[syndicate] massima leggibilita

[Alan Sondheim]

more likely a monument for occident assininity.

wherever I look ignorance stares me in the face and both are mine.

alan


On Fri, 13 May 2005, integer at www.god-emil.dk wrote:

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> Sondheim,
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> generosity is giving more than you can.
> have you konsidered bekoming a monument for occident demokracy +?
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> Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
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>> ....A./D.
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>> ...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.
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>> 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.
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>> ( 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._ )
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