angels would fit on a pin head.
All of them. None of them.
As many angels as actually exist.
This is gonna turn into a dumb shitpost community, isn’t it?
It already is. That was the whole point of this post.
Yesterday a moderator told me that it was not a stupid question to ask if a ship can fit in a Klein bottle.
So I’m basically trolling. I’m leaving this community if the mods don’t step up.
It’s gotten totally out of hand.
I appreciate the troll. It’s always bugged me that this community took the name from reddit without the actual theme. This place should be for “common sense” questions you feel stupid having to ask but instead it’s mostly been ELI5, asklemmy, and a variety of loaded questions.
The sub on Reddit only became more filled with “common sense” questions when it became basically the only sub one could ask a question of any kind without it automatically being removed due to the bigger question asking subs being so strictly controlled to where only 3 or 4 regular users could actually make a fuckin’ post. The point was that anything you wanted an answer to could be asked, and what made it shit was all the assholes mocking those who dared to ask anything other than basic shit you could have learned in school. They were just supposed to be things that could be answered, and not open-eneded random discussion material like this one.
I was subscribed to it the first week it existed so I know that your story is completely fabricated. The origin is even in the subreddit wiki…
/r/NoStupidQuestions was founded in February 2013 for people to feel free to ask the questions they might be embarrassed or ashamed to ask elsewhere. Inspired by this thread and specifically this comment
Look at the questions in that thread. It was always about silly little questions
Look at the questions in that thread. It was always about silly little questions
You are saying the same thing as me and proving my point… Did you not understand what I said? It was always about asking questions you might be embarrassed about; it wasn’t always about asking simple questions that had to be based in reality the way it is moderated now and the way OP here thinks it should be.
Silly little questions as in common sense stuff. “How often do I really need to wash a hoodie?”
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Right! “No stupid questions” isn’t just a cute saying, the intention behind it was to remove the shame people would carry for asking a question that they “should” already know the answer to.
It was never meant to solicit opinions, or to ask pointless questions that cannot be answered.
It’s time for this community to change, I’m not going to make a big poo poo about it, but I’m going to leave if something doesn’t happen. I can sense other people have had it as well.
zero or more
sqrt(-1).
42
4 to 7 depending how fast they can move their feet
Wait what why
None, because they don’t exist.
Okay then, how many angels can dance on the head of a small block Chevy?
I have many pins here, so try again.
What if the pins are imaginary too
How big is the pin?
It depends on how you define angel.
And “dance”, “on”, “the head of”, and “pin”.
“Can” weirdly enough doesn’t have sufficient variation to introduce uncertainty here.
Precisely as many angels as there are whole numbers, or exactly as many as the quantity of numbers you can count between 0 and 1 (0.5, 0.2341, etc).
The original context of the question was more about if angels and the afterlife were physically manifest or intangible, and early thinking about how infintesimals work.
But there are more numbers between 0 and 1 then there are whole numbers. So are the countable many angles or uncountably many?
Nobody knows. there may even be a finite number of angels since countless may not reffer to the math term we use today
exactly as many as the quantity of numbers you can count between 0 and 1
I specified countable to keep them in the same class of infinity. :) not about to make that mistake when bringing pedantry to a silly fight. .
Since it’s implied that they have names, I’m going to use that as my argument for there being a countably infinite number. If you want to argue that only certain special angels have names, like Michael or π, then I’d say they’re uncountable.
If you wanted to argue that omnipotence means a deity could defy logical restrictions and allow contradictory truths to coexist, then I’d say I’m far too sleepy for that discussion but I love where you’re heads at. :P
I think the moderator is correct.
They are wrong.
They are lazy.
If they don’t want to shape this into a community where people can actually ask questions that can produce a meaningul answers, it’s just a pointless chat room.
pointless chat room.
that doesn’t sound too bad
There’s communities designed for that. For example Casual Conversation.
I’m not backing down.
