[sudo-discuss] Fwd: RIP Jeremiah Young -- poem

[Jake]

that's a really wonderful poem, thank you!

On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, johanna faust wrote:

> in case you missed it
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> From: johanna faust <female.faust at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 7:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] RIP Jeremiah Young
> To: Jake <jake at spaz.org>
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> i was just meditating on that symbol, wondering about the eights.  it might even have been on the evening of the sixth, or seventh.  thank you jeremiah. well said.
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> hope you found yours.
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> hope i find mine.
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> to jeremiah, who died just before we met, i think
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> a friend of a friend 
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> upon whom did depend
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> all manner of things now set free
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> a few days ago through 
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>  some people i know
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> wrote some words that managed to reach me
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> after he died, after he died
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> between that moment and this one he died
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> everything strange no doubt rearranged
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> but how could it be, to me
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> how is it this way for me?
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> that each separate word nevermore to be heard
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> as should be, said by him, properly
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> now only in silence 
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> in the mind of a stranger
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> speaks 
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> as soon enough mine will, 
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> for me.
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> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>       My friend died!  This is how it goes.
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>       this is a post he made on October 5th.  What does it mean?  I don't know.
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>       https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205260075765654&set=a.2203583013318.2108902.1359634060&type=3
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>       Jeremiah Young
>       October 5 at 9:53am
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>       Eight. A pair of squares. Eight is two times two times two, and as such is the first cubic number after one. As the number of vertices of a cube or faces of its
>       dual, the octahedron, eight is complete. At the molecular level this is displayed by atoms, which long to have a full octave of eight electrons in their
>       outermost shell. A sulphur atom has six electrons in their outermost shell, so eight atoms get together to share electrons, forming an octagonal sulphur ring.
>       Eight is also the next Fibonacci number after five. Within architecture the octogon often signifies the transition between Heaven and Earth, as a bridge between
>       the square and the circle. A spherical dome often surmounts a cubic structure by way of a beautiful octagonal vault. Eight is particularly revered in the
>       religion and mythology of the orient. The ancient Chinese oracle, the I-Ching, is based on combinations of eight trigrams, each the result of a twofold choice
>       between a broken (yin) or an unbroken (yang) line, made three times. Depicted opposite is the 'Former Heaven Sequence', said to represent the ideal pattern of
>       transformations in the cosmos. Notice how each trigram is the complement of its opposite. Echoing these ancient Chinese pairs, the modern world is full of
>       computers which think in units called 'bytes', each made of eight binary 'bits'. In a seven-tone scale the eighth note is the octave, twice the pitch of the
>       first note, and so signals the movement to a new level. This may be why, in religious symbolism, the eighth step is often associated with spiritual evolution or
>       salvation.
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