my username expresses my respect and support for methamphetamine manufacturing, hence the ‘pro’ ‘methean’. and my spirit animal is the duck billed platypus… but i couldn’t figure out a way to get a meth and platypus reference in the same moniker.
Fixed Cross it is. Sounds like you’ve been around the block a timer or two your self. Well that’s something I wasn’t aware of, I’ve read a bit of your posts under that moniker but didn’t draw the connection. If I ever get to know you better, I may drop the Cross and just call you Fixed as well.
Prom, I can only guess guess as to why you would support it but the duck billed platypus reference did make me laugh. You’ve got quite the sense of humor. How did you realize that was your spirit animal? You ever been down under?
My real name is Jason.
Ecmandu happened back in the late 90’s when a game called Everquest came out. I made my account the first day the servers went live (I wasn’t a beta tester)
Anyways, when I saw all the server names, I was drawn to one called E’ci (ice spelled backwards).
I had the option of creating a barbarian in the land of ice cold Halas and did so. The land reminded me of Kathmandu in the Himalayas … so I used the “ec” part from ice spelled backwards and added the “mandu” from Kathmandu, making drum roll…
Ecmandu!!
I pronounce it: ec-mon-du
Having discussed things with you first person, I was curious where your user name came from. Thanks for sharing the background. I am aware of a little bit more this day, that is the greatest gift I could receive. It help so much with understanding, if I could imagine such a thing possible. Jason is pretty cool name too, but Ecmandu is even more cool. Katmandu is such an exotic place with so much myth and mysticism involved in it’s cultural portrayal. I’m a handy man of sorts, intellectually and practically; a jack of all trades and a master of none. But when it comes to the animate, life, I am just as likely to fall flat on my face.
Thanks.
I’m writing, co-authoring, a non-fiction book with a view to being published. I also write purely for enjoyment such as on forums like this. I do a little creative writing too, but have not done so for quite a while now. I have spotted the creative writing forum and had a read of the submissions. Good forum.
Perhaps a bit off-topic, but care to describe the evidence you have that prompted your interest in astrology?
Why do you want to know?
The problem is that there is only evidence.
Since you’re asking about possibly the most coveted knowledge there is among powerful humans, it would be recommended that you spend, like with all sciences, some time on serious study so you know what kind of questions to ask and if you really want to know the answers. For example, draw a few dozen charts, to begin with of yourself and of the people around you.
You can use this.
astro.com/cgi/genchart.cgi
and just google whatever you want to see explained, make sure to read a few different hits for everything.
As for my own interest, you can check some of these sources.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovHSYGJiaXw[/youtube]
astrologyweekly.com/forum/s … p?t=110629
beforethelight.forumotion.com/t5 … r-calendar
wait dragon lady! before you watch that astrology video, watch this one first…
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNSHZG9blQQ[/youtube]
Hahaha, yes, people without self respect can of course not possibly take an honest look at astrology.
This is the “problem”, if anyone cares, with such a science: about half the people on the planet would rather die than have any idea of what they are.
Lol.
For example, if promethean75 would have his chart read, (he couldn’t muster the discipline or concentration to read his own) he would be told that he is intellectually challenged, despite having much intellectual pride. That he should work with his hand if is to make himself useful. And that in turn would be reason for him to reject the whole science. Thats just the way humans are. Childish to the extreme.
Same sort of thing with value ontology (the inside of the will to power) by the way; one must actually exist to dare to understand what it means to exist. Most people don’t really exist nowadays, they’re merely functions of their devices and ideologies.
I take you, dragon, for someone with a good chart, and yet you will want to ask yourself to what extent you wish to know yourself.
so intellectually challenged that after dabbling with astrology charts when i was eighteen years old, i quickly concluded that astrology was an unfalsifiable pseudo-science incapable of any empirical verification that consistently confused correlation with cause (mars in the tenth house caused the stock crash. no way was it just correlated), reveled in the ambiguity of language (libras are ‘graceful’; okay, but how many ways can we define ‘graceful’?), and tended to put into the heads of its practitioners an element of manifest destiny; they begin to act like the personality type they are told they are… and then, post-hoc, believe they are fulfilling the truth of what they read.
but that’s my fate. to be intellectually challenged. it’s written in the stars.
(although i feel the need to inform everyone that i am a capricorn/tiger. in primal astrology, the komodo dragon. but you can just call me ‘boss’ if you want)
Oh you dabbled and quickly concluded, is it?
Brilliant, promethean. Only you could illustrate my point about you so perfectly.
Dragon - it speaks for itself that a person with self-respect will, when confronted with a means to analyze oneself, seek to come up with a favourable picture, and if this isn’t convincingly provided, he will reject the whole method.
A person with self-respect will seek out his own flaws before he looks at any “compliments”.
This is where astrology gets quite dangerous, as most anyone has a good deal of very severe problems in his chart, usually ones that cant be overcome.
Promethean or anyone who thinks “he is a tiger” or “he is a Capricorn” certainly has never bothered to read the first thing about the subject. 1/12th of the people on Earth are born with their Sun “in” Capricorn.
The Sun placement accounts for about a tenth of the placements an astrologer works with at minimum, and placements count for a small percentage of the factors in a chart. What matters are angles and aspects, mostly. It is for a good part geometry.
how do you know the ‘position’ of a celestial body in space is the ‘cause’ of behaviors… like joe being hopelessly romantic? (and i don’t mean shit like the moon affecting menstrual cycles)
but it gets even worse. how do you define ‘hopelessly romantic’ so tightly that you are positive behavior set x is a display of joe’s hopeless romantic nature, rather than behavior set y?
you know why astrology dazzles simpleminded people without a capacity for logic? because it becomes so obscure as it advances in complexity that there is no way to be sure you’re wrong about any particular conclusion.
if a taurus becomes talkative, it must be because his mercury is in gemini. that explains it. but wait, his venus is in leo, and that chick he’s talking to is hot. maybe the talkativeness is because leo is outgoing and social, especially when attracted to someone. well fuck, which is it?
shit, i handn’t thought of this either. part of her attractive nature is her interests in social justice. his rising sign is saggitarius, which gives him special interest in matters of social justice. could that be why he’s talkative?
gosh ya know this is all so complicated. ya know what, maybe all this is bullshit, and there are other reasons why joe is behaving like he is. but those explanations are boring. i like esoteric explanations with which i can make anything work.
Just… don’t dabble at stuff dude. It pisses me off.
You’ve plenty of good shit going for you but you persevere in wanting to do precisely what you’re no good at. Lying. Your whole philosophical attitude is a lie. You’re truly not doing justice to the excellence of being in that particular form. But I cant blame you because I cant escape that I made my philosophy for a reason, which s that before it there never was any way of making sense of the world whatsoever. All philosophy was flat and religion was hollow, and only people and nature could show you something. No concept made sense in terms of the metaconcept of there being a concept, because… horror. As a totally, existence contradicts itself. And indeed it isn’t a totality. Which is why dialectic don’t work, you see.
here is an astrological chart reading basic minimum knowledge video for dragon or anyone .
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YncOcIUj47M[/youtube]
This diversion all in my name.
I don’t see the purpose
but I can smell the musk on the surface
dabbler hater.
Any time any one want’s to jump into user name stories, feel free. Darn trolls, :LOL: I’m joking, I am aware one thing leads to another.