This will give us a lot to talk about - it's obviously where carriers (un)live, just to start with ...
carriers (un)live?
another avatar/virtual economy link:
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/...c718069&
ei=5070
This really does throw the borders into question - an embedded journalist writes a blog from Second life:
http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/
http://nwn.blogs.com/
... and a blog which reviews virtual architecture in Second Life:
http://virtualsuburbia.blogspot.com/
and this is somehow related to the whole story, but I haven't figured out how it fits in yet...
http://www.americasarmy.com/
http://smartbomb.us/the_book.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ame...merica%
27s_Army
sd. the engine.
AQ 508 = CONSOL(IDATING TH)E METAVERSE = MATHEMATICAL IMPOSSIBILITY (Abuldiz)
AQ 335 = CONSOLE METAVERSE = GEMATRIA OF NOTHING = THE PATH OF THE SNAKE
AQ 173 = ANTH-DIGIT = BULLSEYE = FUTURAMA = LEVIATHAN
AQ 236 = ANTHELMINTIC = NIHILARTIKEL
AQ 508 = CONSOLIDATING THE METAVERSE
AQ 509 = DERANGED FUTHNORKING GNOSIS
Berlinski on the French riots:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6032402401.html
northanger - sometimes you're too smart for your own good
nick. mom? mom! is that really you?!
hmm. unemployed radio journalist forced to moonlight; rioting young puppets of the socialists & communists; racaille & voyous of the immigrant banlieues.
travailler pourquoi faire
AQ 138 = PARATAR = ALAKAZAM = ARPANET = ATHEISM = COSMOS = FRIENDS = FUSION = FYLFOT = JESUIT = MADNESS = NEW WAR = OCCULTA = QUMRAN = SAVIOR = SEVENS = SPARKS = SUNDAY = VIRAKAM = ZIDLUBA
AQ 117 = AVATAR = BONOBO = DEJA VU = DIVINE = ELEVEN = ERAKIS = FIRST = FRIDAY = GABRIEL = GEHENNA = I KNOW = INNATE = ISLAM 99 = MEDUSA = MONEY = NAVAJO = NUITH = PEACOCK = PHANES = RACISM = TO DARE = ULTRA = WORLD = ZEUHL ("celestial")
AQ 160 = GRAVATAR = AROURES = ARTILECT = BLOODBATH = BY-COMING = CONVERT = DOJINDAGO = GYNANDER = HAWK-HEADED = HYACINTH = IMMANUEL = INCUBATED = KUTULU = KWAN YIN = LIFE FORCE = LOGOGRAM = MULADHARA = RUNNING = SERPENT = SUPREME = SYRINGE = THUMMIM = TSUNAMI = XERO-DATA
series of posts decoding Islamic Avatar from a hyperstitional perspective.
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Each vortical sub-cycle of hyperstitional production announces itself through a communion with ‘the Thing’ coinciding with a “mystical consummation of uncertainty” or “attainment of positive unbelief.”
And isn't that also what Oedipus, the fear of incest, is all about? If capitalism is the universal truth, it is so in the sense that makes the capitalism the negative of all social formations, it is the thing, the unnamable, the generalized decoding of all flows that reveals a contrario the secret of these formations, coding the flows, and even overcoding them, rather than letting anything escape coding.
'The anomalous is neither an individual nor a species; it has only affects, it has neither familiar nor subjectified feelings, nor specific or significant characteristics. Human tenderness is as foreign to it as human classifications. Lovecraft applies the term "Outsider" to this thing of entity, the Thing, which arrives and passes at the edge, which is linear yet multiple, "teeming, swelling, foaming, spreading like an infectious disease, this nameless horror."'
Digression on Horror :: When an apparent agency arrives at its zone of non-existence horror irrupts, activating the phobic mechanisms of an entire organic lineage + the truth of horror is drawn from the Thing itself, especially from its antipathy to every aspect of local, specific, or familiar modes of organization. These features make of horror an avatar of the Outside.
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John Carpenter's The Thing: White War and Hypercamouflage
If militarization is not a war-time process, even peace as the blank space of unfriction between warmachines can be militarized; not taking advantages of peace as an exploitable suspension in time and a depository for militarization processes in wartime but the endo-militarization of peace itself, as if peace can be directly used as a weapon. John Carpenter’s The Thing illustrates a new mode of warfare whose tactical lines are not aligned with (configured by) the plane of conflict, that is to say, they are not arranged to cut, block or replace each other based on their tendencies / transorientations and their collective but different alignments (all essentially dimensional), necessitating a dynamic incompatibility as the main support and matrix of the conflictual engagement. The Thing’s favored warfare is to program a new array of tactical lines which totally blend with the enemy’s lines in certain configuration that they introduce radical instability and eventually violent fissions...
...peace is generally conceived as the state of collective survival, then the survival of both the Thing and the prey is nothing but the endo-militarization of peace, recycling the survival-complex of peace as a grade-A hypercamouflaged weapon.
Why does hyperstition use carriers, avatars or puppets? At one level carriers tag collective production, especially where the product is something different from (and surprising to) the particular people that happen to be involved in the production process. In this way hyperstitional carriers mark true discoveries (Prof. Barker’s theory of geotraumatics). Even more importantly hyperstitional puppets populate thought. This is how the practice of hyperstition operates to ‘effect a positive destruction of identity.’ Hyperstition puppets allow ‘you’ to think things that ‘you’ don’t agree with –- to follow a line to places that ‘you’ wouldn’t necessarily want to go. (Asking, for example, what does Max Crabbe think of all this?) This seems quite different from the way avatars are generally used on the Internet [...] to hide identity
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Vendidad is considered the cipher of purification, a huge cipher of cosmic purification. From the first page to the last one, it maps complex hygiene formulae which delay the "inevitable" swarming presence (avatars) of the mother of all contaminations (the life-satan or life-horror) or Druj (she is gas), especially Druj-Nasu (the necro-fiend). Vendidad is the most powerful and advanced suicidal program that Oedipus (and paranoid culture) has ever written [...] Following these examples, Vendidad is all about strange technologies for dis-intensifying the avatars of Druj- (the life-satan) through survival economy, the State and the body of Oedipus.
Through germinal death, the survivalist subject or the avatar of solidity does not try to survive but to soften itself progressively, to become an avatar of the ultimate softness; however, it does not choose or follow the liquidation that flux or conventional destratification processes use to mollify solidity; it installs decay (what is supposed to be a characteristic process of the regime of doom and destruction and the Oedipus race as Deleuze warns) as its softening machine, as a way of replacing surviving with eternal decomposition and rotting processes not on the plane of paranoia but schizotrategy and anti-solidity. Decomposition and decay stop because of the limits that death (or the great void) draws; in germinal death, however, they progress and persist endlessly. Decay appears as a strategic anti-rigidity process working through paranoia, using a brutal and fanatic destratification which is utterly dangerous and somehow disloyal to both schizophrenia and paranoia; what it only cares about is delirial softening. To this extent, desire for germinal death is not geminated on the great silence or the cosmic tides of entropy, but as Nick Land suggests, "Pest."
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It has been (accepted) by all the Muslims in every epoch, that at the end of time a man from the family (of the Prophet) will, without fail, make his appearance, one who will strengthen Islam and make justice triumph. Muslims will follow him, and he will gain domination over the Muslim realm. He will be called the Mahdi. —Ibn Khaldun, "Muqaddima"
AQ 306 = THE ISLAMIC AVATAR = LIBIDINAL ECONOMY
AQ 262 = THE NIKALANK AVATAR = GROWTH ECONOMICS
The Coming of Nikalank Avatar The Lord (Shah, Saheb) who is the ever-living Imam, a manifestation of Ali, and in this case the mahdi or qaim of the Resurrection is referred to as Nikalank Avatar. As has been said earlier, this Sanskrit adjective occasionally found in the old literature as one of the numerous epithets qualifying the Absolute, came into particular prominence within the Medieval Nath tradition, according to which it referred to the non qualified (nirgun) God. On the other hand Ivanow remarks that the word nikalank is a faithful, literal translation of the Arabic masum (stainless, immaculate) which was one of the traditional attributes of the Imam.
The Coming of Nikalank Avatar
This issue of an Indian - non Muslim - messianism has been raised by Fuchs in his study of Messianic movements in India (1992). As that author has it, eschatological expectations, that is to say the hope for a universal renewal through world catastrophes, revolutions and upheavals, are generated by a clash between two types of culture, "one rather undeveloped and retarded, the other at least technically vastly superior" (Ibid.: 2) giving birth to a feeling of unrest and insecurity. This phenomenon, as argued by Fuchs, is generally associated with the appearance of a charismatic leader, often a "Godman" who, resorting to violence and rebellion, seeks to restore a Golden Age [...] One of the main characteristics of the Ismaili doctrine will then revolve around a prophecy which "is rythmed by astrological cycles determining on earth the historical cycles. ..the long life of the Universe consisting thus in cycles of seven thousand years" [...] The similarity which already existed between the indigenous concept of cyclic time (the yugas and kalpas) and avatars and the Ismaili cycles and manifestations and epiphany of the Divine (mazhar) could serve as a conceptual link bridging both traditions. Through a series of analogies and parallelisms the Hindu/Jain neophytes could thus be led to adhere to the new religion viewed, not as the negation, but as the fulfillment of their own religious beliefs. The Arabic sirat-e-mustaqim and din al-haqq referring to Nizari Ismailism became something like an Indian sect also called "the true path" or Satpanth.
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In the late tenth century - the period when the Kalachakra teachings first emerged in India - the Arab Abbasid rulers of Baghdad and their vassals feared invasions from Islamic empires having such ambitions. Specifically, they feared an invasion from their main rivals, the Fatimid Empire of Egypt and their vassals in Multan (central Pakistan). Such fear was the predominant mood of the times, due to the widespread belief that the world would end five hundred years after Muhammad - in the beginning of the twelfth century.
Afghan Buddhists of the late tenth century, the most likely compilers of the historical material in the Kalachakra teachings, lived in a predominantly Hindu society and, lying between Multan and Baghdad, shared their Muslim neighbors' fear of this invasion. They mixed into their portrait of the invaders a fear of followers of so-called "heretical" forms of Islam, such as Manichaean Shiah, which they had gained when, in the late eighth century, many Afghan and Indian Buddhist scholars had translated texts in Baghdad for the Abbasids.
According to the Kalachakra verse, the invaders will be from the asura caste, which means that they will be followers of jealous gods, who will rival and threaten the gods of the brahmans of Shambhala. This non-Indic group will be "powerful and merciless" and, after conquering the region of India around Delhi, will be the invaders of Shambhala [...] To meet the threat, the different castes in Shambhala need to stop avoiding social contact with each other. They need to form a harmonious united front, by becoming one vajra caste in the Kalachakra mandala. Only when all members of society cooperate with each other will the pan-Indic messiah Kalki be able to stop an invasion led by the threatening non-Indic messiah Mahdi.
This was not a call for mass conversion to Buddhism. In the Kalachakra call for unity, Buddhism was merely responding in kind to the established Hindu and Muslim policy of including followers of other religions under its umbrella. The Hindus already asserted Buddha as the ninth avatar of Vishnu, thus rendering all Buddhists good Hindus. Kalachakra, in turn, now identified the first eight avatars as emanations of the Buddha, thus rendering all Hindus good Buddhists.
Both Hindus and Buddhists accepted Kalki as the messiah predicted to defeat a group of non-Indic invaders and to usher in a new golden age. Therefore, the Buddhist king of Shambhala argued that the Hindus could also join the Buddhists in accepting his successor, twenty-five generations in the future, as the Kalki predicted in their own scriptures to be born in Shambhala as Vishnu's tenth and final avatar.
Orthodox Muslims, also fearing an invasion by the army of a "deceiver messiah" who would claim to be the true messiah Mahdi, would also be welcome to rally with the united front of Buddhists and Hindus. Muslim law at the time accepted both Buddhists and Hindus as "people of the Book," and thus included under its jurisprudence followers of the two religions who lived among them. Similarly, Buddhism could include Muslims in their vision of unity, since their teachings contained themes held in common by both.
12 is the emphatic finality of Islam (Mahdi, the 12th Imam as the harbinger of Ghiamat who is absent yet present see the previous piece on Takfiri and the notion of absence – Ghiab -- in Islam)
Hojatian (the harbingers of the Apocalypse and Mahdi).
Avatar translates itself as a chthonic or a death mask coming from the Sanskrit 'to descend', namely, the rectal depths of darkness or the blackening energies of fall, katabasis and descent which the gods undergo and through which transmute to the dead gods. The falling God is nothing but an openness which seeks to open and be opened, eat and be eaten.
Mesh-04. Ixigool (Djinn of the Magi). Over-Ghoul. Pitch Ana-4. Net Span 3::1 Amphidemon of Tridentity (Sphinx-time). Decadology. C/tp-#4, Mn+ [4H]. Rt-1:[18723]. Unimpeded ascent (prophecy). Rt-2:[1872563]. Ultimate implications, (as above so below). [+1 sub-Rt].
The Cthulhu mythos is centered on the Great Old Ones, a fearsome assortment of ancient, powerful deities that once ruled the Earth. They are presently quiescent, having fallen into a death-like sleep at some time in the distant past. The most well-known of these beings is Cthulhu, who currently lies "dead [but] dreaming" in the submerged city of R'lyeh somewhere in the Southeast Pacific Ocean. One day, "when the stars are right", R'lyeh will rise from beneath the sea, and Cthulhu will awaken and wreak havoc on the earth.
AHMADINEJAD
[ANE: "Ancient Near East"; Scottish: "one"]
[DAJ: Chinese "big"?; Lao Katu: "oneself"; East Katuic "I, me"]
[MAHDI: Arabic مهدي; "rightly-guided one"]
Contact, typology and the speaker: the essentials of language (pdf)
Contact can lead to infection, especially if intensive and repeated. This is a fact humans have been aware of since the dawn of time and a lesson that has been thoroughly re-learnt in recent times. Though the idea of infection may trigger immediate negative reactions, infections and viruses do have a fundamental role in evolution and do not need to be viewed in solely negative terms. More importantly, viruses are not the only things that spread through contact. Other entities may spread through contact, such as ideas, fashions, beliefs, etc. In Linguistic Epidemiology: Semantics and grammar of language contact in mainland Southeast Asia, Enfield uses the term "epidemiology" simply as a useful biological simile for natural processes of language change often observed in situations of (radical) language contact. The book that provides the point of departure for much of this paper is a typological study of grammatical constructions in languages of mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), primarily Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese, Hmong and Kmhmu Cwang, and how they may have spread from one grammar to another [...] In Lao, which constitutes the basis of empirical discussion (Chapter 3), five meanings of daj "to acquire", are established:
1. "come to have", [x daj y], as in "something happens at one moment; because of this x has y".
2. "know and be able to perform", [x daj y], as in "x can V y because x knows something".
