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Some of us did work that way. You can see my blog, for example, where I use both text-based and mathematical-based methods (oh... am I doing self-marketing now? :bag: ).lindsay said:This is an authentic Chinese voice. Why can’t we do this too? When someone asks, “Does my girlfriend love me?” - a yes or no question where “sort of” = no – why can’t we give them an answer? Yes! No! When someone asks, “When is a good time to take a trip?” – why can’t we just say “June 2008”?
Indeed. I remember in this forum the emotional reaction against my interpretation for a yes/no answer, implied the posibility of death. "Uggg, how can you say that.. it is black magic".lindsay said:The worst that can happen is we are wrong, our prediction turns out to be incorrect. So what? We freely give advice now that is just as risky. (Why does the Yi always sound like a middle-class white person on this forum?)
lindsay said:At this point, the foreteller has already found and analyzed the symbolic components of the prediction. The interpretation can then be made directly from a reading of the attributes of the trigrams and the action pattern of the five elements within the hexagrams. The Early Heaven Formula uses these exclusively to interpret the prediction. The Later Heaven Formula relates these aspects of the prediction to the text of the I Ching.'
-- Da Liu, “I Ching Numerology, p. xii.
This is an authentic Chinese voice.
lightofreason said:I dont know if the Emotional IC can help you -
Chris.
martin said:Okay, but it is also the voice of a man who was brought up in a culture that - as far as I know - believed that the future is predictable to a high degree.
Things are changing and this is a crude generalisation of course, but I think it's true, umm, in general , that the 'east' always tended to believe more in predestined fate and the 'west' more in individual free will.
How predictable is the future, really?
I thought you already turned the Dazhuan into gerbil-litter years ago?Lindsay said:I am soo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o frustrated with the Yi right now I could rip off the front cover (riiiip!) and tear off the back cover (riiiiiip!) and start in on the hexagrams one by one (riiip, riiip, riiiiip) – there goes hex 23, hex 57, and the Dazhuan!
Goodbye for now
‘really? We’ll see about that! Mwah ha ha!’
Thanks, Lindsay, I will. I know that many people will be too attached to Wilhelm's interpretations to accept it.ewald: I believe your new translation is valuable, but be careful to protect yourself when you release it. Sometimes great expectations lead to great disappointments.
ewald said:I know that many people will be too attached to Wilhelm's interpretations to accept it.
sparhawk: Luis, you are funnier and kinder than you used to be. I liked you then, but I like you more now.
Bazooka cartoons could work as an oracle.
trojan said:Shame I can't read whats in the air bubbles, its too small.
I have this weird book of Yi toons. I quite like it.
lindsay said:I never guessed you and Chris would become an item. It makes sense.
martin said:I guess it does. And that's a big mystery. Because neither of us seems to think that the other makes much sense.
lindsay said:nicky_p: You should post more. You’ve got a lot to say.
sparhawk said:"The Dao that can me named is not the real Dao..." but that point and counterpoint you've been having with Chris is about to crack the shell of that ostrich egg... LOL
In the meantime, I'll try to find a brain to understand some of it...
L
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