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Random Victim | Mon, 08/09/2010 - 14:50

Glad to hear that!!

Random Victim | Tue, 08/10/2010 - 17:51

Hold on commandos, let's stop and think about numerals. There are ten basic numerals (names used in numbering) which comprise all other numbers. Let's list them:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and last but not least, 9.
Counting from zero, once you get to 9, you have exhausted all the numerals and must begin COMBINING them if you want to keep counting numbers. You combine the 1 and the 0 to make a new number, 10. Moving on, numerals and the numbers are human creations, the product of a culture. If life never existed on Earth, there would be no number 2. The number 2 signifies a group of two separate entities which are identical and can then be grouped together. Bertrand Russel has written on the foundation of mathematics and described a number, like the number two, as a "set", meaning it is the "set of identical items, of which there is more than one and less than three". So, numbers are just human creations, and we have created a base-10 set of numbers, where after every ten, we start counting again, with "11" after the first set of ten, or "21" after the second set, and so on. So, we only have ten numerals with which to describe our world in numerical form. And you expect us to believe in hidden meaning in numerology, where if you divide up numbers and add them, there are hidden synchronicities? Let's say someone's address is 2835. A numerologist will add the 2 to the 8 to the 3 to the 5, to get something interesting. If they don't find a meaning, the add 28 to 35 - does that equal anything interesting? Ok, then lets try 283 + 5. Still nothing? ok, how about 2 times 8 times 3 times 5? Or 2 times 3 times 8 + 5? Still nothing? 2 times 8 plus 35? Still nuthing? Ok, Ok, give a guy a chance here? 2 times 8 MINUS 35? No? 2 times 8 minus 15 (ie 3x5)? Anything yet? Come on... you look hard enough, you can get 911 or 666 or 187 or 333 or something else out of any number or combination of numbers, if you keep trying. Why is this? Because there are only ten separate numerals, that's why. And there is NO hidden meaning behind the numerals, only somebody dumb enough to fall for 'supreme mathematics' would buy that garbage for a second. Read some actual number theory like Bertrand Russell's "foundation of mathematics" on number theory before you fall for that.
In other news, if you want to hear about some actual wild shit, look up Dan Burisch and listen to him on j-rods, S4, P-45,000s and other wild topics beyond the cutting edge, and kick this hokum to the curb.
Greetings from Vienna, Chelvis

timandvic | Wed, 08/11/2010 - 09:03

You do mean Bertrand Russell, the eugenicist who who advocated the use of vaccines to induce partial chemical lobotomies on people and advocated the sterilization of large swaths of the population, correct? -timandvic

timandvic | Wed, 08/11/2010 - 09:05

“I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing... War... has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full... The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's... There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority...”
- Bertrand Russell, THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON SOCIETY 1953
-timandvic

Random Victim | Thu, 08/12/2010 - 20:00

Yes, that Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) is the exact one I mean. You are attempting to cast some aspersion on his character with the above perfectly out-of-context quote, I suspect. However, this effort must be seen as a failure if you were to investigate Bertrand Russell's lifelong public humanitarian activism and advocacy for pacifism and science. Martin Luther King Jr, Mahatma Ghandi and Noam Chomsky have all been inspired by Russell's public activism, and a poster of Bertrand Russell can be seen hanging outside of Chomsky's office in the Chomsky documentary from about 10 years ago. Russell was one of the first "engaged" public intellectuals, serving as Chomsky's model for being an academic who voiced concerns publicly and agitated for change.

Along with being one of the leading male advocates for women's rights in the early years of the 20th century (he even served jail time for publicly advocating for the extention the right to vote to women in the UK, and for protesting WWI as a nasty, nationalistic, colonial war). I think you will find his political stances basically impeccable and, infact, quite inspirational if you were to actually look into them, which I recommend you do. I recommend his biography.

Additionally, the method of attacking someone's views on subject A by attacking their character or by previous statements on matters unrelated to the subject at hand was first used in America in the late 60s by the radical left, who had borrowed that tactic from Chinese maoists, who destroyed careers, lives and entire families by quoting people out of context to discredit them. It is a particularly nasty and spurious form of personal attack which lead to the upheavals of the great revolution in China from 1966 onwards.

Bertrand Russell, however, spend the 1960s (when he was in his nineties), more productively, in leading public protests against the nuclear bomb through the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (their CND symbol for nuclear disarmament was later adopted by the hippies, as their peace symbol). Russell helped found the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and along with that he protested against the Viet Nam war and was arrested, as a man in his nineties, for these protests.

He also was one of the first in the west to express concern for the Israeli treatment of palestinians.

Please do adequate research if you seek to impugn the character of one of the greatest moralists, activists and logicians of the twentieth, or, in fact, of any, century.

Random Victim | Thu, 08/12/2010 - 20:05

That's him in the Front Row, Third From the Left, with the shock of white hair
http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/files/pw20c_images/00001037.jpg

Random Victim | Thu, 08/12/2010 - 20:11

timanvic (not verified) | Fri, 08/13/2010 - 20:10

You've got to be kidding me, right? I'm not trying to discredit him, I'm flat out telling you the guy was openly a f*@king eugeniscist. Not only did he believe in eugenics, he openly linked it with policies of government-enforced eugenics and also world governance. In Icarus or the Future of Science he wrote, "If, however, a world-government is established, it may see the desirability of making subject races also less prolific, and may permit mankind to solve the population question. This is another reason for desiring a world-government." As far as Noam Chomsky is now involved, I personally believe Noam Chomsky to be a political dinosaur. Anyone that can be that easily duped should be immediately dismissed as someone still politically agile or able. Also, we can go on and on about the heroics of Bertrand Russell, but sadly, not only do I not give a damn about Bertrand Russell, but this post or the topic of the occult significance of numbers has nothing to do with Bertrand Russell. This belief system(read that, BELIEF SYSTEM) was in tact well before Bertrand Russell ever popped outta his momma's bottom. Besides, plenty of people advocate horrible shit on one side and then publicly advocate, even champion, the exact opposite on the other side. Hell, look at Al Gore or better yet, Bill Gates. Shit, the Rockefeller Foundation might be the crowning jewel of outright hypocrisy. But thanks for the long, exhaustive opinion. -timanvic

timandvic | Fri, 08/13/2010 - 23:59

You know what the best thing about this photo, http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/case-study/fused-fizzing-and-ready-go-bertrand-russell-takes-streets of Bertrand Russell "taking to the streets" with the banner of the "peace" sign that you posted is? As a member of the Fabian Society, he must have known about the symbol's storied occult, "satanic" and Nazi past. Ha! Look into it some time, it's great fun! -timandvic