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The Salmo Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
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Spotted this on Facebook Marketplace:
I mean, what can I say? I can imagine finding and giving a heart shaped rock to a loved one.
But I can't imagine this, buying a vaguely heart shaped rock off Facebook Marketplace for $20 and giving it to a loved one. If someone tried this with me - and I knew what transpired - bloody hell!
I imagine someone in Salmo, with a great line of credit borrowed against their heart-shaped rock, drinking up a storm in the local pub..."When it sells...we'll all be rich!!!"
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe - Michael S. Schneider
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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe - The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art and Science - A Voyage from 1 to 10 - Michael S. Schneider
This was actually surprisingly informative - and - like Hegel, JS Mill and now Schneider, the world is well explained. Everything from the possibilities of numbers in 2, 3 and 4 dimensions, how they relate to world religions, spirituality, art, science, how different numbering systems (for examples the Greeks started counting at 3) worked and the reasoning behind, how it was encoded in the names of the Gods and myths, and knowledge was passed from initiate to initiate...
There are embedded in this compelling "proofs", if you'd have it that way, the the universe is of a designed and deeply spiritual construction, but as well argues that - at least as we experience it - it could be no other way.
Inspirational in an artistic sense, going far beyond the Golden Mean, and grounding in the history and symbolism of math opens up some very interesting possibilities ...
An Native American Basket
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Having found - in the garbage - a silk needlepoint of 2 eagles grappling over an American Flag - obviously old, (Google Image states Filipino, 100+ years) - lousy condition, I take it on myself to reprice and hang.
The manager finds it, thinks it's worth even more, and squirrels it away in the back.
Later, another of the volunteers finds a Native American Basket, probably SW Arizona/New Mexico - priced at 50 cents.
The manager looks at this, hums and haws, comes up with a price of $6.00. The volunteer puts it in her pile of treasures.
She's getting one hell of a deal, it's old, at least 100 years, and looking at similar online they go for $100's to $1000. Again, the condition isn't great, but the item is.
So, there are still treasures to be found...
Meanwhile, Madge is working on her next item, google-lensing a resin angel, made in China, $20.00 isn't too much, is it?
Eyes and Eyebeams....
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To the modern mind, at first glance this seems preposterous. That the eye shoots out a beam that reveals, through reflection, the world to it. Some ass-backwards form of echo-location.
Consider all the tropes and superstitions that surround it, eyes that dart lasers, x-ray eyes, the Medusa or basilisk that with it's eye can petrify, or turn to stone, the trope of the "evil eye", or that to look on with envy is to somehow curse the object, superstitions such as stare at a funeral, look away from a wedding, the sense of being stared at, and others too numerous to name, yet quantum mechanics suggests that the gaze of the viewer is intertwined with the result.
So at first, Plato's theory rejected, and yet now we find that perhaps there was a little more to it...
And meditation, too many tropes and theories to delve into here, merely imagine it (in your mind, with your third eye, "picture it", etc) - and it will come to pass...
The dollar bill, the all-seeing eye of creation, whose gaze in fact is creation, that the eye - the "I" creates what it sees is as much founded on psychology and neuroscience as it is on folk wisdom.
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