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Old 01-08-2007, 03:01 PM   #53 (permalink)
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You know, this reminds me of a conversation I had with a visitor to my blog, which is about divination with the I Ching. Same kind of argument, different metaphor. He said that the cosmos was like a performance by a solo harpist. When people started to use divination to understand their lives more deeply and be more effective, this was like climbing up on the stage to pluck at the strings. If everyone did this, it'd ruin the music.

I suggested we weren't in the audience to start with; that the performance isn't a solo, it's more like chamber music on a grand scale. Divination is something like paying attention to the harmony and what the other musicians are doing.

In the same analogy (just for a change from programming), I suppose LoA might be tonality, or some part of it. But my blog visitor wasn't buying it, and Frans doesn't have to, either.
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