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- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: More ki/qi/chi & science
- Message-ID: <75900@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:03:38 GMT
- References: <1h53slINN65m@usenet.pa.dec.com> <1992Dec22.225250.980@pages.com>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1992Dec22.225250.980@pages.com> kevin@pages.com (Kevin Sven Berg) writes:
- >I wonder what it would take for the opposite to be true: could one
- >come to a mystical understanding of reality (in this case ki)
- >through Mathematics. I suppose that one's even more weird than puting
- >chi on a scale...
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- Pythagoras thought one could. He arrived at unique mystical insights
- through mathematics, such as the conclusion that souls transmigrate
- at death, and a moral injunction against ever eating beans.
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