Speculative Metaphysics #1249783492749 & Conspiracy Theory #1089402840280000

Pentemychos

In this work, Pherecydes taught his philosophy through the medium of mythic representations. Although it is lost, the fragments that survive are enough to reconstruct a basic outline. Aristotle in Metaphysics (section 1091 b 8) thus characterized Pherecydes' work as a mixture of myth and philosophy.

The book "Pentemychos" is an elaborate version of cosmogenesis, describing how three eternal "things" or "beings" beget (or become, depending on how you read) a number of principles or forms before the ordered world, the cosmos, appears. The three eternal principles are Zas ("he who lives"), Chronos ("time"), and Chthonie ("underlying the earth").

So, uh... yeah, I had a lot of coffee today. Waaaaaay, too much. Anyway, while surfing about who OWNS our banks here in America - which is impossible to do! Really! Try it. I mean, get a list of the individuals and/or corporations with the largest number of shares (besides pension funds, etc.) I gave up, or rather got distracted because looking for banking information of course led me to rothschild conspiracy junk, and then I OF COURSE wanted to find a high rez picture of the rothschild coat of arms, which is also seemingly impossible to do and then I wound up reading some art criticism of edward rothschild's called "the meaning of unintelligibility in modern art" which sounds great but I couldn't find the original text and then I wound up on another conspiracy website even though at that point I wasn't even looking for conspiracy stuff and then of course that led me metatron's cube (not to be confused with megatron!) which led me to pentemychos. Don't ask me how. I think.

ANYWAY... Pentemychos was mentioned in Damascius' "De Principiis" and it is some sort of mystic ordering principle and also the place where, well, read for yourself:

The ancient Pythagorean pentagram was drawn with two points up and represented the doctrine of Pentemychos. Pentemychos means "five recesses" or "five chambers", also known as the pentagonas — the five-angle, and was the title of a work written by Pythagoras' teacher and friend Pherecydes of Syros (This is actually a lost book whose contents are preserved in Damascius de principiis, quoted in Kirk and Raven, The Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1956, page 55.). It was also the "place" where the first pre-cosmic offspring had to be put in order for the ordered cosmos to appear. The pentemychos is in Tartaros.

So uh... Note the H.P.Lovecraftian connection with the Cthulhu-esqe original before-creation uggga ugggga incomprehensible old gods monsters yadda yadda etc. I won't bother with the whole Pentagram = sign of satan crap. If you believe that, then you are retarded because the pentagram was around long before our modern notion of Hell/Satan. I mean it does mean that NOW, but not back then... Anyway... if the pentemychos isn't the starting point for a Hellblazer comic book plot then I don't know what is. I think if memory serves me correct, Pente = 5 and Mychos was the god of darkness, of which the greeks didn't seem to say much even though he was one of the original gods. So yeah, here we are back at the Law of Fives again. Ugh.

I digress of course. But on coffeee that is the pooooooiiiinnnntttt. Anyway, to make this fit into the 2 themes of this blog: Artificial Conspiracy Theories & Pataphysical Speculative Metaphysics I will now get to the point:

Speculative Metaphysics #1249783492749 & Conspiracy Theory #1089402840280000

A conspiracy dates back to the pythagoreans which of course include Pherecydes and before him Heraclitus and any process philosophy is written by a secret member of the conspiracy which includes the illuminati and masons etc and alfred north whitehead and your mother and the whole point of the conspiracy is this:

The three eternal principles are Zas ("he who lives"), Chronos ("time"), and Chthonie ("underlying the earth").

Zas is CONSCIOUSNESS
Chronos is TIME
Chthonie is SPACE/MATTER

But there are 2 things missing. Duh! You need FIVE things to complete a pentemychos. The conspiracy is desperately looking for those 2 missing metaphysical entities outlined in Pherecydes' writings. Both gulf wars were to gain unlimited access to the MULTITUDES of cuneiform tablets located in Iraq.

What are these entities? Obviously, they will need to be completely seperate ontological categories which mankind up until recently could not concieve of.

