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Originally posted by Baddogma
reply to post by Kantzveldt
Subtext, subtext... but what IS said puzzles me. Or at least requires some clarification... for me, anyway.
Where did you (and whomever else) get the idea that A) They are focusing on the daemonic realm and B) the denizens of said realm exist on a quantum level ...if quantum is understood (or at least partially) as relating to the newer physics on the level of the very small and not the literal meaning of 'quantum' as a unit of measurement?
I'm not trying to be difficult, merely curious... or more correctly, thick. I guess I could add the question ... was it said they were delving into the traditionally occult realm of spiritual intelligences as opposed to biological beings beyond Betelgeuse, or is it more of a conglomerate impression formed over time and growing familiarity?
I mean, I see the occult overtones... heck, any fool could see it... but is there a specific instance that clued you in?
And if this was clearly outlined in pages 1 - 70, I plead an undisciplined mind, lack of higher levels of certain areas of formal education and literal kilos of strange, mind bending substances and apologize.
Originally posted by Baddogma
reply to post by tetra50
Actually, a succinct, cogent answer... thank you. I see. Part of the problem was the "hidden" portions of this thread that exist as (formerly or pre-internet) occult understanding and were alluded to with what I felt was unnecessary coyness... it implied much but said little.
I'd like more meat to my answer from other luminaries, too, but thanks... that helped.
The connections to the darker corporate interests are certainly provocative, and in light of FL's focus, I guess being coy might be the wiser course... but I've always been the blundering fool who's the last to see the elephant in the room as I'm too focused on the mice in the corners... and elephants have nothing to fear from mice befriending fools.
Originally posted by sadybull
Ok this topic made me register here. So i did a little searching for this ayndryl person. Here is a link of her posting in a forum about this experiment a few years ago. Anyone catch this???
lingvoforum.net...
Heres another forum where this person posted. Just want to throw these clues out there and get to the bottom of this. I read this person saying something to the tune of learning two languages without hearing someone speak a single word of it. Pretty brilliant individual.
uztranslations.net.ru...
...Demetrius, [from Ayndryl]
I totally agree with the conclusion of the article, that is: "Russian, as well as any other language, despite it’s obvious and unquestionable virtues, is by no means an ideal mirror for reflecting reality". In fact, there is a school of thought that holds that language "infects" reality…
...Your statement related to the dependency of words on culture has been, and is, thoroughly researched by Anna Wierzbicka. You can find her books in the internet, too. My example on Russian was taken from her. Your question on whether there is any proof that the feelings of a Lakota and a Russian are different in any way has a positive answer: there are proofs. There are cognitive tests that consistently prove a speaker of a certain language perceives reality in a different way than a speaker of another language. I know this sounds somehow shocking, but it is that way.
I don't understand your last statement: "language doesn’t neccessarily correspond to our feelings". Unless a speaker wishes to lie, we have to accept that anything that it is said it is also meant, I mean, you say what you mean, otherwise communication would be impossible. Your article makes the point: there are feelings for which we do not have words. There are emotions for which we have no words. But the results from Wierzbicka's research is even more radical: there are speakers from a certain language that do have emotions that speakers of another language do not. This is baffling, but true.
lingvoforum.net...
RE: Bibles and Qurans
Alexius,
Genesis 11:1 talks about the Tower of Babel and the many-languages punishment. Genesis 10:5 states that many languages were already in existence. Because Genesis 10:5 precedes in time Genesis 11:1, it is of necessity concluded that your god came late in punishing mankind with the many-languages terror: mankind was already speaking different languages.
Of course, this is just one of the many inconsistencies in the bible. It also means that men and women were skilled enough to build the tower of babel even when they were already speaking quite different languages...
About your god being omnipotent, I disagree. You see, I can or cannot believe, while he cannot believe: he knows.
One cannot 'believe' that oneself exists: one 'knows' it. For god, the possibility of believing does not exist. Obviously. Therefore, you see, I cannot consider omnipotent a god that cannot believe in himself, for obvious reasons.
Lastly, god does not need a language. It is Adam who needs it.
And you should consider also this fact: 90% of the species that your god created are now extinct. This makes a success rate of just a mere 10%. Would you trust in his design with such a low success rate? I certainly not.
uztranslations.net.ru...
Originally posted by The GUT
Almost looks like I could've of skipped to this last page and just jumped right in. Good conversation going. Okay, I can resist no longer. I'm digging in. I'll be back.
Originally posted by Baddogma
reply to post by The GUT
Heh, I was hoping some guts would slop in... there are some gems in these pages... real fascination that put a gleam in my eye as when a true work of human genius is experienced (and has added enough extracurricular reading material to my list to last until death and beyond). That "genius" I refer to is found both in some of our posters and very certainly in the work of the people of FL... despite any darkness mixed with light.
And the subject matter, especially the stuff only (mostly) alluded to, is right up The Guts digestive alley. I await collation and digestion of this material.
I will say this: Ayndryl's first--and form-letter email--certainly got me intellectually erect. Ahem...what nice big brains you have, mama.
