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NWT #10: Thai's that Bind

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chiscotheque
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NWT #10: Thai's that Bind

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Question: Why is any tiny self-enclosed system that is internally consistent (such as mathematics, astrology, tarot) capable of connecting us to Truth in its broadest sense?

Card: Ace of Air One Night In Bangkok
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Answer: One Night In Bangkok is an anomaly in the NWT - it is not properly-speaking New Wave. Rather, it was a song sung by the actor Murray Head from a concept musical about chess. Chess is a tiny self-enclosed system, and the simple answer to the question is the capability mentioned is accomplished because Truth in its broadest sense is itself a self-enclosed system. Air is the suit of ideas and ideals, and the further one delves into this area, the more one realizes that logic and thought aren't as pure or airtight as they think they are. One Night In Bangkok is a weird hit song, sung by an actor who recorded records in French, and which was lifted from a pun-laden stage show about intellectuals - it's the exception that proves the rule. Grey matter's pratfall, the pun, is a variation of as above, so below and, like a koan, allows for a lateral osmosis; what reason insists is self-enclosed, like chess or Truth or reason itself, is actually porous. As with fractals, by looking closely at the microcosm, one sees the macrocosm.

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Re: NWT #10: Thai's that Bind

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chiscotheque wrote: 17 Dec 2020, 18:43 i] One Night In Bangkok[/i] is an anomaly in the NWT - it is not properly-speaking New Wave. Rather, it was a song sung by the actor Murray Head from a concept musical about chess.
Like the story of the loaves and fishes at the Sermon on the Mount, the feeding of the five thousand, Truth is a bit of a miracle:

"If a chessboard were to have wheat placed upon each square such that one grain were placed on the first square, two on the second, four on the third, and so on (doubling the number of grains on each subsequent square), how many grains of wheat would be on the chessboard at the finish?

The problem may be solved using simple addition. With 64 squares on a chessboard, if the number of grains doubles on successive squares, then the sum of grains on all 64 squares is: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + ... and so forth for the 64 squares. The total number of grains equals 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 (eighteen quintillion four hundred forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred nine million, five hundred fifty-one thousand, six hundred and fifteen."
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