<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:20:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>aphorism</category><category>English</category><category>Nederlands</category><category>&#39;Pataphysics</category><category>Français</category><category>Kabbalah</category><category>Poetry</category><category>Maybe Logic</category><category>Memories</category><title>Clinamen</title><description>Chasing the snark into the fnords</description><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>16</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-3742294858523394998</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-09T15:27:58.186+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aphorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nederlands</category><title>Aforismes 3</title><atom:summary type="text">We lezen dat een gedrag een afwijking &#39;Is&#39;. Homosexualiteit, islam, ecologie…Puur taalkundig klopt dat natuurlijk. Dit betekent letterlijk &quot;dat wat afwijkt van de norm&quot;. De dag bijvoorbeeld dat het merendeel van de wereldbevolking homosexueel is, zal elk ander sexueel gedrag per definitie een afwijking zijn.Het probleem ontstaat wanneer men een moreel construct opbouwt rond dit concept. En dat &quot;</atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/08/aforismes-3.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-760973209154613984</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-03T14:40:26.043+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aphorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><title>Aphorisms 2</title><atom:summary type="text">Everytime we approach any answer, the question undergoes a transformation.--When I see how sarcasm takes over the world, how far right gains strength, how life itself gets taken over by multi-billion corporations, how information gets logarithmic on our asses, how for the youngster reality and virtuality get mixed up more and more, how psychopaths become a target marketing group on their own and </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/08/aphorisms-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-4900151968735491309</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 06:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-02T08:23:38.924+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aphorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nederlands</category><title>Grove woorden</title><atom:summary type="text">De oude koereur had nog veel haar op zijn tandem.

Op de laaddienst waren de werklieden enkel bereikbaar tijdens de katroluren.

Beter een vinger in je gat dan een gat in je vinger.

Op de eerste meeting van de Voorzittersliga raakte men het maar niet eens wie de vergadering zou leiden.

Zanzibar start met een Z, dus dat moet wel aan de andere kant van de wereld zijn.

Bij de sluiting van club &#39;</atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/08/grove-woorden.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-9106486119874123532</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-04T22:45:10.289+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nederlands</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Poetry</category><title>Poezie 2</title><atom:summary type="text">Kiezelstenen

Van A tot Zuid
Braille lezen met je tenen.

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Malpertuis

Neergevleide Engelen
Verslaafd aan teveel
Met een blik vol ogen
De lever zoals het is met leiden en lijden
Geketend en versteend, gestenigd en getekend
De man van smarten als schurende nagels langs mijn doodskist.
Vlees niets: immer onthouden wij om jullie te vergeten.

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Inkeer

Mijn interactieve ik
Trilt en beeft en </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/08/poezie-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-7017871060536334350</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-01T15:44:25.713+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">&#39;Pataphysics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kabbalah</category><title>Towards a Patakabbal part 3</title><atom:summary type="text">(first published in Maybe Quarterly vol. 2 issue 4, winter 
solstice 2005. This online magazine was sadly removed but one can still 
find its reflections in the Wayback Machine.)


Part 4. The Book of Sand

Chapter 1. Emanations and commissions: the Collège as a tree
The sefirotic trees are a metaphor for different emanations of that which a kabbalist calls &#39;god&#39; for lack of a better word. As in </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/towards-patakabbal-part-3.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZv3KF5zC0w_nnQs9Wq93_MSFB5y07TKq1p7OZp6pogZ3i3ZUeDUiBY2MNYLMKiJSFQnAp2Dc8wjlq-GL-_dVDVH9NHl42BW2W1geKtLFSGoi9AWpOgJUmg1DdU8Q1eLxFY-h3zA/s72-c/borsky.gif" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-3169927275955013010</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-01T15:46:33.802+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">&#39;Pataphysics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kabbalah</category><title>Towards a Patakabbal part 2</title><atom:summary type="text">(first published in Maybe Quarterly vol. 2 issue 4, winter 
solstice 2005. This online magazine was sadly removed but one can still 
find its reflections in the Wayback Machine.)



