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[@Thoughty2]

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[@jpplayssometimes]

HIIIIIIIIIII

[@mayukhpurkayastha2649]

Sir my imagination i m invented power acceptor large yantra and Tree sensorable🌱🌳🌳Ai algorithm or tree sensor computer system. India India India

[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

Enter before November 30th, December 1st, December 8th, and every other date after tomorrow!

[@elainehinton30]

The weirdest cult in history. Now goes to...Trump and his followers.

[@juntaegohaiki6729]

Math is my favorite lesson

[@ComicalRealm]

"Every triangle is a love triangle; when you love triangles" - Pythagoras

[@zakaryhoage5770]

Ahahahaha this is comedy gold💯😂👌🏼

[@boogiethekingtm5413]

Fractal Energy!!!! I’m in loveee!!! 😌😍😍

[@dallasoch4040]

@@kel8923 yikes

[@akramgimmini8165]

Yes

[@r.t.hannah9575]

Quality Comment.

[@andreasbaus1554]

"We don't really know how Pythagoras escaped the Babylonians" Well, duh: he used weapons of math destruction.

[@steveclem7873]

Pi2P?!

[@tzebet8707]

- Mike Tyson

[@mikicerise6250]

We have a winner!

[@chriscullen6949]

good one

[@druid139]

That's just YOUR angle! Fake HypoteNews!!!

[@michellen5028]

honestly - if teachers actually taught this before teaching the actual theorm, I would have been more interested in it.

[@shayois]

FRR

[@prashantsaini2287]

damn right

[@dsxa918]

If school worked with all the subjects in a sort of narrative structure, I'd have definitely done better, myself

[@ne0nmancer]

We all like to think that, but in reality we would probably have done what we actually did in school, not give a fuck

[@jeremyamerson9407]

Teachers are trained to suck the life out of kids.

[@nerdtronix3653]

"They also had to practice abstinence which, let's be honest, probably wasn't the biggest challenge of members of a mates cult!" Slayed me!

[@davidtobin8782]

Best part of the video. Really got me too

[@guitarjunkie2065]

Uh... That's just a typo, right? You do know that what he said was "maths cult", right? (Btw - If you don't already know this then maybe it threw you - referring to the subject as "maths" is one of those annoying ways that the Brits f up their own language. My guess is that they hear it as being consistent with the whole word, "mathematics", which no one would leave the ess off of, right?)

[@nerdtronix3653]

@@guitarjunkie2065 😆 It auto-corrected "maths" to "mates" because even my phone knows that arithmetic shouldn't be referred to as "maths"!

[@JWaj290]

"A strange cult which worshiped numbers" Isn't that just mathematicians?

[@gaminghunt5837]

Indeed

[@spacesoldier68]

Positive (+ )

[@KingRumar]

First thought that came to mind was numerology.

[@godless-clump-of-cells]

Not even remotely.

[@rickdeckard1075]

pythagoreans didnt "worship numbers" you utter morons

[@HellsJerome87]

Never mess with the Pythagoreans, or your days are numbered.

[@azuregriffin1116]

I chuckled. Well done

[@steveclem7873]

DiaxJimOrizenz!

[@34_noelmonteiro61]

Underrated

[@Surfermario]

YEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!😎

[@kaleb5926]

Thoughty just admitted to being a pythagorean. Better watch what you say around him!

[@AliciaGuitar]

We had to study him in depth in Music University. His discoveries about math in music would have encouraged me to join his cult 😏

[@ganmerlad]

You said his students (cultists) were judged on everything from their ability to think and concentrate to the way they laughed...I'm guessing the people he made into 'Listeners' were the ones he couldn't stand talking to or looking at. He didn't make them take a vow of silence and make them stay behind a curtain because it was more mysterious...he just didn't like them.

[@ZENMASTERME1]

Q;What did the triangle say to the circle? A;“You’re pointless.”

[@Phoenixash-delfuego]

Q: What did the circle say back to the triangle? A: "and you're still obtuse I see."

[@killmeplease5389]

I still don't know if you should go to heaven or burn in hell for this comment :)

[@christophersanders3252]

The circle replied I have infinite points.

[@user-df9rb6kk9b]

😑

[@a_real_jive_turkey7772]

You're such a square 😆

[@kenanime5839]

"Here's what they didn't tell you in math class." "Fasthosts in a UK based web hosting company...."

[@Etobio]

He’s technically not wrong

[@texasbuzzard4970]

Pretty bad taste tbh

[@Fuzzmo147]

Really? I had no idea😬😆😂

[@realdoinky]

@@Etobio true

[@SD-tj5dh]

He's a liar. I left school in 2003 and throughout my school life maths was all about fasthosts.

