History of a
computer addict.
Why I bought that damn HP programmable calculator... I have no idea.. Probably the encyclopedic temptation as Dr. Louis G. said; He was a psychoanalyst? Not mine, never had any and do not believe in that, I am neo-kraepelinian, those who want to know what neo-kraepelinian is can ask, not sure they will have an answer, but they can do. It's very gratifying for them, I suppose, to be able to ask. And being gratified is better than knowing the answer to a question nobody is really interested in.
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 Well, anyway, I bought that damn thing. It was just a hand held calculator, with nice magnetic strips entering in, supposedly covered with bits of programs. In fact, it was quite fascinating, because it gave the answers to questions I could not even understand. God like, just like the Delphi oracle. I do not know if you have ever been to Delphi, it is a fascinating place, there is a stone, rather phallic as are all oblong stones, the omphalos, which is the center of the world, the mystic world, real one, not taking in count the crazy so called discoveries, 		Magellan or Columbus style. As everyone in his good sense knows, these lands, America or others do not exist, the gods did not create them and they are not part of the oikunenes. Which is the part of nothingness where men are allowed to live. In other parts, just like America, no human beings live, just shadows...
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So the HP calculator was a sort of gate into the gods world, giving sibylline answers to trivial question... and Socratic too, maieutician style, helping you from your stupidity it seld which was the greatest educational tool possible..The more stupid you are and the more learning materials are available... Equality... Jean Jacques Rousseau...The Frankfurt school...all that, and Rudolf Steiner too.
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Rudolf Steiner... I knew a man who was communist, in France, in Georges Marchais time, who wore pink shirts, rode a horse who belonged to him, Budienny style, Proletaires, à cheval, and who had smuggled Rudolf Steiner books in the German Democratic Republic to please a Steinerian pastor who was his friend some would say his minion... Romantic, of course, which is not surprising for all the cultured people reading those interesting document down to that point, 		as the Steiner Temple someplace in Germany is called the Goetheanum, and we know too that the oak under which Goethe talked so often to Eckerman was in the Buchenwald, camp compound. Everyone a bit informed of the subterranean channels will see that is not a chance, but a signal of history.
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In fact, of course Rudolf Steiner was just plumb crazy, I had say he was a nice case of paraphrenia fantastica, nurtured in some roots of Indian or pseudo Indian Blavatskian metaphysics, and very largely enriched by delusions and hallucinatory perceptions. I am quite informed about Rudolf Steiner, because I had the opportunity to torture one of his disciples, who had suddenly turned sane, or crazy, and of whom I had temporarily charge. One of his co-devouts, somewhat higher in learning as he, came to see me, told me I was a reincarnation of 		Pasteur, which I learned later was a great insult, and took him back to someplace to be treated by a dentist, Steinerian of course. Which means too that the Steinerian philosophy is not so intellectual, since dentists are in position to incorporate it. That not being a reason, because every Christian, however humble and sinner, can incorporate as he wish, through communion, the blood and flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Well, if someone read that to that point, he could ask what all that Steinerian crap has to do with portable computers...In fact, it has much, because Rudolf Steiner, although crazy, or because he was crazy, took a genuine interest in descriptive geometry. Ah, what is descriptive geometry... I had a friend explain me, he was some sort of mathematical genius looking very much like an ape, having nice girls, one of them I hypnotized some day, and who was an expert in that. In fact you had better ask him,		 because I do not clearly remember what he said, but descriptive geometry gives birth to very nice curves called I think revolution epicycloides. These curves, first are very nice curves, and second they have mystical properties, which explain the fact that in Steinerian schools, children are invited to go procesionning in epicycloidal figures...
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So, at that time, many sophisticated hand held calculators helped the spiritual progress of large numbers of European youth...

In my case, it did help my spiritual progress and my approach to nirvana by an humble side, I tried thru several weeks of intense work, costing much in phone calls and spiritual misery to program the thing, which was of course called programmable.

In fact, I never did and learned after days that after all, I did not know really what I wanted the machine to do. And then, just as the monkey the TV is showing right now, I can spread epidemics without knowing it, and without bad intentions, but I am nevertheless like the angels of death calling doom on Barsoom.
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 Barsoom is the name of the Mars planet in Edgar Rice Burroughs books...In the time I was involved in the hand held computing, I was too reading adventures of John Carter and the beautiful princess Dejah Toris, and all the miseries they had from priests of futile divinities, like all divinities are. Of course, the use of wicked priest is so useful augmenting the perils and the pleasures of love that religions should be invented, if it had not already been, to augment the pleasure by the fears of punishment on this world and still more in the other.		 As one knows, the Catholics, who are a sort of sect, have found ways of enumerating the punishments of the Lord, and know the way to convert sins in alms, trifle sin, gold or such and even days. With the invention off accounting, some priests have discovered they could hold the accounts of the Lord, concerning sins at least, and equaling sins-days to penance-gifts to the church.
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Which explains why I sold my portable hand computer to the vicar of the parish...
mailto:mirabelle@angelic.com
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