"Anti-language," obviously, is the lingui-philosophical concept that's on the tip of her brilliant, and deep, mental tongue. She knows she--and others--are on the verge of a breakthrough…but that aspect is "unutterable" at this point. That 'tip-o-the-mental-tounge' phenomena seems to precede most superior "breakthroughs." Maybe she will require, even, possibly, a deeper, and more spiritually homogenous, language? It certainly suggests someone that was "mesmerized" by "deconstructionism" at some point before they themselves took it to the next level. The Tower of Babel meets New Atlantis meets the Alphabets. Understand those descriptors are just "place-holders" to get my initial thoughts across. It's all there, however…just probably not as traditionally organized as some might like and, as such, a tangled web that doesn't point to one easy explanation or understanding. Compartementalization also comes to mind. There is nobility here. But in the same way that the naive have always wished for a better world and have proffered their philosophical offerings: Democracy, Socialism, Communism, etc. all beautiful in the initial rhetoric,
we should keep in mind that the basic theory here could produce a language that leaves no room for "counter" thinking.
Originally posted by tetra50
Okay, Gut, this is a fascinating, obviously, and quite serious topic, but I needed a laugh today badly, and you just gave it to me....thanks so much for this, below:
I will say this: Ayndryl's first--and form-letter email--certainly got me intellectually erect. Ahem...what nice big brains you have, mama.
"Ayndryl"…do keep the "Ayn" part as a possible clue for now. I'd also guess that "Ayndryl" has experienced a valid "initiation at depth." That's just a guess for now. It also shouldn't suggest that I see an entirely "occult," or esoteric, explanation of what we are looking at here…but it's not a totally divorced aspect of, at least, some of the players in this field and where they're coming from. I'm only at pg 20, and going out on a limb here, so it will be interesting to see if I change my assessment, but I will say, yes…this probably is one of the most important threads ever produced here. Last note before diving back in: There are multi-levels to this material it seems. Certainly the IBIDS are important clues here, and I don't suggest Ayndryl's expertise and thrust is the only spoke of the wagon wheel…although it probably is one of the most important parts.
Originally posted by The GUT
Originally posted by sadybull
Ok this topic made me register here. So i did a little searching for this ayndryl person. Here is a link of her posting in a forum about this experiment a few years ago. Anyone catch this???
lingvoforum.net...
Heres another forum where this person posted. Just want to throw these clues out there and get to the bottom of this. I read this person saying something to the tune of learning two languages without hearing someone speak a single word of it. Pretty brilliant individual.
uztranslations.net.ru...
From your links:
...Demetrius, [from Ayndryl]
I totally agree with the conclusion of the article, that is: "Russian, as well as any other language, despite it’s obvious and unquestionable virtues, is by no means an ideal mirror for reflecting reality". In fact, there is a school of thought that holds that language "infects" reality…
...Your statement related to the dependency of words on culture has been, and is, thoroughly researched by Anna Wierzbicka. You can find her books in the internet, too. My example on Russian was taken from her. Your question on whether there is any proof that the feelings of a Lakota and a Russian are different in any way has a positive answer: there are proofs. There are cognitive tests that consistently prove a speaker of a certain language perceives reality in a different way than a speaker of another language. I know this sounds somehow shocking, but it is that way.
I don't understand your last statement: "language doesn’t neccessarily correspond to our feelings". Unless a speaker wishes to lie, we have to accept that anything that it is said it is also meant, I mean, you say what you mean, otherwise communication would be impossible. Your article makes the point: there are feelings for which we do not have words. There are emotions for which we have no words. But the results from Wierzbicka's research is even more radical: there are speakers from a certain language that do have emotions that speakers of another language do not. This is baffling, but true.
lingvoforum.net...
And then more, THIS, in addition. from Ayndryl:
RE: Bibles and Qurans
Alexius,
Genesis 11:1 talks about the Tower of Babel and the many-languages punishment. Genesis 10:5 states that many languages were already in existence. Because Genesis 10:5 precedes in time Genesis 11:1, it is of necessity concluded that your god came late in punishing mankind with the many-languages terror: mankind was already speaking different languages.
Of course, this is just one of the many inconsistencies in the bible. It also means that men and women were skilled enough to build the tower of babel even when they were already speaking quite different languages...
About your god being omnipotent, I disagree. You see, I can or cannot believe, while he cannot believe: he knows.
One cannot 'believe' that oneself exists: one 'knows' it. For god, the possibility of believing does not exist. Obviously. Therefore, you see, I cannot consider omnipotent a god that cannot believe in himself, for obvious reasons.
Lastly, god does not need a language. It is Adam who needs it.
And you should consider also this fact: 90% of the species that your god created are now extinct. This makes a success rate of just a mere 10%. Would you trust in his design with such a low success rate? I certainly not.
uztranslations.net.ru...
There's a pattern here y'all.
edit on 20-8-2013 by The GUT because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by The GUT
Originally posted by tetra50
Okay, Gut, this is a fascinating, obviously, and quite serious topic, but I needed a laugh today badly, and you just gave it to me....thanks so much for this, below:
I will say this: Ayndryl's first--and form-letter email--certainly got me intellectually erect. Ahem...what nice big brains you have, mama.
It was a calculated--and sincere--flirtation. In conjunction with the rest of that post. We'll see if it works.
"Attractors" work regardless of intent. For example, a negative charge attracted to a superior positive force--or vice-versa--might like to resist, but...
Not that I'm assigning negative or positive roles here. Only that 'non-partial' physics works regardless of intent. Like I said, we'll see.
One can resist, but not deny, the dichotomous attractor. Shall we talk, Ms. Ayn? You probably haven't had a good, blood-stirring, pulse-thumping, debate in a fortnight, eh?
edit on 20-8-2013 by The GUT because: (no reason given)
. Your question on whether there is any proof that the feelings of a Lakota and a Russian are different in any way has a positive answer: there are proofs. There are cognitive tests that consistently prove a speaker of a certain language perceives reality in a different way than a speaker of another language. I know this sounds somehow shocking, but it is that way.