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NOTES OF THE METRIC MONTHS
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A New Denominational Paradigm

A new paradigm grows healthy and in­de­pend­ent by going its own way, by creating unique functional and symbolical con­nec­tions, by asking also pre­vi­ous­ly unheard-of questions, and by answering them as ad­e­quate­ly as possible from the new-found position of vantage.

A new worldview with the status of a denominational paradigm is not a fin­ished product of thought in all detail. The major differences with the one or more old de­nom­i­na­tion­al paradigms should be clear enough, but if the re­jec­tion of the old paradigm(s) is its main, or even sole, raison d' être, this does not contribute to its in­de­pen­dent existence; it is rather a way of parasitizing on what others offered, and continue to offer. A new paradigm grows healthy and in­de­pend­ent by going its own way, by creating unique functional and symbolical con­nec­tions, and by answering reasonable ques­tions as adequately as pos­si­ble from the new-found position of vantage. In do­ing so it also poses pre­v­ious­ly un­thought-of questions, and gives pre­vi­ous­ly unthought-of an­swers. No spe­cial, let alone ex­ces­sive, interest in any anti-system of thought as such will help to deepen and broad­en the new doctrine en­dur­ing­ly. On the contrary, the more at­ten­tion is paid to one or more in­com­pat­i­ble and state-stealing religions or other such de­crep­it, or not yet de­crep­it, belief sys­tems the longer the old ghosts will loom large. And the less time and resources will be left for a fruitful further de­vel­op­ment of the new paradigm itself.

80.NEY-80th Equatorial Month

Cruel Bringeth Forth Cruel

It is a cruel parent that makes a child believe in a cruel god.
It is a cruel god that later makes a cru­el parent of such a child.

It is a cruel parent that makes a child believe in a cruel god. And it is the belief in a cruel god that later makes a cruel parent of such a child.

45.NEY-80th Northern Late Lent

A Theocentrist Distinction

The difference between a theist and an atheist is that both are theocentrists.

The difference between a theist and an atheist is that both are theocentrists.

53.NLL-80th Northern Mid-Lent

Months with a Neutral Name

The three months with a neutral name in particular should not be made to suffer from any special attention paid to one of the anti-ideologies of the neutral Norm.

There are four Days of Neutrality, but of the thirteen Metric Months, there are three months with a neutral Model name: Northern Equinoctial, Equatorial and Southern Equinoctial Month, about one quarter of the total number. Since there are nine (without Northern Early Yule) or ten (with Northern Early Yule) left to allow a focus on the Ananorm's anti-ideologies or anti-systems of thought the three months with a neutral name in par­tic­u­lar should not be made to suffer from any special attention paid to one of the anti-ideologies of the neutral Norm. Such an attention may be jus­ti­fi­a­ble because of a unique event which is taking place, or some­thing that has just happened in the month (or in the period of less than two months) in­volved, but not when it concerns a much longer period of time, let alone the centuries or mil­len­ni­ums the anti-ideology has already been in ex­ist­ence.

80.NEY-80th Northern Equinoctial

Time Is Not Money

A business relationship takes money to develop. Friendship takes time to develop. The two are not the same!

Whereas a business relationship may only take money to develop, friendship takes time to develop. The two are not the same!

45.LNW-80th Northern Late Yule

Primary versus Secondary Importance

Normists defend the primacy of norms or val­ues over authority. If, and when, they re­gard au­thor­i­ty as important, then only in an in­stru­men­tal not a pri­ma­ry, fun­da­men­tal sense.

Normists defend the primacy of norms or values over authority, divine, devilish, a mixture of the two, or other. If, and when, they re­gard authority as important (that is, of secondary importance), then only in an instrumental, not in a primary, fundamental sense.

45.LNW-80th Northern Mid- Yule

Is 80 Any Interesting?

What counts in the radix-10 sys­tem is that 80 = 8*10, and that other num­bers be­tween 71 and 89 are not of the same in­ter­est. In the radix-16 system it is that 80 = 5*16, and that other num­bers be­tween 65 and 95 are not of the same in­ter­est. The weight of such an in­ter­est de­pends on the reason for us­ing the nu­mer­al system in question.

So long as 80 deserves no more attention than 79, 81 or any other number, integer or natural num­ber, 80 is simply a number which equals 79+1 and 81-1 on the zero-level of iteration, which is the level of ad­di­tion and sub­trac­tion (where nothing is re­peat­ed). Also on the first level of it­er­a­tion, the one of multiplication and division, 80 is just 1*80, 2*40, 4*20, 5*16 or 8*10 and vice versa, while 80 (unlike 4, 8 and 16) does not play a role on the higher levels of it­er­a­tion. When 80 arouses an at­ten­tion for which there is no in­de­pend­ent substantive reason, it is because 80 is in a sense thought or felt to be 'numerically significant'. What counts in the radix-10 system is that 80 = 8*10, a multiple of 10, albeit an or­di­nar­y one. Nev­er­the­less, the fact that 80 = 5*16 as well gives the number 80 the same type of nu­mer­i­cal significance in the radix-16 system. From the point of view of numerical sig­nif­i­cance 80 attracts more attention than 71 to 79 and than 81 to 89 in the radix-10 system, but not more than 70 and 90. In the radix-16 sys­tem, how­ev­er, 80 attracts more at­ten­tion than 65 to 79 and than 81 to 95, but not more than 64 and 96. Whether the number 80 also deserves the extra at­ten­tion it arouses depends ultimately on the quality of the reasoning by which the radix(es) of the numeral (su­per)sys­tem were or —more im­por­tant­ly— will be chosen.

79.SLL-80th Northern Early Yule

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