An interesting collection of coincidences involving Daniel Larimer
Out of curiosity, because I did some rough back-of-the-envelope calculations of the probable trajectory and possible price levels for Steem in the next few months in response to a comment, I had the number 19 come up.
The number 19 appears in a very specific place in the Qur'an:
And We have set none but angels as Guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers
Qur'an 74:31
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/The_Miracle_of_19
Dan Larimer's two names respectively mean:
From the Hebrew name דָּנִיֵּאל (Daniyyel) meaning "God is my judge". Daniel was a Hebrew prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament. He lived during the Jewish captivity in Babylon, where he served in the court of the king, rising to prominence by interpreting the king's dreams.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/daniel
Larimer Name Meaning English and Scottish: occupational name for a maker and seller of spurs, bits, and other small metal attachments to harness and tackle. Compare Lorimer.
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=larimer
The last one made me laugh so hard, bearing in mind this particular post by @faddat:
https://steemit.com/steemdev/@faddat/wall-of-text-company-chains-are-like-company-towns-aka
Steem the StallionRemember: Steem + the user community is he horse. Isn't he magestic? VS
Steemit, Inc: The sadistic Jockey
Note: This is a near-word-for-word instant message wall of text I sent to a friend. I have edited some parts to obscure their identity and added some contextual info to ensure that third party readers understand my full meaning.
blockchains controlled, owned, or otherwise dominated by a single corporation can never accomplish anything interesting in terms of disrupting today's existing power structures.
the moment they begin to approach that threshold of "interesting" the corp's owners will rightfully, and legally decide that it is time to exit
The thing that makes bitcoin and its ilk interesting-- and powerful
is multistakeholder non-dominant control of operational responsiblity and reward
Daniel is a wise man who has ingratiated himself to the king of babylon (the bible story)
Larimer is a man who manufactures metal parts required to torture horses into working, without require the effort of the rider to develop a strong rapport with the beast.
Good horseriders go bareback, and never stab, punch, kick, or whip their partner in fast land motion.
Good prophets escape from the doom of the wrath of God, which is really just another word, for the consequences of iniquitous behaviour. Not suck up. Note that not long after Daniel, who basically predicted the fall of babylon, by the way, the disease of authoritarianism finally got its barbs into the tribes of Israel, who up to that point relied on polycentric, decentralised law.
I'm not saying anything here, specifically, just pointing out a lot of lateral, semantic links between things.
On interesting coincidences...almost everybody in my immediate (an a fair proportion of the extended) family are born on the 13 of various months. Myself included.
Both my sister and I were born on the 29th, she in November, me in march. And our names are also two very prominent jewish figures in the bible, David and Daniel (my sister of course is a Danielle)
There is actually a biological factor that can be involved in it, though our calendars are somewhat arbitrary, they do follow a self-consistent ruleset. Thus such recurring patterns still have meaning, in the context of the underlying pattern in the calendar formula.
Highly rEsteemed Bruv! Great connections you made here.
Andy word from @faddat?
I chatted with him yesterday on facebook messenger. He is doing great, he's getting a treatment for his problem that is helping a lot, and he has even stopped smoking cigarettes. Unfortunately he is on a medication that slows him down a lot, but I directed him to some good information about better treatments than regular doctors, and I told him that his medication is a substitute for fixing magnesium deficiency, and he respects me a lot so I am sure that he will look into it pretty good.
Yes, I thought it was a pretty amazing set of coincidences. Especially that Larimer is a maker of devices used to torture horses, and faddat's beautiful metaphor of the Steemit community as a grand stallion.
That is awesome to hear. Yes, doctors are very bad for health.
Please send him my condolences if you don't mind.
http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-meets-zcash-why-ipfs-plans-a-multi-blockchain-browser/
I will do that. He deleted his google account, by the way, but you can find him on facebook now (you know his name, go search!).
