I Ching

I always consult the first few pages of my book before doing a reading. It's not like I have all this memorized. I think the heads dominance, which I write as plus signs, gives you the ___ and the minus dominance gives you the _ _.

what determines whether you have a short or long dash - or is a certain result not a dash, and another one a dash, so that there's a space?

The double dash is just the result of a three coin toss, and the single dash is a result of a three coin toss. If it's more heads than tails, it's a single dash. If it's more tails than heads, it's a double dash. All heads or all tails produces a moving line. They look like ____ + and _ _ -. When you annotate them, anyway. These are those that are Yangs:

++- ___
+++ ___ +

These are Yins

--+ _ _
--- _ _ -

My extra spaces didn't show up.

Your moving lines just change to the other kind of line in the next reading.

_ . . . . _ . _ . _ _ _ . _ . .

^ your first name in morse code

But could you drum it out on a snare drum.

I actually could play it as a series of musical notes just from reading the letters - sight-reading. It's probably the most useless skill I have.

Really? That sounds like an interesting skill.

I can do your I Ching reading if you want.

1 2-and 3-and 4
1-and and 3-and and
(rest)-and 2 3-and (rest)

^^ the rhythm if you notated it as a traditional measure of 4/4 with short = 1/8 note; long = 1/4 note

xp - sure!

It's a waltz of spelling.

Okay, you have to ask your question out loud, too, just to be sure. And be respectful to the I Ching.

measures - plural - duh

well - a waltz is usually in 3/4

Oh, I counted wrong. I was counting 1 and and 2 and and.

Bum-da da, Bum-da da.

Wait, it still looks like that to me.

The first measure is straight, the second is syncopated

duh-duh (rest) duh-duh-duh (rest) duh

Don't make my brain melt.

would it make more sense if I bolded the beats - like this?

Duh duh rest duh Duh duh rest duh

Oh. That would sound weird.

it sounds like a free jazz rhythm

So are you going to give me a question already or what?????????

oh am i supposed to post it or just say it?

Both.

Or you can email it.

But I'll post the result here.

should it be a yes or no question?

Definitely doesn't have to be. But it probably won't answer very well about who. Although it might.

Clearly worded questions are good, though.

What about - should I have granola with dried strawberries and yogurt for lunch or cinnamon raisin bread?

That question suuuuucks.

like this?
http://startupblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/dyson-vacuum.jpg

I think it's funny the idea of repeating yourself about something. Like me mentioning what time Charlie Rose comes on twice in my life or something like that. It shows how often some subject comes up. It almost seems to define me, as if there's only a limited set of things that I'm made of, and the time Charlie Rose comes on is one of them.

xpost Like that! Think of a question instead of posting funny pictures of vacuums askew.

Do I repeat the same anecdotes too much?

^^ that's my question.

Uh. Okay, I'll do it, but I'm not sure you're giving the I Ching its due respect.

Plus, I only have so many square inches of scratch paper.

Okay - fine - how about "Am I boring?"

totally being respectful - I sincerely don't know and want to know this.

Okay, your two readings look like

_ _ +
_ _
_ _
___
___
_ _ +

and

___
_ _
_ _
___
___
___

This is not for the Am I boring question.

Well, yes it is. They're similar enough that they might as well be the same.

what does it mean?

That's 46 and 26.

Forty-six reads:

Potential for great advancement. A Summer sacrifice is in line with success. Obstructions are pushed aside. King Wen makes a sacrifice on Mount Ch'i. Make the climb step by step. At night, take rest.

That's your primary reading. Since you had two moving lines, that's your advice.

To avoid being boring I should sacrifice something in the summer that involves going upwards?

Twenty-six reads:

The mountain peaks come through the clouds. The young charioteer urges his powerful horses and the axle breaks. The time is used to practice methods of defense. The young bull wears a headboard. The gelded boar bares his teeth. The dam breaks. Attainment!

If you think 26 contradicts 46, then consider it a caution.

I will conquer my boringness by having an orgasm after getting in a fight after I get in a car accident?

Well, there are sacrifices, but obstructions will be pushed aside, like it said.

xpost Probably not.

Well, I think what you're really worried about is being too boring to find a new mate.

So in that case, maybe 46 makes a lot of sense.

Okay - both indicate that I will attain/accomplish something - conceivably in summer - and there are mountains involved

It's about self-improvement.

and transportation

and boars

Well, maybe. Or you can think about what summer represents. Like, seasonally, with regards to harvesting or planting. And it says to take the climb step by step. It says two things about sacrifice. It says there's potential for great advancement.

Because there's some walking up a mountain? It can be metaphorical movement.

26 is a caution. What would 26 interpreted as a caution mean?

It means don't move too fast!

That's for sure.

both of them combined - the step by step part and the thing about defenses seem to indicate that I shouldn't rush into things

Be defensive. You'll break through. Yes. They actually fit rather well together.

And step by step you can be the person you want to be. I mean, you only care about being boring in regards to other people. If other people didn't exist, what would it matter? That's why I think the question implies a mate.

So, if I'm looking at this in the context of a relationship - I should be cautious, and take things slowly, and avoid getting hurt

Well, yeah, that too. But your question was, Are you boring. Or do you say the same anecdotes too much. It seems that you were concerned with being interesting enough for new friends or a new mate. And so the reading addresses that more than actually being in a relationship.

Obviously you ARE interesting enough for your friends. I mean, you're not a boring person.

so I must slowly work at not being boring?

You must slowly work at self-improvement.

Think of it that way.

that makes sense - thank you for saying that i'm not boring.

And take it easy, because you can't hurry love and friendship.

i think there was a song about that.

Maybe. Probably not. People haven't thought of everything, you know.

If love were a more popular topic for song writers, I'd say you were right.

everything hasn't already been done?

now i'm starting to question post-modernism

Well, they thought everything had been done, but then somebody invented a skateboard with just two wheels.

they also invented the iphone

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7857/p0kxq8j3apaqiudkld5ulve.jpg

Iphone's just a phone people tend to stick their noses in a little extra.

they can also send emails that tell everyone that they were sent from their iphones.

That's not a feature unless you're a wedge.

yeah, but when you think about it - how many products are designed with a default that essentially advertises itself to everyone the product owner communicates with.

These days they would really hope all of them.

it would be like if vitamin water had this special chemical formula that would make the vitamin water logo appear on your throat - like a tattoo - if you drank it.