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Millerman after dark

This is so far the most interesting information on a philosophy I ever encountered. I listen to it in parts, then repid them many times with intervals to dijest. I am not finished yet. It will take some time to finish and then connect to modern science at first just for myself. The most interesting part for me is about the beginning of philosophy (mysticism, kabbalah and whatever also, needed for living in the beginning of human history) and how it looks now. Not the personality that interests me but the method they created which pulled all of us to the modern time. The method of how to get and what is knowledge in approaching reality. My approach to philosophy was born in an attempt of understanding and communicating (primarily as an education) my own research results in Natural Sciences as the knowledge in a professional-applied and cultural contexts.

I'm happy to have a video. Sound is great!

@millerman

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. The mic, for anyone wondering, is a Shure MV7 USB mic.

I did find this curious passage in Robert Alter’s ‘Necessary Angels’, Walter Benjamin’s conception of language, that. It ‘transcends any mundane function of communication in human culture, for the whole of nature, too, is imbued with a nameless, unspoken language, the residue of the creative word of God, which is perceived in man as the cognizing name and above man as the judgement suspended over him’ (in ‘The Task of the Translator’). ‘Though fashionable to cite and celebrate Benjamin’s most vatic pronouncements as his greatest profundities’, Alter comments, ‘I don’t know what to make of this, however arresting it may be as a poetic image, and I am inclined to see it as the evocative, ultimately incoherent extravagance of a lyric literary imagination conjuring with mystical ideas.’

That which was written in the spirit should be understood in the spirit. This is the position of the fourth rabbi. This solves the problem of soli scriptura.

Confirms my intuition that there is something( not a thing) very valuable in Derrida’s writing; more beyond the most. A way not to be tyrannized by terminology.

@millerman

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment. He can be such a frustrating author for people who are not already predisposed to find him worth their while. And explaining him doesn't always make it easier. But I'm glad that this presentation was able to confirm your intuition.

@johnshaplin

7 ай бұрын

@@millerman I especially appreciate your remarks illuminating the text, as usual.

"Questioner: I assume that the reason that the(se magical) rituals that have been used previously are of effect is that these words have built a bias in consciousness of those who have worked in these areas so that those who are of the distortion of mind that we seek will respond to the imprint in consciousness of these series of words. Is this correct? _Ra: I am Ra. This is, to a great extent, correct._ _The exception is the sounding of some of what you call your Hebrew and some of what you call your Sanskrit vowels. These sound vibration complexes have power before time and space and represent configurations of light which built all that there is._ Questioner: How did the users of these sounds, Sanskrit and Hebrew, determine what these sounds were? _Ra: I am Ra. In the case of the Hebrew that entity known as Yahweh aided this knowledge through impression upon the material of genetic coding which became language, as you call it._ _In the case of Sanskrit the sound vibrations are pure due to the lack of previous what you call alphabet or letter-naming. Thus the sound vibration complexes seemed to fall into place as from the Logos. This was a more, shall we say, natural or unaided situation or process._ _Is there a brief query at this time?_ Questioner: You spoke in a previous session about certain Hebrew and Sanskrit sound vibratory complexes being powerful because they were mathematically related to that which was the creation. Could you expand on this understanding, please, as to how these are linked? _Ra: I am Ra. As we previously stated the linkage is mathematical or that of the ratio. You may consider it musical. There are those whose mind complex activities would attempt to resolve this mathematical ratio but at present the coloration of the intoned vowel is part of the vibration which cannot be accurately measured. However, it is equivalent to types of rotation of your primary material particles._ Ra Material (1981)

What are your thoughts on Communism? Do you compartmentalize Chinese socialism differently than Soviet socialism? Both had many "conservative" aspects to them, even though ascribing the "left - right" spectrum to eastern eurasia (or anywhere outside europe/US really) is ridiculous

Sorry, I couldn’t find a single thing of interest in this topic.