They are:
1) "Infomorphs"

They are beings of pure information which access our monkey consciousness. Instead of us passing around information as memes or oral tradition, the reverse is the case, they literally pass us around which is how thought is created. Thought is a byproduct of being touched by an infomorph. Thinking about the number 5? That is an infomorph using you for amusement or some other incomprehensible function. Then 10 seconds later thinking about feeling happy? Well you just got handed from one informorph to the next. Sleep is when the infomorphs get bored with playing hot patato with your consciousness and you are put in some cosmic playbox a la that Star Trek episode that got lampooned on the Simpsons. Coffee, accellerates their ability to hand us from one infomorph to the next. Death is when they break us.

In this metaphysics, we are not made of matter. We are made of the causal succession of hot potato infomorph intersections that result in our full stream of consciousness. But our monkey body still exists. The intersections occur in a monkey body that falls into one of the causal streams of hot potato passes. This explains memories of past lives and reincarnation. Our current monkey body is just picking up where the last monkey body left off. Those poor monkeys... possessed by something that is just a by product of non-dimensional infomorph interactions.

Or something like that. I don't even know what the fuck I am saying anymore I am so caffinated.

On to:

2) Fucking. Yeah, I said fucking. Well it turns out that fucking, be it your partner or your hand, is really... crap, my phone is ringing. This is an important call. Gotta go.

Okay, I am back now. Turns out I was wrong and fucking has nothing to do with it.

A comparatively large number of sources say Pherecydes was the first to teach the eternality and transmigration of human souls.[12] That he was the first to teach such a thing is doubtful, but that he was among the first and that he did profess this teaching is certain. Professor Hermann S. Schibli, the most acclaimed scholar on Pherecydes, concludes that Pherecydes "included in his book ["Pentemychos"] at least a rudimentary treatment of the immortality of the soul, its wanderings in the underworld, and the reasons for the soul's incarnations".[13]

So 2) is obviously...

Speculative Metaphysics #6245245555

From Wikipedia (about the cathars):

They did not believe in one all-encompassing god, but in two, both equal and comparable in status. They held that the physical world was evil and created by Rex Mundi (translated from Latin as "king of the world"), who encompassed all that was corporeal, chaotic and powerful; the second god, the one whom they worshipped, was entirely disincarnate: a being or principle of pure spirit and completely unsullied by the taint of matter. He was the god of love, order and peace.

According to some Cathars, the purpose of man's life on Earth was to transcend matter, perpetually renouncing anything connected with the principle of power and thereby attained union with the principle of love. According to others, man's purpose was to reclaim or redeem matter, spiritualizing and transforming it.

It is the last part that I find interesting. How does a human reclaim or redeem matter? Obviously by "spiritualizing it". But what does that mean?

Perhaps, this is done by focusing the will on the object in question. Praying that god enters the object (a la PKD's Zebra - see earlier blog) and reclaims it. This transubstantiates the object permanently from base matter into god or some other sort of extension of god (something that is not matter but functions like matter yet is lacking the evil and baseness of matter).

Obviously, the most import matter to transform is the human flesh. I suppose spiritual contemplation alone (or saintly acts etc.) is all that is needed to accomplish this. But what does it mean for a lamppost to be removed from the power of Rex Mundi and placed into the arms of the True God of Love?

Perhaps, once the job of the cathars is completed by humanity (or whomever) and all has been spiritualized, the universe will cease to exist (like in Arthur C. Clark's Nine Billion Names of God).

Wishing upon a star now makes complete sense. The wish isn't for the wisher but for the star.

Speculative Metaphysics #04853508921

Nothing is real. Everyone makes up a reality or buys into the reality of someone else. All realities are equally as good as any other.

For instance, some believe there are mind control weapons being used on them. And that they are being "gangstalked".

See for instance: http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/

If that doesn't work try:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080121103228/http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/

Hilariously, when I tried to visit it for the first time, I couldn't access it. If I believed I was being gangstalked, the fact that I couldn't reach the site would seem intentional and related to me as opposed to being causally unconnected to me. Perhaps you too will be unable to access it.

The point is that any sufficiently large group of people is all that is needed to validate a reality. It doesn't matter if anyone is actually being gangstalked. If enough people can find one another and share details, and the details match, then the reality becomes fact for those who believe it. This means they ARE being gangstalked.

Soon, the gangstalkees will form a collective plan. This plan will obviously seek to rectify the greivances of the gangstalkees - to stop the stalking.

