Take any religious mystery, any theological proposition: expressed in ordinary
terms it will read like sheer nonsense to the outsider, from the ritualistic,
symbolic eating of human flesh and blood practiced by all the Christian sects
to the outright cannibalism practiced by some savages.
-- Major Whitey Ardmore
Related:
orthogonal: [from mathematics] adj. Mutually independe well
separated; sometimes, irrelevant to. Used in a generalization of
its mathematical meaning to describe sets of primitives or
capabilities that, like a vector basis in geometry, span the
entire `capability space' of the system and are in some sense
non-overlapping or mutually independent....
orthogonal adj.
[from mathematics] Mutually independe
well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to. Used in a generalization
of its mathematical meaning to describe sets of primitives or
capabilities that, like a vector basis in geometry, span the entire
`capability space' of the system and are in some sense
non-overlapping or mutually independent....