Algebra, Elitists, Realism, and Nominalism

Just in case you were wondering where I post theological and philosophical meanderings such as I usually do not post here on my own blog, you might want to check out this lively thread over on IB Bill's IndustrialBlog. Bill, Chris, and I somehow got caught up into a rather dense discussion of algebra, elitists, anti-elitists, Plato, philosophical realism, nominalism, God, B movies, quaternions and Cayley numbers, and just how deep the rabbit hole goes... :-)