[@shenanitims4006]

“Here’s what they didn’t tell you in math class… Fasthost is a UK-based…” Absolutely right, Thoughty2, my math teacher never started shilling crap in the middle of a lesson.

[@theytboxingvoice]

That's what you think

[@vangelisrodis2977]

"A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence." - Pythagoras

[@guitarjunkie2065]

"It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you a fool, than to open it and prove them right."

[@ktvx.94]

Pythagoreans: "all is number" The computer running the simulation: "you're not wrong"

[@aftersexhighfives]

Once you say it's all a simulation the simulation begins to mess with you. Weirdest thing.

[@aftersexhighfives]

Example: driving to the in laws 4 hours away. Mention to my husband how it's weird we haven't seen any big rigs 3 hours into the trip. Usually it's just us and the big rigs. I prefer driving at night. But I was super lonely. It was the first week of June. So no holiday or anything. 5 minutes later we've got three behind us and two coming from the other direction. Like it forgot to load them until I mentioned it. I'm sure there's a logical psychological answer. But calling it all a simulation is more funny. But the earth is still round.

[@mcdingus5081]

@@aftersexhighfives The Earth is just a bunch of numbers- thus it truly is not round. But it's also not flat or whatever those creeps think it is.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

Just like the unscientific and dangerous high age of consent laws. When most nations are under 18 for a reason, since puberty is puberty and life expectancy has gone up. The brain fully develops at 25, not at 18. And age of consent is just very new and very flawed. And actual p*do, which is attraction to prepubescent beings, is a medical condition, not an excuse to hurt people with barbaric systems. #GoVegan 💚

[@gram.]

Pifaguriss*

[@hereLiesThisTroper]

Basically, Pythagoras invented the first Pyramiding scheme.

[@KamiRecca]

A Multi-Level Marketing business is just a Pyramid Sheme without the right angle. Oho Math-jokes.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

@@KamiRecca hehe

[@decker528]

@@KamiRecca im stealing that

[@mingfanzhang4600]

Amen

[@KamiRecca]

@@decker528 steal away, good thief

[@nyarparablepsis872]

THANK YOU!!!! As an Assyriologist who would like to spread the fact that contrary to common opinion, thinking and related things were not invented by the Greeks, you cannot imagine how much I appreciate you pointing out that the 'Pythagorean' a2 + b2 = c2 was in use for an awful long time in Babylonia before he "invented" it. I would love it if you did an episode of Herodot, the man who wrote fantastical (as in, fantasy as a genre) travelogues and convinced the world he was a historian.

[@guitarjunkie2065]

... Or as he is known in the Western world, Herodotus.

[@nuclearnadal4601]

"When we eject our various bodily fluids, we lose part of our souls". Oh boy, now I know why I'm soulless.

[@thepoondoctor6637]

i’ve heard him say words differently but “ya-hoo” took me out LMAO

[@davidcruz8667]

Right! What the hell was that?

[@PaolaEP]

I knew I wasn’t the only one haha it sounded funny

[@skeletonjones1]

I caught that haha

[@bexmw]

Immediately searched for this comment

[@missxspencer1538]

Y'hoo

[@joshuaharrell13]

"Pythagoras; what is the meaning of life?" "Ten."

[@2to253]

Life has got ten different meanings.

[@2to253]

@@bobbytookalook This question is: "-Why?"

[@joshuaharrell13]

@@2to253 The answer is: "Ten."

[@Hy-Brasil]

Pretty sure it's 42

[@dniilii]

69*

[@KitsuyuutsuR]

I always get a good laugh from your videos! 😂 Loved the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and Silence Of The Lambs references, I was cracking up! 🤣 You’re the only person I know who can make the weirdness of history fun and entertaining. Thanks! 😊

[@samscam951]

Somehow it frightens me: Today, if you simulate a virtual reality, everything in it is, when reduced to computer coding, if broken down made of nothing but numerical combination consisting of the numbers 1 and 0 - both combined in the number 10. Maybe Pythagoras and his buddies were the first to believe in a simulated reality (in a few years, maybe decades, virtual simulations could be so realistic that they would be so undistiguishible from reality that Pythagoras wouldn‘t have been all that wrong - considering people like to sit A LOT in digital media) I guess Pythagoras and the boys were on to something. ;D

[@RJLbwb]

"They also had to take a vow of celibacy, which, let's be honest, wasn't that much of a challenge to members of a math cult"

[@mcdingus5081]

I guess that begs the question- what was the Math cult's weakness... Multiplication. Sorry, I am a dad.

