tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post6558788333535012845..comments2023-12-30T01:23:38.125-08:00Comments on Riddled: Increasingly irregular skull-blogging: Anthroposophy editionHamish Mackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18079552635307235197noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-81526789043867000572011-05-15T02:09:48.349-07:002011-05-15T02:09:48.349-07:00the type of beer that will help me understand this...<i>the type of beer that will help me understand this post.</i><br /><br />Any attempt to grapple with Rudolf Steiner philosophy is going to come out weird. You try reading him. It is like a primer in psychotic ideation and loose metaphors taken literally. "The skull as an inverted femur" is just a warm-up for Steiner. Don't start him on (for instance) the unification of embryology and cosmology.<br /><br />And yet he is seen as an influential figure in early-20th-century culture. His straight-out-of-his-arse ideas on agriculture and pest control -- combining homeopathy, astrology, sympathetic magic and a basic barminess all of his own -- are taken seriously among New Zealand organic farmers, to the point that they are almost synonymous with the Green movement. Here and in the UK, Steiner Schools are seen as a legitimate part of the educational system, where teachers are expected to accept the basic tenets of 1920s pseudoscience.<br /><br />If this is human intelligence at work then we are a doomed experiment. But you knew that.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-61634908445029373832011-05-14T13:14:03.316-07:002011-05-14T13:14:03.316-07:00Post makes more sense if turned inside-out.Post makes more sense if turned inside-out.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-33695692020824603592011-05-14T12:21:45.442-07:002011-05-14T12:21:45.442-07:00Witch-repellent pilot test: Results of placebo, a ...<i>Witch-repellent pilot test: Results of placebo, a diet of eggs<br />and acrylic, and two varieties of biodynamic alphabet spaghetti.</i><br /><br />I have found that witches will not come near when I have smeared myself with shit. The type of shit does not appear to make a difference.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-9041110276867980362011-05-14T11:31:54.086-07:002011-05-14T11:31:54.086-07:00I still looking for the type of beer that will hel...I still looking for the type of beer that will help me understand this post.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-36478272109429023932011-05-14T08:30:59.155-07:002011-05-14T08:30:59.155-07:00"What the hell?" I stood at the sideboa..."What the hell?" I stood at the sideboard, highball glass in my left hand, pouring the Sailor Jerry's. But the glass remained stubbornly empty. "What is this devilment?" I demanded. "What do you suppose Smut is doing to the space time continuum NOW?"<br /><br />On the stereo, Pat Benatar stopped in mid-chorus. "It's empty, mikey", she said abruptly.<br /><br />I turned. "Say Whut?" I responded, demonstrating both my immediate grasp of the situation and my intellectual depth.<br /><br />"Empty" said Pat again. "The Sailor Jerry's. You've finished it. The solution is to walk around to BevMo and get another jug."<br /><br />"Nope", I told Pat decisively. "One might THINK that would work, but after whatever Smut's done to reality, they'll ALL be empty."<br /><br />"Then you face a Sailor Jerry-less future" she concluded.<br /><br />"Wait", I suggested. "Perhaps not. There's something...I read it somewhere:<br /><br /><i>"But if in the moment of turning the inside of the tubular bone to the outside, certain forces of tension come into play and mutual relationships of the forces change in such a way that the form which was inside and has now been turned outward alters the shape and distribution of its surface, then we obtain, through inversion on the principle of the turning-inside-out of a glove, a fully refreshed jug of Sailor Jerry's</i>.<br /><br />Pat thought about it while the band just noodled behind her. "Y'know, mikey? That just might work!"mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.com