3. "succeed", [x daj], as in "something happens (p); p happened because x did something before this (x wanted p to happen)".
4. "can" as a postverbal modal, [V daj].
5. "result of a prior event" as a preverbal modal, [daj 0 V].
AQ 150 = HOJATIAN = ABIEGNUS = BARBATOS = CULTUS = HAYABUSA = HORMAKU = I AM NO GOD = JUSTICE = MEKTOUB (destiny) = TRONTI.
AQ 283 = REDEEMER OF ISLAM = ANNUIT COEPTIS (Approved Our Undertaking) = AUTOCATALYSIS = CROSS OF DECADENCE = PURE STRATEGY
AQ 281 = THE CALIPH OF ALLAH = CRYSTAL SKULL = DIGITAL MECHANICS = GNOSTIC CHRIST = HURRICANE WILMA = INCREMENTALISM = SAFFIR-SIMPSON = THE ALEPH MOMENT = THE CENTRAL DOGMA
AQ 1229 = PALE OR PURPLE, VEILED OR VOLUPTUOUS, I WHO AM ALL PLEASURE AND PURPLE (Liber AL I:61) = THE RESTORER OF RELIGION AND JUSTICE WHO WILL RULE THE END OF THE WORLD (Phlox paniculata; Attracts more butterflies than any other garden flowers; Mahdi - deep violet-blue color)
AQ 169 = AHMADINEJAD = HONKY CAT
AQ 301 = MAHMOOD AHMADINEJAD = ASIATIC VIRUSES = AWAKENING RITUAL = DESIRING MACHINES = KURZWEILOMICS = MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR = RACIST HYSTERIA = THE BOOK OF THE LAW = THE MIND OF AIWASS
AQ 307 = MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD = AXSYS MAZE-MAKER = COGNITIVE MODELS = DR. ALAN H GOLDSTEIN (Molecular Migration) = FINISH THE WORD "B. A. B." (Abuldiz) = FORMATIVE WORLD = HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT = HYPERLIBERALISM = INNER PLANE ADEPTI = LINGUISTIC MODEL = SUPERCOMPUTER = THE MORNING STAR = THE NUREMBERG CODE = THE OMNIPRESENT = THOU CHILD HORUS.
The Mystical Menace of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad via discardedlies
Hojatiyeh (kianb)
In Iran, Arming for Armageddon (Krauthammer) — When Ahmadinejad unexpectedly won the presidential elections, he immediately gave $17 million of government funds to the shrine. Last month Ahmadinejad said publicly that the main mission of the Islamic Revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam.
Persecutions of Baha'is in Iran (Hojatiyeh Mahdaviyeh Society, Anjuman-í-Tablighat-í-Islami)
AQ 99 = HOJAT (proof) = ISLAM = SAVAK (Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi secret police) = JACHIN = KANAME = MAKARA = MARAKA = MAYAN = NEEDLE = OAXACA = QABBALA = SAUDI.
AQ 527 = HOJATIYEH MAHDAVIYEH SOCIETY = PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE MAHDI
The term 'preparing the way for Mahdi' has a dual meaning as 'Jihad'. The 'Normal' Shia people believe that being prepared for the return of Mahdi is a spiritual thing, you need to prepare yourself for the return of Imam, you know, be a 'good muslim', pray, go to haj, stuff like that. But Hojatiyeh believes what Al-Qaida believes in terms of 'Jihad'. Hojatiyeh believe being 'a normal good muslim' is not enough, you must 'do something' for return of Mahdi. Praying is not enough.
AQ 1171 = BEING GUARDIANS OF THE TRUTH, THEY HAVE TAUGHT NOTHING BUT FALSEHOOD = O ADONAI AND MY MASTER, I HAVE BORNE THE INKHORN AND THE PEN WITHOUT PAY = ONE OF SEVERAL INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE PHALAVI STATE.
AQ 129 = HAVAYAH (G-d's Essential Name, shem ha'etzem) = 11TH PATH = 20TH PATH = ABRASAX = ABRAXAS = ALREADY = ANCIENT = APPOLO = ASTAPHA = ATMA BHU = BLESSED = COPH NIA = DAR AL-ABED = ECCLESIA = GANZIR = GENIUS = GHETTO = GONARCH = HYPER-C = ISHTAR = IUNGES = JHSHVH = LIGHTS = MAGICIAN = MAGNUS = MALATAR = MEANETH = ONE KEY = PAPERS = PERISH = PLUTO = PROWL = PUPPO = RA HOOR = SABAOTH = SIGILS = SAYING = SMEARS = SPIRAL = SURYA = TEMPLI = THE GATE = THE TAU = THREES = VERITA
Mesh-21. Puppo (The Pup). Break-Outs. Pitch Cth-2. Net-Span 7::0 Amphidemon of Larval Regression. 7th Door (Akasha) [Uranus], Cervical Decadology. C/tp-#8, Mj- [8S]. Rt-1:[71890] Dissolving into slime (masked horrors). Rt-2:[72541890] Chthonic swallowings. [+1 sub-Rt].
Cabala Hebraeorum
The 11th path is called the Fiery Intelligence. It is the veil placed before the disposition and order of the path is in the enjoyment of greater dignity; to possess it is to be face to face with the Cause of Causes.
The 20th path is called the Intelligence of Will. It prepares all created beings, each individually, for the demonstration of the existence of the primordial glory.
forgot to include GET BACK HONKY CAT to AQ-281 above:
AQ 281 = AMERICAN SOLDIER = AYANAMSHA FACTOR = THE CALIPH OF ALLAH = CRYSTAL SKULL = DIGITAL MECHANICS = GET BACK HONKY CAT = GNOSTIC CHRIST = HURRICANE WILMA (most intense hurricane ever, Atlantic basin) = INCREMENTALISM = NIGHTSIDE QABALAH = OOZES BLACK FLAME = PORTRAIT OF LAM = ROBERT MCHENRY = ROMAN NUMERALS (used until 14th century, replaced by Arabic numerals probably introduced by al-Andalus) = SAFFIR-SIMPSON = SATAN HAD FOUND ME = SPECIES-SPECIFIC = THE ALEPH MOMENT = THE CALIPH OF ALLAH = THE CENTRAL DOGMA = THE TAU AND THE EGG = WATSON AND CRICK.
me, i get all caught up in this & end up with Zork (=BADIOU), Grue (=HADIT) & Shards of The One True Coconut (=HOLIEST MYSTERIES OF NATURE). since this popped AMERICAN SOLDIER, here's gematria for sd's America's Army [other misc stuff at the end]:
AQ 283 = AA SERVER MANAGER (America's Army) = ISLAMIC MYTHOS = PURE STRATEGY = REDEEMER OF ISLAM.
AQ 338 = 75TH RANGER REGIMENT (America's Army) = 57. AND THE EARTH IS MINE (LIBER 49) = BIRTHDAY OF THE MAHDI.
AQ 233 = UNREAL ENGINE (America's Army) = AEON CURRENT = AROMATICITY (benzene) = ARTICLE OF LAW = BLACK MESA LOGO = FICTION EXIT = GOOD COP / BAD COP = KUANG VIRUS = PENTAZYGON = SHANGHAI STAR = SILVER STAR = STUPID GAMES = THE GOD OF LIES = WAR-AS-A-MACHINE.
AQ 350 = 82D AIRBORNE DIVISION (America's Army) = INSULATING BARRIER (Coulomb Blockade) = PROFESSIONAL ARMY = RESERVES OF ENERGY = SPECIAL OPERATIONS.
AQ 269 = COULOMB BLOCKADE (increased resistance at small bias voltages) = AQUAPOCALYPSE = FIVE FRIENDLIES (Beijing Olympic Mascots) = GEOTRAUMATICS = MILLENNIUM BUG = OBSCURANTIST = OUR LADY BABALON = PROTOLANGUAGE = QABBALLADICKALLY = TELLURIAN LUBE = UNDERCURRENT.
AQ 743 = INCREASED RESISTANCE AT SMALL BIAS VOLTAGES (Coulomb Blockade) = KETHER CHOCKMAH BINAH CHESED GEBURAH TIPHARETH = SUBDUE THY FEAR AND THY DISGUST. THEN — YIELD! (Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, I:46).
AQ 329 = KITAB TABAQAT -AL-'UMAN | ("Book of the Categories of Nations" by Said al-Andalusi) = BACH SUITE #1 IN G MAJOR = CHRIST IS THE BEAST = CRIMSON AND CLOVER = LEARNING ECONOMICS = LEMURIAN DEMONISM = LEVER OF ANTINOMY = LION-EAGLE STARFIRE = MALARIOUS MORASS (7-Cups, Debauch) = MURDEROUS DREAMS = THE FIVE FRIENDLIES (Beijing Olympic Mascots) = THE KING OF THE JEWS = THE RING AND THE BOOK = THREE PALMS MOHAMED = TURQUOISE-VMEME = WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
AQ 564 = BOOK OF THE CATEGORIES OF NATIONS (Said al-Andalusi) = HEIGHTEN THE FEELING OF IMMERSION (Half Life) = SPHERE OF ECONOMIC PROSPERITY.
AQ 253 = SAID AL-ANDALUSI (11th century historian & scholar from Córdoba; see: AQ-564 & AQ-305) = COSMOCRATORE = DEATH-STROKES = ANCIENT OF DAYS = BENIGHTED BOOBS = BIRD OF PARADISE (Abuldiz) = BLOWING SMOKE = BUTCHERED OPEN (Druj) = COSMOCRATORE = COURSING SEX = DEATH-STROKES = DEMONIZATION = DUST-TO-DUST = EXO-RUPTURE = FUTURE TENSE = HEAVEN ON EARTH = HENDOKU IYAKU = ISOMORPHISM = KRISHNA PAKSHA = MESA MOUNTAIN = NOTEWORTHY = PART OF THE TAO (Amalantrah) = POSSIBLE HOAX = TAU PARTICLES (Half Life) = THE GOLD CROSS = URSPRACHE CODE = VIROTECHNICS.
AQ 305 = IBN SAID AL-ANDALUSI = A DIPOLE COMPLEXT = COUNT THE NUMBER = CROCODILE GOD SEBEK = DIVINE UTTERANCE = HALF-LIFE EQUATION = HARDER TO RESIST = HEAD NIGGER IN CHARGE = HOLY THIRD ORDER = MANTRA TALAM-MALAT (LAM Gateway) = MUSICAL THINKING (PJ-Mullins) = OF TIME SYSTEMS = PLAN BALCEROWICZA = SATANIC SENTIENCE = SOCIAL SECURITY = SPRITUS SANCTI.
AQ 252 = ANDALUSI ISLAM = ADRIAN SHEPHARD (Black Mesa) = BLASTED TOWER = BUZZ-CUTTER (Skarkix) = CARGO-CULTURE = CHARLES DARWIN = CIRCLE SQUARED = COAL-TAR METHOD = CRESCENT MOON = FOUR-FIVE-NINE = FREEING ITSELF = GARDEN OF JANUS = GLOBAL SUMMIT = GLOBAL WARNING = GORDON FREEMAN (Black Mesa) = KOUFAX AWARDS = LOBATCHEWSKY = LOBELIA FLOWER = NEW DIMENSION = NULLOTATION = SCARLET WOMAN = SERPENT FORCE = SEVENTY-SIX = SOLMIZATION = SPIRIT OF USA = SUPER-WEAPON = SWEETNESSES = THE HIDDEN STAR = THE SECRET KEY = THE WHITE DOVE = XXIGNAL TRACK.
Mesh-09. Skarkix (Sharky, Scar-head). Buzz-Cutter. Pitch Ana-7 (Uppermost). Net-Span 4::3 Amphidemon of anti-evolution (eddies of the Delta). 4th Phase-limit. Decadology. C/tp-#6, Mj+ [6C]. Rt-1:[418723] Hermetic abbreviations (history of the magicians). Rt-2:[4518723] Sacred seal of time (triadic reconfirmation of the cycle). Rt-3:[4563] Apocalyptic rapture (jagged turbulence). [+1 sub-Rt].
AQ 459 = CHRONOPOLITICAL CONFLICT = PEAK FECKLESSNESS THEORY = TABULA ANGELORUM BONORUM = TROPICAL STORM PHILIPPE = VOLUNTARY SUBMISSION.
AQ 406 = THE OFFICIAL U.S. ARMY GAME (America's Army) = COMPUTER SIMULATION = GROUPS OF THE RHIZOME = HALF-LIFE: OPPOSING FORCE (Black Mesa) = ILLUSIONARY SUCCESS (7 of Cups - Debauch) = INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS = NICK'S TROLL MANIFESTO = THE WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL = XYLEBORUS SERIATUS.
AQ 456 = AMERICA'S ARMY: OPERATIONS = CRITICAL DEBRIS GENERATION = UNABASHED ECONOMIC EGOTISM.
AQ 466 = AMERICA'S ARMY COMMAND POST (America's Army) = INTO THE MATERIALIST FRAY = PROGRESSIVE TECHNOLOGY = PURPLE BUTTERFLY DREAMS.
AQ 482 = AMERICA'S ARMY: SPECIAL FORCES = HEIGHTS OF HOWLING RIDICULE = LOCAL POCKETS OF RESISTANCE = NEW NUTRIENTS IN OLD BLOOD = OCCULT FUTURIST TERROR (bmr) = PLANET-SWEEPING CURRENTS = REBUILDING THE CANADIAN SHIELD = SATELLITE DELIVERY ROCKET (Black Mesa) = UNIFIED ENGINEERING THEORY.
AQ 539 = AASM REMOTE CONTROL UTILITY (America's Army) = ALTERNATING DOUBLE CARBON BONDS = BENZENE IS PERFECTLY HEXAGONAL = CONFUSES PATTERN WITH DESIGN (Intelligent Design).
AQ 769 = SPECIAL FORCES ASSIGNMENT AND SELECTION (SFAS; America's Army) = DARK SIDE OR ACHILLES HEEL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY = DECODING THE ESOTERIC TRADITIONS OF THE PAST.
AQ 104 = ABADDON = AL QAEDA = BITOM = DE LANDA = C-CHANGE = DE LANDA = I CHING = KORAN = LIBER 49 = NAPHT = SLAVE = VIVI-6.
C-Change. Pressure group for cybernetically-sensitive oceanography and maritime practices, drawing upon the research and agitational activity of Katy Shaw. The early support of Max Crabbe was placed under increasing strain by the tendency towards digital microcollectivism, haemolunar feminism, and calendric revolution.
AQ 150 = MAX CRABBE = TRONTI.
AQ 180 = KATY SHAW = 43-NUTTUBAB = ANGLOSSIC = GLOBAL JIHAD = WAGE RATES.
Mesh-43. Nuttubab (Nut-Cracker). Mimetic Anorganism. Pitch Cth-2 Net-Span 9::7 Amphidemon of Metaloid Unlife. Decadology. C/tp-#8, Mn- [8D]. Rt-1:[7189] Lunacies (iron in the blood). Rt-2:[7254189] Dragon-lines (terrestrial electromagnetism). [+1 sub-Rt].