[@alantyler8842]

@@mcdingus5081 Brill!

[@spartan2867]

Drugs actually. They cant get enough of my Product

[@stevethea5250]

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[@luca553]

@@mcdingus5081 no don't apologize that was hilarious

[@notdavidbender]

Pathagoreans had a theory about a counter Earth on the other side of the sun. Being exactly opposite of the Earth and blocked by the sun, we never saw it. I always found the idea intriguing.

[@rossclutterbuck1060]

@@jesuslovesyou2616 if Jesus died for my sins, then my sins are already atoned for and therefore I have nothing to repent. So fuck off and stop pestering people, yeah?

[@almightyphil4298]

@@crabguy34 the pope is obviously tripping then

[@fsaldan1]

There were reasons for disbelieving this for a long time. After we had the Mars Rover and other devices taking pictures of the Mars sky the issue should have been settled. Still, I have met people who still believe this absurdity.

[@NPPP8564]

The Pythagorean’s Cult, was no more Weird than the Monasteries from that time, but it still doesn’t come close to being as WEIRD, as becoming a Scientologist, with the Church of Scientology !!!

[@florenmage]

This cult is a perfect example of how dangerous a high amount of knowledge can be if you have very little wisdom to go along with it.

[@stefos6431]

Have you done actual research into this so called Pythagoras cult? It actually wasn't a cult..it was an initiatory school

[@Unmannedair]

@@stefos6431 that may well be, but it still meets the definition of a cult. There's a lot of cults nowadays, we have Greta thunberg's group, we have Stephen Hawking's group, Hunter Biden's group, and Xi Jinpings group. And those are just the popular ones.

[@stefos6431]

@@Unmannedair No..the spin this KZbinr gives it might but if you research it..it's not

[@GraceAlone614]

Well put.

[@soulfullyone1233]

Which is better, having too much knowledge but little wisdom, or having too much Wisdom but little knowledge?

[@dinielpedro3857]

So his cult is basically the early version of University 🤷‍♂️

[@stevenwilliams1805]

Yep

[@greatbingus]

yep huge debt, weirdness everywhere, little bit of math, some weird guy behind a veil telling you, you can't pee where you want and where you can pee you don't want...

[@beautyindarkness8146]

Just with less sex

[@greatbingus]

@@beautyindarkness8146 calm down

[@Sebastian_C_Hellawell]

This sounds like a decathlon frat

[@Swissswoosher]

“First rule of Maths Club, Don’t talk about Maths Club”

[@Ted-Stryker]

classic lazy low iq utube comment. I mean seriously you should be embarrassed.

[@Swissswoosher]

@@Ted-Stryker how can you get mad at movie-referencing KZbin comment lol.

[@texx07]

@@Ted-Stryker sayin someone has a low iq then sayin utube and not youtube...derp... Plus you must not have actually watched the video has 'thoughty2' said the line himself...double derp

[@Ted-Stryker]

@@texx07 Obviously a leftist to actually go after my choosing to use utube. Lol you people are so desperate.

[@texx07]

@@Ted-Stryker im def NOT a leftist

[@lauralaladarling3775]

Hello, Thank you for your witty and informative videos. I am hooked by your presentation, intelect and personality. Love your channel. Xx

[@thebesttastingbleach6915]

I'm American, living in South Africa, hearing wildly different accents everyday, and it still took me 3 rewinds to hear "Thoughty2" instead of "42".

[@rzilla4703]

I don’t know why you all think Pythagoras is so weird, he seems like a perfectly normal modern day math teacher to me 😂

[@Planck944]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@helencobler]

Yep they definitely didn't tell me about fasthosts in math class

[@jamesgrover2005]

I'm so glad they taught me about Pythagoras theory instead of how to do my taxes, it comes in so handy during Pythagoras season.

[@jamesgrover2005]

@Charlie Bamford it was a joke😉 however the serious point could stand, I'm self employed and regularly make quotes for decking jobs or painting jobs, I've never since 1990 needed to use Pythagoras's theory, I do do my taxes every year and VAT 4x per year. The closest that I've been would be when needing to produce boarders at exactly 90° to a property, for which there's a simple trick (which of course wasn't taught at school because that would be too useful).

[@elwoodzmake]

@@jamesgrover2005 I think in Pythagoras theorem every day in traffic, lol. Figuring shorter routes and what not. People do things differently... doesn't mean what you personally don't use is useless. I probably don't use a lot of things you consider important as well...

