The Relating Hexagram

[bruce_g]

The amorphous blob hexagram sounds good.

 

[bruce_g]

Or, the Sponge Bob Gua, has a nice ring to it.

 

[Trojina]

I don't think Lindsay mentioned impregnable authority, I think he was just stirring the pot.

No he didn't mention impregnable authority exactly but Dobro looked like that piece of info was a ball he was going to pick up and run a long way with towards impregnable authority - since it reinforced his own view. I was trying to tackle that ball

I'm absolutely with Getojacks blob theory, one of the most cogent to date.

As for the Sponge Bob Gua - sheer brilliance

 

[Sparhawk]

Taking a cue from sparhawk...

I knew I was good for something...

L

 

[Sparhawk]

Without getting into the personal stuff here, all I can say is that the resulting hexagram is the future hexagram for 100 out of 100 Chinese interpreters. All the rest is Western imagination.

Lindsay

You actually had 100 Chinese interpreters in one room? And they agree on something? Western civilization, as we know it, is close to the end...

L

 

[Sparhawk]

Or, the Sponge Bob Gua, has a nice ring to it.

I vouch for "Patrick Gua"... Just to be a contrarian, of course...

L

 

[lindsay]

Perhaps GUI ('graphic user interface') Gua would strike a resonant note among the keyboard jocks among us?

 

[dobro p]

GUI GUA, yes, but only if you subscribe to the tendential school of second hexagon interpretation. Otherwise, the Blob Gua School would be a more accurate description for those that favor the running dog revisionist context version of second hexagoon misinterpretation.

Just joking, Trojan. You don't have to tell me how wrong I am again. lol

You can if you want to though. If it makes you feel good, I mean. lol

 

[Trojina]

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Just joking, Trojan. You don't have to tell me how wrong I am again. lol

You can if you want to though. If it makes you feel good, I mean. lol

Dobro your're wrong. Thanks that felt so good

 

[lindsay]

Thanks, Dobro! I have always loved the phrase "running dog revisionist"! Thanks for reminding me. I have an important business meeting today, and I will be sure to use it.
Perhaps several times.

The Chinese do not have a high cultural opinion of dogs. To call somebody a "dog's head" is a grave insult. I'll never forget the first time I heard a character in a Chinese play scream at his opponent, "You Dog's Head!" Laughter was not the appropriate response.

 

[hilary]

Perhaps we can find a good use here for the forum's 'member title' feature. Instead of 'senior member' or (heaven help us all) 'administrator', we could have (GG) or (BGS). Maybe a plugin could be developed to analyse our posts and apply the correct label. (Where's Ewald when we need him?)

 

[heylise]

I think I would turn Dobro crazy. I see the relating hex as context (the weather it happens to be) which tells you what to do in the primary hex in order to make things in that context go well. Or the future: prime hex says "get your umbrella" because – future hex "it will rain tomorrow" (or get your car and go to ..., or do this and that will be the outcome). Or the past: this is how things were, but you can get out of this, if you do what the prime hex says. Or a koan-like joke, turning me upside down because that is what I happen to need more than understanding any hex. Without any first and second or whatever else.
And when a hex has no changing lines, I can feel relief, not having anything to do, things will sort themselves out. Or angry or fatalistic: so there is nothing I can change about this?? Or an image of something "this is what it is".. o yeah.

LiSe

 

[dobro p]

Thanks, Dobro! I have always loved the phrase "running dog revisionist"! Thanks for reminding me. I have an important business meeting today, and I will be sure to use it.
Perhaps several times.

The Chinese do not have a high cultural opinion of dogs. To call somebody a "dog's head" is a grave insult. I'll never forget the first time I heard a character in a Chinese play scream at his opponent, "You Dog's Head!" Laughter was not the appropriate response.

Yeah, I heard a story about a guy who grew up in Taiwan and who didn't realize until he hit about his teens that Mao Tse Tung's full name *wasn't* Running Dog Mao Tse Tung, actually.

 

[dobro p]

I think I would turn Dobro crazy. I see the relating hex as context (the weather it happens to be) which tells you what to do in the primary hex in order to make things in that context go well. Or the future: prime hex says "get your umbrella" because – future hex "it will rain tomorrow" (or get your car and go to ..., or do this and that will be the outcome). Or the past: this is how things were, but you can get out of this, if you do what the prime hex says. Or a koan-like joke, turning me upside down because that is what I happen to need more than understanding any hex. Without any first and second or whatever else.
And when a hex has no changing lines, I can feel relief, not having anything to do, things will sort themselves out. Or angry or fatalistic: so there is nothing I can change about this?? Or an image of something "this is what it is".. o yeah.

LiSe

No, no - you won't make me crazy now. Cuz now I know the Yi interpretative style you use - the eccentric multiple possibility running dog revisionist style of hexagonal misinterpretation.