December 27, 2005

• Dance of the Numbers
  (continued)
  
  The Pennsylvania lottery 
  on St. Stephen’s Day–

  Midday: 105
  Evening: 064

  From a new
  branch of theology, 
  lottery hermeneutics:

  See Log24, 1/05,
  Death and the Spirit,

  and the 64 hexagrams of
  the box-style I Ching.

  From the Wikipedia
  
  article on hermeneutics:
  
  

  “One prominent theme which arises in contemporary philosophical hermeneutics (i.e., the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer) is a serious calling into question of scientism. Scientism
  is the more or less unquestioned belief in the supremacy of the natural
  sciences when it comes to serving as models of knowledge. By calling
  scientism into question, hermeneutics is arguing for the legitimacy of
  (among other things) aesthetic, literary, spiritual, and philosophical
  knowledge, alongside (but not instead of) scientific knowledge.”

  Amen.

  (See also Hitler’s Still Point:
  A Hate Speech for Harvard.)

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