The plan will probably go something like this:

Since the mind control and stalking cannot be falsified nor can it be detected, the only way to fight back is to attack the system. The system, is of course, to the gangstalkee, the symbol for all that cannot be controlled but is created by a group of sentient beings acting in concert, the source of all that is the causally desirable and undesirable (beyond the immediate social circle of the gangstalkee).

The system has many parts. Some parts are engaging in mind control and gangstalking. These parts are forever hidden. Sometimes they might be exposed and dealt with but one can never be sure. Perhaps the suspected perpatrator is truly innocent. Who can know?

But other parts support the hidden system. These parts can be attacked. The scoffers, especially the ones who seek to publicly undermine the efforts of the gangstalkees. The psychiatrists that fail to admit that there is too much cohesion to all the collective stories of the gangstalkees. Scientists and others who create technology or ideas that can be used for mind control and terrorization.

The gangstalkees and mind control victims will soon form a seperate society. Unlike anything mankind has ever seen. It will have its own manifesto. Its own constitution. And it will be its own system. It will do things. Terrible things in the name of survival and truth and justice.

And it will be justified. By common brain chemistry and the self-validation that comes with sheer numbers.

Unfalsifiable theories are and will increasingly be the bread and butter of belief.

Speculative Metaphysics #2503498273

There is space. There is time. There is matter. There are human monkeys. The human monkeys have skulls made of bone. Inside the skulls are brains. The brains give the monkeys consciousness. The brains are made of matter too. The brains think via the re-arrangement of matter and energy. The brains are constructed so they detect patterns. Detecting patterns is the main purpose of the brains, without pattern detection the monkeys cannot function and cannot create more monkeys.

Anything that is not a pattern cannot be seen by the brains - it is Aussersein. Because the brains see patterns they look for patterns related to the patterns they have previously detected (and believe to be true/existant-in-the-world-outside-the-brain). This is the law of fives.

Empirical verification is the only reasonable way to separate patterns that exist in the world from patterns merely imagined to exist. Unfortunately, no one person can engage in the empirical verification necessary to support a functioning in-the-world metaphysics. Therefore, others must be trusted to give testimony/witness to the patterns that the brain has detected. This testimony elevates the patterns to truth.

Who should a monkey trust? Expert monkeys who claim to have spent many years investigating a particular aspect of reality? The writing of long dead monkeys? What the majority of other monkeys believe?

If the monkey believes only what he can verify the monkey will be very busy verifying all the time. And some patterns cannot be falsified. Ever. What should a monkey think about those?

It is hard to be a monkey. So many choices to be made.

Speculative Metaphysics #023420498

Metaphysical Theory #023420498:

Going with the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics... The wave form collapse can only be initiated when a "conscious" observer "observes" the particle(s)/energy that is superposition. This is usually done in science by taking a measurement. Some physicists further extend the idea to the macro level (Schrodinger's Cat etc...) and say that just looking at or sensing an object in superposition collapses the wave form.

Anyway... What makes something "Conscious"? In Metaphysical Theory #023420498 it is the act of being sensed/detected/experienced by another conscious entity that makes something sentient.

This means that children actually REQUIRE the attention of adults, not for emotional or developmental reasons, but for PHYSICAL reasons. The more attention they get, the more fully realized a sentient being they become - the more integrated and aware of reality they are.

This gives an alternative explanation to neglected (eastern block orphanage) children. They are damaged not from the neglect but from the deficit of wave form collapse that are necessary to become fully conscious. In the inbetween state they seem abnormal and aberrant or retarded or out of touch with reality. In actuality, the reverse is true. It is reality that is out of touch with them as they are not connected enough to it to respond consciously.

PKD and Zebra

Read an interesting tidbit online in a page of a book I haven't actually read called "Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter" (page 60). My friend WA sent me the link. He is a PKDickhead.

Metaphysical Theory #013412341:
God is gradually replacing material items with his "body". This means that some objects in the world are made of "debased" matter (a reference I suppose to the gnostic idea of the false creator that actually made our world) and some are actually "real" in that they are composed of the perfection of god and are actually literally god. But I suppose god has to mimic the form of the actual material item until the metamorphoses/transubstantiation is fully complete - I suppose so that we humans are not totally freaked out by the literal presence of God in our lives - something we aren't prepared to deal with so God is just being a nice guy. Thanks God!