I don't expect he is in the most strong physical or mental state now, but his sense of resolve in ending his addictions is clearly not far from my white hot passion for not poisoning myself anymore.
FRACK! I suppose this means I will be giving up cigarets soon...
I left Facebook for full time Steeming. We built the radio station you and I once talked about. @steempunkradio And I'm moving forward with other work we've all talked about. For me, DAWN never died and is as useful as ever. Glad to hear that you're getting a lot out of the last several months too. We'll get on the line again soon. I'm sure we'll have much to discuss ;)
wait, what? You already used this word steempunk - oh, only for thee username, not thee intentional name - Steem Punk Radio, not Steempunk.
Still, so damned close!
Yes, you must get clean and only take drugs for solid medical reasons (preferably holistic or chinese medical reasons). ASAP. All the cool people are going straight edge. There is nothing to be proud of about spending half your day with disordered neurochemistry, and taxing your kidneys, liver, and possibly interfering with all manner of other things.
Also, you are giving up nothing except an anchor on your progress. Stopping smoking was the trigger that started to see my motivation and energy and ability to perform tedious tasks much more easily. Like editing and eliminating typos and making nice layout. I still have to work on my impulse to pull the 'post' trigger, but bit by bit.
Dawn is not dead, but it has become, it seems, my primary job to manage it. As soon as I start to get clear of this detox process, it is high on my agenda to get to work and finish the code and documentation I started.
The Dawn Nexus is the first part. It isn't even any databases, but mainly gossip/epidemic protocols, except for the registry. The ledger is a specific application for this framework, and it is intended that once the framework is built, that multiple ledger protocols be devised, as well as implementing marketplaces, chat systems, exchanges, and the like.
Dawn will be Steem 2.0, but without the greedy, talentless narcissists that dominate Steem's management, dev team and their gaggle of bought and paid for witnesses.
I keep forgetting to log out of l0k1 when I am commenting. I need to implement an auto-resteem bot so that my l0k1 followers don't miss out on my current work, and gradually repopulate my @elfspice account
Most of us don't choose our names, but some believe in nominative determinism.
My name implies a crown-wearing office worker. Hmm, could be some truth in that.
I guess your chosen name implies you like to cause mischief :)
My birth name is David Nicholas Vennik. The Beloved of the Jews, Victory of the People, and, I believe, from the russian, involving a covered up but controversial marriage between a member of my several generations back aristocratic east dutch/west german (Westphalia) family line, presumably a woman, and a poor russian immigrant - the noun Vennik, spelled precisely as such.
Here is the translation from russian into english (and I still don't know why my windows installation of chrome uses bulgarian for google sites, but it doesn't impede my use of them): (click to see it full size)
Yes, a broom, as in the thing you sweep the dust off a floor, or pavement. Specifically most often used to refer to the bundle of sticks used in most of europe by street cleaners. I used to get called 'faggot' when I was in school, by bullies, and they loved to mispronounce this last name. A faggot is a bundle of sticks. A Vennik is a bundle of thin twigs that has utility as a cleaning tool.
Speaking of bundles of sticks, NATO calls the russian MIG 15 'faggot' http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread169147/pg1
When I was in junior highschool, one of my best friends was a buff of militaria, and that's where I learned that. How ironic is it that it turned out later he was gay. He never made a hit on me, ever, not once, but he was well known throughout the school for having erections at very unfortunate times.
Yes, Loki is the trickster. The cognate in american indian folklore is Coyote. The books where Loki was described, the Eddas, in my opinion are fables of a long previous time when a commoner sauntered into the king's courtroom (King being Odin, and Valhalla being the court), tricked everyone into all kinds of self-incriminating statements and acts of further incrimination.
The guy was so slippery, that eventually the king himself, being of course a very accomplished fighter and hunter, tried to catch Loki, but Loki evaded every effort that was made. Note also, that Odin, the king in my hypothetical interpretation, achieved his status of God-King by hanging on a special tree, called Yggdrasil, the tree of the universe (or life, perhaps). Upside down, if I remember correctly. After 3 days, he became enlightened, and then became the Lord of the Norse people.