AQ 158 = ASHEMOGHA = IN-WORLD = LYOTARD = FASCINUM = GAME OVER = MEME-PLAGE = TEMPLEX.
GoN -6 = TEN PESTS = MU = VIVI-6.
AQ 2441 = MODULARIZED TOTAL-ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM INVOLVING HIGH-LEVELS OF DISTRIBUTED AI METICULOUSLY SLAVED TO ASIMOVIAN OVERCODING (CCRU: VIVI-6).
AQ 386 = ASIMOVIAN OVERCODING (CCRU: VIVI-6) = ELECTRON TRANSPORT = EVOLVING CELL DESIGNS = GUST OF SOBER REALISM (What Next in the Long War?) = HYDROGEN NANOFUSION = MILITARY OCCUPATION (Black Mesa) = PSEUDO-FLUX ECONOMY (Druj Notes) = STATELESS SOCIETIES = TROPICAL STORM STAN = TWENTY BRONZE BASES (Temple of Jerusalem) = VISION OF THE FUTURE.
AQ 170 = NIGHTFALL (by Isaac Asimov) = KARL MARX = ABJAD BOOKS = GAME ENGINE = HIDDEN IMAM = MISTMARE = NEUTRON = NOT DOING = QUANTUM = TZOLKIN = ZAMRADIEL.
AQ 182 = TOKHATTO = BENI ELOHIM = BLASPHEMY = BREAD OF LIFE = CARL WOESE = CHRISTIAN = CYTOSINE = DATA MINING = DEBAUCHERY = FIRE ENGINE = GREAT LION = HOJATIYEH = HYDRAULIC = HYPERION = ICBM SILOS (Black Mesa) = INVISIBLE = MAGIC CIRCLE = MAGICK RING = OMEGA-PEST = PLUTONIC = POMO RADAR = SECOND LIFE = SHAMELESS = TEREBINTH = TOHU BOHU = TORCH-LIKE = UNNUTCHI = VEXATION
Mesh-10. Tokhatto (Old Toker, Top Cat). Decimal Camouflage. Pitch Cth-4 Net-Span 5::0 Amphidemon of Talismania. 5th Door (Hyperborea) [Jupiter], Cervical. Decadology. C/tp-#9, Mj- [9S]. Angel of the Cards. Rt-1:[541890] Number as destiny (digital convergence). [+1 sub-Rt].
Mesh-42. Unnutchi (Outch, T'ai Chi). Tachyonic immobility (slow vortex). Pitch Cth-3. Net-Span 9::6 Chaotic Xenodemon of Coiling Outsideness. Rt-0:[?] Asymmetric zygopoise (and cybernetic anomalies).
AQ 794 = PLURALITAS NON EST PONENDA SINE NECESSITATE = NUDE BRITNEY SPEARS GIVING BIRTH' 360 DEGREE VIEW.
Occam's Razor :: Another variant of this law is Thargola's Sword from Nightfall, (originally a short story by Isaac Asimov and later expanded to a novel in conjunction with Robert Silverberg): We must drive a sword through any hypothesis that is not strictly necessary.
AQ 306 = THARGOLA'S SWORD = CASCADE MOUNTAINS = CIRCLE IN THE MIDDLE = COGNITIVE SCIENCE = DARK NORDIC PRINCE = GLOBAL ETIQUETTE = ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN = JOHN VON NEUMANN = LIBIDINAL ECONOMY = LITTLE GIRL MARX = MARIE AYATZBEHERE = PROPHETIC TRANCE (Abuldiz) = SCHIZO-ANALYSIS = SPOILER WARNING = STUART KAUFMANN = TRASHING THREADS = TRUE TO REALITY
AQ 102 = LAGASH (Nightfall) = IXIX = ODDUBB.
Mesh-03. Ixix (Yix). Abductor. (Clicks Gt-03). Pitch Ana-3 Net-Span 3::0 Chaotic Xenodemon of Cosmic Indifference. Ciphers Gt-03. 3rd Door (The Swirl), [Earth]. Cranial. Rt-0:[?]. Occult terrestrial history (Who does the Earth think It Is?)
Mesh-23. Oddubb (Odba). Broken Mirror. Pitch Null Net-Span 7::2 Syzygetic Chronodemon of Swamp-Labyrinths (and blind-doubles). Feeds Hold-Current. Rt-0:[X]. Time loops, glamour and glosses.
AQ 154 = THARGOLA = CATAPLEX = IXIGOOL (Djinn of the Magi) = METENOIA = MJOLNIR = MUNTUK = PARSIFAL = RATZIEL = THE STAR = WARLORD.
AQ 1448 = WE MUST DRIVE A SWORD THROUGH ANY HYPOTHESIS THAT IS NOT STRICTLY NECESSARY (Thargola, "Nightfall").
AQ 1293 = DRIVE A SWORD THROUGH ANY HYPOTHESIS THAT IS NOT STRICTLY NECESSARY = I AM THE MAGICIAN AND THE EXORCIST. I AM THE AXLE OF THE WHEEL, AND THE CUBE IN THE CIRCLE (Liber AL II:7) = PUT ON THE WINGS, AND AROUSE THE COILED SPLENDOUR WITHIN YOU: COME UNTO ME! (Liber AL I:61).
Liber AL II:7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
AQ 214 = COME UNTO ME! = AGE OF KHATTAK = COMPASSION = CYBERGOTHIC = EVOLUTION = HAIL, COLUMBIA = TECHNOLOGY = THREE TWOS = WOMOPOGON (Amalantrah).
AQ 373 = ALL EQUAL - ALL DIFFERENT (see AQ-2190) = EMORY UNIVERSITY (Piet) = INTERMESHING THEMES = LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY = LESBIANS AGAINST BUSH = LOOMING CATASTROPHE = ONLY SOCIAL PROCESS = RAMPAGING HURRICANES = REWRITING MEMORIES = SALVO OF QUESTIONS = SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE = THEORETICAL MOLECULE = TRADITIONAL ARABIC ABJAD = WHAT IS GOING ON, INDEED? = ZERO-ZERO-ZERO-NICK.
AQ 2190 = ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE UNIVERSALLY EQUAL AND SPECIFICALLY DIFFERENT; UNIVERSAL EQUALITY AND SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES MUST BE RESPECTED (Article 1 of the Declaration of Rights and Duties of Human Beings as Proposed by Young People) = THOU KNOWEST! AND THE SIGN SHALL BE MY ECSTASY, THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE CONTINUITY OF EXISTENCE, THE OMNIPRESENCE OF MY BODY (Liber AL I:26).
AQ 1152 = 17. I SHALL COME AGAIN, IN THE FORM THOU KNOWEST. NOW IT SHALL BE THY BLOOD (LIBER 49) = MOSES, AND BUDDHA, AND LAO TAN, AND KRISHNA, AND JESUS, AND OSIRIS, AND MOHAMMED.
AQ 1229 = 46. BUT THOU ART BEYOND MAN AND WOMAN, MY STAR IS IN THEE, AND THOU SHALT AVAIL (LIBER 49; see AQ-1229 above).
AQ 1430 = THEN SAITH THE PROPHET AND SLAVE OF THE BEAUTEOUS ONE: WHO AM I, AND WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN? (Liber AL I:26) = 22. IT SHALL BE MY TALISMAN. CONSECRATE WITH THE SUPREME RITUALS OF THE WORD AND THE CUP (LIBER 49).
AQ 269 = NICK LAND'S KRAKO (see AQ-269 above).
Mesh-06. Krako (Kru, Karak-oa). The Croaking Curse (AQ 321=SCHIZOSTRATEGY). Pitch Ana-4 Net-Span 4::0 Amphidemon of Burning-Hail 4th Door (Delta) Mars. Cervical Decadology. C/tp-#9, Mj+ [9C]. Rt-1:[41890] Subsidence, heaviness of fatality. [+1 sub-Rt].
AQ 388 = HEAVINESS OF FATALITY = ADEPT ORDERS OF DECADENCE = ABSTRACT MACHINES CORP. = BLANK, LIKE A PALIMPSEST = CANTICUM ASCENSIONUM = DARWINIAN EVOLUTION (Piet) = FLAT TAX REVOLUTION = IN THE SPIRIT-VISION = LAMBDA CORE TELEPORTER (Black Mesa) = MATHEMATICAL EQUATION = MULLIN'S REFLECTIONS = OPENED T[EMPLE] BY [LIBER] 671 (Abuldiz) = OUR BORING-ASS PLANET = PSYCHOLOGICAL SETUP = QUANTUM TUNNELLING = SHRIMP-LIKE APPENDAGES = STOP ALL THIS MADNESS = TELL MOMMA ALL ABOUT IT = THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE (LAM Gateway) = UNSIGNALING CURRENT = Y2K IS A SEMIOTIC EVENT.
AQ 191 = SUBSIDENCE = GAME LEVELS = GARGOPHIAS = INERADICABLE = MAYAN AJQ'IJ = NINE ATOMS = POLYTICS = STAR WARS = TALISMANIC = THE CHRIST = THORNETS = TREE OF LIFE.
"The Adept Orders of Decadence trace their system back to the period immediately following the submergence of Atlantis, which they date to 10 000 BC. It is linked to the origin of Sumero-Babylonian geometry, from which we derive the division of the circle into 360 (= 36 x 10) degrees. In the ancient egyptian mysteries it was attributed to the god of catastrophe and drowning - Osiris - who was later symbolized by The Hanged Man of the Tarot (taken by decadologists as an image of the Atlantean Cross)."
AQ 441 = AMPHIDEMON OF BURNING HAIL (Krako) = DIGITAL LIGHT PROCESSING.
AQ 234 = AMERICA'S ARMY = A MAN WITH A MAID = ANNIHILATION (bmr) = BLOOD OF A BEAST = BLUE TRIANGLE = CYANOBACTERIA = FIVE-FIVE-FIVE [AQ-555 = MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND] = HIEROPHANTIC = IN A NUTSHELL = JIMMY CARTER = JUST COOL IT = KING OF ISRAEL = MAGIC WEAPONS = MARIE LAVROFF (Amalantrah) = MORPHOLOGY = MULTIVERSE = NEUROPLAGUE = NINE-NINE-NINE (AQ-207 = BABYLON-NICK = THE MAN MOTH = THE OLD ONES = THREE NINES = CHAMELIONIS) = PALEOZOIC ERA = PENETRATIVE = PERRY MASON = SACRED CALENDAR = SHIA RELIGION = SUPER ALLOY = TECHNO-FUNGAL = THE_BLANK_SPACE = THE NOX STAR = TRANSFINITE = TRIDENTITY.
AQ 147 = MOTHMAN = APOPHIS = DOG STAR = ELECTRIC = ENTITY = FLAT TAX = FOOLISH = GUARDIAN = HANUKKAH = KUNDRY (Abuldiz) = NUMERAL = OLD ONES = SATURN = SHEKINAH = STAR GOD = THELEMIC = THE SIGN 11 (Abuldiz) = TRIGGER = VAMPIRE = VASSAGO = VISHNU = WISE MAN.
AQ 178 = DASAVATARA (The Ten Avatars) = 36 SONNETS = CONDORCET = ELECTRICAL = HUMAN MIND = HURRICANE = ILAN RAMON = KITTED UP = LIBER ALEPH = MELTDOWN = METATRON = MOMMOLJO = NAUGHT GOD = PLATINUM = POETPIET = PROPHECY = RAMON CAJAL = SIMULACRA = THE OD AND OB = THELEMITE = TIDAL WAVE = TO ME - TO ME = TZAPQIEL = USE-VALUE.
AQ 508 = THE THIRST FOR ANNIHILATION = FLUVIAL [=CONSOLE = GEMATRIA = LUMIERE = OIL-FIEND] / ALLUVIAL [=BABYLONIA = CEMETARY = COCK-CUNT = COSMIC EGG = ECSTATICA = KUTTADID] PROCESSES = CONSOLIDATING THE METAVERSE.
Mesh-12. Kuttadid (Kitty). Ticking Machines. Pitch Cth-2 Net-Span 5::2 Cyclic Chronodemon of Precarious States. Prowls Hold-Current Decadology. C/tp-#2, Mn- [2D]. Rt-1:[275] Mn. Maintaining balance (calendric conservatism). Rt-2:[541872] Mj. Exhaustive vigilance. [+1 sub-Rt].
AQ 280 = TICKING MACHINES = 1. YEA, IT IS I, BABALON. (LIBER 49).
AQ 387 = EXHAUSTIVE VIGILANCE = CYBERNETIC CAPITALISM = ORGANIZING KNOWLEDGE.
AQ 416 = CALENDRIC CONSERVATISM = CALLING THE SACRED THINGS = THE BEAR OF WARWICKSHIRE.
AQ 178 = DASAVATARA (see AQ-271 = THE TEN AVATARS) = MOMMOLJO (see AQ-178 above).
Mesh-34. Mommoljo (Mama Jo). Alien Mother. Pitch Cth-4. Net-Span 8::6 Amphidemon of Xenogenesis Decadology. C/tp-#4, Mj- [4S]. Rt-1:[817236] Cosmobacterial exogermination. [+1 sub-Rt]. Rt-2:[817256] Extraterrestrial residues (including alien DNA segments).
AQ 557 = COSMOBACTERIAL EXOGERMINATION = PC EVASION OF CULTURAL REALITY.
AQ 529 = EXTRATERRESTRIAL RESIDUES = TERRORISTS FIGHT LIKE GIRLS.
AQ 306 = ALIEN DNA SEGMENTS = LIBIDINAL ECONOMY (see AQ-306 above).
AQ 416 = XENOGENESIS DECADOLOGY = AMORAL FUTURIST ELITE (bmr) = ANOTHER KING SHALL REIGN = IMMEDIATE, MAGICAL CAPTURE = MONOTHEISTIC MEME-PLAGE = ROSALIND ELSIE FRANKLIN = THE BEAR OF WARWICKSHIRE = THEISM VS. ATHEISM DEBATE = THIRTY DAYS IN THE HOLE.
AQ 107 = MAMA JO = AETHRA = ARCHER = CARBON = DEBAUCH = DHYANA = DIVIDE = DOOGU = DOUBT = ENDING = ENTER = EXALT = GAMUT = GIVES = GODHEAD = HARIEL = HAWK'S = KINEMA = KLASS = KOZAI = LUANDA = MASKED = MASON = MU-NMA = NARGAL = NETER = OPUS = ORIAS = OVUM = PHYLA = POLAR = QUEEN = RIGHT = RUDRA = SENSE = SWARA = TALON = TERRA = THINK = THORA = TONAL = UNDER = VEPAR = ZEUS.
