omnibusXnihilo's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=omnibusXnihilo2009-11-19T21:52:04ZWhy can't you read in dreams? (dream)http://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo/writeups/Why+can%2527t+you+read+in+dreams%253FomnibusXnihilohttp://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo2009-11-19T21:52:04Z2009-11-19T21:52:04Z<p>In <a href="/title/FTP+from+my+dreams">FTP from my dreams</a> someone says "you can't read in dreams".</p>
<p>In my dream journal, I found that I have read a book about <a href="/title/Goode%2527s+World+Atlas">MAPS</a>, another whose title was INVUM which was about Hell, and various traffic signs (like STOP, and the names of streets). I have even seen signs in unknown languages I didn't understand and written down the characters I remembered. In a dream I read writing carved in trees and in another dream I saw the number 123 on two hills. Often, if a word found in a dream represents a novel place or concept, I use it as a <a href="/title/neologism">neologism</a> in real life.</p>
<p>I've also fallen in dreams, usually because I was flying and shot down... and died in other ways such as being eaten by animals.</p>
<p>Fortunately, I cannot feel pain in dreams.
<br>Dying in a dream is like either going blind and waking up,
<br>or suddenly <a href="/title/teleporting">teleporting</a> to a new place in another dream.</p>
<p>So I bust the myths that people can't read in dreams,
<br>nor live to tell a dream about dying.</p>
…The Mirage Universe (essay)http://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo/writeups/The+Mirage+UniverseomnibusXnihilohttp://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo2009-11-17T00:03:21Z2009-11-17T00:03:21Z<p><strong>The Universe of <a href="/title/Mirage">Mirage</a>s:</strong></p>
<p><a href="/title/Row+row+row+your+boat">Row row row your boat</a> gently down a stream,
<br>merrily merrily merrily go, <em>your life is just a dream</em>.</p>
<p><strong>1.<em>Nothing in the universe is where it seems to be!</em></strong>
<br>Light travels 186,000 miles or 300000 km per second and it takes 8 minutes (or more) for sunlight to get to earth. This might mean that we still see the sun after sunset. It takes very much longer for light to get to other planets. The <a href="/title/Mars+rovers">Mars rovers</a> move(d) so slowly probably because it takes more than half an hour to send a <a href="/title/remote+control">remote control</a> signal to them and receive a report or picture of the machines' actions coming back. A <a href="/title/moon+rover">moon rover</a>'s <a href="/title/remote+control">remote control</a>led action would take about 4 seconds minimum to observe. The nearest visible star could explode and we would not know until a few years later. Also, did you ever think about the fact that if you launched a rocket to the moon, it wouldn't even still be there (where it was when you launched the rocket)<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Forced patriotism (essay)http://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo/writeups/Forced+patriotismomnibusXnihilohttp://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo2009-11-14T15:25:40Z2009-11-14T15:25:40Z<p>It is my opinion that saying a <a href="/title/pledge">pledge</a> of <a href="/title/allegiance">allegiance</a> to a <a href="/title/flag">flag</a>, is <a href="/title/ritual">ritual</a> <a href="/title/idolatry">idolatry</a>, which is, in effect <a href="/title/praying">praying</a> to, or <a href="/title/talking">talking</a> to, an <a href="/title/graven+image">image</a> as if it were <a href="/title/God">God</a>, or at least a person of great <a href="/title/authority">authority</a> such as a <a href="/title/Queen">Queen</a> or <a href="/title/Emperor">Emperor</a>. The <a href="/title/graven+image">graven image</a> does not have ears to hear you, nor any power to respond to your voice for your benefit nor harm. In other words, you are talking to a <a href="/title/towel">towel</a> like a <a href="/title/fool">fool</a>.</p>
<p>It seems to me also that <a href="/title/ritual">ritual</a> use of any <a href="/title/symbol">symbol</a> is likewise <a href="/title/idolatry">idolatry</a>, since not even a <a href="/title/cross">cross</a> (two beams of wood) or <a href="/title/crucifix">crucifix</a> (two beams of wood with a statue nailed to it) can hear your voice, no more than a <a href="/title/golden+calf">golden cow</a>, and one of the <a href="/title/10+commandments">10 commandments</a> specifically forbids <a href="/title/graven+image">graven image</a>s. A <a href="/title/cross">cross</a> is not even useful for <a href="/title/exorcism">exorcism</a> of <a href="/title/bad+air">evil spirits</a> unless those who are under the influence of them are more under influence of the symbol.</p>
<p>Flags are an old symbol of <a href="/title/Heraldry">Heraldry</a> (or a similar code language), designed to assign a<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…omnibus ex nihilo (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo/writeups/omnibus+ex+nihiloomnibusXnihilohttp://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo2009-11-12T06:13:09Z2009-11-12T06:13:09Z<p><strong>"Omnibus ex Nihilo ducendis sufficit Unum"</strong> - Leibniz,
<br>a Eureka moment for him while contemplating the Binary number system and it's representation and meaning in <a href="/title/I+Ching">I Ching</a>.
