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Thread #134034 Message #3046023
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
04-Dec-10 - 12:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Fun with music theory
Subject: RE: BS: Fun with music theory
QUOTE the observation of reality chang (...es) that which is being observed in the observer's mind UNQUOTE
"432 is a sacred number in ... miles ... etc"
Amusing but of real little Value. Since all this superstitious mumbo jumbo depends on just using certain specific units of measurement (all man concocted) in certain restricted spheres of discourse. Convert miles to metric and it only makes these concepts of some 'Grand Master Plan of Ratios' all fall apart to coalesce into just meaningless coincidences.
"In astronomy there are 72 quinaries in the zodiac"
Sorry, that is Astrology, not Astronomy. Astronomy is a Science, Astrology is a superstitious bunch of historical self referential rationalizing superstitious gibberish (in the same way as "The Law of Fives!").
The Fibonacci ratio is a basic hard fact of Maths/Science (it does turn up in many areas of Science and Nature) - but you can also apply it to all sorts of things, Reality as well as Fantasy. Applying it to gibberish doesn't turn the gibberish into Science - GIGO.
If this interests you, you will be absolutely riveted by the Law of Fives
The Law of Fives is summarized in the Principia Discordia:
The Law of Fives states simply that: All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5
The Law of Fives is never wrong. —Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Page 00016
QUOTE Appendix Beth of Robert Shea's and Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminatus! Trilogy considers some of the numerology of Discordianism, and the question of what would happen to the Law of Fives if everyone had six fingers on each hand. The authors assert that the real Law of Fives is realizing that everything can be related to the number five if you try hard enough. Sometimes the steps required may be highly convoluted. Incidentally, the number five appears five times within the quote describing the Law of Fives, which is stated in 23 words.
Another way of looking at the Law of Fives is as a symbol for the observation of reality changing that which is being observed in the observer's mind. Just as how when one looks for fives in reality, one finds them, so will one find conspiracies, ways to determine when the apocalypse will come, and so on and so forth when one decides to look for them. It cannot be wrong, because it proves itself reflexively when looked at through this lens.
At its basic level, the Law of Fives is a practical demonstration that perception is intent-sensitive; that is, the perceiver's intentions inform the perception. To whatever extent one considers that perception is identical with reality, then, it has the corollary that reality is intent-sensitive. UNQUOTE