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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @zapsammy 30 Nov \ on: The Sinister Plot of Diverting Attention conspiracy
do u think that the phrase "the way to the light is thru the darkness" is righteous, or is that a way to describe the futile endless hops on the checkerboard floor?
using the checkerboard analogy, does one absolutely have to go thru the dark square to get to the white square, or is it possible to go diagonally (Diagon-Alley) thru than narrow point connecting the two white squares, the "narrow gate" mentioned in the scripture?
the spiral is indeed a way to explain the moment-to-moment reality, because it's neither exclusively linear nor cyclical, but both. if one adds one more dimension, it's like a torus - not a donut shaped torus, but rather a spiraling torus. everything is a fractal.
Good thoughts. The pillars of the Freemason Lodge are also black and white.
Now very deep is the Bhagavad Gita where the main characters are Krishna and Arjuna. Literally Arjuna means, "White" and Krishna means "Black".
Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita is actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead and he is black because he is all attractive, opulent and very deep!
Arjuna is white but he's confused in the beginning as he is unsure that fighting is the correct path even though he's a fierce warrior and has great skill already proven on the battlefield.
Krishna, the black guy (And God, ¡número uno!), tells Arjuna in the Second verse of Chapter 2 that he's not behaving like an Ayrian by neglecting his duty to fight.
As the text follows:
sri-bhagavan uvaca (Krishna Speaks)
kutas tva kasmalam idam visame samupasthitam anarya-justam asvargyam akirti-karam arjuna
SYNONYMS
sri bhagavan uvaca—the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; kutah—wherefrom; tva—unto you; kasmalam—dirtiness; idam—this lamentation; visame—this hour of crisis; samupasthitam—arrived; anarya—persons who do not know the value of life; justam—practiced by; asvargyam—that which does not lead to higher planets; akirti—infamy; karam—the cause of; arjuna—O Arjuna.
TRANSLATION
The Supreme Person [Bhagavan] said: My dear Arjuna, how have these impurities come upon you? They are not at all befitting a man who knows the progressive values of life. They do not lead to higher planets, but to infamy.
The Sanskrit term *anarya means not arya or not civilized or noble. As in anarchist is not an archist being apposed to government. Or anachronism is against time or our of time. The prefix "a" means not!
So the sacred conversation between God as a "black guy" -- Krishna and Arjuna the "white guy" has a deeper meaning as well. Ultimately the light comes from the darkness as the light is Krishna's creation by love and it is not possible without him.
This world is Krishna's playground and we are all invited by parts and parcels of him to participate freely. He's the dark energy of the Universe and transcendental was beyond the Universe.
The white and black squares are mere distractions.
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very cool, especially the idea of arya/anarya!
the origin of the word "black" is complex:
one interpretation is absence of light, but the other goes as follows:
[The same root produced Middle English blake "pale," from Old English blac "bright, shining, glittering, pale;" the connecting notions being, perhaps, "fire" (bright) and "burned" (dark), or perhaps "absence of color." According to OED, in Middle English "it is often doubtful whether blac, blak, blake, means 'black, dark,' or 'pale, colourless, wan, livid' "; and the surname Blake can mean either "one of pale complexion" or "one of dark complexion."]
https://www.etymonline.com/word/black
sounds like "black" is something that becomes so after it is set ablaze.
this makes me think of supernovas, or the legendary music artists that were shining so bright that they burned out quickly, or Icarus who flew too close to the sun 🌞😎.
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Definitely. Our language is full of magical knowledge.
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