<br><em>For All to spring from Nothing, a One is Sufficient</em>.</p>
<p>Gottfried Leibniz is the co-inventor of Calculus with Isaac Newton,
<br>and also the modern (1646-1716) inventor of Binary numbers, and Algorithmic Information Theory.</p>
<p>Counting in binary generates all possible digital data, following in the order of a <a href="/title/normal">normal</a> and <a href="/title/irrational">irrational</a> <a href="/title/Champernowne+Constant">Champernowne Constant</a>.</p>
<p>The quote is also interpreted by myself as describing a simple process or divine act of <a href="/title/creation">creation</a>.</p>timecube (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo/writeups/timecubeomnibusXnihilohttp://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo2009-11-12T02:48:09Z2009-11-12T02:48:09Z<p>If Timecube were not so insulting, I'd consider it an amateur independent discovery of <a href="/title/Quadrature">Quadrature</a> and <a href="/title/the+square+root+of+negative+one">the square root of negative one</a>. Imaginary numbers. Not really imaginary though,
as it can be simply demonstrated with a <a href="/title/pendulum">pendulum</a> above two rulers, which point north-south and west-east. If you are familiar with the ways these directions go on a <a href="/title/Globe">Globe</a>, then you will realize they are very much similar but certainly have special differences. As an analogy, you can go west and east forever. You cannot go north nor south forever, because those directions end at poles where you have no choice whatsoever of direction but toward the opposite <a href="/title/pole">pole</a>. At the poles, time does not mean very much. The shadow of the "pole" (if it were an actual post in a hole) does form an hour hand though. If you go home, then either west or east, you eventually enter different time zones. In a very limited sense, going at a speed slightly faster than Sound, you may be able to go "forward and backward in time". Not really<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Red Box (lede)http://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo/writeups/Red+BoxomnibusXnihilohttp://m.everything2.com/user/omnibusXnihilo2009-11-11T10:13:40Z2009-11-11T10:13:40Z<p>A "Red Box" was one of several 1900's Phone <a href="/title/Phreaking">Phreaking</a> Color Boxes, which was basically a <a href="/title/tape+loop">tape loop</a> of the sound that <a href="/title/Pay+Phone">Pay Phone</a>s made when you put coins in them. It fooled the phone company into registering the coins so that free calls could be made. Although the <a href="/title/telephone+network">telephone network</a> may still work with <a href="/title/Rotary+Phone">Rotary Phone</a>s, it has evolved away from the simplicity that permitted such simply bizarre tinkering. The colors must have been arbitrary since standard color coding for <a href="/title/cracking">cracking</a> tools would have only been beneficial to Law Enforcement. It is also probably unreasonable to assume that the law anticipated simple unintended <a href="/title/ambiguities">ambiguities</a> being exploited in the system.</p>