Mesh-02. Doogu (The Blob). Original-Schism. Pitch Ana-3. Net-Span 2::1 Cyclic Chronodemon of Splitting-Waters. Ciphers Gt-21. Shadows Surge-Current. 2nd Phase-limit. Decadology. C/tp-#1 Mn+ [1H]. Rt-1:[1872] Mn. Primordial breath (pneumatic practices). Rt-2:[271] Ambivalent capture, hooks (live-bait, traps, plot-twists) Rt-3:[27541] Mj. Slow pull to stasis, protection from drowning. [+1 sub-Rt].
AQ 127 = THE BLOB = AVATARA = GUATAMA = MEHADAVA.
AQ 282 = ORIGINAL-SCHISM = EIGHT-EIGHT-EIGHT.
AQ 396 = SLOW PULL TO STASIS = JIHADI TACTICAL DOCTRINE = REPENT! REPENT! REPENT!
AQ 489 = PROTECTION FROM DROWNING = ORAL TRADITION OF THE ELDERS.
AQ 219 = ALIEN MOTHER = ANGLOSPHERE = BIO-SORCERY = BLACK PUSSY = CAPE CANAVERAL = CIURLIONIS = FOR GOD'S SAKE = GONOPODIUM = HERE AND THERE = INTOLERENCE = KEY TO MAGICK = MATERIALISM = MENTAL ORGAN = MOR-DIAL-HCTGA = OROBOROUS = POMO DICTUM = PROTON PACK (Black Mesa) = SEGREGATION = SEVEN SUNS = SHANGHAI, CHINA = SHIA + GEMATRIA = SUKLA PAKSHA = THE ERAN TABLE = THE GREAT RACE (AQ-301 = KURZWEILOMICS) = THE REUNION = VERMOMANCY = ZAUIR ANPIN.
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article....aspx?
id=073103A
The movie-going public is being treated to a depiction of the rivalry between two Depression-era horses -- War Admiral and Seabiscuit. One can view the future outlook for the United States economy as a similar contest, in this case between Moore's Law and Medicare [...] What I mean by THE GREAT RACE is the contest over which will grow faster -- the government or the economy.
AQ 271 = WORM-SORCERY (Vermomancy) = ABOMINABLE SENSE = BORDER COLLAPSE = CIRCULAR PI BOND = DATA PROCESSOR = JEAN CLET MARTIN = ONE MAGICKAL CHILD = SIX-RAYED STAR = THE ENGLISH CABALA = THE TEN AVATARS = UNDER-ESTIMATE (Kurzweilomics) = WORLD CONFLICT.
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article....aspx?
id=101805C
If Kurzweil is correct that we mistakenly apply linear models to forecasting in a nonlinear world, then investors would consistently UNDER-ESTIMATE the long-term growth rate of the economy and of the stock market. That might explain some of the persistent equity premium. If investors were to apply a more accurate nonlinear forecasting model, stock prices would jump to a higher level, beyond which the excess returns from holding shares would be minimal. Instead, using linear thinking, investors are continually surprised.
"JIMMY CARTER = KING OF ISRAEL" - further confirmation, were it needed, of the infallibility characterizing Alpah-Qabbalistic method.
From northanger's Krauthammer link above:
"So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.)"
infallibility? how so? what does carter have to do with king of the jews?
just saw this (didn't know carter was a kossack).
northanger - it's your equation, deal with it!
was my gentle sarcasm really so imperceptible?
More Krauthammer:
http://www.time.com/time/
magazin...1176995,00.html
obvious overlap, so apologies for repetition
> was my gentle sarcasm really so imperceptible?
j/k.
This is a season of renewal, when the Earth brings forth life. The Koran tells us of a prophet and a king of Israel for whom God's power "made the violent wind blow tamely." The Old Testament tells us the words of that same king, the words of King Solomon, David's son: For every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
hmmm.
AQ 228 = KRAUTHAMMER = GOLDEN AVATAR = GOBLET OF FIRE = NOX FLAMMUS = ORPHANDRIFT = SET PATTERN = THE EQUINOX = THE END IS HERE
AQ 265 = RICHARD FEYNMAN = ALEXANDER DUGIN (Russian scholar & political activist) = WWIV HAWK-MODE
AQ 141 = FEYNMAN = DECEMBER 26, 2004 = INTEGER = INTEGER = KAMAKAZE = KURTZ = MOIETY = MUSLIM = NINETY [AQ-90 = HYPE = BAGHDAD = LOVE = MESH-09 = MESH-18 = MESH-27 = MESH-36] = PARADIGM = RUSSIA
AQ 616 = TODAY TEHRAN, TOMORROW THE WORLD = COOPERATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL SETUP (see AQ-234) = WILLIAMS-FITZGERALD-FLAUJEAC FACTOR (see AQ-449)
AQ 234 = THE_BLANK_SPACE = ANNIHILATION
AQ 449 = KININ-KALLIKREIN SYSTEM = ESCALATION OF MONOTHEISM = FUND THE FAUSTIAN SPIRIT = HUMAN SECURITY SYSTEM = ISLANDS OF PATHOGENICITY
AQ 430 = CAN THERE BE A THIRD FUTURE? = INDIFFERENCE TO ARGUMENT (Nick's Troll Manifesto) = AFROATLANTEAN MUTATION = EVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE = KILLED DURING A COVERT OP. = THEORY OF COMPUTATION
AQ 357 = CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER = EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL = AMPHIBIOUS SACRIFICE = BOOK OF ANTI-DEMON LAW = OCCULT NEO-FASCISTS = SECURE THE OBJECTIVE = SIGNS ARE ARBITRARY = SYNTHETIC ECONOMY = TRUST AND CONFIDENCE = U.S. SPY SATELLITES = ULRICH VON BECKERATH = VENUS OUT OF ORBIT
AQ 171 = ELEMENTY (see AQ-265) = FOOD FIGHT = INDONESIA = PEDOPHILE = SHOGGOTH = SICKNESS = TZIKVIK
AQ 321 = LOVE OUT OF ORBIT = BARKERIAN SCARRING = BLACK MESA COMPOUND = ACTS OF RESISTANCE = ORDER OF THE WORLD = SCHIZOSTRATEGY = SYNTHETIC WORLD = TELLURIAN WEAPON = THE CROAKING CURSE
AQ 260 = SKIN-CRAWLERS = FOREVER AT WAR = NUCLEAR WARHEAD = OH FOR DOG'S SAKE! = PROOF THEORY = RIGHT IS RIGHT = WORLD-MEMORY (D&G)
nick. very good Krauthmann link; no repetition apologies needed. The Great Feynman! imho, Krauthmann's 90% right but still not clearly identifying the real threat of nuclear proliferation. we've lived with that threat since 1945. we'd need to calculate the probability of a United States first strike against Iran. we'd have to be realistic about Iraq's WMDs. Feynman's observations on space shuttle reliability after the Challenger disaster: "What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?" — what is our fantastic faith in nuclear weaponry?
Krauthmann: Our planet is 4,500,000,000 years old, and we've had nukes for exactly 61. No one knows the precise prospects for human extinction, but Feynman was a mathematical genius who knew how to calculate odds. If he were to watch us today about to let loose the agents of extinction, HE'D CALL A HALT TO ALL BRIDGE BUILDING.
Feynman (after WWII): ...there wasn’t only one bomb available, but it was easy to continue to make them, and therefore that things were sort of doomed because already it happened to me—very early, earlier than to others who were more optimistic—that international relations and the way people were behaving WERE NO DIFFERENT THAN THEY HAD EVER BEEN BEFORE and that it was just going to go the same way as any other thing and I was sure that it was going, therefore, to be used very soon. —The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
This Unscientific Age (Feynman on probability, rats & calculating the odds) — I now turn to another kind of principle or idea, and that is that there is no sense in calculating the probability or the chance that something happens after it happens. A lot of scientists don't even appreciate this. In fact, the first time I got into an argument over this was when I was a graduate student at Princeton, and there was a guy in the psychology department who was running rat races [...] And then he noticed, most remarkably, that they alternated, first right, then left, then right, then left. And then he ran to me, and he said, "Calculate the probability for me that they should alternate, so that I can see if it is less than one in twenty." I said, "It probably is less than one in twenty, but it doesn't count." He said, "Why?" I said, "Because it doesn't make any sense to calculate after the event. You see, you found the peculiarity, and so you selected the peculiar case." While coming in here, I saw license plate ANZ 912. Calculate for me, please, the odds that of all the license plates in the state of Washington I should happen to see ANZ 912. Well, it's a ridiculous thing. And, in the same way, what he must do is this: The fact that the rat directions alternate suggests the possibility that rats alternate. If he wants to test this hypothesis, one in twenty, he cannot do it from the same data that gave him the clue. He must do another experiment all over again and then see if they alternate.
Nukefix (designed for analyzing & fixing the nuclear weapons problem) — The following nations possess nuclear weapons and would have to deliver BREATHTAKINGLY HIGH LEVELS OF RELIABILITIES: Pakistan, India, Israel, China, France, Britain, Russia, and the United States. North Korea can also be included in the list with the caveat that there is debate about its status [...] In Nukefix, you will be able to see the level and kind of reliabilities EACH NATION must deliver in terms of willful peacefulness, and in terms of sufficient competence, to prevent an accidental/unauthorized use [...] Though you will probably find that the key components are clear-cut and easy to grasp, it is also likely that you will be shocked that some of the reliability levels now required of nations are far higher than those that we are accustomed to in our day-to-day lives. While the levels are frequently high enough to seem implausible, with Nukefix you will quickly find why they are indeed required.
Until the Challenger space shuttle accident occurred on the 25th space shuttle flight, NASA quite specifically and publicly maintained that there was only one chance in 100,000 flights that a space shuttle rocket would fail. More competent risk assessment might well have served to prevent the Challenger accident.
From elementary techniques to sophisticated modeling, we can learn a great deal about the nature of risk. The math need not be complicated. Consider, for example, an "optimistic" case of ten ostensibly peaceful nuclear-weapon nations, each of which is so peaceful that it would initiate one, and only one, nuclear attack once in 300 years. One might be mislead to think that such a scenario would produce a "peaceful world." However, look carefully at the problem. The outcome is not intuitively obvious. Given, for example, a 900 year period, each of these nations would initiate 3 attacks, if they performed as stipulated [900/300=3]. With 10 such nations, this would mean 30 nuclear attacks during the 900 year period [10*3=30]. Thirty nuclear attacks over 900 years hardly constitutes a peaceful or secure world, notwithstanding that each of the nations appeared peaceful at the outset. Such a performance would mean one nuclear attack every 30 years, on average [900 years/30 attacks=30 years per attack]. There are now at least eight (possibly ten) nuclear weapon nations. These nations will have to be far more reliable than stipulated in this exercise for the world to be nuclearly peaceful.
northanger -thanks for Feynman quotes. The risk analysis is thought-provoking, but also IMHO rather flawed (after the first nuclear attack the status-quo would be unlikely to revert to the previous one - rather, every unreliable nuke-armed state would either be obliterated or forced to disarm under threat of same)
It's Krauthammer BtW (try to mnemonize a giant block of depleted uranium battering Shroeder tom-and-jerry style into the blood-and-soil)
>>after the first nuclear attack the status-quo would be unlikely to revert to the previous one - rather, every unreliable nuke-armed state would either be obliterated or forced to disarm under threat of same
is that what they come up with? sounds like Feynman's rats.
[peering sleepily at krauthMANN / krauthAMMER ... hmm; :getting coffee, counting fingers: it's hammer time, if i had a hammer, hit the nail on the hammer ...]
"sounds like Feynman's rats" - what's changed, for better or worse, is based on a trend (not driven by the major nuclear powers, BtW) towards the 'normalization' of nuclear weapons. A small state with relatively crude atomic rather than thermonuclear devices could probably launch an attack killing in the range from tens of thousands to a few millions, marking simultaneously a radical escalation from conventional bombardments and an equally pronounced de-escalation from the tens to hundreds of millions expected to die in a superpower thermonuclear 'spasm' war. I'm assuming the mere use of atomic weapons under present conditions would trigger an extraordinary response - i.e. sweep away entirely any residual Treaty of Westphalia respect for the sovereignty of small lunatic states. In any case, seems disturbingly probable that we'll find out.
hmm.
AQ 228 = PROBABILITY = KRAUTHAMMER.
AQ 265 = NELSON GOODMAN = ALEXANDER DUGIN = DELOCALISATION = EMERGING CHURCH = HOMO EUROPUS = IT IS WRITTEN = LOTUS FLOWER = PASTORAL SCENE = PETER THE GREAT = RATE OF INCREASE = RICHARD FEYNMAN = THE FINGER OF GOD = THE HOUSE OF GOD = THE PRIMORDIAL = WORSHIPPERS = WWIV HAWK-MODE.
AQ-265 tracking back to Reza's mereology discussion. path: AQ 104 = VIVI-6 = AL QAEDA = LIBER 49 ⇒ AQ 170 = NIGHTFALL = BLACKZONE = HIDDEN IMAM = KARL MARX ⇒ AQ 175 = PITCH BLACK = FEBRUARY 20, 2003 = KATE MOSS = LARA CROFT = MENTALESE = POLITICS = STAR CHILD = SWASTIKA = TACYTICAL = VICTORY = WENZHOU ⇒ AQ 87 = GRUE = HALABI (see MAHDI) = MESH-06 = MESH-15 = MESH-24 = MESH-33 = MESH-42 ⇒ AQ 265 = NELSON GOODMAN.
>>In any case, seems disturbingly probable that we'll find out.
oh joy, senseless self-fulfilling gloom-doom. maybe i should go watch teevee & stop this senseless counting. you brat.
northanger - OK, "gloom-doom" is hyperstitionally contra-indicated, positive thinking is self-fulfilling etc etc, but it can't be that we're theoretically compelled to adopt a rigid-grin happy-clappy mode ... hmmm, this actually seems like an interesting perplex
don't mean to AQ-159 = PERPLEX = SHUT [you] UP & be a TRIPWIRE (Half-Life), but AQ-190 = GLOOM-DOOM is NIETZSCHE, ALIENATION & SHRINKING-LIBERALISM. however, as you've said before, some things are a SUPERB IDEA.
like, for instance, AQ-952 = HMMM, THIS ACTUALLY SEEMS LIKE AN INTERESTING PERPLEX = RACE BETWEEN RESEARCHERS AND THEIR MICROBIAL ADVERSARIES (Creative Nets in the Precambrian Age).
