Posts by David Martin

So, I was watching this show the other day... and apparently, they’re claiming those "structures"—or maybe they meant faces?—on Mars were designed using the Golden Ratio. (!) Honestly, I don't quite get it. Is the idea that every artist out there is intentionally following that specific proportion because it holds some deep, universal significance, or do they just stumble upon it by accident?...

You talk about free society, yet the penalties are still right there waiting for you....
It isn't really freedom of choice if you’re constantly rushing because you know one wrong move could land you behind bars for life.
It’s just rule by fear, which is how every society has functioned since the beginning of time. Nothing would actually change. You might as well just tighten the existing laws.... Personally, I don't have an issue with that. But this whole "freedom" argument doesn't hold water. Anarchy represents the perfect societal structure—absolute freedom—but that requires absolute consciousness and morality to back it up. However, people are still too terrified to function without some kind of authority, some higher power, or a legal system looming over them...
The biggest proof of that is religion.
P.S. Have I compromised anyone else's freedom if I rob a store (while it's closed, obviously), or if I film people surreptitiously? If I drop trash on the floor? If I insult others? Or if I spray graffiti on building walls?

If you die, your family—or society, if you don't have one—has to compensate the surviving members of the affected family under certain conditions (for instance, maybe half of the household income paid out over 20 years or something similar)...

I fail to see how that's fair. Why should a family be forced to pay for something they had nothing to do with? (Though, granted, there will be plenty of funeral expenses to deal with since they just lost someone they loved)

When it comes to numbers, Pi has always been the one that really gets under my skin... I've spent a good amount of time digging into it and ended up stumbling onto some pretty wild results. Maybe I'll get into that later...

Well, what are we waiting for? Is "later" happening now? 😁

I honestly just see numerology as a clever little playground for messing around with numbers, but nothing more serious than that...

But how can you not be obsessed with Phi, for instance? (1.6180339887)
It was known by the Greeks as the golden ratio, and to anyone living through the Renaissance, it was seen as divine proportion.
The pyramids in Egypt were built using that ratio, along with the Parthenon in Greece, Notre Dame in Paris, and Da Vinci’s Last Supper...
Even the human body, down to its very components, follows this pattern.
They say true beauty—especially in faces—comes from proportions that mirror the Phi ratio...
It's just incredible...

Better save these posts, since this is my first time ever posting on this forum...

😁 😁 😁 👍

DISTINGUISHING NON-LINEAR PERCEPTION FROM LINEAR IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL.

----> alright, please, just explain a bit more...

ps. do you have a favorite number, or maybe one you just "feel" is higher than the rest, like it’s somehow special (I know that sounds a bit silly, but still...)

For me, the number 4 just doesn't sit right... purely an emotional thing, I guess. I find myself leaning toward 3 as a sort of key...
(man-plant-animal ; day-dusk-night ; black-white-color 😉 ; heaven-hell-earth ; birth-life-death; ) Up until now, I always figured we could just split everything into good, evil, and neutral... but that extra fourth factor, there's just nowhere to tuck it away...

And my perfect number is 9.

1x9=9
2x9=18 ; 1+8=9
3x9=27 ; 2+7=9
4x9=36 ; 3+6=9
5x9=45 ; 4+5=9
6x9=54 ; 5+4=9
7x9=63 ; 6+3=9
8x9=72 ; 7+2=9
9x9=81 ; 8+1=9
10X9=90 ; 9+0=9
11x9=99 ; 9+9=18 ; 1+8=9
and so on...

I see where you’re going with this, but couldn't we just keep peeling back the layers like that forever? We could keep dissecting until we land on 6, or even 8... or maybe even circle back to 3, since the letter H keeps popping up in unknown patterns... Are you actually suggesting that 4 is some kind of "perfect" number, assuming you even believe numbers carry any weight beyond being tools for basic math calculations...
As for the whole cryptography thing, I've heard that argument before, but I honestly can't wrap my head around how anyone managed to draw a direct line between a creation myth and the human DNA sequence...

Of course I’m interested. 🙂 Go ahead and write away....

I mean, how can we say Kabbalah isn't inherently dualistic? You have this concept of God—this absolute Good—but then you have this absolute Evil emerging right alongside it. And apparently, truth doesn't even touch the divine, since all this was supposedly designed just to give humans a semblance of free will... though I've always had my doubts about that part...

If dualism isn't the underlying theory here, wouldn't the very existence of evil be completely negated?

That’s an interesting way to look at it. If I’m following your train of thought correctly, you’re suggesting that the structure of the Kabbalah Tree of Life is actually woven into the very foundation of everything we see around us? It’s certainly a concept worth digging into further... (The Kabbalists always claim that the Tree of Life is the master key to everything, though I have to admit I haven't gone out of my way to verify that specific thesis yet...)
Anyway, does this mean you're a proponent of dualism?

hollowpilot9 said:... and I guess part of that is just how the Kabbalah clicked for me right away, like everything just fell perfectly into place. Maybe I'll tell you that whole fascinating intellectual saga sometime later...

So, what exactly were you digging into regarding the Kabbalah? 👍 Interesting... It's certainly not something I'm unfamiliar with myself...

