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Sondheim,

generosity is giving more than you can.
have you konsidered bekoming a monument for occident demokracy +?





Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>

>....A./D.
>
>
>...Analog digital / analog discrete, but also Anno Domini; one can only
>point out that linear time from 0 moves through both negative and positive
>numbers; the years are integers, the continuum backgrounded. A/D: Monothe-
>ism's gift, this or that, before or after; A/D: the continuum of time
>re/produced as discrete. The year 0 of our lord, the year 1 of our lord.
>This is the trouble with religions or ideologies with monolithic and
>linear narratives apparently grounded in specific and human events -
>everything proceeds like a white hole out of them. Of course every system,
>however broken, has its accountancy; I am punning here on A./D., the
>ferociousness of this division, and from the viewpoint of believers - as
>if humankind were waiting for this, the insertion of our lord into
>history, breaking history, remaking the codex of dates. Islam is similar.
>With monotheisms it's all gone bad; the fabrication carries a suspect
>political ideology, as if the world has waited for year 0 and the
>insertion of a related temporal framework. This is what happens when
>there's a guy - Jesus or Mohammed or whomever - involved. The construct of
>absolute time is equivalent to absolute negative and positive, right or
>wrong. Clearly history doesn't start or end with the guy, so one counts
>forwards and backwards from him. But he's there as a stopper,
>transformation, wave equation collapse, as deadly as Schrodinger's cat
>might be.
>
>Somewhere Weyl wrote about the last vestige of the self/ego in physics -
>the Cartesian origin. The guy hangs out there, claims the origin for
>himself/itself, refuses to recognize the tensor algebra of the thing which
>isn't a thing. It's be-all and end-all for him. Time begins, marches
>forward or backward, a permanent light-cone. The rest are its children.
>
>( Note that this absolute time is _finite,_ that it begins and ends, that
>the origin is _historical._ And note that so many other systems portend a
>creation behind/beyond which numeracy was non-existent; the numbers begin
>in mythic time. So there are configurations that are lost in essence - not
>a guy hanging out, as if known by one and all. There's always the problem
>of the divine with historical time; mythos turns to miracles, Jesus doing
>this or that, almost like a party. Three and one is one by the way; for
>any absolute finite X here, X -> 1, I believe it is called a _kernel._ )