User:Fasten/YHVH/Dictionary/Mountain
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Mountain refers to a high place, close to heaven, or ethically higher ground in general.
- The Sermon on the Mount refers to being on a mountain.
A mount is were you want to be, as a civilization: A place close to heaven but not requiring a permanent effort to stay up. This requires rules and traditions (at least behaviour that is stable over generations) and prevents you from going down (as opposed to flying).
Scientifically a mount could be described as a potential hill and the goal would be to prevent the system from going down¹, to keep it in an inherently unstable state².
¹) A goal commonly found in the Linux community.
²) Not to inherit an unstable country.
[edit] Observations
The higher on a mountain you are the farther you can see. [1]
- [1] Seeing people farther away or downhill as well as seeing farther into the future.
[edit] Examples
- The bears in the Himalayas¹ (Giant Panda, Red Panda) tend to be herbivorous/vegetarian. (See also The other side of the world, Koala)
¹) Himalaya -> "Himmel + Ah + Ja" {de} -> "Heaven, ah yes".
- The recurring movie theme of a plane hitting a mountain top is the statement "You have to aim your planes at a mountain."
[edit] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The ultra-famous sciento-magician Effrafax of Wug once bet his life that, given a year, he could render the great megamountain Magramal entirely invisible.
- ...
- Effrafax lost his bet — and therefore his life — simply because some pedantic adjudicating official noticed (a) that when walking around the area that Magramal ought to be he didn't trip over or break his nose on anything, and (b) a suspicious-looking extra moon
- ...
- If Effrafax had painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Else's Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there.
[edit] Observations
- Making a mountain is the goal, not making a mountain invisible.
- Mountains are supposed to break your nose.
- Mountains can be made in a way that people can walk¹ on them conveniently (although not being aware of one at all is probably a complement: you want people to understand what is keeping their society up)
- If you have a moon you probably don't have a mountain.
¹) walking on a mountain can be as easy as walking in lowlands, it's getting higher that is arduous and it's getting lower that's very easy. That's why ski and sky are homophone antonyms: Ski are about going down, sky (or heaven) is about staying up.