[@shsk3118]

I love this video so much It's so funny and interesting!! I have been watching your videos for so many years and cannot believe I had just stumbled upon this one! I have been obsessed with Pythagoras & the Pythagoreans for years & even have a poster of him on my wall, but yet you still managed to enlighten me on fun facts and speculations I was unaware of. Thank you for what you do!!

[@ladycat4485]

Your videos are great. I learn a lot and I appreciate how you always tell it with a wry sense of humor! One of my favorite channels! 🙂✌️

[@ScienceHelpUs]

Hippasus: Now you're just being obtuse. Pythagoras: 🤔

[@maiaallman4635]

Excellent!

[@binarywolfcia85]

3:00 Confirmed, my US math class taught me nothing about Fasthosts

[@robowenmikels]

It's so refreshing to see it typed as "math". We don't say "maths" in the US, we say Math and Mathematics and you're right...I didn't learn jack about Fasthosts in the math class that I attended, 1 time in 4 years.

[@darlenefraser3022]

😂 Life, the universe and everything with 42 in the background was a BRILLIANT easter egg

[@FilosophicalPharmer]

“There are only 10 types of people in this world; those who understand binary and those who don’t” - Pythagoras

[@joechappell5829]

I find your speech patterns fascinating. Some expressions sound like the Queens butler, others, like a dodgy builder.

[@kieronparr3403]

It's called an affectation

[@Davey-Boyd]

@@kieronparr3403 Yeah, he should see a doctor about that.

[@emptyvessel3054]

Strangely his fashion sense is a perfect fusion of these two things

[@jackdurden466]

@@kieronparr3403 So, his Affection for the subject makes him pronounce the words differently?

[@kieronparr3403]

@@jackdurden466 no that's rhotacism

[@40g33k]

Well this episode went off on a tangent.

[@mechasentai]

Badumtiss!

[@40g33k]

The likes are on 42 now, let's keep it there!!

[@Pope_Protein]

@@40g33k a tangent has nothing to do with pythagoras

[@dend5151]

@@Pope_Protein nice bait

[@chipsounder4633]

@@Pope_Protein dont get triggernometry involed

[@lareinabrown]

“Being a demigod” is a strange way to say that your dad left

[@kenzyfranco8745]

i’ve been with thoughty2 since before he had a mustache and a significant amount of popularity, and he’s still one of youtube’s greatest characters🥺❤️

[@derpderpus6075]

"Greeks had some really strange practices..." *Romans:* Hold my wine cup, it's time for Lupercalia.

[@octogonSmuggler]

Then there was the weirdos who were the Norse...

[@gingapoop1059]

lupercalia was cool

[@goodnightmyprince6734]

Mayans would like a word

[@yashrajsingh305]

Yes, they didn’t teach fast hosts in my mathematics class and I am proud of it

[@toskar]

Oh! I made a similar joke... I knew I should have read the comments first... :'(

[@yashrajsingh305]

@@toskar no problem dude

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

A young mathematician called Paul, invented the opthagonal ball, and the square of its weight times his bollocks times eight gave precisely the root of fuck all. Sorry mum! I did it for a bet!

[@Sir_Billions]

@@yashrajsingh305do yourself a favor and change your profile picture

[@iWerli]

@@Sir_Billions where do i know his pic from?

[@aboxninja]

i am a greek and i really enjoyed this video, i knew most of the stuff but learnt something new. also a tip everything in greek that ends in -oi is pronounced e not i so its mathimatike like the i e not the e e

[@francispitts9440]

Wow you weren’t kidding about the weirdest cult. How you kept a straight face through this video is amazing.

[@isaacm4268]

"Step Inside the Weirdest Cult in History" 465K People: Sure, why not?

[@iansaxby9264]

I remember the Jonestown suicides very vividly. The pastor at our church happened to be named Jones, and he's been known as Jim ever since.

[@steveclem7873]

EeezAwlRitENgitaa?

[@BMoney8600]

I watched the documentary on it in high school. Good times.

[@tierneylogan5943]

Most of them were not suicides. Jones was a product of the see eye aye.

[@feelinfroggy1733]

@@tierneylogan5943 wym?

[@justaweirdowithglasses7540]

@@tierneylogan5943 woah wut

[@maxdexter2690]

I love these videos they are really funny entertaining and interesting. Your delivery is pretty damn good so kudos to you.

[@lexigrimhaive]

One of my all time favorite Thoughty2 videos.

[@voiceofstem]

2:05 Actually, although the ancient Mesopotamians/ Babylonions already were aware of the theorem, the Pythagoreans delivered the oldest known proof to the theorem. That's why his name is on the theorem.

