I looked it up. It means infernal forces from the underworld. Another term for this would be, “Republicans.”

“The mills of god grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.”

Sextus Empiricus said that. He was a Greek physicist in the third century AD, and this is a quote from “Against Professors,” which is worth saving for the title alone. He was also a skeptic who apparently questioned whether it was possible ever to know the true nature of reality.

So, this is not a proverb. It’s not from the bible.

More in our series of words to live by.

Getting through the apocalypse any way we can.

Do you think the Hadron Collider will reveal the true nature of reality?

The Net of Heaven has a wide mesh, yet nothing ever slips through.

Lao Tzu said that.

Although, the concept of the separation of church and state actually is not in the constitution. It’s from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to some Baptist church.

Lords of Kobol, today is the day we are all moving into profit mode. From here on out, we will all be making cash money. So say we all. So mote it be, three times three times three.

Clap your hands. Stomp your foot. Close the door on suffering.

White candles are for not counting on the harvest. Shooting for nothing, one hits the target.

Green candles are to bless the work.

Found in my notes, an unattributed quote: “The law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe.”

According to the latest from the Hadron Collider, possibly not.

Apparently, there is a very slight asymmetry in the nature of the matter-antimatter continuum that explains the predominance of matter in the universe. They’ve found some new particles, the Charmed Quarks, that don’t mirror the behavior of their anti-matter counterparts the way they are supposed to according to the laws of particle physics as we know them today.

If confirmed over the next year or so, we may have to rethink particle physics, as if we had a firm grasp on it to begin with. I may have misconstrued the entire Yahoo article.  I think everything started out pretty evenly divided between matter and antimatter, but a lot can change in fourteen billion years.

Stay tuned for more news from the Hadron Collider. Just remember, quarks have flavors.

No way to avoid it. We are all living through a strategic inflection point, in the Andy Grove sense (read his book, Only the Paranoid Survive). Only this time, it’s not just Intel, it’s the WHOLE WORLD. And it’s really nothing to do with the Mayan Calendar, or is it?

So, in response, I dedicate this blog to knowledge worth saving, in the spirit of the monks of the dark ages.

First up, the names of the seven dwarves: Doc, Sleepy, Grumpy, Sneezy, Happy, Dopey and Bashful.

Then the first in our series of critical dates: James Dean’s birthday — February 8. My note says he was 50 in 1981.

Whistler’s advice: “Simplify, reduce, stylize, heighten.”

Ingrid Berman’s philosophy: “Not to take things too seriously, always be kind to everyone, laugh a lot, and don’t make trouble for anyone.”

And this from Warren Zevon:

I’m hiding in Honduras.

I am a desperate man.

Send lawyers guns and money.

The shit has hit the fan.

“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

–The Sucklord

Advice from the Sucklord Himself. You can visit The Realms of the Super Sucklord at www.suckadelic.com.

And speaking of Suck:

Welcome to the suck (Jarhead, 2005); and

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, by Nick Flynn.

Occam’s Razor. Do not multiply essentials beyond what is necessary. K.I.S.S. — Keep it simple, stupid.

Another in our famous series, “Words to Live By.”

I can remember the meaning of “praeter” by recalling the Praetorian Guard, the advance forces, the avant garde, all that stuff for the Bead Game.

According to the Yahoo astrologer, Chiron has been retrograde since June 8, but today it will halt its retrograde motion at 3:15 pm (in California) and pause for a moment overhead before starting forward in Pisces where it will resume its forward motion until June 11, 2012.

The characters for Chiron’s story are:

The maverick, a shape-shifting oracle who holds the keys that open doors to higher consciousness and twilight zones of strange awareness;

The wounded healer and her praxis of holistic healing, alternative medicine, herbalism, and folk medicine; and

The shaman, a catalyst who builds bridges between the spiritual and material planes.

These three send healing thoughts and prayers to dear ones, friends, associates, and kingdoms of nature.

The Yahoo astrologer says Chiron is a “comet-like celestial body,” while  Wikipedia says Chiron is “the most significant of the ‘centaur’ asteroids.”

Looking deeper into Wikipedia, Chiron the Shapeshifter is maybe an asteroid or a perhaps a planetoid orbiting the  Sun between Mars and Jupiter, not to be confused with Centaurs or Trans-Neptunian Objects.

In astrology, Chiron is associated with incurable trauma and wounds that may be worked with on their own terms and transformed into great strengths (Peacock Neutralizes Poison).

More Wikipedia: 2060 Chiron is the true name of the celestial body which is maybe a “minor planet in the outer Solar System.” It was discovered on October 18, 1977, and classified as the tenth planet at first. Or it could be an asteroid, and it sometimes behaves like a comet (occasionally develops a tail), and when it’s a comet it’s known as 95P/Chiron. Oh, and it has a highly eccentric orbit (why am I not surprised).

According to Wikipedia, “Chiron is probably a refugee from the Kuiper belt and  will probably become a short-period comet in about a million years.”

In Greek mythology, Chiron was a very special Centaur. Centaurs in general were born of sun and raincloud, were wild and lusty, overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, given to violence when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents (this is for you Stephen). Chiron, on the other hand, was intelligent, peaceful, civilized and kind. Apollo and Artemis were his teachers, and he turned out to be a great healer and teacher and a respected oracle.

There’s a lost book, Precepts of Chiron, thought to be the work of Hesiod, from which only fragments survive. One of the fragments:

“A chattering crow lives out nine generations of aged men, but a stag’s life is four times  a crow’s, and a raven’s life makes three stags old, while the phoenix outlives nine ravens, but we, the rich-haired Nymphs, daughters of Zeus, the aegis-holder, outlive ten phoenixes.”

As the son of Cronus, a Titan, Chiron was immortal, but Heracles made a bargain with Zeus, trading Chiron’s immortailty for the life of Prometheus. Chiron was betrayed by one of his students and killed with a poison arrow, although the details are controversial.

It all happened a long time ago.