How did that even happen?

QUOTE]Every great human tragedy is preceded by music that moves it. Even a tsunami had its own music that animals could hear, but humans couldn't!?

That’s almost certainly true. It’s pretty much common knowledge that animals can sense when a massive storm or some other disaster is brewing way before any visible signs even start to show up. They’ve got these highly tuned senses for stuff like that, things we humans couldn't even begin to wrap our heads around...

I'm with you there. Everyone is "smart" in their own little corner. My best friend can look at a page crammed with random dates and recite about 85% of them back to you without blinking. But then, you have to spend two and a half hours explaining a single logarithm problem to him just to get him through it. Then there's this other guy, basically a walking encyclopedia. Pretty sure he was in the top 10 for his philosophy entrance exams this year. It’s enough to mention that he spends his free time memorizing the White Pages... (I adore guys like that... people with fixed ideas... hehe, what's the saying, every weirdo is uniquely weird in their own way) He barely scraped by with a C in physics and had to take summer school for math. Personally, I find mathematics to be a fascinating science. Someone once suggested that the entire world—everything we see, hear, and feel—could be expressed through numbers. As silly as that sounds, there's some truth to it. Numbers are such an incredible phenomenon. And the science dedicated to studying them isn't any less interesting to me than, say, psychology or philosophy. But getting back to intelligence... Every science is beautiful and unique in its own way. But what you're saying is spot on... Just a regular person from a small town, maybe only finished middle school, yet incredibly smart or perhaps better described as wise. Honestly, it's emotional intelligence that I value most in people. Being able to sense exactly how someone feels without them saying a word... noticing those tiny, unconscious gestures... Very few people are actually capable of that. That's where the charm of psychology really comes into play... Why is one person capable of so much more while another is capable of so much less, even though we all have roughly the "same" brain, medically speaking? Maybe it's pure willpower... (maybe you subconsciously believe you aren't capable) or maybe we're just genetically wired that way? (Damn, it really frustrates me that there's so much interesting stuff out there, you simply can't grasp it all...)
Okay, I think I've wandered miles away from the topic now...
I haven't read the birth of tragedy, so I assume it might be worth picking up? This whole tsunami phenomenon is still pretty fuzzy to me. From what I've gathered, the tectonic plate under the Indian Ocean is rubbing against the Indonesian one. (The boundary is somewhere around Sumatra, I think.) Because these plates are constantly shifting, for some reason the one under the Indian Ocean "slid" beneath the other, which we recognized as an earthquake. A hole appeared, maybe $333 wide and about 10 meters deep. The water initially receded into the hole—which is ironically what drew confused people toward the shore... They came down to see why the ocean had suddenly "disappeared"... and then, of course, it surged back with incredible force heading straight for the coast. As the path got shallower and shallower, the wave just kept growing higher... and well, we know the rest... (that's how it's stored in my head... all sort of halfway... who knows what's actually accurate, if anything at all...)

Man, that sounds absolutely beautiful... It has such an "ancient" ring to it. You just know there’s layers upon layers of history buried under a name like that. It feels like a linguistic melting pot of all of Europe... honestly, quite perfect.

David Martin, from what I can gather, that's a Canadian name—though if you look at the roots, it actually stems from a Hebrew name meaning "dedicated to God."
As for Ester, maybe it’s Spanish or something similar, likely derived from the Latin "Estella," meaning star.
Balog strikes me as having some Germanic vibes to it...
But Darda is the one that really trips me up... maybe Slovakian or something?

I'm a bit lost here....

Do you happen to know anything else about this? Now you've really piqued my curiosity...🙂

Wou, your grandmother’s name was David Martin. That is just wild!! (And I don’t mean that sarcastically... honestly, I think I’d love to have a name like that myself...) Man... I wonder if there’s an actual story behind why she was called that, or... (well, if you don't mind sharing, of course....) I’ve always been fascinated by names—specifically how certain regions or eras tend to favor certain sounds and styles. That’s really why I’m asking....

hollowpilot9, you’re arguing that philosophy isn't faith, but rather absolute knowledge. Well, that’s exactly my point. Faith is nothing more than claiming to possess absolute knowledge—knowledge about how the world began, why everything is the way it is. On the flip side, you have science, which basically says, "Look, we aren't entirely sure how the universe started or why things work this way, so we won't buy into any theories until we can actually prove them." Philosophy and faith don't really struggle with that uncertainty. Philosophers just sit there "contemplating" until they land on some conclusion that feels logical enough to accept. But the catch is, they’re working without all the facts. And I think the groom makes things even worse; they don't even bother questioning the "why" behind anything, they just blindly accept whatever is written down for them.

Maybe I shouldn't go quite so far as to split people into the smart and the stupid. It would be more accurate to say that philosophy is mostly harmful to the "under-read" rather than the dim-witted...
Let's be honest here, out of a thousand people, philosophy is only going to be an engaging read for maybe twenty of them (and for the record, I find it fascinating, so you don't need to lecture me on why it's interesting...)

The tsunami didn't happen because people "didn't understand the philosophy of waves," it happened because the authorities failed to react fast enough when the earthquake hit and the tectonic plates shifted...