you must be sooo proudmarkfiend wrote:W00t w00t w00t I'm on the first page!
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I can hardly restrain myself!
This must be some sort of record though; 750 posts in little over 4 months. On other fora I belong to I generally post about once a week...
This must be some sort of record though; 750 posts in little over 4 months. On other fora I belong to I generally post about once a week...
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
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What can I say mf ? Better, smoother avatar, I guess.
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
~ Peter Steele
Apologies for dragging this back up.
I have myself found Kabbalah / Qabalah very helpful in organising a structure of the internal and external aspects of life in my mind.
I wouldnt profess to being in any way an expert or to active use it as a practical tool - but as a concept it is very interesting.
Some top line benefits are it helps greatly when reading anything religious or of an esoteric nature - And it helps me understand some of the terminology scattered through literature (Burroughs etc) and music (i.e Tangerine Dream - Choronzon, Logos etc) (I understand Tool also utilise the tree in their sleeve design).
It also helps make sense and add value to that film of a few years back 'Pi' a low budget but with great music film about a mathematician who while trying to find a pattern in the stock market through math unwittingly discovers the 216 digit unspoken word of god - and is subsquently chased by Kabbalists / Rabbi's etc..
Personally I also like Crowley though I suspect he was a perhaps not so likeable if you were around at the time to meet him. Of great interest to me are the books written by his alleged son Amado Crowley, a very learned man who reveals some very interesting aspects of his fathers work and also challenges the reader in a way that has to be experienced yourself.
Is it all bollocks ? No. Not in my opinion.
take care
Stew
I have myself found Kabbalah / Qabalah very helpful in organising a structure of the internal and external aspects of life in my mind.
I wouldnt profess to being in any way an expert or to active use it as a practical tool - but as a concept it is very interesting.
Some top line benefits are it helps greatly when reading anything religious or of an esoteric nature - And it helps me understand some of the terminology scattered through literature (Burroughs etc) and music (i.e Tangerine Dream - Choronzon, Logos etc) (I understand Tool also utilise the tree in their sleeve design).
It also helps make sense and add value to that film of a few years back 'Pi' a low budget but with great music film about a mathematician who while trying to find a pattern in the stock market through math unwittingly discovers the 216 digit unspoken word of god - and is subsquently chased by Kabbalists / Rabbi's etc..
Personally I also like Crowley though I suspect he was a perhaps not so likeable if you were around at the time to meet him. Of great interest to me are the books written by his alleged son Amado Crowley, a very learned man who reveals some very interesting aspects of his fathers work and also challenges the reader in a way that has to be experienced yourself.
Is it all bollocks ? No. Not in my opinion.
take care
Stew
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Oh, a bit like Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum then?stewart b wrote:It also helps make sense and add value to that film of a few years back 'Pi' a low budget but with great music film about a mathematician who while trying to find a pattern in the stock market through math unwittingly discovers the 216 digit unspoken word of god - and is subsquently chased by Kabbalists / Rabbi's etc..
As to the rest of your post, well, "To know, to will, to dare, to keep silent."
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell