The purpose of fiction, 822-826

[braam van bruggen]

Yes, I think so - like watching the birth of stars
completes the birth, the serpent swallowing it's tail

Braam 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Scheper" <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>
To: "P-List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: The purpose of fiction, 822-826


>> Anthropic Principle
>> In its "strong" form, the principle states that
>> the sum of cumulative acts of observations
>> made by all human beings is the actual mechanism
>> by which the universe was created.
> 
> I sorta have that intuition myself.
> 
> Ez 1 is a perfect description without a good technical
> vocabulary of a 4-cylinder 16-valve overhead cam Honda
> Civic automobile engine. What, 3000 years beforehand?
> 
> My tantric meditations "intrude" into my earlier time,
> signs, like a retro-psychokinetic feedback mechanism.
> 
> If there is merely communication of information from
> later to earlier, as those two things show, then we
> have a possibility of a teleologically (from the end)
> determined plan for the universe, or our little part.
> 
> In a multi-verse model, in a later universe in which
> one survives, one can communicate backward to affect
> one's earlier actions, and in the ones in which one
> dies, there is no feedback, hence one can pick well.
> 
> The whole plan of God then, might be the culmination,
> or summarization, of all of men's choices throughout
> history, at least recorded history. (Recorded in DNA?)
> 
> When Jesus prayed, "take this cup from me," He wished
> to choose a different multi-verse, but such a future
> universe may not have been viable for the 3 apostles,
> who reacted by sleeping (death).
> 
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
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