"(Y) / (?) = 1!" vs. HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD

Algebra

"Who cares what "Y" equals,"  

mother quoted my sister as having said a long time ago.  That was a new one for me; the quote at least anyway.

Donna does bring up a time dad got so angry with her.  "That 'D' in math,"  she  would laugh as she remembers that day!  And along with her, everytime, we all also laughed.

I'm not sure what happened that day.  Not even sure both quotes refer to the same incident.  Doesn't matter.  Pretty obvious dad thought differently; you can't cancel out a question with a question.   Made sure it was a lesson she never forgot. 

Can't help but believe she must have said this to him. That the topic of this conversation was brought up by dad himself.

"CHARLES....!" 

Growing up with one brother and one sister,  me being the youngest by five and seven years respectively;  mother would call dad by his first name when one of us misbehaved.  Don't recall dad ever needing to complete those sentences.

Dad could be counted on being at one of two places, either working hard or hardly working.  Hearing his name only meant one of two things; home in his Lazy Boy, either watching T.V. or listening to it as he snores.

I believed him!  Would always wake up and say, "I was listening,"  when someone tries changing the only television in the house.
    

"Charles....! CHARLES....!CHARLES.....!  

When mother decides she has to do it, would always said your name three times first.  Although no spanking involved, don't recall dad finishing those sentences, either.

If a=b and b=c, then a=c!

Positively Transitive Property (yes)!  As we had a pretty good warning system in place, Donna had to have talked back to dad.  Don't blame dad one bit.

Although I do remember hearing David, the middle of three, as dad tore into him, still can't picture dad as the spanking kind; not when compared to the fathers of some of the kids I grew up with.

Althought he would never admit doubt about his actions after the fact, even if learning he did nothing wrong, believe dad would agree, that was a day even he wished never happened.

As David could not be faulted for what happened, I can see dad's predicament. Powerless that he failed to prevent David from harm.  The certainty that he was doing something even if it was chosing to do nothing at all.  The helplessness as head of household, the burden of everyones expectations falling on him.  No one agreeing as to where the compassion should end, and/or whether it's comes before or after the punishment begins.

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -Mark Twain

Impossible for one to believe, know for sure, a punishment dealt was appropriate, when the best hoped for is causing the least amount of pain for all; the future never being anything more than a dream.



As a day never looked back on with laughter; doesn't matter who's right, who's wrong. It's possible no one was wrong. Believe the details of that day belongs on a page of it's own.

Physics

But it's still math, and equation that has to balance out.  Whether we like it or not, an equation that's outside our control as we are the unkown variables.

Physics teaches us, for every action there is an equal and opposite action. Doesn't matter who pushed first or didn't.  All that matters is that someone or something did, and can never be certain when, where, or what form it takes  pushing back (and forth?).

You simply have to have been place in it's way.  Then, you are forever part of it till the day you die.

The equation E = mc2 indicates that energy always exhibits mass in whatever form the energy takes. Mass–energy equivalence also means that mass conservation becomes a restatement, or requirement, of the law of energy conservation, which is the first law of thermodynamics. Mass–energy equivalence does not imply that mass may be “converted” to energy, and indeed implies the opposite. Modern theory holds that neither mass nor energy may be destroyed, but only moved from one location to another.

Everything about us and surrounding us involves math in some way. Nothing can truly be understood or explain without it. No doubt about it......

math

is important!