I heard about this awhile ago and filed it under dumb facebook shit, but now my grandmother wants us all to read this book that "says some real interesting stuff about what shapes say about the world". Is there anything I should know about this particular type of nonsense?
Four corner timecube daytime nighttime quadrants are true Christian day values not taught in Satan's school. The Satan day night circle globe takes us away from the holy four corner cube. Today tonight opposite angles of Christ create a heaven rotating cube that the media hides from us. We must turn away from round devil day night cycle lies.
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Do 3 hits of DMT and let the machine elves explain it to you themselves while in a dimension made of it.
It's just arbitrarily placing (metaphysical/spiritual) significance on patterns, shapes, and numbers.
Alan Moore has some interesting ideas about how architecture and design is used for oppression and discipline. The guy from Well There's Your Problem did a good video about how neoclassical architecture ties into enlightenment thought.
I guess it depends on which way she's saying shapes say interesting things about the world. Although she may have found a grimoire of arcane geometries and it's compelling her to reveal the occluded calculus to you all.
The guy from Well There’s Your Problem did a good video about how neoclassical architecture ties into enlightenment thought.
Got a link to this? It sounds interesting.
Not the person you were replying to but I'd hazard a guess it's on his now-abandoned youtube, which is where WTYP was launched from
Nah man there will be a new episode of Franklin any day now, you just wait
geometry is weird. like the Pythagorean theorem thing for a right triangle to calculate the lengths of the sides. I remember learning that when I was like 13 or whatever and just being like, "yeah, OK, cute trick."
it wasn't until I was in my 20s when I learned that Pythagoras started this secretive, isolated communal cult in which hundreds of people believed he was a living god, new recruits weren't permitted to look at him until like 5 years in, almost all the members were dudes, and there was a lot of focus on athleticism, probably naked.
also, Pythagoras didn't laugh and did smoke and mirrors stuff to convince people he could travel to the underworld. There's tons of legends/stories about the guy.
anyway, after that I thought, "man, they really don't know how to teach math to teenagers."
The Pythagoreans were on a fishing trip one time when one of them came up with a proof that the square root of 2 couldn't be reduced to a fraction. They felt very strongly that all numbers could be represented by fractions, so they threw the guy overboard in the Mediterranean to drown
Crazy that some amateur newgrounds animator founded his own cult.
Well, rivelrino the artist on twitter says that if you are a man and you lean in, and your cock is facing her and her pussy is facing the world, then you are beta
The sacred geometry is the green lines
You rememebr the royal order of the triagle society from sesame street? They were getting us ready.
recreational math
Does this imply the existence of medical math?
Yah, everyone knows that Galois theory is recreational and analytic number theory is medical. Combinatorics is just concentrates.
Okay hear me out... what if there was a twisted pyramid, with the corners of each subsequent level touching the edges of the one below it?
The core of truth in sacred geometry is that there are shapes, patterns and proportions that you find across different cultures and in nature.
The explanation for that could be that God did it or that (white) aliens taught "primitive" humans about them. A much more likely explanation is that some patterns and symbols are simply easy to come up with because of their simplicity or that some shapes offer structural benefits. I.e. the reason why you have pyramids all over the world is that the pyramid shape is one of the easiest ways of putting rocks on top of eachother without the whole thing falling over.
Neopythagoreans? Sick. There's a bit in Graeber's Utopia of Rules in the third essay where he identifies the harmonic spiritualism of the Pythagoreans in Sicilian Greek colonies under the Roman Empire as specifically a reactionary acceptance that the Empire itself was an unassailable monolith. Essentially, giving up on materialism because the material world was fixed and unchanging, and turning instead to a spiritual order of the cosmos that unsurprisingly reflected the same hierarchical order as that imposed by the Romans anyway.
Drawing sacred geometry can be a meditative ritual. Most of the designs are built off of repetitive shapes/lines and so it can be pretty zen to draw that stuff. Once you draw it you start to understand that it's about creating complex images from simple rules. So it can be said to represent the way small things can cause larger changes. A simple Marxist reading might be to say that the "rules" for generating geometry represent the economic base while the full image shows the superstructure it generates, or something like that.
I’m not really sure to be honest. I’ve been interested in math/geometry for many years, so I’ve bumped into sacred geometry, but never really looked into it.
Visually, it’s cool as shit, and does often reflect neat aspects of legit math. Ideologically/who’s pushing it and why, I have no idea.
I’ve just kind of filed it under “crystal healing” type stuff, just not really as predatory (since I don’t think anyone’s trying to sell much more than books). So maybe also kinda self help-ish
It definitely does end up integrated into crystals, and there's all sorts of like neo-orgone wackadoo stuff like $5000, meter-tall pyramids made of 1/4 inch copper pipe that are supposed to cure everything and give you boundless energy if you sleep with your pillow and head in it.
