On the contrary, someone who's seen the inner circles of certain churches and dealt with Christians who are about as high-level as Christians can get in society.
They'll take everything from you in the name of the "greater good" because "that lifestyle isn't proper", and then buy you a few burritos and invite you to church next weekend. Quite literally.
I'm not a fan.
There are some Christians, specific ones, I hate with an absolute passion.
Well, I don't know what "complex variables" are other than variables that are complex, or that they needed their own book, and that's the only reason why it's not on my list, and I've actually already got several books on it, looks like.
At any rate, if I run into a subject that I'm not yet familiar with, I probably already have several introductory courses already... I love the internet!
And I dunno. I'm going through some of my current math and chemistry books at extreme speed. Looking through some of the more advanced textbooks I have on acoustics, water pressure, quantum mechanics, etc., I'm sure that it'll be a learning curve, but I don't think it'll be hours per page, by any means. I can already understand what most individual equations are saying even if I don't understand what the numbers are referencing exactly.
And for every advanced physics textbook with a math orgy on ever page, there's a chemistry manual that tells you how to produce certain chemicals with a minimum of fuss. Learning everything will mean learning some grueling hard stuff, but it's not all like that.
My IQ used to be pretty high; after drug use and excessive stress, it's comparatively low, but I've some exercise programs and such that should get me functioning again. I get back to my regular imntelligence, I'm set; if I din't, then I've no business mucking about with science and physics and should just kill myself.
But I will. I will.