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I never thought of it as such, but the mind's eye can be considered another sense, just like hearing, and taste, and touch, and sight, and such...and a study just came out that finds some people don't have a mind's eye...Tesla had an exceptional mind's eye...I consider my own average...there's probably a range to this, like acuity in eyesight...
from post Trial and Error
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After I wrote that, and kept seeing it as I looked for miss spellings in the post, I wondered about what I was saying there more and more...the 'sense' of what I'm saying is that we develop senses much as we develop bone and flesh and muscle and nerves and such...and a wonder is how many senses are there?...millions and millions I imagine, an infinitude, but that's for another post!...
Looking, trying to imagine, how cells diverge into becoming bone and flesh and muscle and nerve cells, I looked about and found some takes on what happens in a chicken egg...the chicken grows in the yellow yoke, and the surrounding white part provides nourishment...and I got the impression that all of the yoke cells were undifferentieated to start, they hadn't decided yet what to be, a beak cell or a wing cell or a foot cell and such...and I likely have that wrong...but I imagine that in the yoke, something calls out to all the cells, and they all at once begin to go their separate ways...
"cells split and say c u when I get there...'
well, that's dumb...but...brb...
oh!...wait...a diversion...a search for 'omphalos' brought this up!
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Chateaubriand wrote in his 1802 book, Génie du christianisme (Part I Book IV Chapter V): "God might have created, and doubtless did create, the world with all the marks of antiquity and completeness which it now exhibits." Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb supports a similar position, arguing further that the evidence for an old universe[4] is strong: "The bones, artifacts, partially decayed radium, potassium-argon, uranium, the red-shifted light from space, etc.– all of it points to a greater age which nevertheless is not true."
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Though Gosse's original Omphalos hypothesis specifies a popular creation story, others have proposed that the idea does not preclude creation as recently as five minutes ago, including memories of times before this created in situ.[8] This idea is sometimes called "Last Thursdayism" by its opponents, as in "the world might as well have been created last Thursday."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis
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Or Groundhogdayism!...that is an idea that is very old...and for a post sometime...and it is very new too, experienced as it is by everyone playing video game WOW, (World of Warcraft), and such...
oh!...wait...another diversion!
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Odoacer understood full well that something had come to an end: he declared himself king of Italy, and sent the imperial regalia of the Western empire to Constantinople. The pretense of Western unity was abandoned. Europe would now become a continent of barbarian kingdoms — in embryo, the Europe of nation-states that exists today.
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author is suggesting that the barbarians were a precursor to 'unbarbaric' citizens of nation states...somewhere I have it that the Italian City States of the Renaissance were 'embryos' to Nation States, and Napoloen had a hand in that!...author covers a lot of ground, and I was trying to find his take on the 'omphalos syndrome', something I've never heard of, but come across searching for omphalos!
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The Omphalos Syndrome
Something happens to imperial capitals, something psychological and, over time, corrosive and incapacitating. It happens when the conviction takes hold that the capital is the source and focal point of reality — that nothing is more important than what happens there, and that no ideas or perceptions are more important than those of its elites.
Excerpt: 'Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America'
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11074833
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Ompahlos is another word for navel, our belly buttons...there's a long running debate...centuries old...about if Adam and Eve had belly buttons!...the Omphalos Syndrome is the sense a Nation has that they are the center of everything...
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The omphalos at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, represents, in Christian mediaeval tradition, the navel of the world (the spiritual and cosmological centre of the world).[5] Jewish tradition held that God revealed himself to His people through the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple in Jerusalem, which rested on the Foundation stone marking the centre of the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos
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Omphalos stones look like eggs...
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This egg-shaped stone—the very stone described by the Greek writer Pausanias, who visited Delphi in the second century A.D.
Read more: http://www.messagetoeagle.com/omphalos.php#ixzz3m2IxJMId
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and Omphalos stones look like bee hives...
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To the ancient Greeks, the Omphalos was a stone carved in the shape of a beehive, in this instance covered with a net-like pattern of chains, marking the birthplace of the Cosmos.
http://symboldictionary.net/?p=3271
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It's Thursday, and I need to go to the Laundry Mat, and while at that task, contemplate...bbl...:)
DavidDavid
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