tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post4144537695656546297..comments2024-03-18T09:42:45.437-04:00Comments on The Gnostic World Of Candy Minx: Plato's Spindle: I Told You SoCandy Minxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-81690933963058621092006-12-05T12:27:00.000-05:002006-12-05T12:27:00.000-05:00Lynn, you inspired me so I posted some more stuff ...Lynn, you inspired me so I posted some more stuff for you and your hubby.Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-70132379333495680422006-12-05T01:01:00.000-05:002006-12-05T01:01:00.000-05:00Oh I like this Candy.
I don't know anything abou...Oh I like this Candy. <br />I don't know anything about this.<br />I have bookmarked the link for the book.<br />You have really peaked my interest.<br />I know my hubby will be interested too.<br />He is retiring tomorrow and I will recommend he read your post and the book.<br />Hopefully I will be able to read it all soon.<br />I don't have to purchase a Holiday read now!Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06905830674998866312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-46126208660697884652006-12-04T22:12:00.000-05:002006-12-04T22:12:00.000-05:00Carmen, hi sorry this was too boring, I'll post so...Carmen, hi sorry this was too boring, I'll post something more interesting soon! Wow, thanks for stopping by and it's not even Thursday Thirteen yet!<br /><br />Rauf, you're absolutely correct. Not only does nature make one think...it is the grid and matrix and math we think inside of.<br /><br />And we forgot to say the other day...music is the most obviously mathematical practice!Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-24425988298875691882006-12-04T21:50:00.000-05:002006-12-04T21:50:00.000-05:00People seeing rocks rolloing down the hill would h...People seeing rocks rolloing down the hill would have invented the wheel. Fantasy is a good beginning. In ancient scriptures of Ramayan and Mahabharatha there were flying chariots. Evey body thinks of flying like birds. Davinci tried too.<br />Nature always inspires people to think.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-50631992737125631352006-12-04T15:21:00.000-05:002006-12-04T15:21:00.000-05:00oh dear. I'm afraid you're looking at my head and ...oh dear. I'm afraid you're looking at my head and something just sailed way over it. :) Mostly because I'm getting ready to leave work and I just don't feel like thinking just now. :)Carmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15510611938483509612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-37463841211328275922006-12-03T12:20:00.000-05:002006-12-03T12:20:00.000-05:00UB, yes sometimes Plato sounds like he's talking i...UB, yes sometimes Plato sounds like he's talking in "circles" and he is, but I've seen some incredible reasoning and ideas come out of discussing with groups his work. He was really something, and always gives more and more the more you read him.<br /><br />Dollface, I think everything does come down to patterns and repeating nature. I don't think there is any place else for things to come from or go. A painting and a poem are "small sets". Constructing an image is a series of proposing ideas, theories and arguments. A poem sets up a pattern, a premise and each word plays against and riffs all in one reading and in re-reading. Same as colours or choices we make in art.<br /><br />We don't talk about it in the same tone or language...but even langauge is a set of patterns and concepts.<br /><br />I studied the Kabalah as a young woman in school. It was one of my first times I went "aha" about mythology. I was writing a paper (teribly I might ad, I was a useless student) about the kabalh and Giordano Bruno...and all of a sudden I went, shit, these people in the past here have a mathematical knowledgeand system for recording the universe. I thought Giordano Bruno had realized this and how he got all his ideas for parallel universes and memory. It changed my whole life and way of thinking almost overnight. I've been pretty much obsessed with these ideas ever since.<br /><br />I almost lost some good friends arguing back years ago about mythology and science as the same goals different attitude.<br /><br />Nancy Drew, so glad to hear you enjoyed this post. I take my chances here ha ha, and I think your feeling of math as different or opposed to metaphysics is incredibly important. Mathematics is a differnt WAY of talking about metaphysics and metaphysics is a preliterate and pre-numerical way of talking about the universe. So you are actually mathematical...just speaking a different language.<br /><br />Science is too obsessed with math being the validator of reason and experience and observation. Thats why the scientific community is always slow when it comes to medical innovation or "discovery"...they are taking the slow train. <br /><br />Ancient cultures already had navigation, astronomy and a fascinating method for talking about the nature of reality and the universe...poor old (empirical) science is always playing catch up.<br /><br />You want to learn math and astronomy? Most of us are better served looking at Mayan temples, old Irish observation mounds, Stonehenge, Egypt and Native American myths, or reading the Rig Veda or studying the Kabalah, it's all there baby.Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-45981425934952006912006-12-02T21:40:00.000-05:002006-12-02T21:40:00.000-05:00This is a marvellous post, CM!! Only wish I wasn't...This is a marvellous post, CM!! Only wish I wasn't such a math dunce. Am definitely going to follow up on these links.<br /><br />Am more metaphysical than mathematical, that's for sure. Need to know the 'whys' and 'what does this do's tho....Bridget Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440545318349892863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-54924305279431994692006-12-02T21:00:00.000-05:002006-12-02T21:00:00.000-05:00This is fascinating. It is fascinating that the a...This is fascinating. It is fascinating that the ancient minds so to speak were so advanced....it reminds me of certain sects of the Kabala who believe mathematics hold the key to everything...and I think they do...I wonder where we will be in another 600 years? <br /><br />Anyway, I bet the act of creating art is as mathematical, some compositions are certainly mathematical, is the very process of thinking, and the electronic synapses of our brains mathematical?<br /><br />Will the theory crop up somewhere that this is from an alien solar system to explain the advanced concept of this discovery?Gardeniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233358355888022857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-33992780408250617172006-12-02T02:18:00.000-05:002006-12-02T02:18:00.000-05:00Hi Candy,
Great post, (although I get a bit glass...Hi Candy, <br />Great post, (although I get a bit glassy eyed when it comes to the "squares of diameters of a square of side five each dimimished by one if the diameters are irrational..."<br />I'm off to dig out Hamlet's Mill again.Underground Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17264338355668672900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-77941618506825167632006-12-01T16:33:00.000-05:002006-12-01T16:33:00.000-05:00Thanks Karen. I am really into this shit. I love a...Thanks Karen. I am really into this shit. I love all the press this device has gotten the last few days.<br /><br />I love gloating about how scientists have nothing on the poetsand artists too. I just went over and teased Martin.<br /><br />I'd like to see the floors of some of the ancinet Roman buildings laid out with this device and story too...but I wasn't able to find some good diagrams online this morning...maybe later. Know of any? Some had the solar system knocked into the floors...Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23226602.post-53739768609512353242006-12-01T15:58:00.000-05:002006-12-01T15:58:00.000-05:00Great article Candy. Martin over at Salto Sobrius...Great article Candy. Martin over at Salto Sobrius (http://saltosobrius.blogspot.com/) also has an interesting post up about this.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11066059792352397198noreply@blogger.com