AQ 196 = MEREOLOGY = ANTI-CLIMAX = ASSMASTER = AXSYS CODE = BLUE AND GOLD = CANNIBALISM = CERTAINTY = CONCEALED GOD = CYBERPUNK = DON PASCUAL = DOUBLE DEATH = DUTY ROTA (Half-Life) = FASTER MODE (Kurzweilomics; Robin Hanson arrives at an even more striking forecast: "we might see yet another transition to a much FASTER MODE, if such faster modes are possible. The suggestion is fantastic, namely of a transition to a doubling time of two weeks or less sometime within roughly the next century.") = FOUR BALANEB (four guardians of the four corners of the universe) = GALVESTON = HOLD HER HAND (Abuldiz) = IMMERSION (Half-Life; The game tells the story by flowing into scripted sequences that are integrated as part of the game rather than as cut scene intermissions. These sequences range from the introduction of major plot points such as the resonance cascade to bringing the player into a particularly difficult part of a level. Two of the intended results of this style of presentation were to increase IMMERSION and to maintain a contiguous narrative that keeps the player's interest.) = INSPIRING = IRIDESCENT (Book of Thoth, 7-Cups, Debauch; The Lotuses have become poisonous ... green slime issues from them and overflows, making the Sea a malarious morass. Venus redoubles the influence of the number Seven. The cups are IRIDESCENT, carrying out the same idea) = MARC LAIDLAW (Half-Life; sci-fi writer & game designer; wrote "The 37th Mandala" & "terrible Lovecraftian-style monsters", "Neon Lotus" & "The Orchid Eater"; two of his books appear in Half-Life in Gordon Freeman's locker) = MARCHOSIAS (Goëtic demon; name comes from Late Latin 'marchio', marquis) = NETJER ANKH = NOOSPHERE = NULL PITCH = OCCULTISM = ONE-IN-EIGHT = PETRUCHIO = PIECE OF CRAP = RA-HOOR-KHU = RED-HERRING (see: IGNORATIO ELENCHI) = REMEMBRANCE = RIGHT WING = RUA COPH NIA = SEX KILLER = SOURCE SDK (Half-Life) = SPACE-MARKS = STAR RUBY = SUBTLETY = THE PERFECT = VUILIGHEID (Northanger: i'm referring to all-round muck. are we not mired in vuiligheid, bungle, drek, sporcizia, mist, estiércol, gödsel, dung & sludge? here, there & everywhere?).
AQ 308 = IGNORATIO ELENCHI = ALIEN CONTROLLER (Half Life) = AMARANTH WORKING = BROWNIAN MOTION = CALIFORNIA RISING = ECONOMIC FORECAST = EXTREME TRACKING = FAUSTIAN SPIRIT (bmr) = FORESIGHTEDNESS = GRAY MATTER DUMP = ISLAMIC COUNTRY = JONATHAN SELLERS = MATHEMATICAL MODEL = MONTAUK PROJECT = NEW IMAGINATIONS = PHLOX PANICULATA (AQ-1229 above) = SENTINEL OF CASCADE = TEN COMMANDMENTS = THE COMING ANARCHY = THE KEY TO THELEMA = VIDEO GAME CONSOLE (Half-Life) = X-RAY DIFFRACTION.
northanger - drowning (ecstatically of course) in your links as usual - beginning with the TCS kurzweilomics piece - looks superb
AQ 300 = CARRIERS (UN)LIVE = ABSTRACT MACHINES = ASIA TIMES ONLINE = BASIN FOR WASHING = CHRISTIAN VANDER = COLD RATIONALISM = DECIMAL LABYRINTH = DECIMAL REDUCTION = ESCAPED SPECIMENS (Half-Life) = GARLAND OF ISLANDS = GASOLINE ADDITIVE = GLOBAL NETWORKS = NETWORKED MINDS = NEWCASTLE BROWN = ******* PEDOPHILE = NOMADIC AI TROLLS = NONLINEAR WORLD (Kurzweilomics) = SCALAR EM WEAPONS = STOOPING DRAGON = SURAT AL-KAWTHAR (Sura #108 - Abundance; Tradition has it that al-Kawthar ... a word that occurs only once in the Qur'an, is the name of a river in Paradise. On Yaum al-Qiyamah ... all of those who truly believed in Allah will be led to al-Kawthar where they will drink only once, and will never hunger or thirst again.) = THAUM-AESCH-NIA-ETH = TURNING THE TIDE.
AQ 581 = THE HEAVENLY FOUNTAIN OF ABUNDANCE = MEMBRANES: METAPHORS OF INVASION (How Do Fictions Become Hyperstitions? — "Doyle's stories abound with threats to this national body. British literature of the 1980s often conflates biological and political threats, and Doyle, a doctor who had fought in South Africa, allows the two merge in Holmes's adventures. When foreign germs and poisons are manipulated by vengeful malefactors in his fiction, the biological dangers are not a metaphor for political threats; they ARE political threats." — Laura Otis, Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics)
Remarks on Asiatic Peace - no.1
Western critico-paranoid agents have only two presupposed cognitive maps for 'Asiatic peace': one, Loss of Will as their own 'domesticated Shangri-la' (Buddhism?), then Revenge as a fermenting cloud rising from the entrails of Asia, taking flight on the sky of the western lands to corrupt them. Ramón y Cajal's For a secret Offense, secret Revenge [7] (A secreto agravio, secreto venganza), Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and among contemporary writers Istvan Csicsery-Ronay's Futuristic Flu or the revenge of the future [8], all are bound to this ruthlessly colonial (and utterly pathetic) but disguising philosophy: "for a secret offense, secret revenge." ... Laura Otis in her work Membranes [9], in spite of its academic prose, uncovers the revenge formula with an insightful tenacity, showing how the formula of revenge (for a secret offense, secret revenge) entangles deeply with the Asiatic horror that colonialism and its paranoid agents find on their own grund.
AQ 113 = SPASM = AMERICA
AQ 182 = MEROLOGY = SPASM WAR
AQ 284 = NORMALIZATION = ANTI-AMERICANISM
[undo]
AQ 182 = OMEGA-PEST = SPASM WAR (see AQ-182 above)
Mereology :: "theory of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole"
AQ 108 = WHOLE = ALEMBIC = ASTER = AWFUL = B.ROWE = BATHIN = BEWARE = BREATH = COLOR = CREEDS = DELUGE = FORBID = GRADES = HAIAIEL = HEPTAD = IMAGES = JESHU = JONES = LARIAM = LUST = MARBAS = MELEKH = NAKASH = NO-ONE = OASIS = OLIVE = ORACLE = PARIS = PENIS = QADESH = RATIO = RISHI = SAINT = SIGHT = SKIES = SMOKE = SOFALA = STAIN = TO OV = UMABEL = USE ME = VAGINA = VALIS = WITCH = Y2K-OS = YEARN.
AQ 91 = PART = ADEPT = ALBALI = AOUR = BAOTH = BOTHA = BREACH = BURN = CALLED = CHANT = CHAOS = DUSK = FLASH = FONT = GIMEL = HANDS = HORN = HMWK = IRIS = JESU = JUNE 2003 = KOLGA = LAMAS = LIBER = LUCIA = MAUT = MELEK = MESH-19 = MESH-28 = MESH-37 = MESHA = MU'AT = NADIR = PASS = SACRE = SHAME = SONG = SUFI = VAHAN = WANGA.
AQ 76 = OBEAH = ( )HOLE = ACHOD = AQUA = BLUE = CHIEF = CHIT = DECADE = FINK = HARM = HEIR = HSP-60 = IBEX = IDOL = JOAN = LACAN = LINE = LOLA = LUBE = MAYA = MIND = NAGHA = NEAT = NILE = NOAA 720 = NOT = NUN = PAIN = RAPE = ROBE = SEEK = TARA = VALE = WAKE = WAY = WEAK = YES.
AQ 94 = GREEN = 360 DAYS = AHURA = ANGLO = BANDAR = BEGGAR = BROW = BUDDHA = CAROL = CAUSE = CUNT = DIGIT = DOST = EIGHT = FIFTH = GALGAL = HANGS = HECUBA = HELIO = INTO = KHUR = KISS = KOCHAB = LAUGH = LIBYA = LILY = MEUS = MUSE = NEST = NIGRA = NOON = OLAHM = PHASE = ROGHA = SHAPE = SPEED = STAR = THEY = WANT = WARP = ZAGAN.
AQ 167 = OBEAH-WANGA = ADAM KADMON = AIN ELOHIM = ANCESTOR = AUGOEIDES = BLACK MOON = BLACK ROSE = CELESTIAL = CONCUBINE = CULTIST = DISCOVER = DRAGON HEAD = ELYSIUM = EMPIRICAL = FEMINIST = HATHA YOGA = HEPTDOMAD = HEREAFTER = HORMAKHU = KAKHUZHI = KOCH STAR = MAKASHANAH (Abuldiz) = MANYHOOD = MARXIST = MASSAYEL = NOUMENAL = PASS NOT = PLATEAUS = POLYGON = POLYMER = QUINIUM = RED DRAGON = SACRED LAW = SAHASRARA = SHROUDS = SON OF GOD = STATURE = THEURGY = THURIBLE = TO SERVE (Abuldiz) = VESPERS = WEST SAGA.
AQ 209 = NOMINALISM = ADOLF HITLER = AMPHITERON = CHORONZON = EPOTHILONE = FAULT LINES = GATE OF LIGHT = GHETTOIZED = HEAP OF GARBAGE = INACCESSIBLE = INTERESTED = LINGAM-YONI = MAJOR SHIFT = MAX BORDERS = NECROPHILIA = OFFERTORY = PASSIONATE = PERCEPTIVE = REDEMPTION = RICK HUSBAND = SELF REDEEMED = SHIT IS CUT = TAO TEH CHING = TAROT CARDS = THREE GRADES.
AQ 216 = NOMINALIST = AGATHODAIMON = ARNOLD KLING = ATOMIC LEVEL = CUP OF BABALON = DAWNING SUN = DOUBLE HELIX = FALLEN ANGELS = GUINEA WORM = FORECASTING = HEPHAISTUS = KING OF ZION = MAYAN ELDERS = MECHONOMICS = NEW ORLEANS = THE LAMB OF GOD = UNIMAGINABLE.
AQ 545 = BACCHUS GREW OLD, AND WAS SILENUS = HIGH-TECH SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES (Half Life) = HIS OWN REALITY OF PERCEPTION = LESBOVAMPIRIC CONTAGION-LIBIDO (Iris Carver — Crypt-sorcery makes itself real in the same way that it spreads. Functioning as a plague, it associates with the experimental production of an anticlimactic or anorgasmic counter-sexuality, attuned to the collective re-engineering of bodies within technobiotic assemblages, ultimately composed of electronic streams or ionic currents in their sense of positive hole-flow. Since Crypt-sex is precisely identical to the infections it transmits, counted in body-shifting vectors, its libidinal composition is marked both by a palaeoembryonic or oestrogenetic non-gendered femininity and a lateral haemometallic influenzoid virulence.) = LESSON 2: WE ARE NOT TIED TO TEXT = REPHRASE THE TEMPORAL PROGRAM = SCATTERED, SMOTHERED AND COVERED = ULTRA-HOLLYWOOD HAPPY ENDING.
Hyperstition: Machines are digging (google cache)
Holey Space or more accurately '( )hole Complex' (with an ever-evaporating W) speeds and triggers the opening of the Unlife and its convoluting, holing, coring out processes – vermiculating lines or tendrils of Anonymous-until-Now (see previous posts) – that eventually transform into a violent process of ungrounding, re-inventing the Earth as an Unground or what Deleuze and Guattari slyly appropriated as "the New Earth". The question is: The Tellurian–Omega or the Unground can still be called Earth? And then according to what chronologic current or based on what calendar, according to what becoming, it can be mapped as NEW (the new earth)? The Unground is a shadow out of time.
Lovecraft has an alarming but over-neglected passage about this holey space or ( )hole complex as the zone through which the Outside gradually but persistently emerges, creeps in (or out?) from the Inside.
"Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl." (H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival)
Pazuzu (The Dust Enforcer)
Yes, Hole is definitely a subject of discussion here. I think Locke for the first time talked about HOLE (I’m not quite sure). In the 90s, Achille Varzi and Roberto Casati wrote a book on Hole and other modes of super-ficial parasitism which you may find helpful, of course, if you haven’t read it yet (check The State University of New York for the articles and Amazon.com for the book). I prefer to talk about Hole as Cata-space (see CCRU Shanghai’s post on Katak and Catadromic space) or ‘( )hole complex’ since HOLE is bound to mereotopological problems (where is the surface?, where is the hole?, what is part?, what is whole? And all through mereological analyses) which somehow restrict the discussion. CATA-space or ( )HOLE Complex as you mentioned are bringing many subjects: darkness, where-ness, Falling (Descent) as Falling Angles, Diagrammatic Space, Unground, traffic zones, etc. (for more details on Cata and darkness, see: Cata- Remarks on Depth and Darkness (diagramming the abyss))
On ( )hole complex, please see: Anonymous-until-Now (cont.)
AQ 306 = THE BUSH DOCTRINE = LIBIDINAL ECONOMY = THARGOLA'S SWORD.
[cracking up]
Opinion Duel: Andrew C. McCarthy & Mansoor Ijaz (see: The Desert Grows)
Reform Doctrine = Islam is Violent
Reform Believers = Islam is Peaceful
AQ 289 (1) = REFORM DOCTRINE = MUJAHEDDIN LINKS
AQ 307 (1) = REFORM BELIEVERS = MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
Chip ramps up neuron-to-computer communication
http://www.newscientist.com/
arti...munication.html
found old Infineon press releases (scroll down for image links):
Technology Innovation: Neurological Biosensor Chip from Infineon Technologies Can Measure Electrical Activity in Living Cells, Breakthrough Promises New Techniques for Neuroscience and Drug Development (11-Feb-2003)
Neuro-Chip from Infineon Can Read Your Mind - New Findings in Brain Research Expected (11-Feb-2003)
AQ 190 = NEURO-CHIP = NIETZSCHE.
AQ 379 = NEVER STOP THINKING (Infineon Technologies tagline) = ANATOMICALLY CORRECT = CORPORATE STRATEGY = EXPONENTIAL GROWTH = NORTHERN HINTERLAND = POKER WITHOUT CARDS = PROTEIN SYNTHESIS.
AQ 398 = INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES = BY RIGHT OF ATTAINMENT = DIPLOZYGOTIC SPIRAL (Barker-Spiral; numerical diagram combining decadic and 9-Sum coupling; see: Professor DC Barker) = EXPLANATORY PREMISE = ICONIC OF GORDON FREEMAN (Half-Life; Crowbar, simple melee weapon that is ICONIC OF GORDON FREEMAN and Half-Life) = INTERESTING PERPLEX (Nick) = NORTHERN CONSTRUCT = PATTERNED AND LOCALIZED = REALITY-AMPLIFICATION.
AQ 509 = NEUROLOGICAL BIOSENSOR CHIP = DERANGED FUTHNORKING GNOSIS = ENGINEERING LINES TO HORROR (Follow the dark line, that is what Pest insinuates. It is patently demonic in this sense. It is the ‘erroneous’ path, a trajectory abominated as malignant both to God and to Man, and placed by Eliphas Levi under ‘a spirit of agitation and subversion.’ It tells females forbidden secrets (in the way of the nephilim): Octavia Butler understood it well.) = METAPHYSICS OF INFORMATION = MULTIMODALITIES OF REALITY = POLYTENDRILLED ABOMINATION = THE SEA OF DIGITAL PHILOSOPHY.
