Astrology

Sun Aug 2 03:16:06 UTC 2020

Nice.  In Kashmir Shaivism all of existence is thought to originate from a
cosmic vibration that becomes physicality.  Wave becomes matter, and
probably vice versa.

David Morris

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 8:09 PM gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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""
>>>>> > > --
>>>>> > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>>> > --
>>>>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>>>
>>>>