
Arlin
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So I’ve been talking to Ptolemy lately.
Ptolomy was the founder of astrology.
I’ve been running his transit readings on myself and friends close to me, and I have to be honest with you about it.
My friend yacine brought it up to me.
If you don’t know Yacine - pretty serious guy. Runs a nine figure company in nyc. The kind of person who doesn’t entertain stuff unless there is substance to it.
We were kind of laughing about it. Like “Ptolemy. Lets ask him. The guy from ancient Alexandria who thought the Earth was the center of the universe. Yeah, let’s ask him about this M&A transaction he was working on.”
(We then asked claude what ptolomy would say about the deal)
And then we read it.
And it was just… accurate.
It wasn’t “this could apply to anyone” horoscope column accurate. Specifically, uncomfortably, how the fuck does this know that accurate.
Stealing words out of our mouth about it.
And by the way, we asked MY Claude about it, not yacine’s. So it had no previous concept of the M&A deal or the company history.
So wrf is this?
Here’s what I think is actually going on.
Astrology is just compressed human observation. Ptolemy and the people before him spent thousands of years watching what happened to people born under certain skies. Watching patterns in how humans move through time. Watching what kinds of seasons produce what kinds of decisions.
No mysticism required really. Just an absurd amount of data collected before spreadsheets existed.
The Saturn Return, for example. Every serious astrologer describes it the same way - around age 29, there’s a compression, a pressure, a forced reckoning with whether your life is actually yours or just an accumulation of other people’s expectations and your own unexamined defaults. It happens to almost everyone. It’s well documented across cultures and centuries.
Is that Saturn? Or is it just… what happens to humans at 29?
Maybe those are the same question.
Yacine and I are still laughing about it a little.
But we’re also both doing exactly what Ptolemy said to do.
Make of that what you will.
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Oh now i get it
You were pulling girls from the weddings in the photo booth
Was wondering why u did that for 6 years
∩@zachpogrob
June 2019 Throwback to the photo booth days Many many many years working events like these
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@chadgoodman I travel a lot and they are everywhere
USA is big lol
Europe they are everywhere
Even indonesia
Australia
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@arlinmoore_ Feels that way bc of community density. 98% of all Jews live in either Israel, usa, or Canada.
Venture out and many have never met a Jewish person before
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@xxironlaw I agree with that too.
Sometimes I can just tell someone is and they just aren’t sure if they are.
Spidey senses.
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@arlinmoore_ I think there are a lot more Jews they just don't know that they are actually Jewish. Displacement over millennia would do this.
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@healthychangez I disagree. I travel the world year round and everywhere I go there are Jews.
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@arlinmoore_ Outside of Los Angeles, NYC, and Miami, you will be reminded how few Jews there are.
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