oh gosh this is actually a very sweet essay lady is 50, professor at Berkeley, gets into Buddhism...and decides to spend years diving into a historical research project on whether Hume could have been exposed to Buddhist concepts while writing his Treatisehttps://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1236753833524473856 …
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Replying to @selentelechia
woah! this makes sense if you want a real trip, try writing “arabic” numerals and place them on a map around the himalayas! (i recommend using a calligrapher’s brush but any brush will do) it is like the exact same system of writing but “swept” by magnetic force! tower of babel
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Replying to @DanielleFong @selentelechia
Really what? What are you talking about?
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Replying to @chasrmartin @selentelechia
the “letters” we write are held in tension around the magnetic and temporal forces of the world. when steve jobs said that he learned a ton from calligraphy, this is part of what he meant! if you notice writing systems, like urdu, hindi, farsi, arabic, traditional chinese...
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...korean, mongolian, tibetan, you will see that the symbols and symbology are extremely similar, it is just that they are “swept” and distorted by the magnetic fields around the mountains
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