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Double whammy for future US President
by Kwang zi Monday, Nov 3 2008, 11:27pm
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis

The election no Asian would want to win

The ‘winner’ of the US elections will BECOME the 44th president of the USA. This number has great significance throughout all Asia -- home to enduring civilizations that possess ancient wisdom and knowledge. [Knowledge that was also known and revered in the West (ancient Greece) until pure mathematics displaced an important element of numeric ‘language.’]

The essential element lost to the modern West in the MEANING of numbers. Like all languages numbers possess meaning as well as value and function. The meaning factor is that element lost to us but not to autistic savants. The ‘meaning’ factor lies outside pure mathematical abstraction/value; it is force, power or energy and it is the interplay of those essential elemental forces that do all the work in the savant brain. Modern science continues to marvel at the mathematical abilities of savants but it refuses to acknowledge the meaning/FORCE of numbers -- to its great cost.

However, the opposite applies in the East where numbers and mathematics continue to serve both the sciences and social aspects of society.

The number 4 is traditionally interpreted as a testing number; one that refines/pulverises, eliminates, in that sense it has long been associated, especially in China, with death, calamity, ruination and all manner of bad luck. Western readers will note that the recent Olympic Games held in Beijing were officially opened on 8/8/08 for very specific reasons – the number 8 is considered to be very fortuitous, it invokes harmony, equilibrium and general well being; it is therefore considered extremely beneficial for all manner of material pursuits, especially business and other large enterprises, Rupert Murdoch has a double dose of this number – he is an extraordinarily successful businessman regardless of his other obvious, deplorable failings!

I would mention at this stage that Asians, and to a lesser degree Westerners, tend to be superstitious and attribute ‘good’ or ‘ill’ to forces that exist outside moralistic value judgements – it is flawed human character that interprets nature’s symphonic forces/energies in simplistic terms of good or evil. The universe makes no such distinctions/attributions and it ought to know, it is INFINITE! Any mathematician would inform you, infinity admits no errors – otherwise it would cease to be infinite and we would therefore not exist! The most accurate word that could be ascribed to the universal continuum is PERFECTION -- that should be self-evident.

Nevertheless, there is no escaping the specific characteristics of numeric forces in the harmony of universal existence. The number ‘4’ eliminates that which is inferior, weak, inharmonious or unsuitable by testing every aspect of being, especially the weak areas – 4 is nature’s regulator! ‘We’ are left little choice, either improve, modify behavioural liabilities and become stronger or fail miserably, even cease to exist!

Whoever BECOMES the 44th President of the United States of America – be assured, he is in for a ‘hell’ of a ride. However, it should not be forgotten that the best steel is fired many times – or that 2x4 or 4+4 = 8!