"Lets discuss"

Having more than 16 hours (the rest 8 hours are for my good night's sleep et all) of internet at my disposal certainly took away the charm of some earlier looked-forward-to activities like orkutting, chatting, mailing and aimlessly browsing around. And having just 5-10 intervals for [actual] net-ting in the almost 10 hours duration of the internet access took away the chance of sitting and using the those times for proper blog writing. I thus ended up utilising the the net for reading. So these days the generally spend the internet for finding articles and then reading them.

Today for instance I 'stumbled upon' this particular article: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/297564 and read the following -

Those and other efforts remind one of the story, perhaps apocryphal, of Catherine the Great's request of the German mathematical giant Leonhard Euler to confront atheist French philosopher Denis Diderot with evidence of God. The visiting Euler agreed, and at the meeting, strode forward to proclaim to the innumerate Frenchman: "Sir, (a+bn)/n = x, hence God exists. Reply!"

Diderot was said to be so dumbfounded, he immediately returned to Paris.

Even if we tend to ignore the involvement of God in this particular instace, isn't it true that we all tend to use jargons of our specialization to convince/confuse people who have little knowledge of what we are saying or even tend to have been muted by the jargons of someone else in an area where we seldom tend to go.

If only there was a simpler way. Unfortunately what seems so simple and obvious to us may be quite bewildering to someone else. Give some thought.

Happy weekend.