From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2003
Horror Show wrote:
> And this may interest you too (he said sarcastically).
I acquired a
> copy of "Sefer Yetzirah - The Book of Creation"
from a local bookstore
> here in Lawrence. I learned that this was perhaps
the most ancient of
> all the Qabalistic texts. It was reportedly written
by Abraham
> thousands of years before Christ and seemed to
have provided the
> foundation for almost every Western Mystery School
tradition that ever
> was. Some of what I found:
>
> There are "32 mystical paths of Wisdom"
;
>
> The Universe was created "with Three Books,
with text, with number,
> and with communication" ;
>
> There are "22 Foundation Letters: Three Mothers,
Seven Doubles, and
> Twelve Elementals" ;
>
> "Twenty-Two foundation Letters: He placed
them in a circle like a wall
> with 231 Gates" ;
>
> Numerous statements about the Three Mothers (the
Hebrew letters Aleph,
> Mem, and Shin);
>
> "Three: Water From Breath.";
>
> "Seven: Three opposite Three and one is the
rule deciding between
> them...";
>
> Many more references to Seven;
>
> "...One on Three, Three on Seven, Seven on
Twelve, All are bound, one
> to another."
and so on.
My dear friend, here in the library of the Kooks Museum
we have a
couple dozen books, some of them big thick books, and
lots and lots of
pamphlets and fliers and scribbly little scraps of paper
all telling
in varying degrees of detail how SIGNIFICANT certain
numbers are, and
how they SEEM TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING and how it all makes
a DISTURBING
KIND OF SENSE. We call the people who write them "Numbers
Cranks."
They all have a DIFFERENT SET OF NUMBERS and yet they
are ALL THE
SAME. Some of them get a whole chapter in the book
KOOKS by Donna
Kossy.
If you had found half a dozen of these numbers cranks
about the time
you started making your discoveries (as I did) you would
see how
you're only repeating the same sort of thing that's
been done over and
over again by people even crazier than you - TO NO END.
It never
solves anything, but keeps the numbers crank going around
and around
making irritating noises for no purpose.
Shut up about your stupid numbers. You are only boring
people and
making yourself look foolish and crazy. I only tell
you this because
I actually kind of like you.
"THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANCE TO ANYTHING." - Ascended Master W.E.
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From: "Proud Baby Mudfoot" <me@privacy.net>
"nenslo" <nenslo@yahooX.com> wrote:
> My dear friend, here in the library of the Kooks
Museum we have a
> couple dozen books, some of them big thick books,
and lots and lots of
> pamphlets and fliers and scribbly little scraps
Oyeh!
Oyeh!
(Especially right over here, in the ever-expanding usenet wing...)
Life was different way back 5000 years ago. They didn't
have near the
vocabulary that we do now, especially the vocabulary
to describe mental
health/insanity. Therefore, the people of the time had
no easy yardstick or
measure of others outside of gut reaction (or maybe
they had 'Crazy/Not
crazy'); where others fit along the scale between 'ok'
and 'psychotic
sociopath'. Hence, the foregoing text (since deleted
from the thread)
became thought to be inspired. Still is by some, of
course.
> "THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANCE TO ANYTHING." - Ascended Master W.E.
A.k.a., Everything is arbitrary. Which I find comforting.
It takes the
burden off of me to figure stuff out. (If I used smileys,
I'd put one here,
but I don't.)
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
This cosmic crap is all well and good until you stub
your toe, or the
cops pull you over, or the bills come due. Then all
of the sudden
there's great significance in that nail poking out of
the floor that
you never noticed until it hurt your toe, or the tail-lights,
or the
fucking job. Miss a paycheck, wreck your car, and that
nifty
arbitrariness flies the coop.
That will be $30.
--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath
of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
"I'd like to think if this were all a fevered hallucination
of mine I
could hallucinate something where I get laid more."
- ME
That will be $40, 60 if you expect to cuddle aftewards.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
"Programming today is a race between software engineers
striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs,
and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better
idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich
Cook
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From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>
"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote:
> This cosmic crap is all well and good until you
stub your toe, or the
> cops pull you over, or the bills come due. Then
all of the sudden
> there's great significance in that nail poking
out of the floor that
> you never noticed until it hurt your toe, or the
tail-lights, or the
> fucking job. Miss a paycheck, wreck your car,
and that nifty
> arbitrariness flies the coop.
>
> That will be $30.
For what, showing us how to FAIL? Any dumbass can fail.
