most definitely, i will be there at C's as early as possible on NYE... it will be lovely to see you again! i have previous commitments to be out at the creek house before midnight, though. however, saturday evening, i am gathering a motley crew together to descend upon elysium... and there will be an afterparty, as well.
if you will bring my fscking comics to the creek house for NYE...nescafeDecember 29 2004, 09:06:25 UTC
I will bring some books that you will probably like. How about: The Age of Spiritual Machines The Adapted Mind (Ev Psych and the Generation of Culture) The Three Pound Universe Infinity and the Mind Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity Mapping the Mind
If you have already read any of these, let me know.
that sounds awesome! incidentally... i had brought some of Alejandro Jodorowsky's comics to games night to share with you for the last couple of weeks, but the first time, you weren't there, and the second time, poor allea was ill. so, i'll reconnoiter to the creek house and bivouac until you make yourself visible!
I think I've said this before but I love to read it when you bring together the many things you've been talking about. It's easy to see the connections in it all.
Arg! I want more more more! More knowledge. More synergy, synchronicity. More connections. I want the whole world's knowledge in my hands. It may be a foolish desire.
yeah, i too have sometimes wondered if i should be more concerned about where the boundary is between healthy fascination and dangerous obsession with synthesizing information
That was a great essay, thanks. Two quotes that struck me....
The "gods" in his stories are not gods as we usually think of them, but rather aliens, and primal forces. These entities existed for countless ages before man, and will exist long after he is gone. Their very existence is destructive to our sanity, and they care nothing for humanity. This can be exemplified by a quote from one of his most famous pieces, "The Call of Cthulhu," first published in 1928: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." The narrator of the piece goes on to say that if we knew what really went on in the universe, even in part, we'd either go mad as a society, or break down into a new dark age, eschewing the revelations of science altogether.it seems that Lovecraft participated in the fear he wrote about... fear of the unknown. if we don't know about it,
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- Lichtenberg
on the contrary, your praise in anonymity is humbling...
but please let us continue this dialogue?
in any case, keep up The Great Work!
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i have previous commitments to be out at the creek house before midnight, though.
however, saturday evening, i am gathering a motley crew together to descend upon elysium... and there will be an afterparty, as well.
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Adapted Mind (Ev Psych and the Generation of Culture)
The Three Pound Universe
Infinity and the Mind
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
Mapping the Mind
If you have already read any of these, let me know.
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incidentally... i had brought some of Alejandro Jodorowsky's comics to games night to share with you for the last couple of weeks, but the first time, you weren't there, and the second time, poor allea was ill.
so, i'll reconnoiter to the creek house and bivouac until you make yourself visible!
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Arg! I want more more more! More knowledge. More synergy, synchronicity. More connections. I want the whole world's knowledge in my hands. It may be a foolish desire.
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...quoth lovecraft, "there are secrets man was not meant to know!"
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The "gods" in his stories are not gods as we usually think of them, but rather aliens, and primal forces. These entities existed for countless ages before man, and will exist long after he is gone. Their very existence is destructive to our sanity, and they care nothing for humanity. This can be exemplified by a quote from one of his most famous pieces, "The Call of Cthulhu," first published in 1928: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." The narrator of the piece goes on to say that if we knew what really went on in the universe, even in part, we'd either go mad as a society, or break down into a new dark age, eschewing the revelations of science altogether.it seems that Lovecraft participated in the fear he wrote about... fear of the unknown. if we don't know about it, ( ... )
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and we made it through the cold war without creating a nuclear apocalypse, too!
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