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Whats so important about the pythagorean theorem you ask? It basically helps us  find the missing side of the certain triangle which really helped me when I was doing geometry, but for the record algebra is way more fun than geometry. So how does this connect to my History? well in one of my lessons during

"The Mystery of History"

I came across a lesson 

called "Pythagoras 

and the temple of 

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     Pythagoras from Greece lived in an island called Samos. Not much of Pythagoras' life is known because none of his original writings still exist. What we do know about this man is a mix of FACT and LEGEND.  He was a matematician who helped people understand odd, even, and prime numbers. He was also a really good astronomer, and one of the earliest people to belive the earth was round and that it revolved around the sun. Basically this dude was way ahead of his time.

 

        I'd say his greatest discovery was one that carries his name, the "Pythagorean Theorem" which I gave a short briefing of in the start. He was a Philosopher which in greek meant "LOVER OF WISDOM", which was obviously true. Since he was a mathematician he believed that there were mystical numbers behind everything.

 

        He was very intersted in religion and afterlife and believed as the hindu did that living beings died and were born again and again, and that's why he moved to Egypt to study Astronomy, Geometry, and Egyptian Mysticism for 684,288,000  seconds (22 years).  Then he went back to Samos and started his own school to teach his mystical theories, but unfortunately his theories weren't accepted so he moved to Croton Italy(probably the origin for salad croutons) to start another school there.

 

 The school flourished, and his theories and  his teachings overflowed to "Meeting Houses" for men and women, but outsiders were suspicious of his society because they had cult-like tendencies. Worshiping stuff, forcing belief, secrecy, secret handshakes, the whole package.  Then he died a lonely man somwhere in Italy.

 

  Another philosopher of the same time-

line all the way in China was a man named 

CONFUCIUS.  Born on 551 B.C. and the 

youngest of 11 children, Confucius had a 

really sad life judging by the fact that 

he was raised in a poor family and that his 

father died in such an early age. Confucius 

worked really hard in school to gain sufficient

knowledge, and by the age 21 he formulated a number of ideas of what 

might make life better in China. Since at this time cruelty, torture, and mis-

treatment were a normal thing in China. One of Confucius' ideas were that everyone should treat each other kindly, with dignity and respect. He especially thought that the elderly and people older than us should be treated with respect as had once been a tradition in China. Basically he was a really smart man but his philosophies were only based on what he thought were right. Maybe some of his philosophies agreed with biblical perspective but still a good number of his ideas weren't biblically justifiable. A few decades later Confucius like Pythagoras died a lonely man, very little remembered. 

 

Of all the things I've learned in My daily devos, Bible reading, Character subjects, it is that we as humans can not do this alone. If we stray from the Lord and if we don't follow His almighty design about how we should live our lives, we're basically leading ourselves into destruction.  "The fear of the LORD is the Foundation of knowlege, but fools despise wisdom and knowledge " (Proverbs 1:7 ).