[@Dule1987ne]

If this is your full name, maybe your closer friends call you just y'. I assume you can gather all your company to sit at the one TABLE :-D

[@ozymandiaspbs]

The ancient Chinese (circa 2000 BC) used the equation WAY before the Babylonians.

[@voiceofstem]

@@ozymandiaspbs Ancient Babylon was also circa 2000 BC.

[@alternateperson6600]

The Greeks were masters of the elenctic method; nothing was beyond dispute for the Greeks, not even the existence of the Gods. Greek intellectual culture had a high regard for rhetoric and rigour, and it is this climate, absent in other mathematically advanced parts of the world like India, China and Egypt, which lead to the development of mathematical proofs. When Pythagoras heard of the theorem, either he or (one of) his followers devised the first proof for it, hence the name.

[@khalilchatzorzano9368]

@Safwaan It comes from Latin. Our English language (as well as most of the languages that use the Latin/Roman Alphabet) evolved from Latin.

[@KamiRecca]

"You know your city is poorly defenden when its flattened by the math's club." *Awkwardly looks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki*

[@AceMoonshot]

ok. ok. ok. that made me actually lol. tyvm

[@rattled4806]

B R U H

[@KamiRecca]

@@AceMoonshot Glad i could entertain you, mate ^^

[@theweimarrepublic9719]

Lol, good one

[@elijah194]

@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked Lil Uzi Vert is 5 foot 4 inches tall. He claims his money is tall enough to add one more foot and two inches to his stature. The thickness of a $100 bill is .0043 inches, so it would take 3,256 $100 bills, which totals to $325,600, for Uzi to reach 6 foot 6 inches. This estimate only applies if Uzi manages to stand upright on only one stack of bills, which have a width of 2.61 inches and a length of 6.14 inches. If, however, Uzi used two stacks strapped to the bottom of each shoe, he’d need double the amount-$651,200. His net worth is estimated to be around $17 million.

[@maryannemoll]

Thoughty2 is setting a REALLY high new bar for history teachers all over the world. Yes, they all should wear suspenders now, and have majestic moustaches.

[@RadarTheNerd]

I 100% agree with this

[@GlassSurfing]

Love your channel and all the funny ways you pronounce certain words... Yahoo being one of many 😂

[@stephenwebb1456]

the obligatory "Pythagoras was a Mathemagician" - he's one of my favorites.

[@macsnafu]

What the knowledge of dodecahedrons can do in the wrong hands: fantasy role-playing games!

[@daddyzgirlz22]

That’s exactly where my brain went lol

[@lindabell6293]

Ask the desolation of Mars what a Merkaba can do.

[@tjhorrigan5202]

Thanks from a uneds

[@Lichnaya_pravda]

It's also looks similair to layout of implosion charges detonators of nucleat bomb.

[@secretbaguette]

NOOOOOOOO

[@chrislong3938]

- You've heard of Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes? - Yes - Morons! Thank you, Princess Bride!

[@DelinkventeN]

I feel a burning frustration when understanding what Pythagoras theorem is in a matter of seconds ten years after college, where I just learned the name.

[@sajidmahmood7116]

“Without further ado, let’s get on with the video” *PROCEEDS TO SHOW SPONSOR* Edit: sponsor starts at 2:45 and finishes at 4:07, your welcome :)

[@Wetfootnotouchy]

Yes

[@numalesoybea1348]

Man's gotta pay the bills

[@PepsiFlyz]

@@numalesoybea1348 hes not complaining about the actual sponsor, hes just pointing something out

[@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316]

Your comment is pretty near the top, you should edit it and include the time stamp that skips the advertisement

[@mingfanzhang4600]

Amen

[@jaelwell7459]

42 is just the best! You can't beat his way of storytelling with incredibly entertaining and accurate information.

[@LINKINPARK262]

I can't believe that no one gave your comment the praise it rightly deserves for its charming display of wisdom and subtle wit. I thought it was important for you to know that there's at least one person out here that recognizes your genius. Aaah, well...they say that no prophet is accepted in their hometown and that is surely the case here.

[@edchampagne1806]

@@LINKINPARK262 you guys sound like a cult just saying

[@thembadube9589]

And a great sense of humour, to boot.

[@quinehigarden4908]

13:34 Tatractus is amazing,it's perfect. I also obsess with this figure until watch this video.very Thankful to uploader. the one invent this graphic is intelligent. reason, because Tatractus can involve all the basic issues inside this figure, it's simple but All-inclusive. it has 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, all the elements of successfulness in it.

