OK, excuse me for expressing myself with 'verbal thinking', but forum posting is a verbal activity. So far I've 'got' the basic generation of ONs - as the sum of the 'distinctions' of the partitions of a number. I've also 'got' the principle of OM - it requires 'direct perception'. 'Direct perception' involves no thought - it comes before thought and directs and organises thought. To 'get' OM, you must directly perceive a claimed truth ('fact'), or truths, presented by Doron - that, incidentally, is/are contradictory to classical maths and common-sense. IOW you must accept the 'fact' of OM and its axioms. If you do this, your perception will be changed and you will 'become an OM supporter' (Moshe's words) and see how it can change the world and enable all creatures to 'communicate smoothly' (hmm...Tower of Babel anyone?).
So grasping OM requires unthinking acceptance of a 'fact' or set of 'facts' as presented. Let's be honest what this means - it's asking for
faith. It's the classic call to faith, in new clothes - as espoused by religions, snake-oil salesmen and carnival barkers.
[W.C. Fields]"Ordinary maths? No sirree, this is special maths, imbued with the multiple and manifest miracle never-before-seen
distinctions of a number - this numerological wonder will make world peace, smooth communication between all creatures, cause moral, ethical, and cultural enlightenment across all boundaries, and cure lumbago. Yes, indeed sir, it is a Paradigm Shift, a renaissance in our ecosphere, a portent of Things To Come! Carry it with you at all times."[/W.C. Fields]
[W.C. Fields]"You want to see it work, watch it in action? Why, you only have to accept the fact and it is so - and your unthinking Direct Perception will guide you to the truth. Its implications? why you can think about its implications afterwards. Yes sir? You'd like an example sir? Some evidence? Why, er, no - bless you sir, no, we couldn't possibly do that - this is a commercial venture, with proprietary secrets - we can't just give it away, no sirree. Oh yes, indeedy, this here is a miracle, a true revelation - we can save the world... for a price. We'll target the children first."[/W.C. Fields]
They are saying you must have faith to understand it. Faith in a simple mathematical concept as a miracle cure for the worlds ills. But it's practical use is commercially sensitive, even though it could save the world.
[Dan Brown]He found it odd... odd that Doron and Moshe, for all their apparent superficial differences, were so similarly opaque and obscure in their evasiveness when it came to the real-world applications, the practicalities, the usage. They were as mysteriously alike as two peas in a pod when it came to excuses, misreadings, misunderstandings, misinterpretations, twistings, evasions, misdirections, misquotes, reposts, pointless links, and general slipperiness. Avowedly religious, claiming to conceal the commercial secrets of an apparently mundane mathematical technique that hid a faith-based but scientific solution that could change the world for the better (and presumably make them rich). Could it be a single, subtle, bi-faceted Mandelson-like entity, come to buy gullible souls, or worse, their very consciences ? something told him he was scratching the surface of a vast conspiracy, and this was only the beginning...[/Dan Brown]
It reads like a fantasy novel (perhaps a hint of L. Ron Hubbard ?) - except that common-sense jumps in to remind us that we should always prefer Cockup over Conspiracy, especially when the claims are absurd and unsupported by plausible evidence.
The truth is that it's the posting of a mathematical wonder cure for bad communication that has failed to communicate with the very people it's aimed at. 'Direct Perception'
Year two - leave him alone Snodgrass - year two, who can tell me the difference between silence and a thought about silence? Yes, Kevin, that's right. Silence is no sound, and a thought about silence is a thought about no sound. Tomorrow we'll talk about ego and displacement. Now go and play.
