in '99 i already told people to feel 90. possibly thanx to my grandmothers rising… one of them passed at nearly 99, the other one week after her 95th birthday. i was already unhappy as a precocious and late child. 
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All the best to you guys…I was thinking of a man nailed to tree who I love.
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I think Spengler’s Decline of the West was written in or around 1936, and when I listened to it in audio format a couple of years ago, I had to remind myself that it wasn’t contemporary. For what it’s worth.
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Morgoth’s Review is often referencing Spengler…I suppose there’s nothing new really, just repeating patterns.
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“History rhymes”, “Nothing new under the Sun”, etc. The trick is discernment, which turns out to be quite the art form.
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hello adspiro, haven’t seen u for a while!
Doc says too, that it ‘rhymes’, not repeats. the functions of a given set mostly remain the same or carries the same, albeit a bit modified role, but the measurable, objective factors differ/change.
i mean ‘times and circumstances’ shape the drama, but the tension is of the same quality.
if any of u has some knowledge of the Bible - which is the best book in the world, since everybody has one, anybody can buy one, but nobody reads it -, there is this book called the Ecclesiastes/Qohelet. one should read it from the start. the first two chapters, before speaking of ‘time(s)’, could surely sound like a philosophical mumbo-jumbo for some people, but the stated facts, assessments and conclusions simply just supersede the everyday level of thoughts and understanding.
if one has the eye for, it could be even read as a Taoist literature, due to the tone of the text. 
or as Heracleitos’ buddy, who is just as mightily fed up with the idiots, as he was…
Hey there Kalamona - I was away for a bit, eh?
I’d say it all goes quite nicely hand-in-hand with the astrological model of the cosmos. Materialism has shied away from crediting heavenly bodies with any kind of ‘spooky’ influence, but since they’ve tried to do that with the mind too, eff 'em. The overlapping and repetitive, yet always varying, cycles of the planets is an elegant model for the fundamental similarities, differences, and resonances of human affairs, on a small and not-so-small scale, I’d say.
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I think Pratchett was anti-religionism in the same way GDS subscribers tend to be anti-scientism. You’re missing out on some profoundly spiritual writing masquerading as pop fiction!
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i would possibly tell the same over Pratchett. from his books it seems, that he is many things, but atheist. if he said that so, it was possibly for ‘marketing reasons’ or just to prank someone over words, in which he was almost unsurpassable.
@David8pies: if u never read one book from Pratchett, give it a try. it’ll worth it.
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A friend of mine was always nagging me to read him, but at that time in the late eighties/early nineties - I was entrenched in P. D. Ouspensky, Gurdjieff and Various Sufi material… Still, you never know-One of these days I might get around to it…
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oh. Pratchett knew them for sure. and knew many other things from various traditions. knew some things over pyramids and time, clocks and thieves, gods and mortals, fae folklore giggles and societal titters, and the list could go on and on. a refreshing bucket of water into your face so you may jiggle with the sparks of understanding.
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May we all ‘jiggle with the sparks of understanding’" 
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What the actual? 20202020