Part 2. A Spiral Kabbal 





Chapter 1. As above, so below
The first letter of the hebrew alefbet, Aleph ,
 allegedly was created starting from the image of a man pointing down 
with one hand and up with the other. </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/towards-patakabbal-part-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP-UchDbttLcArj32VCY6X15zGF_X8PAx7TwqgsTE7ULlazzR6PEwg4gQAsDRCCN4oX6sQpUn_WB_L_DJvHiOSaH0-yNLnO_6-ypXH9PJ8AhFZDvF-KJy2YBUU7ZzPZdPA2Yq-lA/s72-c/patakabbal035.gif" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-6167831868040894519</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-07-29T16:58:00.033+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">&#39;Pataphysics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kabbalah</category><title>Towards a Patakabbal part 1</title><atom:summary type="text">(first published in Maybe Quarterly vol. 2 issue 4, winter solstice 2005. This online magazine was sadly removed but one can still find its reflections in the Wayback Machine.)





Personification and falsehood

&amp;nbsp;

Get a grip on Bat Kol, I&#39;m taking away Jacob&#39;s ladder

&quot;Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind&quot;
       Alfred Jarry
   

A &#39;pataphysician has an </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/towards-patakabbal-part-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDNKuJlKGisiNfKu3hB97kRBMptVComw3vygApUHTqj4iZNAQCOr5SJ2L93qcaIbfYuw-jhR9h7aJAxzMLQCZG-CwC8yA9_PqgFW7p91P3wYFU3gEnqfy3JkM-FBKJx6kNFFkD8A/s72-c/patakabbal001.png" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-7197915865629107715</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-01T15:36:07.412+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aphorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nederlands</category><title>Aforismes 2</title><atom:summary type="text">Twee tegenstrijdige bedenkingen.
Enerzijds is alle sociale onrust in de wereld gestoeid op het verwarren van enerzijds ideeën, bedenkingen, voorstellingen, symbolen en metaforen met feiten anderzijds. Manipulatie en false facts zijn allen ontstaan uit het gelijkstellen van beide werelden. In een beschaving waar beide door iedereen duidelijk uit elkaar gescheiden blijven kan geen enkele politieker</atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/aforismes-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-113095717847827657</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-07-29T14:46:37.401+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Maybe Logic</category><title>Sin vs Karma</title><atom:summary type="text">(my first post from 2007) 

First entry.
I&#39;ll just grab a little text I send to the Maybe Logic&amp;nbsp; course Tale of the Tribe.

The three monotheistic world religions christianity, hebraism and islam all use the concept of sin to keep their cattle on a leash.

The Pentateuch contains a huge amount of rules to follow to keep god happy. Two distinct types of evil (but both considered equally bad) </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/sin-vs-karma.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-2780092106387291104</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-01T15:36:16.494+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aphorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Français</category><title>Aphorismes 2</title><atom:summary type="text">Un anniversaire ne fait que célébrer la séparation du placenta. En guise de réminiscence généralement le fêtard reçoit du gâteau, ce qui devrait symboliser l&#39;époque perdue où la nourriture était pourvue sans effort. Il serait préférable de célébrer la date d&#39;insémination, moment autrement plus capital, environ 9 mois avant la naissance. Encore les parents devraient-ils noter méticuleusement leurs</atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/aphorismes-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-5937488987635358795</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-01T15:36:23.618+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Français</category><title>Histoires courtes</title><atom:summary type="text">Ni l&#39;un ni l&#39;autre n&#39;aurait pu prévoir leur coup de foudre mutuel. Pourtant c&#39;est exactement ce qui arriva lorsque Gilberto Garinaga et Penelope Allacarvo se rencontrèrent dans la torpeur de l&#39;été sur les Ramblas. Ce fut l&#39;amour fou du premier coup. La différence d&#39;âge - Gilberto allait sur ses 87 piges et Penelope venait à peine de souffler seize bougies - leur importait peu. Ainsi donc ils </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/histoires-courtes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-3736361002502849217</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-01T15:35:54.179+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nederlands</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Poetry</category><title>Poezie 1</title><atom:summary type="text">Verlies