[@johnelliott9084]

In order to add yourself to this cult, you must subtract yourself from your worldly possessions. Once you join, the cult's members have multiplied, though they are divided from their friends and family.

[@jonathanpasch6604]

Modern cultists : 2+2=5

[@PUR3KKarma]

That’s not a real 5

[@Missykinzz]

😂

[@mikebar42]

That's modern calculus... Lol... Cults be like 1+1= a window... Draw it out and u will see I'm correct

[@dhoom-z7221]

Checks out for me

[@zachsimmerock3420]

Well of course, Johnathan, Because that's a accurate answer

[@kwali5467]

Man I remember when thoughty2 wore suits and was the most underrated fact KZbinr of all time

[@superspacefungi7720]

Same g

[@JosephSneep]

Thought2

[@tonyneufeld6860]

I miss the suit

[@Human0245]

Now he's a lumberjack and that's OK!

[@piemanlad]

And he didn't have a caterpillar on his lip

[@thebaps1143]

Omg. I needed this today!!😣. Really made my morning. The crazy Greek math cult that worshipped fava beans. Thank you thank you 🙏

[@philfuchs6062]

I appreciate the fact that you put 42 in this KZbin episode. I have been waiting for this every time you mention your channel name!

[@Liboo52]

Hot take: Pythagoras made up his own life story, he hung out in Egypt for a while but didn’t do anything special. Once it looked like Persia was going to invade he just went back to his home town, never met the magi, and spun a convincing yarn about becoming a math wizard to become a cult leader. I don’t know a lot about math history, but I know cult leader bs when I hear it

[@ChristAliveForevermore]

I think he learned something from the Mystery Schools of Egypt and Babylon, mainly because he had a surface-level understanding of aspects of sun worship (which formed the foundation of the Mystery Religion), i.e. not peeing in the direction of the sun. He probably got kicked out of the Babylonian school by the Magi when they realized he was a huckster who would sell their secrets to the highest bidder, or something of the sort. Certainly his weird quirks were unfounded by critical thinking and if the practices of his cult represented some higher level symbolism, they were unique to only his cult (Egypt and Babylon shared many similar practices since Egypt supposedly derived its Mysteries from the Babylonians). In essence, Pythagoras was the Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism) of the ancient world.

[@vanessachiu8487]

@@ChristAliveForevermore great comment!

[@armageddon7376]

One thing about cults I will never get... how do people even think that giving all they have is beneficial to anything? How weak minded do you have to be for someone to be able to control you like that. It's rather sad...

[@dm_ex_machina3395]

@@armageddon7376 because we all grow up in societies with taxes, employers, and landlords...we're giving away everything we work for from the day we're born to the day we die. Cults are attractive because the transaction seems to be more fair or equitable by the initiate's standards at the time. It offers the idea that all the stuff you're working for returns something into your life which is something most of society's options don't actually do. People get tired of being robbed by "legitimate" systems while feeling isolated and unappreciated. This is how cults work. It's not crazy. It's human. You are already part of several cults whether you want to admit it or not.

[@greggremlin]

Ya well all cults are bs dude so what exactly is your special um ability here?

[@JustChillingOnTattoine]

Crazy we associate a fundamental theorem with this guy he didn't even invent, instead of seeing him for the godfather of snake oil salesmen he truly was. History is truly something else.

[@NoddinOff.]

It’s actually hard to pinpoint whether he actually just rediscovered it, regardless he did do a lot for mathematics with different discoveries. He definitely wasn’t a snake oil salesmen, he was intelligent but also weird

[@user-yz6pz6vx2g]

If you believe this made up work of fiction

[@gardenguster5271]

Wrong

[@gardenguster5271]

@@NoddinOff. define weird. Humans were way weirder.

[@andrewjohnson6716]

History is full of attributing to people that which they did not create.

[@brianphury8509]

When he said we all know someone who has to set the volume on an even number I felt attacked😂

[@jonigomez7250]

That type of geometry/math was taught in the mystery schools in places like Egypt. Pythagoras was the one who made it famous because he told everybody about it.

[@Nemanjap995]

It's funny how a semi-triangle would be just another triangle.

[@steveclem7873]

ApolyBiosza!

[@BMoney8600]

You got a point

[@joshualawrence2963]

Three in fact

[@keenanlarsen1639]

I can relate to the TV volume thing, but for me, I like to do multiples of 5. 20 and 25 are my usual go-to's

[@glrbeats8402]

that visual representation of the pythogarian theorem taught me more than any highschool teacher could ever 😂

[@christinakathleen9445]

As someone who majors in physics, I can absolutely assure you that you can do amazing things with triangles. I could see worshiping them.

