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Post by paul on Jan 28, 2013 12:52:52 GMT 9.5
I noticed a reference to unicorns in an article on the quantum theory of smell. In this case proponents of the quantum (unconventional) theory are likened to unicorns. "I like to think of the vibration theory of olfaction and its proponents as unicorns. The rest of us studying olfaction are horses," she told BBC News. "The problem is that proving that a unicorn exists or does not exist is impossible. This debate on the vibration theory or the existence of unicorns will never end, but the very important underlying question of why things smell the way they do will continue to be answered by the horses among us." www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150046 |
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Post by invisible pink unicorn on Jan 28, 2013 17:20:38 GMT 9.5
A saying among diagnosticians is that "when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras." The idea being to first consider common explanations before entertaining more exotic ones. To avoid pseudoscientific explanations one might add "prefer even zebras to unicorns."
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Post by paul on Jan 28, 2013 18:25:44 GMT 9.5
>"when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras."
That is a constant problem in science - how to observe without making assumptions.
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Post by LorrB on Jan 28, 2013 20:14:54 GMT 9.5
A saying among diagnosticians is that "when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras." The idea being to first consider common explanations before entertaining more exotic ones. To avoid pseudoscientific explanations one might add "prefer even zebras to unicorns." ... like when you're dead, you're dead? Sorry, but I know otherwise. But like unicorns, I can't prove anything. Some things just have to be discovered by oneself when the time is right. I have seen enough that little would surprise me now. |
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Post by Pinky on Jan 29, 2013 13:04:31 GMT 9.5
>"when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras." That is a constant problem in science - how to observe without making assumptions. "There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there." - Thomas Hardy |
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Post by paul on Jan 29, 2013 13:48:18 GMT 9.5
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there." - Thomas Hardy Blake must have suffered from that "Now I a fourfold vision see And a fourfold vision is given to me Tis fourfold in my supreme delight And three fold in soft Beulahs night And twofold Always May God us keep From Single vision & Newtons sleep." |
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Post by LorrB on Jan 29, 2013 14:40:43 GMT 9.5
Beulahs night --- I met a man once who was telling me about an out of body experience he had. In it he was floating around the universe and a voice in the background was was slowly chanting Beuuuuu-laaaah, Beuuuu-laaaah..
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Post by paul on Jan 29, 2013 14:50:48 GMT 9.5
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there." - Thomas Hardy And I can't resist this one: Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away... When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn’t see him there at all! Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!) Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away |
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Post by Beulah on Jan 29, 2013 16:00:37 GMT 9.5
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Post by Pinky on Jan 29, 2013 16:01:43 GMT 9.5
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there." - Thomas Hardy And I can't resist this one: Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away... When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn’t see him there at all! Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!) Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away Pretty much the same message. |
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Post by Blake on Jan 29, 2013 16:05:32 GMT 9.5
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there." - Thomas Hardy Blake must have suffered from that "The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight." - Joseph Campbell The difference is in remaining able to distinguish between inner and outer realities. |
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Post by paul on Jan 29, 2013 16:22:00 GMT 9.5
>The difference is in remaining able to distinguish between inner and outer realities.
Smithee
Perhaps you would like to contribute some of your experiences of the inner realities.
That would help me understand how you distinguish the inner and the outer.
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Post by Casting pearls on Jan 29, 2013 17:26:38 GMT 9.5
Perhaps you would like to contribute some of your experiences of the inner realities. Never to those who cannot distinguish between the two. Especially never on an open forum. |
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Post by paul on Jan 29, 2013 17:33:50 GMT 9.5
>Especially never on an open forum
It is conventional in such situations to use ambiguous or esoteric terminology so that those that know can understand and the profane remain outside.
It is not too hard a skill. Brethren usually practice it when discussing lodge matters in a public place.
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Post by Tyler on Jan 29, 2013 17:42:54 GMT 9.5
And some matter ought only be discussed behind closed doors among those deemed worthy.
To be blunt. I have no intention of encoding such pearls to you as it is principally YOU I consider unworthy of them. I say this because I have been taught it is improper to press such inquiries as you are doing.
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Post by paul on Jan 29, 2013 18:46:44 GMT 9.5
... I have been taught it is improper to press such inquiries as you are doing. You will have noticed that almost all other posters here have felt able to contribute some inner experience. Indeed that is the primary purpose for the forum - learning by sharing. |
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Post by Exactly on Jan 29, 2013 18:56:41 GMT 9.5
You will have noticed that almost all other posters here have felt able to contribute some inner experience. Exactly. Each is responsible for their own cable tow. |
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Post by LorrB on Jan 29, 2013 19:21:18 GMT 9.5
Cable tows have been likened to umbilical cords ...
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Post by LorrB on Jan 30, 2013 8:22:30 GMT 9.5
The Bible and Unicorns ...
An animal called the re’em (Hebrew: øÀàÅí) is mentioned in several places in the Hebrew Bible, often as a metaphor representing strength. "The allusions to the re'em as a wild, un-tamable animal of great strength and agility, with mighty horn or horns (Job xxxix. 9–12; Ps. xxii. 21, xxix. 6; Num. xxiii. 22, xxiv. 8; Deut. xxxiii. 17; comp. Ps. xcii. 11), best fit the aurochs (Bos primigenius). This view is supported by the Assyrian rimu, which is often used as a metaphor of strength, and is depicted as a powerful, fierce, wild mountain bull with large horns."[13] This animal was often depicted in ancient Mesopotamian art in profile, with only one horn visible.
The translators of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible (1611) followed the Greek Septuagint (monokeros) and the Latin Vulgate (unicornis)[14] and employed unicorn to translate re'em, providing a recognizable animal that was proverbial for its un-tamable nature. The American Standard Version translates this term "wild ox" in each case.
"God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn."—Numbers 23:22
"God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn."—Numbers 24:8
"His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth."—Deuteronomy 33:17
"Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?"—Job 39:9–12
"Save me from the lion's mouth; for thou hast heard me from the horns of unicorns."—Psalms 22:21
"He maketh them [the cedars of Lebanon] also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn."—Psalms 29:6
"But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of the unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil."—Psalms 92:10
"And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with their bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness."—Isaiah 34:7
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Post by paul on Jan 30, 2013 8:59:53 GMT 9.5
It seems that the unicorn was so important that early Christian saints linked the unicorn strongly to Christ. Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan (c. 340-397) said, "Who then is this unicorn but the only-begotten Son of God?" Saint Basil (c. 330-379) said, "[Christ] will be called the Son of unicorns, for as we have learned in Job, the unicorn is irresistible in might and unsubjected to man.... Christ is the power of God, therefore he is called the unicorn on the ground that He has one horn, that is, one common power with the Father." castlelyons7.blogspot.com.au/2008/09/christ-unicorn.htmlSts Ambrose and Basil seem to differ on how many unicorns actually exist as well as whether Christ is the unicorn or the son of two (?) unicorns. |
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