Until Loki
Also, many associate Loki with Satan. Satan is nothing to do with Lucifer, however, the similarity of the sounds is quite striking. Satan means literally 'The Adversary' in hebrew, and Shaitan is the word in Arabic. The adversary is a legal term, usually applied to the prosecution, which also in many cases, is the representative of the People or as more common now, the simulation of the People called government. Likewise, Prosecutors are famous for their ability to construct questions and make statements that induce confessions from the defendant.
Lastly, Elfspice, my current nick, which was my nick up until I changed it after I got tired of people complaining about the auto-complete requiring 4 letters as there was another, more 'quiet and judicious, and highly respected member' so I switched to loki. This had 2 letters colliding with another user, so I switched to l0k1, and no more problems with autocomplete. Elfspice was an early internet slang name for DMT, the drug Dimethyl Tryptamine, which I became obsessed with after reading Terence Mckenna after eating a lot of magic mushrooms.
Bullies will pick up on anything they can use against you. It can be tough for kids with certain names. I expect the author Neil Gaiman may have had some tough times as a kid.
I recently learned that the word fascism came from the Italian for a bundle of sticks (fasces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces)).
Faggot can have another meaning in the UK. And 'pack of fags' may have a very different meaning according to where you live.
Words are fascinating
They are, and they often mean a lot more than you think. Even numbers, which are really also a type of word.
Fasces is more than just a bundle of sticks. The axe is also in the middle of the bundle, and it represents military authoritarian government.
In my opinion too much gets read into the meaning of numbers. The meaning is down to how people interpret them. And that changes over time. I remember when 'feeling gay' meant just being happy.
On a TV show they asked 'where is the fascist in the Oval Office?'. There's fasces over the doors, minus the axe.
You could be right in that point. It is a logical thing that when a woodsman goes out to chop a bunch of sticks, which can be of course including as much as 1-2" boughs, that bringing it back home, it would have to be tied up, to stick on the horse or to carry it. It would also make sense then, to bind the axe into it as well. Thus the meaning of a bundle of sticks over the door of the oval office is doubly suspect.
As for numbers, numbers have a meaning, which you can discover by reading about number theory and topology. Especially the most primitive numbers, the prime numbers. If you can consider each number a word, then the process of producing the non-prime numbers combines meanings same as stems, prefixes and suffixes do with words. Order of numbers in mathematical functions can be critical too, hence the grammar of order of precedence, which is a way to save drawing brackets around things to show the tree structure of the grammar.
The bundle of sticks symbolises strength through unity. It's an ancient idea and nicely depicted in a recent Planet of the Apes movie. How you interpret the image now is influenced by how it's been used.
At least mathematics is less ambiguous than words :) Wars have been fought over words.
The US Mercury Dime 1916-1945 obverse a fasces:
Deeper in the rabbit hole.
I knew about this one already. Also, what the fuck is up with the California flag. Communist much?
I dunno about the author but in the mid '80s we could get little packs of lollies called Fags - fashioned after cigarettes. By the late '80s they were sold as Fads. And then they weren't sold at all. Imagine how the usual suspects will shit when cannabis edibles hit in this Big Brother buttfuck of a country...
I used to have sweet 'cigarettes' when I was a kid. We could pretend to smoke them. How things change.
I remember those things. nasty starch and sugar things laced with nasty fake flavours. Like those horrible star shaped extruded things. I remember many times eating a bunch and then feeling really wrong.
How ironic, that they are probably more toxic than cigarettes. The toxicity of a high carb diot, at least to my body, is becoming clearer and clearer every day, and then, walking around the supermarket, jesus christ. Nearly no food items are not high carbohydrate. Even smoked salmon and pork has frickin sugar or starch in its preparation.