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Rob (c137)'s avatar

A lot of Robert Anton Wilson in Prometheus Rising explains this aimless yet complicated fake philosophy that took over the label.

What if the problem is how we perceive language...

"I believe humanity's foray into fiction began with the breakdown of the bicameral mind, and the insertion of meaningless symbols in between the subject and the seer. In short, back when people used pictographic alphabets, we were limited to discussing things we could actually see in the real world. The invention of phonemic alphabets like this one, which are comprised not of representative pictures but of meaningless letters, provides the opportunity to invent an endless stream of non-sense, the greatest of these being spelled with just a single capital letter."

Alphabet vs the goddess lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QQuD62RxrU

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Justarandomjohn's avatar

Wow!! Had to read it a couple of times and kind of/sort of get it. It reminded me of a story of invention (discovery?) of the number zero in Indian mythology. Apparently the original idea of ‘shunya’ was pursuit of that which is not countable, or an expression that is not in the realm of numbers, perhaps a void (Divine?). A symbol of the absence of materiality....

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