AQ 736 = NEURO-CHIP FROM INFINEON CAN READ YOUR MIND = CCRU DOES NOT, HAS NOT AND WILL NEVER EXIST = TERROR HAS HYPERSTITIONAL INTENSITY (through acting upon mass psychology, belief systems, media apparatus etc. intrinsically 'communicative').
AQ 158 = INFINEON = CMOS CHIP = INFINITE = #25143-ITOKAWA (asteroid) = AHATHOOR = ANNULENE = ASHEMOGHA = BE SILENT = BLUE FLAME = DEEP PAST = DEEP-SHIT = ELEUSIAN = EMPRESS = FASCINUM = FORBIDDEN = GAME OVER = HEPTAGON = HUSSEIN = INTEGRAL = IN-WORLD = KATONOS = LIKE A SON = LOATHING = LYOTARD = MAYA KOSA = MAZLOTH = MEME-PLAGE = MNEMONIC = MOHOMMED = MOLECULE = MONTAUK = MURMUR = NEITZACH = NEPTUNE = NUCLEUS = PATHOGEN = POLEMOS = PROMISE = RED CIRCLE = SCOOTER = SCORPIO = SHOOT ME = SNAKE OIL (Piet) = SWEETER = TEMPLEX = TEMPLON = THYSELF = TRACTOR = TRIANGLE = TUESDAY = UTRECHT = VERSUS = VORTEX = WILDFIRE = WRETCHED = YIN YANG.
AQ 178 = INFINITY = DASAVATARA (The Ten Avatars) = HOJATIYAH.
AQ 883 = CHIP RAMPS UP NEURON-TO-COMPUTER COMMUNICATION = WITH THE GOD & THE ADORER I AM NOTHING: THEY DO NOT SEE ME | (Liber AL I:21).
President Discusses Democracy in Iraq with Freedom House
Some, of course -- let me say, if I might make a philosophical statement about how I think. As Peter mentioned, there is a philosophical debate taking place in the world -- at least I think it is -- and that is whether freedom is universal, or whether, one way to put it, it just applies to only a handful of us. I believe in the universality of freedom. That's what I believe. Much of my foreign policy is driven by my firm belief that everybody desires to be free; that embedded in the soul of each man and women on the face of the Earth is this deep desire to live in liberty. That's what I believe. I don't believe freedom is confined just to the United States of America, nor do I believe that we should shy away from expressing our deep desire for there to be universal liberty.
You hear the debate, well, they're just imposing their values. That's all they're doing. Well, those are the folks who must not think that freedom is universal. They're not American values. There's something universal about the notion of liberty -- at least I think it is. And that's what's going to drive my foreign policy. I'll be unabashed about trying to work for more free societies. I believe that's the calling of the 21st century. I meant what I said, that in the 21st century, America ought to work to end tyranny in our world. It is a noble goal for the United States of America.
- - - -
One of the interesting debates we have about the freedom movement is whether or not institutions have to be right before there's elections. So in other words, kind of one of these interesting philosophical debates that's taking place. My answer -- you heard my answer -- my answer is, you got to have -- you can't wait for perfect, because it's an excuse for the status quo.
AQ(DR) 8 = (233) GOTHIC AVATAR = (107) CARBON = (116) SECANT = (125) BIOTECH = (134) LUDIUM = (152) GAMEPLAY = (161) BIONIC MAN = (170) GAME ENGINE = (206) NEURAL GLUE = (215) GAME ECONOMY = (224) PANDEMONIUM = (233) UNREAL ENGINE = (242) COLONEL WEST = (251) MULTIPLAYER = (251) PLAYSTATION = (251) SINGLE PLAYER = (251) SCIENCE OF LOGIC = (260) WORLD-MEMORY.
The Simulacrum's Revenge
Viewed conventionally, the opposition between God and Golem describes a set of hierarchical relations which place God – as the transcendent Ideal – at one end, and raw matter at the other. Looked at one way, God and Golem are at either side of “man”: God creates “man”, and man creates Golem. This would be to describe the relationship in terms of an analogical structure, in which man is the analgon of God, just as the Golem is the analgon of Man. A chain of resemblance slaves production into a hierarchical structure going from God, through Man, to the Golem. Here, the Golem story is about hylomorphism: like God before him, man shapes formless matter into the shape of the body of a living creature But this is only one way of construing the God, human and Golem relation. Told another way, the relationship between God and Golem can also be about the escape of orphan matter – Worringer’s “Gothic avatar” - from Deleuze-Guattari’s “Judgements of God”: the supposedly fixed and immutable arrangement of matter into “strata”. (See TP, especially “Who Does The Earth Think It Is?”) If, as Baudrillard says, this is no longer a question of “semblance or dissemblance, God or Man”, for Deleuze-Guattari there is something else involved here, beyond a straightforward “revenge” of an “object”: the processes they describe are, in Nick Land’s terms, “self-regenerating circuitry, cumulative interaction, auto-catalysis, self-reinforcing processes, escalation, schismogenesis, self-organization, compressive series, deutero-learning, chain-reaction, vicious circles, and cybergenics.”[217] These are processes that go beyond “revenge” and “reversibility”, and instead require a whole reconfiguring of questions of temporality and causality under the sign of rhizomatics and a – strictly non-metaphorical - sorcery. What is initially crucial here is the concept of “surplus value of code.”
AQ 369 = LUMPENPROLETARIAT = ABSTRACT EQUIVALENCE = CITY OF THE PYRAMIDS = COMBINATORIAL RULES = DEEPLY SWAMPED IN OIL = EVOLVING FRAMEWORK = KATZMAN IS FANTASTIC = ON-THE-SPOT EMERGENCE = TECHCENTRALSTATION.
AQ 326 = DANGEROUS CLASSES (Marx) = ABRAHAMIC ESCALATION = GENETIC TINKERERS = HECTORING HEIRESS (k-punk) = MAGICAL RETIREMENT (Abuldiz) = MAGICAL RETIREMENT (LAM Gateway) = MOTHER-FATHER-CHILD = QUANTUM MECHANICS = SATAN OF CYBERSPACE = SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE = THE HEAD OF THE DRAGON = U.S. LAUNCH VEHICLES = WILL-TO-STRUGGLE.
AQ335 = SWAMP-LABYRINTHS (Oddubb) = ALPHANUMERIC VALUE = CLASS-SUPREMACISM = COGNITIVE ARMS RACE = CONSOLE METAVERSE = CONTACT DISAGREEABLE = CRYSTALLOGRAPHY = EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE = GEMATRIA OF NOTHING = GENETIC MIX-AND-MATCH = IONIZATION CHAMBER (Half-Life) = IT IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE = LAND OF THE WATCHERS = MUTATIONS OF TIME = STRATEGIC OVERLAP = THE PATH OF THE SNAKE = THIS RENOMU THING.
AQ250 = SWAMP-FLOWER (see: lumpenproletariat & dangerous classes) = A PERFECT CIRCLE = BLIND IDEOLOGY (Intelligent Design) = CYALIS THELEMA = CYNOCEPHALUS = FIGURE IT OUT = FORTH-SPEAKER = HYPOTHETICAL = JESUS CHRIST = LACANIAN COGITO (k-punk) = LAVENDER MIST = MATERIAL EFFECT = MICHAEL STALEY (LAM Gateway) = NEBEHR GÜDAHTT = NON-ZERO-SUM = PANJ TAN-E AAL-E ABBA = PATER NOSTER = PERSEVERANDO = RATCHETING UP (Kurzweilomics: However, since 1992, productivity growth has sped up. As this article from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco points out, "The performance of productivity in the U.S. economy has delivered some big surprises over the last several years. One surprise was in the latter half of the 1990s, when productivity growth surged to average an annual rate of over 3%, more than twice as fast as the rate in the previous two decades. A bigger surprise has been the further RATCHETING UP ... productivity growth averaged around 3.8% for the 2001 through 2004 period.") = THE ANCIENT ONE = THEN SAID ADONAI = UAA OCHRE (STOP) (transcription terminator; section of genetic sequence that marks the end of a gene or operon on the DNA for transcription - wikipedia) = WERNER RISAU.
AQ 857 = SWAMP-FLOWER OF THE PEASANT LUMPENPROLETARIAT = DOES THE ANGLE BETWEEN TWO WALLS HAVE A HAPPY ENDING?
AQ 148 = JG BALLARD = CRUCIFY.
AQ 165 = CRUCIFIX = MALCOLM X.
AQ 290 = MALCOLM X SPEAKS = OUTRAGED DENIALS = THE SPOKEN WORD = YOUTH LABOR LAW.
AQ 300 = BLACK NATIONALISM = IDENTITARIANISM = LEVEL OF CONTROL (NACHIP).
Union comp.. . no, not -ensation but -etition
Marvin Gandall wrote:
>(1) I think the differences between US and other union movements can be
>exaggerated. By their very nature, they all have to deliver bread and
>butter, and have seen politics as a means of doing this. There was more
>political militancy in periods of sharp class polarization, but this was
>also true of the US pre WWI. I don't see much difference today between US
>labour's support of the DP versus European support for its Labour and
>Socialist parties, although there is no question that the US's role as the
>preeminent imperialist power has produced a reactionary chauvinism which has
>tied American workers more closely to the system and its values - but all
>levels, not only that of the leadership.
European unions may be weakening today - the situation in Germany's
looking pretty bad - but what a difference in the old days! Could you
ever imagine a European union leader denouncing national health
insurance as "emasculating," as Gompers did? US unions have
historically been far more concerned with narrow bread & butter
issues than their European counterparts.
>(2) I don't understand your rejection of the closed shop where workers are
>required to join the union as a condition of employment, or even the more
>widespread check-off system, where workers are not required to belong to the
>union in order to hold down a job but are required to pay dues to it through
>the employer's payroll office in exchange for receiving the benefits of a
>collective agreement. I understand thisis also Fitch's position.
I don't know what I think of Fitch's position on this. But he argues
that Euro unions got much further without a closed shop and a
monpology. He prefers the continental model of multiple unions -
socialist, communist, Catholic - that have to compete for workers.
The US model of a monopoly union with a very detailed contract is
rather unusual, or so he says.
A few years ago, France had something like 10% union density but
something like 80% of workers were covered by a union-negotiated
contract. How'd that work?
Doug
an earlier thread:
> All trade unions in all countries confronted such violence, legal
> obstacles, and fear of reprisal from the boss. Arguably, American
> unions had it easier than European unions. After all, the US ruling
> class, unlike the European ruling class, did not impose fascism on
> the populace here. And yet, American unions are fatter and more
> corrupt than European unions. It's time to look at unions themselves
> to understand why.
>
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi
>
>
>
Yoshie:
Yes, what you say is true. But you needn't say it. The larger issue is: why
are folks being so thick about a book that is well worth struggling with.
L'il Kim wrote a self-serving review, faulting Fitch for "oddly" ignoring
"the power of business in America," when, conveniently, the power of
business is the topic of her next book (and I hope she doesn't drop the
ball.) More to the point, business power is hardly absent in Fitch's book.
Neither is class struggle. He demonstrates how business wages a class war in
Europe, too, but unions overseas have at least been able to advance a social
democratic agenda, so that more than a shadow of welfare legislation and
working class protections remain in those nations. It's his take on
corruption and clientalism, which have fragmented solidarity here, that is
new. If Philips-Fein can't see that class struggle is at the heart of Bob's
analysis, it's because she's not looking. Matt Witt, an ex Teamster
insurgent who should know better and is now ensconced at the Labor Center in
VA ,also swipes at Bob, and for writing a brief he thinks that Karl Rove
could subscribe to. Saying that is either scurrilous or dumb, and you
decide. It is surely sad that that is how the left argues.
You know, I work for a union, too, and defending Bob's book is no day at the
beach. But I'm damned if I'll say anything as preposterous as that he is
doing the man's work. He's doing OUR work, or at least starting the effort.
( And that's the last I'll say about it until my own review is finished.)
Mike Hirsch
northanger's given up writing ABOUT the Singularity, she's writing FOR it. Nothing with less than quantum nanocomputing capabilities is going to process this galaxy of gematria within the probable life-span of the universe.
p. - where's the sudden excitement about union activism coming from? Seems rather 19th century to me, special interests rigging labout markets and sludging up economic growth. All the stats suggest its yesterday's world, so unless you're asking us to join the fringe cult of militant nostalgists (mostly dead-weight public sector workers and arts students in my experience), why should we care?
BtW, according to a recent poll (quoted by neomarxist William Pfaff in the IHT), 74% of Chinese say the "free-enterprise and free-market system" is the best possible economic arrangement. 36% of French agree (actually more than I would have guessed).
sd - following link.
Same poll cited by Elaine Sciolino, here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006...8/news/
mood.php
Here's the Pfaff piece:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006...ews/
edpfaff.php
Chock full of leftist intellectual pathologies IMHO - e.g. essentially antimarket instincts and complete absence of positive suggestions - still, relatively lucid as these things go.
David Rennie on militant nostalgia:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opini...03/29/
ixop.html
On Thomas Sowell:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/ed...ml?
id=110008144
northanger - gematria overload - LOL (That's exactly how I'm imagining you, it's uncanny)
AQ 718 = UNION COMP... . NO, NOT -ENSATION BUT -ETITION = MODEL OF THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF BENZENE.
AQ 371 = MARVIN GANDALL WROTE = 'BARGAINING' COMES NEXT = COLLECTIVE POLITICS (k-punk) = NOMOS AGAINST POLIS = REFRACTED MOVIE-LIGHT (PJ-Mullins).
AQ 832 = 24.75 GR. (TROY) OF FINE GOLD OR 371.25 GR. (TROY) OF FINE SILVER = AND THE WELL HATH EIGHT PILLARS, AND A CANOPY ABOVE IT (MAZ, 6th Aethyr) = WORKING TO BUILD A BETTER FUTURE FOR ALL MANKIND (Half-Life).
AQ 245 = MARVIN GANDALL = BREAKNECK SPEED = COMPUTER GAME (Half-Life) = DESTRUCTIVE = DNA COMPUTING = EM FIELD ENERGY = FECKLESSNESS = FIRST TRUE AI = GUO SHOUJING = GREAT PYRAMID = HAWK-HEADED LORD = HOLY HEXAGRAM = INTERCHANGABLE = JUSTIFIED ONE = KENNETH GRANT (LAM Gateway) = PHOTOMETRY = POWER REDUCED = PROVOCATIVE (Today's Vitamin B - Efficient Markets Hypothesis & Adaptive Markets Hypothesis; Recently, we came across an intriguing research paper written by Andrew Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management and Chief Scientific Officer, AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, that aims to synthesize the two theories and provide an alternative paradigm. In his PROVOCATIVE paper, Professor Lo notes that recent research in the cognitive neurosciences suggests that the EMH and BEF perspectives are really nothing more than opposite sides of the same coin. Lo proposes an innovative, new framework that reconciles market efficiency with behavioral alternatives by applying the principles of evolution – competition, adaptation, and natural selection – to financial interactions.) = SHELBY STEELE = STORM SURGE = TACTICAL LINES = THE EXORCIST = THE FIRST KEY = THE MESA TIMES (Half-Life) = UNUNUTTIX.
