Astrology

[David Morris]

“Nothing Ever Happened” an extreme reductionist philosophy, but, something
is always happening.  If even from the highest perspective of timelessness,
all this Nothing is very dynamic. That is why we exist.  Nothing desires to
experience Everything.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 7:16 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fate is a real question amongst some Eastern philosophies.  Some say,
> “Nothing ever happened.”  I hate that idea.  Something is always happening,
> and we are all really here. But we are not all that is. More exists beyond
> common sight.  A lot more.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:46 PM gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, Sisyphus... the eternal recurrence phenomena, is this the true way
>> of the world? Was the lama right, is it all an illusion? the samsara, or
>> whatever you call it, i don't know...we do live in a vapid age, the kind
>> where Maxine goes to her Buddhist psychologist, Buddhist by way of
>> California btw, to talk about the Brady Bunch. The illusions are powerful
>> these days, a metric called virality, that can simultaneously coexist in
>> both the digital and biological worlds, and the madman's final
>> question...did we make them or did they make us? Then there's that paranoia
>> added into the equation too, the hidden variable buried deep in the
>> equation, or the dungeon rather, like why are the days of the week named
>> after Teutonic pagan gods? A-and like, the days of the week in French are
>> named after celestial bodies, seem to anyone like one of those
>> Conspiracies, the ones that we'd choose to ignore... An ancient cult of
>> Babylon...
>>
>> Maybe, there is just the eternal Will, the Will of Schopenhauer... and
>> that once the veil of illusion is removed you see the true face of it, the
>> death cults of Kali, then the path to Nirvana awaits to the true initiate,
>> and it is only through art that it is possible to transcend to the
>> immaculate cosmic forms of Plato, or descend the stairs in final madness,
>> or to be reincarnated as an alchemist, whose suddenly discovered *Livre
>> des figures hieroglyphiques* by Flamel... the one who has finally
>> summoned the Godhead...
>>
>> Maybe one day we primates will understand the phallacy (Priapism (
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus) anyone?) fallacy of our
>> logocentrism... or the drugs will finally just wear off...
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:41 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So much fun!  Do our stars rule us?  Isn’t this a question about Fate,
>>> and/or Free Will?  This is both an individual and a collective question.
>>> Maybe also about Sisyphus.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.google.com/search?q=sisyphus&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS777US778&oq=sysi&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l3.5813j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=C_7hiDNrby23MM
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 4:10 PM Keith McMullen via Pynchon-l <
>>> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > “Oh, don’t I remember those, Lens-brother,— ’tis our Burden. Kepler
>>> said
>>> > that Astrology is Astronomy’s wanton little sister, who goes out and
>>> sells
>>> > herself that Astronomy may keep her Virtue,— surely we have all done
>>> the
>>> > Covent Garden turn. As to the older Sister, how many Steps may she
>>> herself
>>> > indeed already have taken into Compromise? for,
>>> >
>>> > Be the Instrument brazen, or be it Fleshen, [Maskelyne sings, in a
>>> > competent Tenor]
>>> >
>>> > Star-Gazing’s ever a Whore’s profession,— (Isn’t it?)
>>> >
>>> > Some in a Palace, all Marble and Brick,
>>> >
>>> > Some behind Hedges for less than a kick, tell me
>>> >
>>> > What’s it matter, The Stars will say, We’ve been ga-zing, back at ye,
>>> Many
>>> > a Day,
>>> >
>>> > And there’s nothing we haven’t seen
>>> >
>>> > More than one way,
>>> >
>>> > Sing Deny o deny o day . . . [Recitative]
>>> >
>>> > > On Aug 1, 2020, at 1:43 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Reading C.V. Wedgwood's Thirty Years War, and came across this line
>>> > which
>>> > > Pynchon mentions in Mason & Dixon, the part where Maskelyne and
>>> Mason are
>>> > > casting each other's horoscope
>>> > >
>>> > > "A pseudo-scientific interest in Astrology was the fashion. Kepler
>>> > himself,
>>> > > half humorously, half indignantly, averred that the astronomer could
>>> only
>>> > > support himself by ministering to the follies of astronomy's "silly
>>> > little
>>> > > daughter, astrology""
>>> > > --
>>> > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> > --
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>>> >
>>> --
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>>>
>>