RE: Church in Need: September 5 2023

Hey, I can see them!!! Lovely shots! I’m crazy about old world architecture :)

I’ve actually been wanting to ditch the imperial system and better familiarize myself with the metric system; It just makes so much more sense. It’s tough though, mostly because when you’ve spent your whole adult life learning to be able to accurately gauge the difference between 1/32”, 1/16”, 1/8” etc, and memorizing the decimal equivalents (ie 1/8” = 0.125”), you feel some internal resistance to changing because you know that the metric system handles values and interdivisibility with such perfection that the crazy old fraction way of doing things really is unnecessary…and is sucks to let go of something you worked so hard for, and to feel like you’re starting over. In my mind, when I think 45mm, rather than picturing 45mm, I remember that 45mm is approximately 1.75”, and then I can picture it…which is crazy but my brain thinks in imperial units so deeply it’s been a real challenge to overcome. …then again, if you’re from Europe, you probably speak at least two languages so you’ve already had to overcome the same challenge on a far greater scale! LOL - that got awfully long! 🤣

EDIT: Before someone else calls me on it, I am aware that 45mm is more accurately converted to 1.77…”. But when i consider that, in my slow mind, I have to visualize 1.75” + 0.1625” (a sixteenth) because incan picture the two and add then visually, but i cant just outright visualize 1.77”…but if im trying to be accurate to that degree I will often use measuring tools. Anyway, thats simething that would also be easier if i just stick eith trying to think in metric. I’m sold!