I thought to roll over to Best Buy and get the Twilight movie...it's about werewolves and vampires...since the Wolfman 1941 movie, there have been a lot more werewolf movies!...and I haven't kept up...but Twilight was in an expensive set, so I came home with Sleepy Hollow, a favorite, and for sometime, as the youtube midnight movie time last night was taken up with the new Pluto and Ceres pics, and the Scarlet Letter...wanted to watch the PBS one, but it's not on youtube, and I passed on the others, but did read comments and such about it...I read it in school...
Time to time, Jews have been made to wear the Star of David, or some such, to set them apart, and in the Nathaniel Hawthorne story, Hester is made to wear a red letter A on her blouse, a punishment for her crime of adultery...A is for adultery...it's a reach, I know, but humans when they get bit by a werewolf have the wound heal up fast but a red pentagram scar is left on their chest...this I gather from the Wolfman 1941!...and of course, Vampires make new vampires by biting the necks of humans....there's a self similarity going on here, and it's about being bitten and transformed...
The year, 1941, was the gloomiest of the early years of WW2...fascism was on the march all across the world...and I see in Wolfman echoes of the feelings people had in England and America...fascism was biting people and turning them into monsters, and in turn, people opposing them were being bitten by war, and becoming monstrous too...the war was a biting snarling scratching back-and- forth...
Hester in the Scarlet Letter lives in a Puritan village, the villagers punishment Hawthorne frames his story around...oh!...there's an eternal triangle...Hester, her lover, and her husband ...the Scarlet Letter punishment bites all three of them...and they transform in different ways...
Hester's daughter is Pearl...Hawthorne is working on levels throughout the story...metaphors, symbols, allegories, and such...and I was thinking about pearls, which brought me to reading about The Scarlet Letter, having remembered Pearl, the character...so midnight last night I was looking up how pearls get made, thinking from what I remember, that they get bit, the Oyster shell mollusk I mean....oh...it's like this...
A sand grain gets in the oyster shell and the oyster mollusk is irritated and builds around the grain a secreted layering of calcium like its shell is made of to protect itself...that is the way it happens, when commercial oyster's are raised, I thought, and I'm close, but in Nature, parasites or some such get inside the shell....
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(clip has an animation...a parasite attacking the mollusk...)
Built from hexagonal aragonite crystals of calcium carbonate. Pearls are formed in Clams, Oysters and Mussels, and are found in many parts of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T18E58vOTus
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Just found that bit about the hexagonal aragonite crystals...they make the pearls' luminosity...
The oyster mollusk gets bitten by a parasite and a transformation of sorts happens in the creation of a pearl...
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Aragonite is the main component of many organic substances, such as pearl and coral. The iridescent surface of pearl and mother-of-pearl is a layer of Aragonite secreted by mollusks and related invertebrates. - See more at: http://www.minerals.net/mineral/aragonite.aspx#sthash.q4oazuDt.dpuf
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I don't know what bit me that I now see in movies and books and stories, metaphors, symbols, allegories, and such...oh, actually I do, but that's an aside... I can't sit still in a movie and just watch it and be entertained...and thinking about transforming werewolf bites I was going over in my memory the 'bites' that have transformed the characters in the movie Exodus 1(1960.)..Eve Marie Saint is bitten by the loss of her husband...he was a photo journalist killed while covering a battle in Palestine...she carries with her a photo of a dive bombing plane...the last picture he took...she adopts a girl in the movie named Kitty, who lost her father in the war and is searching for him--her bite...Sal Mineo relates the biting experiences he experienced in German prison camps for Jews when he tries to join the Ergun...at the kibbutz, there is a commemorative statue, a young girl holding a rife aloft...she was killed by Arabs, and was Paul Newman's girlfriend...one can infer he was bitten by this...sitting in a restaurant with Eve Marie Saint, Paul enquires about her husband, and hears the tale of his death covering a battle in Palestine...Newman's very quite...and I gotta wonder if the airplane was flown by Jewish rebels...Saint and Newman are falling in love...so it's a real tangle!....the movie is full of bites and snarls and scratches!...the movie ends with a desultory grave scene...Kitty, and Paul Newman's child hood friend grown up, an Arab, have been assassinated, and they are now buried together in the peace of the grave, and Newman goes on about how someday Arabs and Jews will be at peace...no more biting!
so, so, I'm looking into my eyebrows, thinking about biting, and wondering if I can work that into a commentary about how Satan goads God into bringing disaster down on Job, or when Satan asks King David how many chosen people there are...on hearing that David provides an answer, God weighs in and punishes David and Israel...for sometime is a post about Job and the Raccoons!...and the David story too!...In the Bible, Satan bites are peculiar...small things in themselves, they often bring about calamity after calamity...like when Satan lures Eve into taking an apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and taking a bite from the apple...
searching this tale out, I find that Snake in the story isn't named Satan...doesn't have a name, just a snake, but storytellers have embellished...and I learn, there are a lot versions of the story...there are a lot of versions of everything in the Bible it seems...there are two Genesis stories in Genesis!...thinking on this, I'm looking at a wiki page, and in the column on the right is a picture of Adam and Eve in sculpture in Notre Dame Cathedral...there's Adam, Eve, the Tree, the Apple, and a snake entwined around the Tree that has a woman's head and bosom!...I look at the pictures caption...
