"Keep your fingers & toes inside the vehicle, while in motion!"

Feb 13, 2021 01:13




Looking forward to celebrating this year of the Metal Ox in 2021!
And my overall suggestion for a guiding motto for the path ahead is something like:
"Keep your fingers & toes inside the vehicle, while in motion!"
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/52f8543c-8bbf-40a8-99cf-d8170cdd586f#98b8u37WSqi.copy

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In the transition, we seem to have learned another valuable lesson, the hard way:
"Agree and commit, disagree and commit, or get out of the way!"
https://seekingmastery.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/make-disagree-and-commit-work-for-you/

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In order to process what got us to this point, I think that it is also important to consider accelerationism from a Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective...
"a particular reading of Marx that emphasizes both Marx’s own dissatisfaction with the inherently exploitative and violent nature of Capital, while remaining convinced that the socially beneficial aspects produced by capitalism serve as productive grounds for Capital’s future dissolution."
https://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/12/10/deleuze-accelerationsists/

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"... for decades longer than more orthodox contemporary thinkers, accelerationists have been focused on many of the central questions of the late 20th and early 21st centuries: the rise of China; the rise of artificial intelligence; what it means to be human in an era of addictive, intrusive electronic devices; the seemingly uncontrollable flows of global markets; the power of capitalism as a network of desires; the increasingly blurred boundary between the imaginary and the factual; the resetting of our minds and bodies by ever-faster music and films; and the complicity, revulsion and excitement so many of us feel about the speed of modern life."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in

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In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that “there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.
https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/isaac-asimov-laments-the-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-united-states.html

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Here is that essay
https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

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"The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed" - William Gibson
https://aethyrflux.livejournal.com/tag/singularity

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law
https://aethyrflux.livejournal.com/39682.html

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Asimov's Corollary to Clarke's First Law: When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.
"Asimov's Corollary" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1977
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-are-clarkes-laws-2699067

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For those who have been recoiling from the inevitable paradigm shift (and attempting to retreat into extreme fervor, faith, fear, anger, & other unreasonably emotionally -based systems), Asimov offered a prescription:
"Asimov suggested that phenomenae of anti-intellectualism & The Cult of Ignorance could perhaps be conquered by increasing our social approval of learning and social rewards for learning!"
https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/cult-ignorance/

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My own methods are probably closer to "psychohistory," (from Asimov); but I have always preferred the term "prescience" (from Herbert).
https://signumuniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Mythmoot-III-Ottenstein-Neil-Menzies-Phillip-Foundation-Dune.pdf

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I do believe in contemplative/meditative/ceremonial states allowing us to connect with our unconscious minds and finding novelty in the emergent properties of synergetic systems... And this is one clear message that has come from observations of the changing of the seasons, recently:
"Steep, Danger"
https://archive.is/20121209191209/http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/winter.htm

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These stories also come from exploration of ancient cycles...

Mansion 9 Draught Ox/Qian Niu
Element: Metal Planet: Venus Animal: Ox Polarity: (-) Enclosing

This Mansion is part of the story of the Ox Boy and the Weaving Maiden who were married and, because they become so taken up with each other that the Weaving Maiden gave up her work, had to be separated. They now live on opposite shores of the Milky Way and see each other only once a year on the Feast of Women, when flocks of magpies build a bridge the Ox Boy can cross to see his wife. Here the boy is leading his Ox to market, to be slaughtered or sacrificed like the Red Bull carefully raised for the great Spring sacrifice that opens the fields. The Mansion presides over roads, paths, fields and barriers and warns against leaving doors open or tasks unfinished. Incompletion, failure of enclosure or the inability to let go of the past will bring sickness and starvation, discord and separation, broken marriages and disappearing
resources.

 This Mansion shows how your inner and outer lives can be re-connected.
Here Inspiring Force and Earth join to open a new world. This organizes
you to take effective action and find a group that lets your real
power and destiny emerge.

These are your instructions:
Omen for the Inner Center. This inner re-organization leads to
harmony with others.
A Pit with sheer sides.
Seek and acquire through the Small.
Do not leave the inner center. As you venture into danger you will get what you need by being flexible and adaptable. Have modest goals. Keep your sense of purpose. Do not impose your will and you will succeed.

Go to your inner center and contemplate all the situations that have caused you pain. Call on your helpers and guides. Collect the traumatic elements or screen memories of all those early experiences that keep you frozen in past  time, locked in the experience of being a child and a victim. Take the spirit of this Mansion into your heart and let it free you from your inner pain and
isolation, completely dissolving the inter-generational corruption and connecting you with the great family of the world. Embrace the sensual and visionary experiences and feelings that emerge and let them help you understand how each of these terrible things has been a gift, a gift that leads to transformation.

