Astrology

[gary webb]

There is this very trippy idea in quantum mechanics that probability sort
of distributes itself like a wave...the distribution of uncertainty in a
system, i.e. the propagation of nothingness, the dissolution of material
reality...the ouroboros, the endless cycle of creation and destruction at
the subatomic scale...

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 8:54 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> “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""
>>>> > > --
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>>>> >
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