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Adam, Eve, and the (female) Serpent (often identified as Lilith) at the entrance to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve
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snagging this, I noticed another picture which I've seen many times, Michelangelo's painting of Adam and Eve in the Sistine Chapel...I just never noticed this, that Lilith is portrayed as the snake...
It's another eternal triangle of course, the first!...Adam, Lilith, and Eve...
and here, I would wrap up this post, but for that bite of the apple...it's the symbol of Apple Computers, an apple with a bite out of it, and the bite is a reference to 'byte'...
There's bits and bytes...it would be bits and bites, but a y was inserted to differentiate bytes from bites which is the plural of bit...bytes are a plurality of bits, but a specific number...eight...right away the grammar of computers sets my eyes to rolling...but it's curious...bits are the smallest computer 'word', and they can be off or on...wait..let me find an explanation!
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The byte (/ˈbaɪt/) is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer[1][2] and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
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A bit is the basic unit of information in computing and digital communications.[1] A bit can have only one of two values, and may therefore be physically implemented with a two-state device. These values are most commonly represented as either a 0or1. The term bit is a portmanteau of binary digit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit
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There's a passage in James Joyce's Ulysses when a character is eating and Joyce goes on about digestion...the food is digested until it is just ones and zeros...
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oh...I cant find it...'you never know whose thoughts you're chewing'...Joyce is an 'intertexting memory' nightmare!
But I've thought some on this, and regard the checkerboard as a symbol of things at their most basic...off and on, ones and zeros...
which almost brings me to the Dirac Sea!...in the Hidden in Plain Sight youtube clip is mention of Nassim Haramein, who I referred to as the aether 'industrialist'...he has it that there is an aether, that there is a fundamental particle shaped like a polygon, infinitesimally tiny, and apparently these most tiny of things go off and on...
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64 tetrahedrons create 2 octaves of a perfectly balanced geometry called the Cuboctahedron or what Buckminster Fuller coined the "vector equilibrium". According to the physics of Nassim Haramein, the 64 tetrahedron grid is the first harmonic of the cuboctahedron geometry and what eventually becomes, with scalar octave growth, the infinite holofractographic vacuum structure of the entire universe, as 64 is the fewest number of tetrahedrons needed to begin to see this geometric... scalar fractal pattern emerge...
• 64 codons in human DNA.
• 64 hexagrams in the I Ching.
• 64 sexual positions in the Kama sutra.
• 64 classical arts listed in many Indian scriptures.
• 64 "tantras" (books) of the "tantrism", which is a form of Hinduism.
• 64 is the maximum number of strokes in any Chinese character.
• 64 is the number of cells we have before our cells start to bifurcate (differentiate) shortly after conception.
• 64 is fundamental in computer memory bits and coding.
• 64 things are needed to be able to approach the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord according to the 2 copper scrolls that were found among the 300 Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 64 is encoded in the description of the Tetragrammaton in the Hebrew Bible, which is the 4-letter theonym YHWH meaning God in Hebrew.
• 64 is the number of generations from Adam until Jesus according to the Gospel of Luke.
• 64 forms or manifestations of the Lord Shiva in Hinduism.
• 64 squares on chess and checker boards.
• 64 Braille characters in the old 6-dot system.
• 64 demons in the Dictionnaire Infernal.
• 64 is the smallest number with exactly seven divisors.
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• 64 hexagrams in the I Ching.
• 64 sexual positions in the Kama sutra.
• 64 classical arts listed in many Indian scriptures.
• 64 "tantras" (books) of the "tantrism", which is a form of Hinduism.
• 64 is the maximum number of strokes in any Chinese character.
• 64 is the number of cells we have before our cells start to bifurcate (differentiate) shortly after conception.
• 64 is fundamental in computer memory bits and coding.
• 64 things are needed to be able to approach the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord according to the 2 copper scrolls that were found among the 300 Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 64 is encoded in the description of the Tetragrammaton in the Hebrew Bible, which is the 4-letter theonym YHWH meaning God in Hebrew.
• 64 is the number of generations from Adam until Jesus according to the Gospel of Luke.
• 64 forms or manifestations of the Lord Shiva in Hinduism.
• 64 squares on chess and checker boards.
• 64 Braille characters in the old 6-dot system.
• 64 demons in the Dictionnaire Infernal.
• 64 is the smallest number with exactly seven divisors.
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The Resonance Project • The connected universe • The Resonance Project - Página Oficial Hispana • The Resonance Project 共振企劃 • The Resonance Project em Português • The Resonance Project - Traduction Française • The Sacred of Geometry • Collective Evolution • Spirit Science • The Mind Unleashed • (post by Jamie Janover)
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While in school, Dirac lost his brother...Dirac went into a funk and wouldn't study for awhile, but emerged, transformed in some fashion, and became one of the most prominent theoretical physicist...
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The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles with negative energy. It was first postulated by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1930 to explain the anomalous negative-energy quantum states predicted by the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons. The positron, the antimatter counterpart of the electron, was originally conceived of as a hole in the Dirac sea, well before its experimental discovery in 1932.
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In the beginning was the byte...
(apologies to John 1:1)
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once bitten, twice shy
Once hurt, one is doubly cautious in the future, as in He was two days late last time, so she's not hiring him again-once bitten, twice shy. This seemingly old observation, presumably alluding to an animal biting someone, was first recorded in 1894.
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