Monthly Archives: October 2007

Wei Wu Wei

Wei Wu Wei is an unorthodox Buddhist/Taoist of no mainstream tradition.  He is a good man for an aphorism.  But they are quite direct and acute.  They seem, at first blush, to be pure Stone Pharisee material.  In the comments, I’ll discuss selected ones.

Why people hate Dawkins

Dawkins is about the things we really should agree on.  He fails to notice the enormous importance of the sphere within which we must necessarily disagree.  The separateness of the P-worlds. Why not call that religion.  And let it have its archetypes.  People feel threatened by Dawkins, not by his arguments, but by their very consistency.  We are personal and communal.  He bangs the communal drum too loudly.

The significance of the Mexican Wave

This guy did some nice Mexican Wave modeling.  From where I stand, that’s a nice sort of collective phenomenon, where the product is more interesting than the agents.  When I see sophisticated work in agent modeling, it looks fairly simple: an elegant model on physical principles.  Do-able with a few x-springie components.  But that’s not how they modeled it.  They took an extant model.  From cardiac tissue.  That’s important.  They looked outward and saw themselves.  Our interactions are to be understood as natural phenomena.  We are all this.

From Genesis P Orridge

“It’s not about gender,” P-Orridge explains. “Some
feel like a man trapped in a woman’s body, others
like a woman trapped in a man’s body. The pandrogyne
says, I just feel trapped in a body. The body is
simply the suitcase that carries us around.
Pandrogyny is all about the mind, consciousness.”

Who is the pharisee?

The book of wikipedia says:

According to Josephus, whereas the Sadducees believed that people have total free will and the Essenes believed that all of a person’s life is predestined, the Pharisees believed that people have free will but that God also has foreknowledge of human destiny.

There’s loads of horseshit too, but the Pharisee does believe you can have your cake and eat it too.