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Old 08-11-2005, 11:09 PM
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Numbers are simply a way of logically explaining order and being.

From the time of Pythagoras onward,{undoubtedly much earlier as well} folks have attemted to use mathematics to give meaning to a coherent,orderly existance,albeit contrary to the general run of humanity with it's inherent contradictions,violence and passions, with all the things we call human.

Is there a divine order that can be explained in terms of numbers?The hebrew Kabbalists would have us believe so.

Music and Mathematics are inexorably intertwined,the 2 being quite similar, based upon fixed,finite rules, but life is not so my vote is nay.
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