AQ 264 = POLARIZATION (Piet: Marvin Gandall) = OVERCONFIDENCE (Beyond Market Efficiency) = COUNTER-CHANGED = DAIVIPRAKRITI = DATA-BASE SHARING = EXTRA-MATERIAL = MANTRIKA SKATI = MENES THEOROS = META-NARRATIVE = NIGHT OF POWER = OBEY PERDURABO (Abuldiz) = POINT IN CIRCLE = TECHNO-DIALECTS = THALATH RISHIN (Abuldiz) = THE AEONIC WORK = THE HIEROPHANT = WAR ON TERROR = ZEUHL WORTZ (Music of the universal might).
AQ 164 = CALCULUS = ASIAN PEACE = CROWLEY = ELECTRON.
AQ 297 = CALCULATE THE ODDS = ANDERSON COOPER 360°.
AQ 381 = DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS (Deleuze) = CONSTANT RESISTANCE (Coulomb blockade) = DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID = ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE (Spark Gap; measure of the degree to which an object opposes passage of an electric current; SI unit of electrical resistance is the ohm).
AQ 440 = HISTORY OF THE CALCULUS (Badiou on Deleuze) = ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE, ABM = BREAKING THE CARBON BARRIER (Molecular Migration) = EMPIRICAL JUSTIFICATION = LEVEE BREAKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 = PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS = PROPAGATING WAVE IN SPACE (Electromagnetic radiation is a propagating wave in space with electric and magnetic components that oscillate at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation) = THE SINGLE SEPARATE THING (PJ-Mullins) = THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE = WORST PLACE IN THE WORLD.
AQ 481 = THE INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS (Deleuze) = DISTILLATION OF BENZOIC ACID = DYSTOPIANIST CRITIQUES (Druj Notes) = MARXIST DIALECTICAL TWIST (Piet) = OBSCENE AND SHAMEFUL SECRETS (7 of Cups, Debauch) = SOSA-STRADONITZ SYSTEM (SEE: AHNENTAFEL & AHNENREIHE) = THE OMNIPRESENCE OF MY BODY.
AQ 546 = THE CALCULUS OF THE INDIVIDUALS (Goodman and Leonard, 1940) = ALLEGED DANGERS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (Molecular Migration) = SPACE OF ANONYMOUS PROCESSES (Druj Notes) = WHICH IS VITAL, FOR I AM NONE INDEED (Liber AL II:15 — For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret.).
AQ 214 = AGE OF KHATTAK = LIBER CHANOKH.
AQ 1248 = BARBARIC OR PRE-SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATIONS OF THE DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS (Deleuze) = L A Z o d a P e L a M e D a Z o d a Z O D a Z o d I L a - Z o d U O L a T a Z o d a P e K A L a T a N u V a D a Z - o d a B e R e T a (Liber Chanokh: The First Mighty Name of God Almighty coming forth from The Thirty Æthyrs).
AQ 595 = I R O A I A E I I A K O I T a X E A E O H e S I O I - I T E A A I E (Liber Chanokh: The Second Mighty Name of God Almighty coming forth from The Thirty Æthyrs) = TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA (Amalantrah) = STEYN CUTS STRAIGHT TO THE CHASE.
AQ 1004 = L a N u N u Z o d a T a Z o d O D a P e X a H E M - A O A N u N u P e R e P e N u R A I S A G I X a (Liber Chanokh: The Third Mighty Name of God Almighty coming forth from The Thirty Æthyrs) = LET THE FOAM OF THE GRAPE TINCTURE MY SOUL WITH THY LIGHT! (Liber LXV I:62).
hey, thanks p.
DISPOSSESSING AFRICA’S WEALTH
nick. urm, thanks.
AQ 309 = GALAXY OF GEMATRIA = ABSENT OBLIGATION = COUNTER-INDICATED = ELECTRIC CURRENT = E PLURIBUS UNUM = EQUITY PREMIUM (Kurzweilomics: The Equity Premium Puzzle - As an aside, Kurzweil's analysis may contain a solution to a problem in economics known as the equity premium puzzle.) = LICENSE PLATE ANZ 912 = LION-ASLAN-CHRIST = MULLINS'S PROSE (Christian Andre Pellet) = NOTHING MATTERS = NUMBER TWINNING = RANDOM VARIATION = SEPHER YETZIRAH = THE EIGHT NUMBERS = THE FLAMING SWORD = UNTO THE LAST MAN.
AQ 543 = WRITING FOR THE SINGULARITY = CHOPPING UP CONTEMPORANEITY (Even if Omega-Pest runs on hydrogen nanofusion, the concrete war-machines chopping up contemporaneity are indubitably very oily.) = EXPANDING RING-LIKE FROM THE BASE (Creative Nets in the Precambrian Age: Numerous cells switch gears. Rather than reproducing couch potatoes like themselves, they marshall their remaining resources to produce daughters of an entirely different kind - rambunctious rovers built for movement. Unlike their parents, members of the new generation sport an array of external whips with which they can snake their way across a hard surface or twirl through water. This cohort departs en masse to seek its fortune, expanding ring-like from the base established by its ancestors. The travels of the fortunate lead to yet more food.) = I COME INTO THE CENTRE OF THE MAZE (MAZ, 6th Aethyr; But now I come into the centre of the maze, and whirling dust of stars and great forgotten gods. It is the whirling Svastika which throws off all these things, for the Svastika is in aleph by the shape and number, and in beth by the position of the arms of the Magician, and in gimel because of the sign of the Mourning of Isis, and thus is the Crown defended by these three thunderbolts. see: AQ-832 above).
AQ 559 = BLACKNESS AS A POLITICAL CATEGORY (k-punk) = PROCESS THIS GALAXY OF GEMATRIA = INTERCONTINENTAL OPERATIONS = THE WORD OF SIN IS RESTRICTION.
AQ 663 = QUANTUM NANOCOMPUTING CAPABILITIES = AND THERE IS WRITING IN GREEK ABOVE THAT (MAZ, 6th Aethyr; There is a writing upon the Urn of which I can but read the (two) words: Stabat Crux juxta Lucem. Stabat Lux juxta Crucem. And there is writing in Greek above that. The word "nox" written in Greek, and a circle with a cross in the centre of it, a St. Andrew's cross. Then above that is a sigil(?), hidden by a hand.) = MOST BEAUTIFUL NAKED BOY 5 OR 6 YEARS OLD (Amalantrah; Then a most beautiful lion was standing by the fire. The wizard was standing and still held one or two sticks in his hand. He smiled and said, "Child."' I then saw a most beautiful naked boy 5 or 6 years old dancing and playing in the woods in front of us. T. asked how he would look dressed and when I saw him in conventional clothes he looked very uncomfortable and repressed. He looked as if he should be dressed in skins such as tigers'. To one side near the place where I made the fire was a large turtle standing up as a penguin stands. The wizard was very happy and satisfied looking. He sat down and reached out his hand to me and had me sit down beside him. As we watched the boy he put his left arm around me tenderly and placed my head on the left side of his chest near the shoulder. He said, "It's all in the egg."') = MY HEAD IS JEWELLED WITH TWELVE STARS = THE SUBJECT SUPPOSED TO LOOT AND RAPE (Zizek; ...this need to find another who “really believes” is also what propels us to stigmatize the Other as a (religious or ethnic) “fundamentalist.” In an uncanny way, some beliefs always seem to function “at a distance.” In order for the belief to function, there has to be some ultimate guarantor of it, and yet this guarantor is always deferred, displaced, never present in persona. The point, of course, is that this other subject who directly believes does not need to actually exist for the belief to be operative: It is enough precisely to presuppose his existence, i.e. to believe in it, either in the guise of the primitive Other or in the guise of the impersonal “one” (“one believes…”). The events in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck the city provide a new addition to this series of “subjects supposed to…”—the subject supposed to loot and rape).
AQ 273 = KEITH OLBERMANN = ABSTRACT LOVER = ABSTRACT STUFF = ANNOYING PRICK = CHINVAT-PERETO = CORONA BOREALIS = DESIRING MACHINE = DR OSCAR SARKON = IEHOVAH ANGELUS = JUSTIFICATION = LYNN MARGULIS = MAKING COMPOST = MASSIVE HURDLE = NEUTRAL CENTER = OPABINIA REGALIS = ORAL TRADITION = PARTICLE CLOCKS = R1 ALGORHYTHMS = RACIST FANTASY = SELF MADE PERFECT = SUREFOOTEDLY = SWARM-JOURNAL = THE OBEAH AND WANGA = THIS LINE DRAWN = WILLIAM CAXTON.
AQ 579 = COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN = I WHO AM THE IMAGE OF AN IMAGE SAY THIS = LAMINATED-LIBERTY-PATTERN MOTIF (IT) = SAFFIR-SIMPSON CATEGORY (4) - FLORIDA.
AQ 175 = OLBERMANN = FEBRUARY 20, 2003 = MICROCHIP.
AQ 176 = A BABE IN AN EGG = PENTAGRAM.
AQ 274 = IT'S ALL IN THE EGG = FANGED NOUMENON = COLLABORATORY = LUCIFER-GNOSIS = MULTI-AGENT GAME = RESONANCE CASCADE (Half-Life) = VAMPIRE NUMBER = VERTEX and FACET (monde).
AQ 377 = SIX LUMBAR VERTEBRAE (k.olbermann) = COMMODITY-THEOLOGY (k-punk) = COMMUNICATION LINKS = COMPLEX STRUCTURE = COMPLEXITY THEORY = CREATORS TRUE PITY = FIELD INTERROGATORS = HISTORICAL CATALYST = NARRATIVE POLARITY = OUTPUT PER WORKER (Kurzweilomics: Labor productivity is perhaps the most important statistic in the economy. Over time, output per worker is what drives wage rates and the standard of living.) = SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE (Half-Life) = TECHNOLOGICAL ARRAYS = THE EYE OF THE OUTSIDE (Druj Notes) = THEORETICAL PHYSICS (Half-Life) = THEORY OF TELEPATHY = THIS IS OBJECTIVITY.
fishing for more thankstopi(e)t obviously . .. . .. . next back thing to driving you to africa (if you get my ((nuclear)) drift ((anxiety)) .. .scuze, reading to many thanatopians lately).
Organization of the chapters
Submitted by keith. on 2005-08-17 12:00 AM.
The first half of my book, The African Revolution (TAR), is difficult to
organize, in that the chapters overlap. At present I start in Part I with
three takes on Africa: 1. as seen in the western media and through
disciplines such as anthropology 2. a highly subjective personal memoir
of what Africa has meant in my life 3. a more abstract account of Africa's
place in world history, emphasising Africans' active participation in
world society rather than their normative exclusion from it., Part II looks
at African history in more detail: 4. the long delay in Africans'
emancipation from structures of extreme inequality -- slavery,
colonialism and apartheid (now a global principle) 5. the anti-colonial
revolution as seen through the vision of writers from outside Africa, such
as Mohandas K. Gandhi, C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon. 6. The
political failures of the post-colonial period marked by 'development' as
the ideology of relations between rich and poor nations.
It is obvious that 3 overlaps with 4 and 5, especially since the
intellectuals of the anti-colonial revolutuion are the principal sources for a
more active portrait of Africans' participation in world history. So far I
have sketches of a good part of Chapters 3 and 4. And I have
completed a version of Chapter 2 -
http://www.thememorybank.co.uk/T...k/TAR/
chapter_2 -, the personal
memoir. This also needs to be contextualized by what I write in the
Introduction and put in other chapters, especially those dealing with the
twentieth century in Part III.
I have always held that getting out a first draft is less than half the writing.
Most of it lies in the rewriting when the chapters begin to talk to each
other and to assume a more organic shape. This seems to be inevitable
here and I expect the table of contents to change quite significantly
before long.
sorry there thanatopican .. .eh old nickelboy (double spacing unintentional).
I'll make it up to ya:
When the housing bubble bursts, blame the Fed, not China
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:48:45 -0000 From: "Rowan Berkeley"
The operative paragraph wrapped up in this stale piece of Misesian theory is:
"If China sold its holdings of US Treasuries, their yields would rise initially. But the dollars obtained from liquidating US bonds will flow elsewhere. If other dollar-denominated assets are purchased, their prices will rise and their yields fall. Therefore, a sell-off by China of US Treasuries cannot affect dollar interest rates."
-- the circularity of the "argument" lies in the arbitrary proviso, "if other
dollar-denominated assets are purchased".
(2) Hong Kong, Singapore and the Asia Pacific Economies, by Andy Xie
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:22:34 +0800 From: "Max"
Hong Kong, Singapore and the Asia Pacific Economies
by Andy Xie
http://www.japanfocus.org/articl...icle.asp?
id=528
piet.
AQ 568 = THE CIRCULARITY OF THE "ARGUMENT" (Piet: Rowan Berkeley) = ABSOLUTE UNGROUNDING PROCESS (Druj Notes) = DISCONTINUOUS CHRONO-SPATIAL (bmr) = ELEVATED ENERGETIC PARTICLE FLUX = ETHICAL MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS = POLYALPHABETIC SUBSTITUTION = RETURN "BOOK IV" TO THE BROTHERS (Abuldiz).
AQ 1120 = CHEMICAL COMPOUND CONTAINING OXYGEN AND ONE OTHER CHEMICAL ELEMENT (NACHIP) = THE CIRCULARITY OF THE "ARGUMENT" LIES IN THE ARBITRARY PROVISO (Piet: Rowan Berkeley) = WHICH KNOWEST THE GREAT NAME RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THE SEAL OF HONOR (15th Enochian Key: O Thou The Governor Of The First Flame, Under Whose Wings Are 6739 Which Weave The Earth With Dryness; Which Knowest The Great Name Righteousness, And The Seal Of Honor; Move And Appear! Open The Mysteries Your Creation! Be Friendly To Me, For I Am The Minister Of God, The True Worshiper Of The Highest!; see webstream).
