tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post1871554669354325898..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Weekend Grab Bag ~~ Herding Black SwansTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-85230516160706313732011-08-29T08:56:48.088-05:002011-08-29T08:56:48.088-05:00Louise ~~~ I've still to see the movie, but wi...Louise ~~~ I've still to see the movie, but will do so very soon.<br />I avoided it when at our local cinema because of all the hype - I'm obtuse that way. ;-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-81275947771474746322011-08-28T18:34:49.539-05:002011-08-28T18:34:49.539-05:00Thank you for sharing this. I watched the film las...Thank you for sharing this. I watched the film last week and loved it.Louise VLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00601479064222578141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-53179031265645202312011-08-28T17:32:13.531-05:002011-08-28T17:32:13.531-05:00JD ~~~ Oh really? Yes indeed - the world's ge...JD ~~~ Oh really? Yes indeed - the world's getting smaller by the hour.<br /><br />Black Swan is (or was in my day) one of the most common pub signs - after Red Lion perhaps....and Queen's Arms/King's Arms. <br /><br />I always enjoy looking at your sketches on Nourishing Obscurity - and have, so far, failed to say so - will rectify that here! :-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-35208501949114653522011-08-28T16:25:19.036-05:002011-08-28T16:25:19.036-05:00I recognise that second pub sign :)
That's whe...I recognise that second pub sign :)<br />That's where I get my pictures framed; not in the pub of course but in the shop next door.<br />Small world huh :)JDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-38703402928262151742011-08-27T14:37:22.264-05:002011-08-27T14:37:22.264-05:00Anon/Gian Paul ~~
That's one possibility, con...Anon/Gian Paul ~~<br /><br />That's one possibility, considering that we're all (as the wonderful Carl Sagan said) made from "starstuff".....why wouldn't we be influenced by all the rest of the starstuff?<br /><br />I still feel more comfortable with the time cycles theory though - thinking of each planet in our system as marking place on a system of multiple time cycles. <br /><br /> Each cycle of time has its own properties and when the cycles cross, they blend or antagonize one another......something along those lines anyway. Black swans could be caused (if cause there be) when certain cycles of time collide.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-47327164912152004922011-08-27T14:26:26.286-05:002011-08-27T14:26:26.286-05:00GP: What one might conceive is that the planetary ...GP: What one might conceive is that the planetary influences permeate all terrestrial molecules and atoms (there is more space between the electrons spinning around a nucleus then between Sun and Earth and all other planets - proportionally speaking. <br /><br />So, given the possibility of Uranian and other planetary vibrations having free access to all matter (including our own bodies) I can quite well imagine that such influences occur all the time. It's our mind which filters them out. Which of course does not mean that they do not exist. Possibly there are more black swans than we would be comfortable in accepting. But that's "philosophizing"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-10780745216369676532011-08-27T13:53:58.726-05:002011-08-27T13:53:58.726-05:00Gian Paul ~~~ Erm - not terribly sure what I'...Gian Paul ~~~ Erm - not terribly sure what I'm thinking on this.<br /><br />Because we don't truly know what astrology is - how and why it works (sometimes) it sounds silly to say that Uranus "causes" unexpected event. It doesn't cause them, yet, because such events often occur in the time/space area when Uranus is in certain positions relative to other planets and cycles, Uranus "seems" to cause these unexpected "black swans" to happen, for us to experience.<br /><br />I'm philosophically a bit dim I have to say - philosophers lose me very easily! I'm all for simplicity and philosophers are of the opposite inclination.<br />;-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-52649058613414569062011-08-27T13:47:43.189-05:002011-08-27T13:47:43.189-05:00Comment received by e-mail from Gian Paul (not abl...<i>Comment received by e-mail from Gian Paul (not able to access Blogger directly at present)</i><br /><br />GIAN PAUL ~~~<br /> Taleb could have been crisper in his view that our minds store<br />experiences (facts after they occured turn such by the workings of our mental screening) in a condensed, rational way. An alternative, less automatic (more aware) way of walking through life is to live new experiences now, instantly, before the cathegorizing mind as usual puts them into some "normal pattern".<br /> <br />If I read your mind T. correctly, you are infering that without<br />Uranus' influence (and some people realizing that) all would forever<br />continue in the same, dull "mind - simplification of human passivity".<br />Taleb more naturalistically used the "Black Swans" to express the same<br />idea.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.com