Wednesday, April 27, 2011

ASCII and the Masons

You know what freaks me out? That a blank space is actually a character. It is a character where there is no character and instead there is a blank space. It is a symbol that is not a symbol. A paradox. A symbol hole (see my previous post for more on this notion). This blank space is ASCII character 32. That is right... there is actually a symbol for a blank space. If you think about it, it makes sense, a printer needs a symbol for a blanks space so that it can "know" that it is supposed to insert a blank spot between two symbols (or words etc.) . But why is it ASCII 32?

Glad you asked! It is because 32 is one level below the highest possible degree Mason (a 33° Mason). This means that anything less than the highest grand poohbah Mason is a nothing (an ASCII 32) or a less than nothing! (ASCII 0 to 31).

Is it any surprise that ASCII character 33 is an exclamation point? Those Masons are rubbing our noses right in their power structure every time we read anything on a computer screen.

I joke of course, but still... If I was a Mason and I invented ASCII, well... I would have done it just like it is.

Another weird thing, the last "control character" is 31 - this makes the blank space the first actual character - the "Zero" of the character set. The non-symbolic or "control characters" in ASCII tell a printer to do something rather than place a character.


For instance, ASCII character 8 is a backspace - it tells the print head to go back one. I suppose so you can lay 2 letters on top of each other? This would correspond to an 8° Mason: The "Intendant of the Building" - whatever that is. I am too lazy to research this and elaborate further so if anyone wants to connect the ASCII control characters and what they do to a printer with what the corresponding degree of mason does to society then please let me know what you find out. Better yet, make a youtube video and post me the link so I don't have to use my brain.

Oh, it goes without saying that ASCII character 0 is a null. A void - a nothing worse than a symbolic nothing: A Non-Mason. The null character tells the printer to do nothing... this was helpful on older printers when the printer needed a bit of time to get ready to do its next thing, like a carriage return or something. ASCII 0 just buys some time but now that we have newer more efficient printers the character isn't needed any more. Like you. And me.

P.S. I just noticed that there are 33 vertebrae in the human spine. So maybe the mason numbering thing is a metaphor for their organization being a living entity created by god? The Masons are the spine of god? And ASCII is their Rosetta stone? The law of 5s is a wonderful thing!

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