BtZ: Some more banana molecule stuff

[ish mailian]

I guess I shouldn't say Monte, since his readings are not any
different from a common enough reading that has developed and evolved,
one we are all familiar with,  from the Pyndustry.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:14 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ish,
>
> Monte, like you, is riffing, having fun playing with possibilities. He,
> unlike you, isn't making pronouncements against other's possibilities.
> "Wrong" is a concept that closes doors. Its use is harsh, and mostly
> unwelcome in friendly circles.
>
> But if you need to make the charge, please be specific, and have an
> argument, not just a judgement.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> GR is critical of texts that, like the rocket or the cross are carried
>> about as relics, as fetish, as scraps of the word of god or science or
>> nature. If you fell into that honey pot one don't blame the book.
>>
>> But Monte is simply wrong too. It ain't as simple as chemistry or any
>> formula or system you can use your slide rule to calculate. It's a
>> song you can hear or not. Those that can't can't.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:42 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > thanks, Monte. I do find your posts very informative. my question is a
>> > broad
>> > one. Based on what we know about GR and what you've described below, one
>> > may
>> > argue that GR is not a book one holds dear or looks for solace in our
>> > advanced years--at least that's what Ive been pondering lately. Without
>> > taking anything away from how transformative the book was for this
>> > reader in
>> > my early years, I can't help but feel an ever increasing distance from
>> > it as
>> > the years get shorter and one begins to see death as a tangible thing.
>> > I believe we find the tools we need to get through life as sanely and
>> > humanely as we can when we need them and then move one
>> > what says you?
>> >
>> > rich
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I've sought but not found coherence and consistency in how GR's
>> >> symbolic
>> >> geology, biochemistry, etc.  link life, death, and various layers of
>> >> the
>> >> earth. That scumbled bananery topsoil, the soil in which a Herero woman
>> >> is
>> >> ritually embedded, the hot radioactive mud at Bad Karma, and the deep
>> >> strata
>> >> of metals and hydrocarbons all have different symbolic freight, and
>> >> each
>> >> bears a different relation to natural life and assorted unnatural
>> >> analogues
>> >> of life. Likewise, flight gets a few good vibes, but its extension
>> >> intso
>> >> pace travel is clearly nixed and __nicht_ed as a route to Good
>> >> Transcendence.
>> >>
>> >> Sometimes I think Pynchon never got the memo about the fruitful,
>> >> nourishing, ever-rebirthing Earth Mother and the wise,
>> >> justice-dispensing
>> >> Sky Father -- or even the one about the brawny dumb earth god and
>> >> serene
>> >> Queen Selene. He's just a suspicious cuss all around.
>> >>
>> >
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