What exactly is "fluffy bunny" new-age?
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@AliceNui said
"I admit I am not sure what "new age" means, really."
Your in luck miss Alice!
New Age - (n.) any practice which is created in order to dupe or manipulate others, using pseudo-scientific methods and vague, unsubstantiated claims, most often with the objective of receiving material compensation for the efforts of the New Age practitioner.
Some examples of New Age practices are tarot readings, yoga classes, crystal healings, chiropractics, chakra manipulation, chi, feng shui, psychic mediums, reiki, etc.. -
My take:
Fluffy Bunny: I prefer five. 2+2=5.
Me: Well, not according to mathematics.
Fluffy Bunny: Spare me the boring "theory". Five has a nicer feel than four. Five just feels right to me. It came to me in a dream!
Me: Ok, well lets take two apples, add another two apples and count what we have...
Fluffy Bunny: Who invited you anyways??
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@JNV33 said
"Me: Ok, well lets take two apples, add another two apples and count what we have..."
Ha, once, in high school, I was having so much trouble in math, I asked the teacher: "What is the square root of an apple? Can you draw a picture of it for me?" He laughed at me, told me I was joking, but I was serious. I thought if I could see a picture of it, I would be able to understand.
I still don't know what a square root is. Maybe I shouldn't confess this.
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Apples don't have square roots. They have gnarly, roundish roots.
As for numbers... visual representation to follow in next post.
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Here is a visual representation of what a square root is. It only works visually in special cases (those involving whole numbers), but it should get the idea across.
Pick a number - say, 25. Get a bag of blocks (the cube-shaped blocks, such as alphabet blocks). Count out 25 of these blocks and solve the following puzzle: How can you arrange them to make a solid square. (Not an outline of a square, but so that the blocks are all together. Easier to show you than to describe. If my word-pictures aren't obvious, continue to the next paragraph anyway.)
You'll find that the way to arrange these 25 blocks to form a nice, tight, solid square is to make 5 rows of 5 blocks each.
So, look at this square of 25 blocks arranged in 5 rows of 5 blocks each. As you can see, 25 is the whole square. And, of that square, the width of any one side is the root of the square. (In this case: 5.)
Make a square out of 9 blocks and you have to arrange it 3 x 3; so 9 is the whole square, and 3 is the root of the square.
This applies where fractions are involved also, but it's more complicated. If you picked 11 blocks, you'd have to make a 3 x 3 square and then slice the remaining 2 blocks into (approximately) three parts each to fit around the edges. That is, the square would have to be 3.317 cubes wide and 3.317 cubes high; so 3.317 is the square root of 11.
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OH JIM! You are AWESOME!
You are a much better teacher than any of the math teachers I EVER had!!!!
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@AliceNui said
"OH JIM! You are AWESOME!
You are a much better teacher than any of the math teachers I EVER had!!!!" And I know how to talk to hands-on artists <vbg> -
The mathematical principle behind it lays in geometry:
The Square of 25 has a root of 5.
That is, a Square whose area is 25 has four Sides of length 5.
Thus, the Square Root gives us the length of the the Squares sides.On the apple:
An apple is three dimensional, if anything it might have a cube root (X^3). -
@seekinghga said
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@AliceNui said
"I admit I am not sure what "new age" means, really."Your in luck miss Alice!
New Age - (n.) any practice which is created in order to dupe or manipulate others, using pseudo-scientific methods and vague, unsubstantiated claims, most often with the objective of receiving material compensation for the efforts of the New Age practitioner.
Some examples of New Age practices are tarot readings, yoga classes, crystal healings, chiropractics, chakra manipulation, chi, feng shui, psychic mediums, reiki, etc.."This is a very general opinion. We should distinguish between those who abuse the new consciousness of those who introduced new techniques or rites, name them at will.
Just follow the example of the history of Zen, and similar examples.
Every time when someone has brought some new things on the face of the world,
there have been countless pursuers and their followers who
tried to wipe them off the face of this earth.Astrological new age, is quite connected with all the other new things that occur at the same time.
You simply can not avoid to be part of the whole.
With our work we can be more advanced than others, or
run a little faster. Or perhaps something even more than that.
As Crowley likely have done.And probably many others unknown.I was a young man once with naive belief in the a new age.And now
I enjoy quality alcohol and wait for the end of this life. Occasionally I plan some magical rites, without high expectations .. -:)93
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In my experience the New-Age phenomenon, which is now in it's hundreds (ever since New Thought, as I draw my line in the sand with the Pseduo-Christians which lead, with much unnecessary struggle to it's advent, not discounting the Transcendentalists whose work was quasi-inspirational).