[@Zoronita]

I remember once reading in a maths textbook that Pythagoras was so baffled by the square root of 2 being irrational that it eventually killed him

[@siddhantpandey2000]

Me: Okay, so I have completed my homework. Let me just relax a bit. Thoughty2: *Phythagores Theorem*

[@steveclem7873]

UZikFeeeschhhhhh

[@tylerbarnard4777]

that random moment when some of the stuff you’ve been thinking about for the last few months aligns almost perfectly with pythagoreans 😳

[@michaelbowyer5222]

The first rule of Triangle Club is you do not talk about Triangle Club…well, for five years.

[@philholman8520]

I'm just a peasant. My wife gave me a mobile device. I never watch her telly's. But finding Thoughty2 has to be a blessing. Thank you for your thoughts 😊👍✌️🙏

[@enemyofvirtue]

that's lovely, phil!

[@jrxdm4991]

Very wholesome! Keep enjoying, youtube has so much information. We never have to stop learning 😊😎

[@rishikeshwagh]

Welcome to the internet!

[@philholman8520]

@@rishikeshwagh 👍 Thanks!

[@UselessJack]

"Here's what they didn't teach you in Maths class" Answer: "So, fasthosts..."

[@deathwxsh4707]

jebaited

[@sz7360]

I taught it in algebra class. they were pretty interested for a few weeks afterwards.......

[@mcdingus5081]

They also didn't teach the Brits to pronounce "math class" properly. The bastards probably count "sheeps" in their sleep as well.

[@flicka25]

yeah he had m confused there for a minute lol

[@paulwhite6626]

@@mcdingus5081 Just because Americans don't say maths and cant spell colour, flavour or aluminium, don't take it out on us Brits. Obviously the founding fathers didn't take a dictionary with them

[@PaletteBegonia]

“Weaponised Maths”. Has gotta be one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard 😂😩

[@shannonmcwatters]

Thank you for your commercial format....ideal for finding the end of the commercial 😜

[@Epoch5427]

I can't pay attention because of his magnificent moustache

[@hellveticchild3557]

same, this thing is mesmerising, put me back to the 80s watching "Magnum" with tom selleck .. oh shit...i wasted my childhood.... i dont like moustaches

[@Epoch5427]

@@hellveticchild3557 I understand you not liking moustaches, but come on, you know thoughts 2's moustache is on a whole other level

[@manbearpigwa]

@@Epoch5427 elephants crocks and gorillas inhabit those bushes

[@hellveticchild3557]

@@Epoch5427 oh yes ,he has the talent to make them even cult. he looks ike a timetraveller from the past

[@jerryboics9550]

Well, try watch some old content... He looks so damn creepy without it

[@Zephy_Sky]

I had to take a second after binge watching thoughty2, I came to the realization that after 12 years since my graduation from highschool I was spending my free time educating myself again. This might sound to you like "ya so what?" Well...I was an all D/F student who absolutely hated school. Is this what they meant when they said education is fun? Because I thoroughly enjoy learning about all of this random stuff, stuff i know i would have hated learning about in school. Maybe priorities shift with age.

[@sondraoppedisano9440]

Nah! It's Thoughty2's special attention to detail, calm voice and British accent that do it!!👍❤️

[@Zephy_Sky]

@@sondraoppedisano9440 that makes sense

[@massimookissed1023]

@@Zephy_Sky , yeah, it may have been the _way_ you were being taught at school. ie, badly, or not in a way that worked for you.

[@Foolish188]

High School teachers in America were on average C students in High School themselves. I pity the younger generation, dealing with the kid's teachers is awfully frustrating. When I was a kid many of the older teachers were obviously A students. Think I only had one C throughout elementary and high school.

[@amiera1233]

Or the school system sucks

[@greggremlin]

ThoughtyTheSecond my main man the only dude in all of the KZbin world whos tremendous mustache compliments not only his knockout facial features but that accent mate i mean thats just 1 in 7 billion

[@joecatalan]

You’re right, I didn’t learn about fasthosts in math class.

[@ComicalRealm]

The PTSD from math class is coming back

[@Fr00stee]

Ptsd from 3d calculus combined electromagnetism equations

[@boink8653]

I spent my whole life thinking I was stupid because I was just not good at math, became an accountant and then learned that I had dyscalculia.(dyslexia but with numbers)

[@samgray49]

Thankfully I was gorked during my year of geometry. A TBI saved me from that.

[@samgray49]

@@boink8653 I have that as well!

