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What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:16 am
by jokester
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV8BNgcBnq8
here is the link. Simple Messiah Complex: Signs of the Times. What is it?
Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:28 pm
by Nahemah
I deleted the duplicates and created this as it's own topic.
Please do not post any more multiples of the same post/topic across the board.Thank you.
Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:00 am
by adawehi
Haven't a clue myself but I did get a few Jim Jones vibes. [confused]
Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:23 pm
by ΙΟΛΗ7
We will always fear what we do not understand...
The Pythagorean view of the universe rested squarely on the belief that Natural (counting) number was the key to the various qualities of mankind and matter. Since in their view everything was composed of number, the explanation for an objects existence could only be found in number. Elsewhere about this time, number existed for utilitarian purposes only, as a device for solving problems in calendar construction, building and commerce. It was the Pythagoreans who saw number as important in itself, the numbers themselves having "personality in a rustic landscape". The distinction was made between logistic (art of computation) and arithmetic (number theory). Kline quotes the famous Pythagorean Philolaus (425 B.C.E.), as writing:
"Were it not for number and its nature, nothing that exists would be clear to anybody either in itself or in its relation to other things...You can observe the power of number exercising itself ... in all acts and the thoughts of men, in all handicrafts and music."
Pythagoras and the early Order initially treated number concretely, as patterns with pebbles, but over time the Pythagoreans developed and refined their concept of number into the same abstract entity which still exists today. Though it is difficult to separate fact from fancy in some of the surviving references to the Pythagoreans, it is generally conceded that they began number theory, and were responsible for the introduction and development of number mysticism in Western Society.