tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post6436799569965987750..comments2023-09-26T03:53:17.142-04:00Comments on Pentimento: Luck Be A LadyPentimentohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-5689230706387272852009-07-18T23:09:48.220-04:002009-07-18T23:09:48.220-04:00You are surely right about the Favorite Lutheran C...You are surely right about the Favorite Lutheran Composer! Did you know that Schoenberg spent some time as a Lutheran too? He was born a Catholic, had a transitional Lutheran period, and later embraced the Judaism of his forebears. He probably saw himself as the heir of Bach's musical gematria.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-6750913058611569012009-07-18T21:39:32.825-04:002009-07-18T21:39:32.825-04:00Pentimento, a pretty fascinating book that touches...Pentimento, a pretty fascinating book that touches on this is called <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Ubiquity/Mark-Buchanan/e/9780609809983/?itm=3" rel="nofollow"><i>Ubiquity</i></a> by Mark Buchanan, in which he posits a mathematical underpinning to all manner of events, from forest fires to magnitudes of earthquakes to stock market behavior. Cool stuff if you ever feel like checking it out.<br /><br />This sort of stuff gladdens my heart, and I suspect it would gladden the heart of the Favorite Lutheran Composer (J.S. Bach).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03365790125783209299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-11651330424295201592009-07-16T22:52:13.138-04:002009-07-16T22:52:13.138-04:00Hmmm, that is interesting. But does that mean tha...Hmmm, that is interesting. But does that mean that when God spoke the world into existence, he spoke in advanced math?<br /><br />You may have heard of gematria, an ancient esoteric practice that assigns numerical values to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and uses it to determine other values and meanings in things like Bible verses.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-62750055267031562802009-07-16T14:47:47.801-04:002009-07-16T14:47:47.801-04:00Ha!
I did have a mathematics professor who once...Ha! <br /><br />I did have a mathematics professor who once told me that math was the original language of the universe -- the one that God used when constructing the cosmos. Everything, at its core, is numbers, he said. An interesting fellow.Mark D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05000893614655251587noreply@blogger.com