Honestly, I would say that the white racist aspect of this film is fairly small, and it's quite accurate and handled appropriately.
The film is subtly and beautifully far more about the dogma, arrogance and ignorance of western academia, than it is about typical racism. It is actually very, very rare to even see a Hollywood film that even goes near the subject of academic imperialism by the west. This should be applauded, for it is one of the most important and seldomly realized truths in the western world. Our overall ignorance of truth in the western world has been ingrained in us to a great degree by the way we are taught to see mentally. The ways we are taught to think and perceive.
This film also does touch some great depths regarding what man can understand through the language of mathematics. Not everyone however is going to pick up on this.
My understanding is that he would not have been able to learn
math without the book or proofs that got him interested.
More like his mathematical formulas were not understood very well until he dumbed them down for the western academic world, so that they could see them for at least close to what they truly were. When he first came to England, he did not originally understand the basic way how or why western mathematicians proved their formulas were correct is all. He saw no reason for this because he saw that they were true just by looking at form and motion alone in relation to the absolute. Almost all of his theorems have now been proven correct. His way of doing mathematics was and is far more advanced than the western way of doing it would be a far more accurate statement.
How did man get Eden to fall, fall into the physical? Remember, the forbidden fruit was knowledge! The way that a mystic thinks and the way that we are taught to think is drastically different. Even the Hindus believe the same exact allegory as the Jews. Man fell from paradise by his knowledge, thought led man to the realm of the finite. A modern minded, or even somewhat ancient minded person thinks in terms of good and evil, positives and negatives. A mystical thinker sees things entirely differently. Have you ever heard of these anti-brainwashing techniques that people use to overcome cult like beliefs and such? Try them with yourself, except instead use it to get rid of all the ways of thinking you have been taught. You won't forget all you've learned, you will just learn to see new ways around what you have been taught since you were very young. If you do this, you will see exactly what I mean. Man does not really fear evil the most or even death, man fears his limits, and at the very core of man's fear is his fear of having no limits whatsoever. Even Tesla said that if man could harness the natural powers within himself, the power of electromagnetism, then man could do anything, recreate the world in an instant. Einstein said something like this too, that man would just be like plasma if he were more in control of himself and less subconscious, he could then assume the character of anything at will. Honestly, don't believe anything I say. It doesn't matter, throw it out as I'm a loon or whatever. However remember just this one thing,
deprogram yourself, throw out all beliefs and everything you've been taught and just stick to what is true and obvious, and then come back and talk to me about math and transformation, lol! Seriously, do it, you'll never do anything greater for yourself, for you will approach the absolute and see things as they truly are.
Heaven is in our midst, but few men see it - Jesus
I was blind, and now I see - from the song Amazing Grace and quite often repeated throughout the Christian big book.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” William Blake
Two of the greatest pieces of Jewish mystical knowledge of the truth... It's up to you! And...God created this world with intention!
I could go on and on...it's up to you...
My body's a cage, it's been used and abused...and I...LIKE IT!!
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jriley555 (8552)
2 years ago
From what I've read/heard, Ramanujan did indeed know about proofs, and the need for them. He hadn't been trained on their derivations, it is its own sort of practice that formed a part of his education at Cambridge.
Theorems without proofs are not fully testable/reliable.
You seem to think there was some sort of Eastern mumbo-jumbo that the West needed to know to kick-start their maths.
The guy was an individual with a preternatural insight. That couldn't be taught, it had objectively nothing to do with his religious culture either, whatever his internal visualization of that process was - it was in his neural anatomy.
Mathematicians of his caliber come along, evidently, about once every century or so. You are conflating some grand cultural theory or metaphysics of your own with this person's absolutely singular mental endowment.
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