"The point, no one monopolizes this system, successes to give friendships to the lights and impressions that this system is owned by everyone. That is to say, we succeed in creating a kind of meta-monument on the Internet." 1
Mordieux! je n'existe pas!
The next few days shall see me at the Vacuum Tube Supercomputer Centre where I have managed to secure a bit of processing time. If you do not hear from me by next Wednesday please feel free to contact the authorities.
Thank you.
Quotes in the post are taken from "Holy Madness--the shock tactics and radical teachings of crazy-wise adepts, holy fools and rascal gurus" by Georg Feuerstein, Penguin/Arkana 1990.
Some online material from the book may be found here.
"The tragedy of human existence lies in the unconscious replication of our patterns. Humor sets in when we begin to understand the absurd mechanicalness of our personality and life. When we recognize even a little of the ego's robotic nature, we rise above it. Humor is always a rising-above, a stepping beyond, a not-being-captive of our momentary condition. Spiritual practice could thus be defined as the discipline of real humor: We intuit our essential freedom and simultaneo
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"In a real sense reason and experimental knowledge are aesthetic creations."
My first encounter(if it could be called that, I am not willing to recount the details in such a public forum as this) with Jeffie occured while I was staying at the Witchta Inn(North) while attending last year's Midwest Geometry Conference. At the time, I was struck by both her beauty and kindness. It was only much later that I discovered that she was not
The replacement parts have arrived for my baby. Looks like I shall be getting my hands dirty this weekend.
Stellation is accompanied by the addiction of a corner--imposing a shallow pyramid on a formerly flat face. How many sides the pyramid will have is determined by the number of edges of the face to be stellated. Figure 4-6 compares a stellated cube and a stellated octahedron. Notice that the cube's superimposed pyramids have four sides, while the octahedron's have three. Degenerate stellation occurs when the attitude of th
First seen on the front page a few hours ago:
The process of the decline of civilizations is one of enormous complexity and its roots lie deeply buried in the most profound obscurity. Of course one can find multiple after the fact explanations and rationalizations without ever successfully dispelling the feeling that there is an irrational element at work in the very heart of the process. From the great masses to the great decision makers, the actors in a very well-defined civilization, even if they become more or
Depicted herein is an example of
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. -- Albert Einstein
