Hell on Earth - Appendix 2: MAGIC (Live)
Added 2023-03-22 11:05:00 +0000 UTCOur live show from the Hell on Earth launch party at Littlefield in NYC on 1/20/23. We discuss the life of alchemist, mathematician and courtier John Dee, and look into the intersection of magic and politics in early modern Europe.
You’re going to need this image to understand this episode. The Hieroglyphic Monad. Learn it. Know it. Love it. The Monad.
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Just want to point out that Kabbalah is actually significantly more complex theologically than just Gemera (the numerological practice of assigning number values to letters). Gemera was just one of its components, and imo probably the weakest part. Unfortunately it was also the component that was probably most influential, and was readily able to be exported to Christianity. Meaning that in this period of you hear esotericists talking about "Cabalah" they perhaps do simply mean Gemera, the other parts, which are mostly metaphysical speculation, didn't interest then.
John Smith
2023-04-07 16:30:05 +0000 UTCYeah, if yr girlfriend is fucking lame, dude.
Shauna Seroquel
2023-04-04 03:53:44 +0000 UTCCome on britain, stop killing people for predictions. Haven't you read The Secret?
Doug Cartel
2023-03-30 12:19:47 +0000 UTCWhat’s it called?
Methew
2023-03-30 10:24:22 +0000 UTCI guess is having a friend who is a girl. Wild stuff, I don't know if that's permitted unless you have pemission from parents of both sides.
Daniel Martínez González
2023-03-30 02:30:47 +0000 UTCwhat the fuck is a girlfriend
Sam McManus
2023-03-30 00:39:38 +0000 UTCgood shit but this the ultimate girlfriend snoozer show
Evan
2023-03-29 21:00:49 +0000 UTCThere’s always one fucking dork who just wants to ramble about their pet interest during a Q&A
Nick Muscatiello
2023-03-28 20:27:06 +0000 UTCHeat
Jethro Mojave
2023-03-27 21:08:58 +0000 UTCBeen quietly following a personalized adaption of Christian Anarchism for a decade and when I'm a asked what I believe spiritually, I often point to the concept of the Monad (the less complex one, just the point within a cirlce), Electrons, Probability Fields and Preception creating reality. 2 days ago I was talking about the same thing to a couple friends after watching "Everything Everywhere All At Once", which essentially is this. I won't spoil, but I'll just say "Ponder That Everything Bagel People!" Edit: I just realized the Googley Eyes are quite literally the Monad in the movie. Wow.
Gumbo Pie
2023-03-27 13:03:17 +0000 UTCDee's nuts
Yaoitopia
2023-03-27 04:42:43 +0000 UTCHave to wonder how many people got tortured before they figured out the wax doll was about a different Elizabeth
Sean Marshall
2023-03-26 16:20:07 +0000 UTClove these DLCs
Khemith
2023-03-25 09:52:21 +0000 UTCprize for the first monad tatoo.
Michael Polacheck
2023-03-25 00:58:30 +0000 UTCmr chapo... u up?
Shauna Seroquel
2023-03-24 22:31:05 +0000 UTCIt's soo fukn metal that the secret to immortality is eating piss
justDave
2023-03-24 20:30:34 +0000 UTCTurning shit into slop
Michael Landreth
2023-03-24 17:45:53 +0000 UTCMy son said the monad looks like Plankton from SpongeBob
Joe DeWitt
2023-03-24 12:38:47 +0000 UTCboiling a bit vat of tweets see if i can alchemize the thursday episode
etienne
2023-03-24 12:30:15 +0000 UTCReminded of the Poe story “Hop-Frog”; I’d say Brahe got off easy….
Rohmer Simpson
2023-03-24 09:24:45 +0000 UTCBe quite Wade, and die quietly!
Gabriel Bowater
2023-03-24 08:12:00 +0000 UTCYo I just found a pink monad
Noah Mingus
2023-03-24 06:53:46 +0000 UTCCats sitting by their bowl waiting for our slop
Tristan Clark
2023-03-24 05:21:59 +0000 UTCI'm feenin
J. A.
2023-03-24 04:25:45 +0000 UTCTycho "Broham" Brahe lost his nose in a duel while studying at the University, and after engaging in an argument w another student over who was the better mathematician. My favorite fact about Brahe is that he kept a house dwarf for entertaining guests, and he made the dwarf run around under the dinner table begging for scraps.