Hoe&amp;nbsp;kan&amp;nbsp;ik&amp;nbsp;nog&amp;nbsp;daveren&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;dit&amp;nbsp;brakke&amp;nbsp;lijf&amp;nbsp;van&amp;nbsp;gestolde&amp;nbsp;hoop?
Er&amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;niets&amp;nbsp;meer&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;het&amp;nbsp;wegwassen&amp;nbsp;van&amp;nbsp;de&amp;nbsp;duinen.
Ik&amp;nbsp;had&amp;nbsp;nog&amp;nbsp;willen&amp;nbsp;dwarrelen&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;de&amp;nbsp;duistere&amp;nbsp;dalen, heel&amp;nbsp;af&amp;nbsp;en&amp;nbsp;toe&amp;nbsp;stralend&amp;nbsp;op&amp;nbsp;een&amp;nbsp;glinsterende&amp;nbsp;piek.</atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/poezie-1-verlies-hoe-er-ik-heel-wij-als.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-3892836728360431199</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-07-29T13:11:44.084+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Memories</category><title>Update on Szukalski</title><atom:summary type="text">(An old post from 2011)

I&amp;nbsp; read the Pasadena City College&#39;s curator Brian Tucker organised a brilliant exhibition back in 2009 titled &#39;Mantong and Protong: Richard Sharpe Shaver and Stanislav Szukalski&#39;. Sadly it seems no catalog has been printed. Read more on the similarities bot visionary artists:

On the site of the Pasadena City College Art Gallery
On Paranoids Online blog
On the site </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/update-on-szukalski.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHJhONRQueS3bEPyQk4zvE_nQS-jt4-ZnoEK0ActdZlUWNqrtBn0NBz5PY9lAqtqZnjx_S-Knf6kl1_NOUWOtpNacI1KkLZE43kh9McHfdQHus9fpvNELf9JRLuaxNHOGLRTyI2A/s72-c/shaver_skavlski_expo_photo4_4322.jpg" height="72" width="72"/></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-5147293851917712447</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-01T15:36:32.089+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aphorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><title> Aphorisms 1</title><atom:summary type="text">Everyone can and will change, although some may have the illusion that it takes forever. Stretchable times.

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The Hermetic Operating System has a lot in common with the Mythological OS.
Kernel: transformation through epiphany.
Interface: ethical tale.
See Frances Yates&#39; Giordano Bruno and Joseph Campbell&#39;s Hero with 1000 faces.

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&quot;Are you ready to die for your beliefs?&quot;
How many would </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/aphorisms-1-everyone-can-and-will.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-235247967950688714</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-07-25T12:19:50.852+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aphorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Français</category><title>Aphorismes 1</title><atom:summary type="text">
Sceptiques, adeptes ou ignorants: toute raison est folie d&#39;un autre. Certaines folies sous l&#39;effet d&#39;un petit effort peuvent se partager: ainsi, Brunet classe Jacob Boehme parmi les fous littéraires. Il est probable que d&#39;un point de vue laïc, le Zohar et ses émanations peuvent sembler un parangon du genre. Raison et folie: toutes deux sont les extrémités du même couteau sans lame auquel manque </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/aphorismes-1-sceptiques-adeptes-ou.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18110806.post-1130416167705435634</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-08-01T15:40:19.495+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aphorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Nederlands</category><title>Aforismes 1</title><atom:summary type="text">Elke kunstuiting is deels kunde, deels propaganda. Zo was 
zelfs dada (data?) deels promotie voor anarchie en surrealisme deels 
promotie voor spiritualiteit, ook al was dada resoluut gekeerd tegen 
politiek en surrealisme tegen religie.

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Volgens Korzybski&#39;s anthropometer heeft ons bewustzijn zich ontwikkeld volgens steeds dieper liggende niveaus van abstractie, waardoor de realiteit </atom:summary><link>http://clinamen23.blogspot.com/2019/07/aforismes-1-elke-kunstuiting-is-deels.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (borsky)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>