As astrology is bizarre in its own right, a stupid and ridiculous superstition from Babylonian times, this trash is exactly what I would expect from astrologers. Astrology is nonsense and astrologers spout nothing but nonsense. It is clear that this astrologer is a member of the BWMA, good company indeed, all crackpots. There were also the ideologies of Pyramidology and British Israel which ascribed sacred qualities to ifp and which condemned the metric system as ungodly. I recognize these ideologies in this text,
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-03-08 00:42 Subject: [USMA:18612] Even astrologers are at it now!! > This, quite bizarrely, was in the astrology column of the Daily Mirror!! It was written by a certain John Michell: > It is a tragedy to lose something, or someone, and only then realise how much you valued them. It happens all the time in love. And it is happening now, as we are forced to part company with our most ancient and precious possession - our units of measure, the foot, mile, acre, and so on. > It is now known that our present British units were the standards behind all other measures in the ancient world. For example, 24 British miles equals 25 of the classical Greek miles. This gives you the exact value of the Greek mile and of its 5,000th part-the Greek foot-by which the Parthenon was built. All these traditional units-Roman, Egyptian, Sumerian and others-are related to each other by simple ratios. It was all one system, universally. Even across the Atlantic, the Mexican pyramids were designed by the same units of measure as those of Egypt. The ancient units were fractions of the Earth's dimensions. One standard was its mean circumference, which was equal to a tenth part of 12 x 12 x 12 x 12 x 12 English miles. When the French tried to measure the Earth in order to establish their metre, they got it wrong - and their system is based on error. There is nothing political about this. (hmmmm) It plays no serious part in the debate over Europe and the euro. It's just that our units are sacred in origin. They measure the universe and the human body by the same standard, whereas the metre has no natural meaning. That is why we traditionalists say, "Stand up for the foot!" A vigorous campaign to preserve our measures is run by Vivian Lineacre of the British Weights and Measures Association. A year's membership of the association (including subscription to the Journal) is £10 to BWMA, 45 Montgomery Street, Edinburgh, EH7 5JX. Regards, Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
