<div dir="ltr">From the wikipedia article on Zero. 0 <div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">Records show that the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">ancient Greeks</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px"> seemed unsure about the status of zero as a number. They asked themselves, "How can nothing </span><i style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">be</i><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px"> something?", leading to philosophical and, by the Medieval period, religious arguments about the nature and existence of zero and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum" title="Vacuum" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">vacuum</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes" title="Zeno's paradoxes" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">paradoxes</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px"> of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_of_Elea" title="Zeno of Elea" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">Zeno of Elea</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px"> depend in large part on the uncertain interpretation of zero.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px">We know that such talk will come up later in GR. The Vacuum by name. Nothing as concept. Beyond "nothingness' </span><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px">throughout and esp near the end @p700+</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Mark Kohut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">i think Right On, brilliant. </div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lorentzen@hotmail.de" target="_blank">lorentzen@hotmail.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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there is this pe-orgasmic pause: </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CS">“There is no way out. Lie and wait, lie still and
be quiet. Screaming holds across the sky. When it comes,
will it come in darkness, or will it bring its own light?
Will the light come before ar after?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CS">But it is already light," GR 5.</span></p>
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exactly, <i>is</i></span><span lang="CS"> the zero? </span></p>
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Could it be that the zero refers to behaviorism? Pavlovian thought
is via Pointsman very present in this first part of the novel. In
this context, - please correct me if I'm wrong! - the one (1) refers
to the successful conditioning, manifest in a concrete behavior. The
zero (0) refers to the state where the conditioning is extinguished
and the behavior is not shown by the test subject anymore. The
formulation "beyond the zero" then, perhaps, indicates a new phase
in human history where the thanatoid forces of society start,
metaphorically speaking, to go beneath our skin. Where science
becomes "big science" (and data "big data"), and even political mass
murder, so very common to history, enters a qualitatively new level
with the Holocaust, as well as with Hiroshima. Sentences like "It is
too late", or "It has happened before, but there is nothing to
compare it to now", would fit such a reading. What do you think?<span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CS">“Astrologically the beginning of the next aeon,
according to the starting-point you select, falls between
A.D. 2000 and<span>Â </span>2200.
Starting from the star “0“ and assuming a Platonic month of
2,145 years, one would arrive at A.D. 2154 for the beginning
of the Aquarian Age, and at A.D. 1997 if you start from star
“a 113.“ The latter date agrees with the longitude of the
stars in Ptolemy’s Almagest“ CGJ, Aion, 1959, 94n.</span></p>
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