AQ 1073 = UNDER WHOSE WINGS ARE DARG [=6739 (AQ-25 = 1987 = AF = BE = FA = P] WHICH WEAVE THE EARTH WITH DRYNESS (15th Enochian Key) = A-NOW SQUIRMLES FEEDING ON THE ROTTING BLACK CORPSE OF THE SUN (The Hyperstition of Porphyrin: No blood for oil!: WoTerror cannot be radically (and technically) grasped as a Machine without Oil greasing its parts and recomposing its flows. Have you read Dean Koontz’s novel Phantoms? [...] Koontz imagery is really helpful for the 'Thingness' of oil, its subterranean cohesion as a singular anorganic body with its own agendas -- assuming here that 'the blob' (of course, we'll do better than this namewise, but as an occasional slang moniker it works quite well) takes on an increasing 'agentic' function on the journey 'up-river' (from GAS-station to chthonic reservoir? A-Now squirmles feeding on the rotting black corpse of the sun?)).
AQ 66 = DARG = 1937_NN = ABIDE = ABMN = AMY = ANNA = ARCH = ART = ASIA = ATAH = BAHIA = BEDS = BENI = CHEN = DEEP = DRAG = DUAD = ELDI = FACT = FEAR = FOR = HAIL = HIV = MABN = MAGI = MAKE = MAY = NANA = NET = OSE = RAJA = TEN = YAM.
AQ 827 = IF OTHER DOLLAR-DENOMINATED ASSETS ARE PURCHASED (Piet: Rowan Berkeley) = HERMETIC PRACTICES HAVE NO SUBVERSIVE POTENTIAL.
AQ 1947 = THE CIRCULARITY OF THE "ARGUMENT" LIES IN THE ARBITRARY PROVISO, "IF OTHER DOLLAR-DENOMINATED ASSETS ARE PURCHASED" | (Piet: Rowan Berkeley) = THEREFORE THOU WRITEST THAT WHICH IS OF MOTHER OF EMERALD, AND OF LAPIS-LAZULI, AND OF TURQUOISE, AND OF ALEXANDRITE | (Liber LXV I:4).
AQ 178 = MELTDOWN = POETPIET = STOP HERE.
hmmm, nick. is this deliberate? æ ligature appears 12 times in meltdown (single quotation terminator 11x; period terminator 1x). a nutshell of your capitalistic thesis.
AQ 66 = æFLU.
AQ 70 = æCOLD'
AQ 70 = æHOT'
AQ 264 = æUNRULY HERDS'
AQ 294 = æSOCIAL DEMOCRATIC'
AQ 327 = æWESTERN MARXISM'
AQ 346 = æECONOMIC SOLUTION'
AQ 381 = æACCELERATE THE PROCESS,'
AQ 496 = æINCREASING THE HUMAN HERITAGE'
AQ 595 = æ[W]HICH IS THE REVOLUTIONARY PATH?'
AQ 928 = æTHE GREATEST TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN HISTORY'
AQ 1157 = æOUR ABILITY TO ARRANGE ATOMS LIES AT THE FOUNDATION OF TECHNOLOGY'
AQ 928 = æTHE GREATEST TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN HISTORY' (Nick Land, "Meltdown") 00928=FICTION IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED TO OFFICIAL PHILOSOPHY = THE RAPTURE OF UNION THAT DESTROYS, THAT IS THE WAY (THE GLOW-WORM, "The Book of Lies": The reflection of All is Pan: the Night of Pan is the Annihilation of the All. Cast down through The Abyss is the Light, the Rosy Cross, the rapture of Union that destroys, that is The Way. The Rosy Cross is the Ambassador of Pan.).
Manifeste du Refus global (French)
Refus Global (English)
Pour un Québec lucide - A warning to the working class
northanger - 'æ' is an accidental glitch - is it speaking to you?
The Twelfth Imam?
btw, see here
>>is it speaking to you?
[sigh] thought it could be accidental glitch. you're aware of how digital ligatures handled? 12th Iman, yes. hitting a lot of ccru-links & this thing makes me think i'm back in the future. FLU? don't you think this roughly explains your capitalist gameplan?
something related to Islamic Mythos: reza mentions Sayyid Qutb here & here & "Berman's take on Qutb (victimology and lex talionis + Jihad: The Absent Obligation)"; think he's referring to this Berman article: The Philosopher of Islamic Terror.
while looking for more info on Qutb discovered it also refers to a name of Allah, "Divine analytic wisdom", star constellation, &tc.
Qutb means "axis," "pole," "the center," which contains the periphery or is present in it. The qutb is a spiritual being, or function, which can reside in a human being or several human beings or a moment. It is the elusive mystery of how the divine gets delegated into the manifest world and obviously cannot be defined.
Ancient Sailing and Navigation — The astrolabe was also known as a windrose, and traditionally it had many Persian names for stars. (eg. qutb al-gaah, mutla' al-silbaar, khaan (rhumb) etc., which the Arabs must have taken from a Persian windrose. However, many other names are Arabic and in some cases an older Arabic name was displaced by a Persian one. Eg. The Ursa Minor constellation (Ursa Minor and Major) was banaat na'sh before it became qutb al-gaah.
• Sayyid Qutb @ youngmuslims.ca
• Milestones by Syed Qutb
• Is this the man who inspired Bin Laden?
• Osama's Brain
• Zero-belief: victimology and lex talionis
• Victimology
• Lex talionis
• the law (lex) of retaliation
• What can criminologists learn from Fritz Lang?
Islam Mythos questions: someone made a comment here, "Al-Qiyamah technically has no Apocalyptic or revealing theme". Reza has written: "Islamic Apocalypse is an anti-absolute polytics" & that "applying the term Revelation (apokalypto) to Islamic account of Apocalypse is highly problematic". Judaism/Christianity apocalyptic literatures speak of revelation, resurrection, judgment, unveiling, &tc. summing up Reza in his Islamic Chronopolytics, Qiyamah (Ghiamat) is "An Abrupt Disruption" (Islam, or submission, disrupted) with themes of disillusionment, cessation, externality, participation — "an utter terminus for transcendental Absolutism". the very foundation of Islam (submission) is terminated. my first question involves how Islam scholars & clerics think Al-Qiyamah begins & do they think we're now in that period. do Islamic terrorists believe they can induce Al-Qiyamah? if so, by what authority? which sects? [still kinda working out questions — helpful info & links appreciated].
northanger - this will run and run (until it comes to a violent stop of course). Hunting for links ...
Jihadist ideology (book review):
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Mid...t/
HD01Ak04.html
Also from Atimes:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Mid...t/
HC31Ak03.html
I normally have mjor problems with Escobar's pieces, but this one has a few enticing nuggets.
On the 86ers:
"The crucial election of the Council of Experts (86 clerics only; no women; no non-clergy) will take place this coming summer, by universal vote."
On your topic:
"Ayatollah Yazdi is also the spiritual mentor of the Hojjatieh, a sort of ultra-fundamentalist sect whose literal reading of Shi'ite tradition holds that chaos in mankind is a necessary precondition for the imminent arrival of the Mahdi. Ahmadinejad may not be a Hojjatieh himself, but he totally understands where they are coming from."
Ending on a complacent infidel note:
"But it all goes way beyond Ahmadinejad. It's as if Iran as a whole needed someone to deliver the nation from its current plight. That certainly won't be Imam Mahdi."
Takfir:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/ta...e/?
id=110008170
And Mark Steyn (just for fun):
http://www.suntimes.com/output/s...dt-
steyn02.html
nick. thanks for the links. think we have the run+run, dumb+dumber bit down. let's talk about that violent stop.
AQ 266 = VIOLENT STOP = A SONG OF DEGREES = CLASSIFICATION (Druj Notes) = CTHULHU FHTAGN = END OF HISTORY (Francis Fukuyama) = FEEDBACK SPIRALS = HALF-LIFE: SOURCE (Half-Life) = JUDAS ISCARIOT = KALACHAKRA MANDALA = KING OF NOTHING = LIGHTNING BOLT = MOTHER NATURE = PARIS RING ROAD = PRIMORDIAL ONE = REPRODUCTION = RITUAL OF HOOR (Abuldiz) = SALATHRUSTRA = SENSE OF HUMOR (LAM Gateway) = SOCIAL REALITY (k-punk) = STEVEN PINKER = STORED ELIXIR (LAM Gateway) = SWASHBUCKLING (Master and Commander) = THE KEY OF IT ALL = THE MAD PROPHET = THE SERPENT EGG.
AQ 276 = A VIOLENT STOP = A DIPOLE COMPLEX = ALL IS NOT AUGHT = CIALIS NETWORK = COUNTER-COINAGE = CZECHOSLOVAKIA = DOCTRINE OF JIHAD = ELECTRICAL MAGICK = FORMAL SYNTAX = FUCKED UP STUFF = GAME TECHNOLOGY = HIMALAYAN ORCHID = HOLY HELL QUEEN = HYDRAULIC MODEL = IMPENDING C-CHANGE = K-SONIC FLATLINE = LASER TRIP MINE (Half-Life) = LIBER ARCANORUM = LINES OF DESCENT = LOSS AVERSION (Beyond Market Efficiency) = OEDIPAL COMPLEX = POSTHUMANISM (bmr) = QABBALODELIRIUM = RE-ORDERED SOUL = SEMIOTIC EVENT = SHADOW FIGHTING (Terrorists Fight Like Girls) = THE BLACK VILLAIN (Omowale Adewale) = THE CUP OF BABALON (LAM Gateway) = THE SON THE SUN = THE TRIPLE FLAME = THE WORD DIVIDED = TRUE DEVOTION = UNE TOURNANTE (gang rape) = WEDGE STRATEGY = WWW.TOSHO.COM (Tosoh Corporation).
interesting roundup from the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran:
The Light and Dark Sides of the War on Terrorism
From northanger's link (a Ledeen piece):
"So far as I know, this is not political satire, it’s reportage. And the point is obvious, isn’t it? We are not dealing with people like us ..."
gee willikers. Who is Michael Ledeen?
In an influential essay in the National Review Online he asserts, "Creative destruction is our middle name. We do it automatically ... it is time once again to export the democratic revolution."
Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi compares Sayyid Qutb to Malcolm X?
Tafsîr, that's what i was looking for. it means "explanation" or "interpretation".
Escobar piece mentions Jamkaran, a mosque with a well where the 12th Imam will (eventually) appear. they throw bits of paper with prayers down the well. this is the same mosque Ahmadinejad donated money (ah-so). wikipedia article mentions Al-Khidr, but first, the continuing McCarthy-Ijaz debate — how to interpret Sayyid Qutb. interesting exchange about "reality" (the hyperstitional Quran?).
bill (blogging Qutb's works): Qutb's writings ceased to offer social prescriptions on the order of the recommendations offered at the end of Social Justice in Islam. Instead (again quoting Ayubi) Qutb offered something else:
"...the Qutbian discourse is political in only a rather unusual sense. It tends to influence people's thoughts and actions in a psychologically tense way that creates in the individual not the ability to reconstruct reality, but rather the dream of breaking with that reality. It is a position of utter refusal to enter into any dialectical relationship with objective realities or to prepare any societal alternatives to the status quo. Rather, the task is to obliterate the existing order completley, and it is only then that the opportunity for applying options and solutions may emerge."
A dream of breaking with reality, a refusal to enter into any dialectical relationship with reality — that seems to be a fairly good description of those who plotted and carried out the September 11 attacks.
Abu Noor al-Irlandee (commentor): read Surah Haaqqah: The Reality! What is the Reality? Ah, what will convey unto thee what the reality is!
blog owner: Qutb's prescription for a transformed humanity is no prescription at all. It is instead a break with reality.
Al-Khidr
Sura al-Kahf: Moses seeks al-Khadir
As stated in Sura 18 (al-Kahf) of the Holy Qur'ān
Then Moses said: "That is the place we seek". And they went back the way they had come. And they found one of Our servants, whom we had endowed with Our grace and Our wisdom. Moses said to him" "Shall I follow you, that you may teach me for my guidance some of the wisdom you have learnt?"
But he answered: "You will not bear with me, for how should you bear patiently with things you cannot comprehend?
Moses said: "If Allah wills, you shall find me patient: I shall not in anything disobey you".
He said: "If you are bent on following me, you must ask no question about anything till I myself speak to you concerning it".
—
The person referred to as "One of our servants, whom We had endowed with Our grace and Our wisdom" is the figure of Khidr, "the Verdant One" who plays a pivotal role in Islamic mysticism.
note: qutb = pivot
The AOE and the Brotherhood of Nine
Reza: The People of the Cave: In Hadiths, it has been ordered that upon seeing Dajjal (again Zahak + Druj?) one should recite Surat'al-Kahf from Qur'an. This is a sura advised to be read on Friday, it has prophecies on Apocalypse and the end of the world. Kahf means cave, the sura is obviously narrating the lineaments of The People of Cave (the righteous ones) who rise once again at the end of the world, coming out of the cave to join the WAR. But there is no clarified explanation for the reason that Al Kahf must be recited upon seeing Dajjal, the ultimate evil rising from the lands between Iraq and Syria, where at the time of Jamshid, the Iranian King, the founder of the most ancient Parsi traditions, was a part of Persia, located at the border lands where Jamshid's sepah-salars (paladins) found the Dragon King, Zahak and asked him to accept the Crown of the Fallen Jamshid under direct orders of Zoroastrian mages. Zahak is also among The People of the Cave, living in a subterranean cave at Mount Damavand, waiting to join the monotheistic Omega.
Dajjal :: ("The Deceiver") is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology, who will appear before Yaum al-Qiyamah (Day of the Resurrection). He is the Antichrist, as viewed in Christianity. The Prophet Muhammad asked his followers to recite the first and last ten verses of Surah Al-Kahf (The Cave) as protection from the Dajjal. These verses deal with the beliefs and activities of the Christian nations. He also taught his followers to pray, "Ya Allah! I seek refuge in Thee from the trial of the Dajjal."
Jamshid :: In the Avesta, and later the Shahnameh, Jamshid had a magical seven-ringed cup (see The Cup of Jamshid) which allowed him to observe the universe. According to mythology, the Jaam-e Jam was filled with the elixir of immortality, which is in turn considered by some to be the precursor of the legend of the Holy Grail. Parsival or Perceval, may be a corruption of Pars-i-Var, or the Var of the Persians.
The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of the Last Hour (Kitab Al-Fitan wa Ashrat As-Sa`ah)
An-Nawwas b. Sam'an reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) made a mention of the Dajjal [...] He would appear on the way between Syria and Iraq and would spread mischief right and left. O servant of Allah! adhere (to the path of Truth). We said: Allah's Messenger, how long would he stay on the earth? He said.. For forty days, one day like a year and one day like a month and one day like a week and the rest of the days would be like your days. We said: Allah's Messenger, would one day's prayer suffice for the prayers of day equal to one year? Thereupon he said: No, but you must make an estimate of time (and then observe prayer). We said: Allah's Messenger, how quickly would he walk upon the earth? Thereupon he said: Like cloud driven by the wind. He would come to the people and invite them (to a wrong religion) and they would affirm their faith in him and respond to him. He would then give command to the sky and there would be rainfall upon the earth and it would grow crops.
what the hell is Ramon y Cajal's "the butterfly to the soul?"
HEEEEEEEEELP
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