Guideway: Your connection puts you at the center of this group, a part of its origin. Gather the people. Adapt to what confronts you. Do not let this opportunity slip through your fingers. Use a great chariot, an inspiring idea, to carry your feelings and desires. Light and power will surge up from below, surrounded by the yellow light of the center. Strip away your old ideas. Be open and provide what is needed. Containing your fear and impulse now brings you a deep faith in the processes of life.

https://ichinglivingchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/4-Black-Turtle-Palace.pdf

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One of the Taosit Deities, known as Xuanwu had two Generals, one of whom was known as The Black Tortoise General of the North... these stories seem to clearly be about subduing your dragons/demons/shadows & making them work for you, rather than fighting them!

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In the classic novel Journey to the West, Xuanwu was a king of the north who had two generals serving under him, a "Tortoise General" and a "Snake General". This god had a temple in the Wudang Mountains of Hubei and there are now a "Tortoise Mountain" and a "Snake Mountain" on opposite sides of a river near Wuhan, Hubei's capital. Taoist legend has it that Xuanwu was the prince of a Chinese ruler but was not interested in taking the throne, opting instead to leave his parents at age 16 and study Taoism. According to the legend, he eventually achieved divine status and was worshiped as a deity of the northern sky.

Other Chinese legends also speak of how the "Tortoise General" and a "Snake General" came to be. During Xuanwu's study to achieve enlightenment and divine status, he was told that, in order to fully achieve divinity, he must purge all human flesh from his body. Since he had always eaten the food of the world, despite all his efforts, his stomach and intestines were still human. A god[which?] then came and changed his organs with divine ones. Once removed, the original stomach and intestines were said to have become a tortoise and a snake, respectively. The tortoise and snake became demons and terrorized people. Now divine, Xuanwu heard of this and returned to slay the monsters he had unleashed on the countryside. However, as the snake and tortoise showed remorse, he did not kill them but instead let them train under him to atone for their wrongdoings. They then became the Tortoise and Snake generals and assisted Xuanwu with his quests (another legend held that the mortal organs were tossed out to become Wuhan's Tortoise and Snake mountains).

According to another source, once Xuanwu had begun his study of the Way, he discovered that he must purge himself of all of his past sins to become a god. He learned to achieve this by washing his stomach and intestines in the river. Washing his internal organs, his sins dissolved into the water in a dark, black form. These then formed into a black tortoise and a snake who terrorized the country. Once Xuanwu learned of this, he returned to subdue them as in the other story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tortoise#Xuanwu

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Another says that Xuanwu was originally a butcher who had killed many animals unremorsefully. As days passed, he felt remorse for his sins and repented immediately by giving up butchery and retiring to a remote mountain for cultivation of the Tao.

One day he was assisting a woman in labor, while cleaning the woman's blood stained clothes along a river, the words "Dark (or Mysterious) Heavenly Highest Deity" (玄天上帝 Xuántiān Shàngdì) appeared before him. The woman in labor turned out to be a manifestation of the goddess Guanyin. To redeem his sins, he dug out his own stomach and intestines and washed them in the river. The river then became dark and murky. After a while, the river flowed clear and pure once again.

Unfortunately, Xuanwu lost his stomach and intestines while he was washing them in the river. The Jade Emperor was moved by his sincerity and determination to clear his sins, and made him an immortal with the title of Xuántiān Shàngdì.

After he became an immortal, his stomach and intestines absorbed the essence of the earth. His viscera transformed into a demonic turtle and a demonic snake, who started to hurt people. No one could subdue the demonic animals. Eventually, Xuanwu returned to earth to subdue them. After defeating them, he later used them as his subordinates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanwu_(god)#Qing_Dynasty_version

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In any case, while we are at it (whatever it is), let us keep in mind that: "Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings"
https://freewillastrology.com/beauty

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Meanwhile, I will consider this a holiday to celebrate curiosity, playfulness, and creativity as three aspects of the skills to stabilize our flexibility towards any possible stance towards "meaningness" and !

"Metasystematicity is closely related to the complete stance. It is the attitude that systems of meaning are of great value (because meaning is patterned), but none can be complete or fully correct (because meaning is nebulous). Instead, we must deploy multiple systems, comprehend and negotiate the conflicts and synergies among them, and be willing to act even when no system can guide us." - "Desiderata for any future mode of meaningness" by David Chapman
https://aethyrflux.livejournal.com/568178.html

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