Quote (EndlessSky @ 28 Jul 2024 02:37)
These are amazing, especially the Huxley one.
He might embody the fool perfectly. Only the TRULY MAD can speak the whole truth of the world. I've always identified with that card.
It reminds me of a saying of someone I follow. Computer scientist and astrologer PVR Narasimha Rao said, "No one can cut off the tree branch on which they are sitting."
The Tower card indicates God destroying the tower of Babel with a thunderbolt. It may line up with your switch to spirituality well.
Yea "The Fool" is embodied very much so in Huxley. I sort of see "The Fool" as being smart enough to know the "whole game" but dumb enough to still play despite monumental odds stacked against you. Also see it correlating to the quote, "He who knows does not say and he who says does not know" but ironically they statement still had to be "said".
&& yes you definitely have to be truly "mad" to speak the whole truth but the word ironically doesn't cover the true "fire" that comes from "knowing". Always comes off as mad because most who speak the truth sound like an angry babbling idiot to most but to themselves and those who take great efforts to "understand" they are actually "sound and resolute".
Love the story of the "Tower of Babel" because for me it shows how mans hubris ends up being his downfall. Symbolism says the people were unified under ONE language and then attempted to "build a tower to heaven" and so "God" split their tongues so they could no longer communicate effectively enough to "get there". Language is the great unifier but also one of the greatest forms of actual separation amongst are diverse cultures. I've seen this to be much more true and self evident in the translations of "Sanskrit" the "root human language". We have barely translated 1% to English and if you ever read ancient Sanskrit you immediately come to a profound realization. While Jesus was being crucified the Eastern religions/philosophy had already been being practiced for 2,000 years. The Sanskrit in terms of it's intellectual acuity is so far beyond and dates back thousands of years which for me proves historically through linear time that the same "high philosophy" we think developed in "Ancient Greece/Mesopotamia/etc" was still predated by Sanskrit and the Sanskrit itself is much more concise at addressing all the "questions" human beings "ask themselves" during their time here.