[ExI] [Extropolis] Religion

[Will Steinberg]

I think of the revelatory powers of the oracles in 2 ways:

1) A jungian synchronicity sense, imagine an analog clock reading 2:11,
turn it around and every spring and gear is working interdependently to
create this state, they have 2:11ness, but it is not scrutable from the
back.  The universe is like a great clock and everything is interdependent
and physically/chronologically contiguous

2) some kind of unknown consciousness thing, it’s not like we really have
any idea what anything is

And I suppose it is helpful in a kind of “you get what you need” creative
sense but idk I have had very many extremely specific and strange i ching
readings that shook me, and not uncommonly

On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 5:16 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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>
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
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> > On Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 5:11 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >       Re: that, this site is an incredible I Ching reference:
> https://jamesdekorne.com/GBCh/GBCh.htm
> >
> >
> > This confirms my impression of I Ching as something like tarot: a bunch
> of broadly applicable statements that one is expected to
> > apply to one's own situation, without considering how most - probably
> all - of the others could also apply, had one (or however many
> > you drew) of them been randomly selected instead.
> >
> > In other words, the predictive value of drawing one versus another is
> zero.  They can, however, be useful as mental focusing aids for
> > considering one's situation.
> >
>
> This is my view of iching, dreams and tarot. Kind of creative writing
> aids. But they inspire you to come up with things, as you yourself, use
> its input to come up with things. Could be a deck of playing cards, role
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