Harvey Elder
2023-03-23 23:14:23 +0000 UTCGlad somebody got that, it’s what I think of every day when the BeReal goes off
Chris Wade
2023-03-23 23:09:55 +0000 UTCIt's really very simple
justDave
2023-03-23 21:37:19 +0000 UTCany chance at hell on earth x pentiment crossover bonus ep or livestream? feels like good synergy
Nat Cohen
2023-03-23 21:15:20 +0000 UTCwe've already been over this: a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors
etienne
2023-03-23 21:03:17 +0000 UTCWe're going to build a monad, and Mexico's going to pay for it!
T
2023-03-23 20:37:31 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/d9zaFGANyrI
(American spirit menthol
2023-03-23 20:34:07 +0000 UTCsqeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
John Mitchell
2023-03-23 20:33:39 +0000 UTCwho else up pondering they monad
Akumeoy
2023-03-23 20:21:44 +0000 UTCWent down a Mercator projection rabbit hole not too long ago and it sounds super useful for navigation with the tools they had at the time. Coming out here as pro-Mercator
Ovine Escorts LLC
2023-03-23 20:12:09 +0000 UTCOMG yes pls that's a brilliant suggestion!
Shauna Seroquel
2023-03-23 19:20:43 +0000 UTCChris, thank you for the Archers of Loaf ref. at 29:10
Herschell Gordon Lightfoot
2023-03-23 16:59:47 +0000 UTCMonad? More like gonad.
Adrienne Suydam
2023-03-23 16:41:08 +0000 UTCRespect to my encyclopedic neurodivergent breatheren but the secondhand embarrassment is the entire reason why I don't like listening to or watching live shows.
Agent Grange
2023-03-23 15:49:56 +0000 UTCI deeply vibe with the allusions Matt seems to make increasingly often about a Gnostic / dualist zeitgeist as a possible answer to embody our social contradictions and sense of belonging necessary to prevent alienation and immunize the eschaton. On that note on the off chance he or Chris sees this, please consider doing a bonus episode or Hinge Points on the Council of Nicaea. I feel like it's a great point of divergence to discuss counterfactuals over what would have happened if a Gnostic interpretation of Christianity won out over what would become Catholicism. It also seems to set the stage for feudalism in the same way the 30 Years War was the birthplace of capitalism, so I feel it would make a good companion piece.
Agent Grange
2023-03-23 15:48:04 +0000 UTCI started listening in Canada and moved to Germany and then listened to the second half in Worms and Mainz
jason macza
2023-03-23 11:25:59 +0000 UTCI'm getting MONAD pilled after listening to this series.
HamDrawn
2023-03-23 08:12:29 +0000 UTCNew shapes droppin to herald the epochal monad y'all!
K H
2023-03-23 07:43:27 +0000 UTCLmao at the guy who just launched into describing an entire star trek episode.
tapwaterskeptic
2023-03-23 05:55:42 +0000 UTCWhat an intro! I was doing laundry before bed, and when they mentioned "England" and "Magic" I yelled JOHN DEE IN THIS MF
Rollo Tomassi
2023-03-23 05:09:03 +0000 UTCSo this is the guy Leibniz ripped off
Ian
2023-03-23 02:21:27 +0000 UTCIn the House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd is an interesting & decent novel.
Boaz Corey
2023-03-23 00:31:49 +0000 UTCThe Monad as a revolutionary counterforce sounds a lot like Acephale
Jon Spiegler
2023-03-22 23:38:23 +0000 UTCNo School of Night?
Lewis
2023-03-22 21:24:16 +0000 UTCThe world’s deadliest joke!
Rohmer Simpson
2023-03-22 21:22:28 +0000 UTCMatt, the Tycho Nose joke was really good
Cameron Jones
2023-03-22 21:17:01 +0000 UTCwait so your soul doesn't come out your eyes? I've been misinformed
carl
2023-03-22 20:58:27 +0000 UTCJohn Deez Nuts
Stanlej
2023-03-22 20:42:05 +0000 UTCmy hearing is for shit but I think someone in the audience couldn't stop shouting out a joke about "the D" because, as everyone knows, a live show of any kind is always an opportunity for audience participation and assorted hijinks.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-03-22 20:34:32 +0000 UTCDid they both scold someone around 4:40?