[@boink8653]

@@samgray49it just changed my life when I found out !

[@mykhailohohol8708]

this is why we keep math teachers poor and with no influence.

[@dandavis8300]

Na, we just don't like them.

[@Jiff321]

If you’re good at math you don’t teach it lol

[@cgt3704]

But they can still give you bad grades. Trust me i saw things

[@r.7530]

@@Jiff321 Pythagoras taught it🤷🏼‍♂️

[@LaurArt_UK]

I remember reading somewhere that the Chinese were also using it before Pythagoras. 'it is known as the gou-gu theorem in ancient Chinese literature. The text concerning the gou-gu theorem is written as a dialogue between a teacher Chen Zi and a student Rong Fang'

[@MsAvignon]

I haven’t screamed with laughter for years. I certainly didn’t expect to scream with laughter over a math video.

[@blazedgamingkr1438]

Back when a "man cave" was literally a cave.

[@fajaradi1223]

Which actually kinda terrible. No electricity, no running water, no air conditioner, nor heater, no internet connection, but the worst of all is... There's no porn and video games.

[@mikitz]

@@fajaradi1223 However, they obviously had tons of beer and wine. It almost cancels it all out.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

@@mikitz nah. alKILLhol is involved in over 50% of rapes, 3 million deaths a year, over 200 health issues including but not limited to cancer, heavily addicting. Not a very good hard drug. I'll stick to cannabis and some other psychedelics. Also, tea is nice.

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked did you really just, completely unpromted and out of nowhere, go full libertarian? Yikes my dude.

[@steveclem7873]

WohReprizeG4macs?

[@mbfirstamendmentaudits4722]

I love this guy, literally makes entertaining informational stuff, I never run out of interesting stuff to watch on this channel, it’s absolutely amazing, one of the brightest men on KZbin

[@dondamon4669]

I love the way you think he’s just a clever dude with all this knowledge and it just ends up in a KZbin video lol like it’s not an organised channel

[@mbfirstamendmentaudits4722]

@@dondamon4669 seriously bro

[@FuzzyLogicND]

I think my favorite phrase from the whole video is "weaponized math"

[@andrewjohnson6716]

I heard a description once of a black hole being “physicalized math”.

[@glenjennett]

I never had a favorite number. I recently realized that numbers don't mean anything but the value we give to them and every number seems to have some kind of meaning which makes all of them mean nothing.

[@physicsisawesome4205]

Physics and mathematics are the two greatest achievements of the human intellect

[@sanmhk.]

Up there with walking and language

[@dallasoch4040]

I agree

[@coldbeans4591]

What about minecraft

[@cocoduck7745]

I think discovery of cooked food, and hentai takes the crown.

[@goose9245]

i thought it was pizza

[@willmfrank]

Arran: "What's your favourite number?" Also Arran: "Heeeyyy...Forty-Two here..." Arran's viewers: "We all know that's the only correct answer."

[@CrazyBear65]

The answer is 42. What is the question?

[@willmfrank]

@@CrazyBear65 We may never know; the computer built to discover that question was demolished by the Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

[@ktlemongrass5129]

@@willmfrank I always have a towel.. but I thought 42 was the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything. -Death

[@steveclem7873]

CiLizWallRuce

[@DimitrisM17]

@Will Frank So I am not the only one that hears it..!

[@WillPhil290]

That was pretty cool! Well done!

[@triplesesh3723]

Rarely does anyone bring up the crisis in Guyana, it was cool to hear you use it as an example. as being from there myself.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Side note: Croton, where Pythagoras spent the last part of his life, was a Greek colony founded in what is now the Calabria region in southern Italy. Pythagoras died in 495 BC, about 15 years after the founding of the Roman Republic, so Croton would have fallen to the Romans soon after his death [I'm not sure of the exact date].

[@steveclem7873]

Crows,weight,they're are croutons4renchSoupszzTsar

[@Alex-xc1xl]

Soon...? 277 bc?

[@davidnichols1943]

I'm not sure of the point.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

16:20 That's a whole new level of nerd rage.

[@steveclem7873]

Plus,right,cantMugawffBlooPEtarzWinDoughzA10dedFing?!

[@jaferguson49]

I'm always so blown away by stories of those genius mathematicians of old, when there still wasn't a working city sewer system or flush-able toilets in every home. You would think evolution wouldn't put the cart before the horse.

[@guitarjunkie2065]

Actually, some of them were very accomplished engineers. Look up Archimedes - you won't be sorry. (Of course, I am in no way trying to ignore the inestimable value to society of cult leaders. Where would we be without them?)