for the past couple of days, NPR has been running a story on The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot

although the themes are not really anything new to Gnostic scholars, this document (which has been out of circulation for 1700 years or so) does offer explicit appreciation for Judas's role in revealing the Gnosis... here's an excerpt from the NPR ( Read more... )

i realize that i should really just get around to learning calculus (one way or another), if i am ever to functionally utilize the concept of infinity... meanwhile, this is still fun, for the moment... but eventually, there must be a limit!

meanwhile, i think that i will continue in the “uniting of consciousness with infinite space by the exercise ( Read more... )

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

--William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

the roots of infinity as a symbol used in mathematics are often traced back to John Wallis in 1655, and Bernoulli in 1694although the truth is that there's an even deeper ( Read more... )

Since i started this journal, the bio on my info page has read ( Read more... )

The other night, as pinkflesh17 was studying for her Astronomy test and i was reading about Ethics for my Philosophy exam, i came across this quote from Immanuel Kant, "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above and the moral law within ( Read more... )

originally posted 08/06/04 @ 22:05 weak attempt at rough draft submitted out of mental block & desperation ( Read more... )