There is a difference between mathematics an numerology. The first is about figures, formula’s, philosophy and real meaning. The latter is the esoteric attempt to see meaning in relations of figures and events, which are randomly selected as well as connected, mostly bearing no meaning – other than one of reconstructed logic – at all.
The same difference exists between astronomy and astrology. Astronomy is the science that has the stars, the planets and the physics behind them as its subjects of research and theory. Astrology is a popular disease, that has no connection to the real world at all, other than in the brains of Ghost Whisperers.
However unconnected, It does not stop astrologers from desperately trying to explain personalities, paths of life and even near future events concerning people. It is done on the basis of prehistoric “insights”, dreamed up at a time when science was still very, very young. Or perhaps astrology took root even before science’s conception. I don’t know and we probably never will.
One thing is certain though: Astrologers are Idiots, who successfully feed on the gullibility of even greater Idiots, their “clients”.
History is a description of past events, an attempt to preserve the things that happened for the next generations, with a genuinely intended objectivity. Historology is an invention of TV journalists, who connect important happenings to events that occurred long ago, fluffed up with funny fringes and details, with the distinct purpose of making a juicy story. I saw that during the soccer tournament and I love to do it myself (as one might have noticed in some postings on this site). The term I have coined just now, but that was easy. The material, as it were, was lying around, in full open view.
Do we have a purpose here? I ask myself this question, as I am observing the esoterics that surround the events of today. Soccer, 9-11, the good old UFO stuff, Bigfoot, the Illuminati, even the ecology-debate. Fuzzy stuff is all around us, usually obscuring a straight and clear view on things; sometimes helping us to stomach something difficult, that is in our face and unavoidable. It’s called reluctant management by some.
Alternatively, fuzzyness is – as a matter of fact – suited to solve problems of the mathematical kind. We then call it Fuzzy Logics. There seems to be a place for everything, even for Somethingology. It used to irritate me, but I am learning. If one wants to howl at the moon, be my guest. If one wants to think that it has an effect on us, despite its gravitational pull equalling that of a DIN-A4 sheet of paper, so be it. If the visual clue of the moon and the light it gives us during some of our nights, is too simple for you to explain our nocturnal fidgets… fine by me.
I’m trying my best to understand stupidity… as in choosing difficult, silly or extremely elaborate “explanations” over simple ones. Who was that again, who thought up this very helpful rule, already in the 13-hundreds? The simplest explanation covering all issues in the question at hand, is the one that prevails. It was William of Ockham, with his principle of “Ockhams Razor”.
I follow the K.I.S.S. principle, in many aspects of my life. Keep It Simple Stupid! But hey, I am lucky, I am a simple man.