T
2023-03-22 20:31:35 +0000 UTCwhen the moon shines again with its own light, you know you done fucked up.
Rohmer Simpson
2023-03-22 20:04:19 +0000 UTCThe Star Trek guy made my testicles hurt
Isaac Jones
2023-03-22 18:59:27 +0000 UTCI have to UH ACTUALLY like John Dee here and say that the practice of mystical Jewish numerology isn't kabbalah – that's called "gematria," and it's a major practice WITHIN kabbalah, but there's a lot more to it. I can't exactly call myself a "kabbalist," because I'm not Jewish and don't have a circle of mystical rabbis to consult with, but I've been fascinated by it for a long time, and kabbalah is broadly a kind of cosmological system in which the nature of god and the creation of the universe becomes a coordinate structure which can map onto almost anything else – the origins and secret alchemical powers of language, literal metal-transmuting alchemy, the human body and its medical treatment, the interlocking nature of ostensibly opposed moral forces, the personalized path of study each individual requires for spiritual wisdom, etc. All of this was kept pretty secret for a long time, like centuries, and only the initiates knew anything – anybody can find the major kabbalistic text, the ZOHAR, but it's incredibly dull and kind of nonsensical without learning all the other stuff first. The best sources I know are the books by Gershom (né Gerhard) Scholem, the German philosopher and friend of Walter Benjamin, et al, who moved to what was still British Palestine at the time and broke down the major thematic material in kabbalah fora non-initiate and non-Jewish readership. ON THE KABBALAH AND ITS SYMBOLISM is both the best and most accessible of the Scholem stuff I've found. The Beautiful One Has Lost Her Eyes from Weeping. The Moon Will Shine Again with Its Own Light.
Michael S. Judge
2023-03-22 18:40:15 +0000 UTCI hope Chris talks a bit more about his history teacher that guy sounds fucking cool as hell. I know if one of my teachers came in with an FBI file on their dad i would never forget that shit.
brodie
2023-03-22 17:15:19 +0000 UTCDr. Dee & his angelick languages and lore are pretty awesome, whatever Mr. Meric. Casaubon, DD wrote to deprecate his rep in the 1659 folio just increased it . . . for a "STEM" guy, per Matt, who wasn't into the humanities, those Angelic Keys are pretty gud-damned poetic!! (Was it his work? Sir Kelley's? Who knows.)
Mark Schneider
2023-03-22 16:58:15 +0000 UTCI hit him up like 'how's that piss boiling lately'
Gubriel
2023-03-22 14:05:26 +0000 UTCI brought my friend who's doing a PHD to this show and he really identified with the piss boiling and said that's basically what he does all day
Gubriel
2023-03-22 14:05:03 +0000 UTCMonad.wav
Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep
2023-03-22 13:43:43 +0000 UTCThere is a great UK documentary on John Dee that includes Alan Moore. Should be on YouTube.
chetan kadodwala
2023-03-22 13:14:18 +0000 UTCAlternative title: Dee's Nuts
T
2023-03-22 13:01:01 +0000 UTCIt's the Einsturzende Neubauten stick figure
Herschell Gordon Lightfoot
2023-03-22 12:06:05 +0000 UTCWait, that's the symbol of the 'monad'? Great, all this piss I've been boiling for the past decade is USELESS!
justDave
2023-03-22 11:46:00 +0000 UTCnext time I go into a porta potty im a scribble this on a wall, make everyone quite confused
etienne
2023-03-22 11:44:58 +0000 UTCI see a cyclops, with a furrowed brow going hands-free ham on that ass. That's it, right?
Dee Haytch
2023-03-22 11:36:17 +0000 UTCHell on Hump-day
Kentucky Shitlib
2023-03-22 11:29:29 +0000 UTCThere's 6 appendix episodes supposedly so I don't think it's done yet 👌
yeeet1234
2023-03-22 11:25:15 +0000 UTCI was so sad that this will be the first hellless wednesday and now we’re getting all bonus parts at once?! Feels like xmas, thank you guys
Maria Szpanowska
2023-03-22 11:23:39 +0000 UTCI have been trying to search for the music for this series can you link it please
bator
2023-03-22 11:22:04 +0000 UTCFirst
James Greenleaf
2023-03-22 11:21:22 +0000 UTC
