Comments on: Compass Rose, Possible Mandala OS Symbol/Logo

By: @tmbchr » Email the Mandala OS

@tmbchr » Email the Mandala OS — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:43:53 +0000

[...] sorted out as we go along. Have been guided by this Richard Wilhelm I Ching quote on hexagram 25: For wherever conscious purpose is to be seen, there the truth and innocence of nature have been lost. Nature that is not directed [...]

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:00:53 +0000

Done and done. Check your inbox…

By: Timothy Obama

Timothy Obama — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:22:08 +0000

For wherever conscious purpose is to be seen, there the truth and innocence of nature have been lost. Nature that is not directed by the spirit is not true but degenerate nature. Starting out with the idea of the natural, the train of thought in part goes somewhat further and thus the hexagram includes also the idea of the fundamental or unexpected.

-Richard Wilhelm’s I Ching translation, via some website, hexagram 25

By: Timothy Obama

Timothy Obama — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:25:24 +0000

I guess we need to figure out precisely what we even use an email address for. Would it be so you could send the Mandala OS system itself a question or comment? That would be pretty cool. And then anybody could login and answer it, assuming the “voice” of that oracle or whatever it is.

What about just MandalaOS@gmail.com?

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:47:44 +0000

yeah, sure. Any particular email address you’d like to use? Maybe the one that’s associated with that gmail document on the Mandala OS?

By: Timothy Obama

Timothy Obama — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:44:53 +0000

Good idea, @ian! Feel like setting it up?

By: Xtal

Xtal — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:43:03 +0000

I like it! I think it’s perfect.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:00:21 +0000

We could start an open-access flickr account where people can upload their designs.

And maybe set up an similarly open-access gmail account to go along with it?

By: Timothy Obama

Timothy Obama — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:45:07 +0000

We should start developing logos based on the compass rose, maybe put together some kind of formal design contest…

By: Timothy Obama

Timothy Obama — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:44:26 +0000

Yeah, I’m really into this as a symbol!

“God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.”

http://dialinf.wordpress.com/2008/04/0.../a-circle-with-the-center-everywhere/

Fits in especially well with:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/wp-c...2009/01/compass-rose-06-mandalaos.jpg

And with the “world spheres” which are the access keys to people’s reality systems in my novel, REPERMANENT

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:33:45 +0000

One of my favorite symbols.

The compass rose is both the center-that-is-everywhere, representative of our perceiving center, and also the reminder that this center is useless unless it’s correctly oriented to what’s outside of it.

Because unless you turn the N of the compass to where the arrow’s pointing, the compass’s directions have no meaning.

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:30:31 +0000

One of the top three contenders for my second tattoo has always been a good, old fashioned compass rose from some old map. Maybe with a sea monster off to the side or some waves. I’ve never found the right design, extra money or what the compass should be pointing to.

By: Timothy Obama

Timothy Obama — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:38:41 +0000

would pair nicely with mozilla ubiquity. the rose points the way, ubiquity is your always on right-click transmission menu