by Joe Hillshoist » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:40 pm
Yeah I read Focault's Pendulum, never got the bit about the grail being a Joe cell or some such device.<br>Focault's pendulum seemed to me about the process of ideas moving from Kether to Malkuth as some sort of Psychological Map. The book to me somehow reflected the process of Cabalism, not that I have studied it properly. I knew a guy who studies Cabalism at some uni in Israel, he seemed to know his stuff.<br><br>I suppose it makes sense, I thought Eco was using the grail as a metaphor for blindly chasing power.<br><br>the best literature bleeds into reality<br><br>I never thought much of Gardiner... Always seemed he was trying to push an agenda of justification.<br><br>For elitism and the aristocracy, afetr all what is the concept of bloodlines if it isn't some attempt to justify "The divine right of kings". Then again he could be just doing his job and not full of shit (his job as geneologist, not some hypothetical psyop manager for royalty.)<br><br>(This bit went missing edited in)Now I am not so sure. The bloodline thing has been around for a while, its a funny ole meme. And it gets confirmed from the weirdest places. So nnow I am prepared to give Gardiner more of a go.(Missing bit <-)<br><br>Especially after last night's conversation where he told me about his ancestors from Scotland. Apparantly they fought the Poms in the last war there, about 150 to 200 years ago, I dunno what battles, perhaps the highland clearances... They were from the highlands.<br><br>Anyway three brothers, who were facing being hung were saved with the intervention of a Scottish Laird woirking with the British. They were given the opportunity of travelling to Aussie as either free settlers or being sent here as convists.<br><br>They took artifacts with them including a painting of Stonehenge, with inscriptions in latin. Me mate said it eneded up rotting in the shed in the back yard. they are connected to Scottish Freemasonry, his Grandad was one.<br><br>Grandpa told him they were all about protecting the bloodline till the second coming, which is more akin to the story of Aragorn ala Lotr than Jesus coming back and Revelations. At least it seems that way from what ole matey said.<br><br>I never expected to hear anything like this off this bloke.<br><br>BTW he is referring to the Mahadi or whatever that Muslim thing is, as well as the Christian expectation of the second coming and blah blah blah.<br><br>He also said every power institution in the world is looking for this guy/girl right now, cos they know once he or she gets here its all over for them. Thats why they are all claiming to be him and on his side. They want to stop it before it happens.<br><br>The conversation we had went long into the night and covered so many different things.<br><br>I mentioned the Joe cell, cos Joe X is from around here somewhere.<br><br>He went to school with my father in law.<br><br>Joe X of Joe cell fame reckons that basically God showed him how to build the cell, and that it also fits with my rates rave. He knew nothing of the Joe cell btw, or so he claimed. Apart from that people build H cells and try and get them to work properly.<br><br>(The proper Joe cell is supposed to run cold, annd silent and cause implosion not explosiions apparantly, I dunno I can't the bits of the one I have to even generate gas.)<br><br>I dunno where all this leads. One thing I do know is that in Focault's pendulum all the characters took this stuff too seriously and had no sense of humour about it. No wonder they lost the plot.<br><br>Gotta go, I have my sister in laws wedding today.<br><br>Oh seamus thanks for your wishes about the cup.<br><br>Oh yeah that monoatomic white gold or whatever LG goes on about. That really grabbed my attention. But I read it in Nexus, and suddenly there were so many adds for the stuff in the mag. Then the royal apologist stuff just made me bored with him. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=joehillshoist>Joe Hillshoist</A> at: 6/16/06 10:08 am<br></i>