The New-Age as I see it is life, love, liberty, legacy and law. It's establishing a world beyond yourself, and rising to the challenge of meeting that goal. It's about being the best man, woman, god or goddess, vampire or were you can possibly be. Here in my state of ALL I have seen and understood the ways of even GOD as he as expressed himself through the works of the DEVIL. GOD is the opposite of because. The DEVIL is the opposite of Lived. Combined (that will make sense in few moments). An acausal life in motion is a freedom which can not be expressed in any ordinary fashion (by all except perhaps the Axis Lords). A continous application of the Genius towards Sin, both in curing it's consequences and refining one's personal sin against the sins of others is, I believe, down to the marrow of my Space Pirate bones, this is the New-Age, hidden behind the fluffy-bunny facade, which it is true addicts may a fool onto the first tarot level, sometimes called Zero. Uni_Verse should understand this, although he may not have seen that.
Crystals, crystal balls, chakra sets, tarot decks (other than the Thoth deck, bless it's Hadit), ouija boards (ehteric computers), found objects, and much ancient paraphrenalia can literally, I do not equivocate here, put you intouch with your re-incarnalities, and take you back to where you needed to be personally, but couldn't in the rush to get back to your present concept of "Now".
For an example, like Utnapishtim I am over 4,000 years old, but am also only 28 Solar continuities old. It's maddening to hand that much information in such a small form, but I am deeply appreciative of the guides and the signs, portents, and omens, good AND bad, which have lead me here, and there, and elsewhere soon enough.
In honor of the great Game Designer JHVH-1, I submit the game "Sacrifice" to YOUR use.
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I have no idea where crystals do the things that some say they do (I've never researched it).
However, I feel compelled to point out that dismissing it, because of your gut feeling, or personal reaction to holding a crystal once, is about as fluffy and irrational an approach as I can imagine.
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Exactly!
Not a condemnation of the practice... but maybe a condemnation of many of the practitioners.
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@kasper81 said
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@Avshalom Binyamin said
"I have no idea where crystals do the things that some say they do (I've never researched it).However, I feel compelled to point out that dismissing it, because of your gut feeling, or personal reaction to holding a crystal once, is about as fluffy and irrational an approach as I can imagine.
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did I say I held them only once? I suggest you perhaps reread my post"
Whether you held them once or 20 times doesn't really change the point that I was making--that it's pretty ironic to dismiss something as fluffy nonsense based on gut feelings and anecdotes.
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@kasper81 said
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@Avshalom Binyamin said
"Whether you held them once or 20 times doesn't really change the point that I was making--that it's pretty ironic to dismiss something as fluffy nonsense based on gut feelings and anecdotes."But I was basing the evidence on personal experience and analysis????"
So are the new agers, in many cases.
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What exactly is a fluffy bunny? No offense to Monty Python, but someone who must always insist on seeing the bright side of life. Not just that, not that there's anything wrong with a positive optimistic attitude, but fluffy bunny does not want to do the work - does not want to get soft fluffy paws actually dirty with muck and mud of real work.
New Age: a term that I've seen in print since around the time of the Theosophical Society from sources including Blavatsky as well as Paschal Randalph and Annie Besant.
We are living in a new age, so why make hate in your heart over a few words. And there have always throughout time been dabblers and churchianity types (so-called followers who do nothing but make a show of attendance and give a nod of agreement), so why should it be any different in an Aeon that gives personal power to the structures of one's faith and soul?
There was a time in my spiritual growth when I and a few friends would participate in what we called "Christian bashing sessions." Silly, isn't it? We grew out of that (or, I did anyway). Why did we find the need to spew vitriol at someone else's faith? Why was it necessary for the group mind I was participating in to demonize their previous direction? I got over it and went toward demonizing that group! Isn't that interesting? I thought to myself, this can't be right.
One morning I woke up and the Internet had happened. I took my acid to the net and began a crusade against fluffy bunnies and foo-foo new agers. But why? I kept asking myself. Why, when I can look back to when I was just a boy, just a young man, I was just as hopeful and innocent as them, why bash?
There are those who may irritate me with their Sun Sign hippy excuses for their behaviors, they may play like children with ancient artifacts and I may worry that they'll cause me to question my own actions, but this is a new age* after all. A new Aeon as well, in fact.
*New Age, not to be confused with Age in astrology terms, but a "new age of man."