The dumbass
who can stub his toe or step on that nail or wreck his
car and NOT
start thinking the world is conspiring against him is
the dumbass who
succeeds. Every time I see some moron on TV telling
how they ran
their car into a concrete bridge abutment but they didn't
die because
"the lord" was looking out after them I say
you fucking idiot IT WAS
"THE LORD" THAT DRIV YOU INTO THE ABUTMENT
IN THE FIRST PLACE. The
only safety is in killing that vicious deity and every
other deity
that comes along to try to run your life.
Just keep saying to yourself "That's why they call
them ACCIDENTS."
And that don't cost ya nothin but your STUPIDITY.
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com> wrote:
> > That will be $30.
> >
> For what, showing us how to FAIL?
No, that only happens if you actually SEND ME this particular
$30. What
I was attempting to point out is that the seeming arbitrariness
of
things is itself just another human conceit, another
value judgement.
> Any dumbass can fail. The dumbass
> who can stub his toe or step on that nail or wreck
his car and NOT
> start thinking the world is conspiring against
him is the dumbass who
> succeeds. Every time I see some moron on TV telling
how they ran
> their car into a concrete bridge abutment but they
didn't die because
> "the lord" was looking out after them
I say you fucking idiot IT WAS
> "THE LORD" THAT DRIV YOU INTO THE ABUTMENT
IN THE FIRST PLACE. The
> only safety is in killing that vicious deity and
every other deity
> that comes along to try to run your life.
WAR ON "G'BOD"!
> Just keep saying to yourself "That's why they
call them ACCIDENTS."
> And that don't cost ya nothin but your STUPIDITY.
This brings to mind the propensity to say, "The
keys got lost" instead
of "I lost the keys," or "It broke"
versus "I fucking broke it, man."
--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath
of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB
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From: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com> wrote in message news:<3F7C765B.6DC1AA1C@yahooX.com>...
> Shut up about your stupid numbers. You are only
boring people and
> making yourself look foolish and crazy. I only
tell you this because
> I actually kind of like you.
If he hates you, you end up legless on a little cart,
begging snobby
yuppies for lunch money and looking up their skirts.
It doesn't help
much if you have a little Church of the Subgenius triangle
logo on the
back, either. My legs finally started to cramp, so I
gave up that
dodge.
--
HellPope Huey
Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'...damnit
"The strangest thing is that he asked no questions
when the doctor started preparations in the area."
- Vanessa Guimares, manager at a clinic in
Brazil,
where a patient entered for an earache,
but ended up having a vasectomy performed
in error
"Understanding is a 3-edged sword."
- Ambassador Kosh
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com> wrote:
>"THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANCE TO ANYTHING."
- Ascended Master W.E.
"Everything is synchronous, there is nothing that
doesn't rhyme with
something else, no matter how strange or unlikely.
Synchronicity
rules chaos with an iron hand, and it is only the merciful
defense of
some kind of brain filter that keeps us from going mad
seeing how it
all fits together." - Andre Codrescu
Which really amounts to the same thing, if you think about it.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
Head my ass
- Field Marshall Slack
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From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>
Exactly. Even if you don't think about it.
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From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>
"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote:
>nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > That will be $30.
> > >
> >
> > For what, showing us how to FAIL?
>
> No, that only happens if you actually SEND ME this
particular $30. What
> I was attempting to point out is that the seeming
arbitrariness of
> things is itself just another human conceit, another
value judgement.
Oh bulcrap. That's one of those "choosing not
to choose is still a
choice" recursions. You don't have to imagine
things happening when
you experience them happening, but you do have to imagine
things
CAUSING things to happen and EERIE COINCIDENCES between
what just
happened and some other thing. Arbitrariness what you
get when you
AREN'T making up some kind of crazy "reason"
why things happen.
> > Just keep saying to yourself "That's
why they call them ACCIDENTS."
> > And that don't cost ya nothin but your STUPIDITY.
>
> This brings to mind the propensity to say, "The
keys got lost" instead
> of "I lost the keys," or "It broke"
versus "I fucking broke it, man."
YOU KNOW what YOU did if you did it. If you start saying
"Satan made
me lose my keys" or "My karma caused me to
break it," attributing
events or your own actions to invisible or imaginary
things, THAT is
what I am talking about.
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From: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Nhee Ghee MADE me read that post. He just used you as
the vessel of
his intent so he could fuck up my breakfast and distract
me from
"X-Men" cartoons. And you LIKED IT. Goddamn
the BOTH of you.
--
HellPope Huey
I like food. It goes down way better than gravel
or resentment.
In the land of the REACTIONARY WOULD-BE FASCIST,
anyone who can think straight had better play
dumb.
- Nenslo
"This show is run completely by Keebler elves."
- Jon Stewart
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