Thank you, Pete. I'm sorry to see him go. I found him charismatic, gracious, provocatively lively, always elevating awareness to neglected significance in...
Bryan, And then there are the labyrinthine Jericho streets. And why a RED cord? Also, I believe that Rahab was one of Jesus' ancestors. Is that right? John In...
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John, you write: For example, in the category of quantity there are two sciences of mathematics, "discrete" and "continuous;" but these differentiae denote...
Gunnar, The poem basically says, "Reproduce and cast your protoplasm to the warm, summer breezes before the winter winds come and find you too ugly and/or ...
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Ernest, Jericho also has Rahab dropping a red rope to spy party to enter the city's wall and prowl around in its labyrinthine streets (which somewhat reminds ...
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Minn kæri Davið This is very interesting: "I wonder if certain numbers are mythopoeic, and if the record of events is inclined to mould itself around them as...
Petur: 864 had a raison d'etre in the Marduk Cosmos of 8,640,000,000 as Universal Flood that dominated cosmology all over the A.N.E. for 2000 years, from...
Pete, Right! Although Aristotle construed his continuum in terms of infinitely dividing a finite continuum, he shifted down the Lambda, as you say, ...
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Bravo, John I knew I could push you in this fecund direction. I think I like all this in spite of Joseph Milne's hang up over Simplicius. Just one little...
John, et al It seems to me very plausible that Troy and Jericho are "the same" story filtered through some very different lines of descent. Yes, Rahab is an...
Try this one, Petur! It's a brilliant resource. (I'm in it, he added in a Toad-like voice.) Seriously, everyone should bookmark it. Your two numbers have a...
Gentlemen. 1. What is original thought? For Copernicus, Newton, and Einstein, originality in physical science consisted in viewing and playing with images...
Gunnar, I've been enormously refreshed by your fifth aphorism (below). Mathematics reduces original thought to deductive reasoning from axiomatic premises. The...
John, another stop on the Jericho-Troy express: there's a curious moment (in I think in Quintus but am not sure), when Helen walks around the horse after it's...
Bryan, It's not Helen who signals the fleet. In Gilgamesh it is the city's harlot who civilizes Enkidu and pronounces him to himself as now become "Like a...
Great posting, Gunnar! To say that a thought must precede its mathematical expression also implies that a) the image in which the thinking is contained is,...
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May 2, 2009 3:09 am
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Thanks, Pete. Now that's a good question! Well, I don't exactly know. 1. You're asking whether or not the shape of geometric "container" has an essential...
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Bryan, Thanks. It's amazing how significant details surface in different traditions. I can see why Aristotle said that poetry is more philosophical than ...
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David, Wow, what a posting! I'll have to bookmark this for sure. John In a message dated 5/1/2009 1:04:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ...
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Some Vocal-mimicking Animals, Particularly Parrots, Can Move To A Musical Beat ScienceDaily (May 1, 2009) — Researchers at Harvard University have found ...
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John, you say: The pebbles seem to be simultaneously located and unlocated monads; the latter, to the extent that they are used arithmetically. I Yes, this is...
John, Keep in mind that some humans can NOT "keep the beat." This deficiency is serious enough to plague band directors in teaching young children. Many of us...
John, Not so fast here please: <<"To say that a thought must precede its mathematical expression ...">> You have stirred up an interesting discussion, to say...
Ernest, Re. the following: I fear that Gunnar is wrong, that counter examples of the pattern provoking thought rob his statement of Necessity Untold millions...
Ernest, I can march just fine, but it's for sure that I can't keep a cha-cha beat -- I tell my wife that that's proof positive I'm a straight male. But notice...
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