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[Mark Kohut]

i think Right On, brilliant.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

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> On 15.03.2016 09:39, Ian Livingston wrote:
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> Then there is this pe-orgasmic pause:
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> “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?
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> But it is already light," GR 5.
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> Are we beyond the zero at this point? What, exactly, *is* the zero?
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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?
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> “Astrologically the beginning of the next aeon, according to the
> starting-point you select, falls between A.D. 2000 and  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.
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