Subject: Re: RS: Another stone
From: brinkman@si194b.llnl.gov
Date: 1991-04-22, 16:24
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

   In article <1991Apr21.211302.6381@ns.uoregon.edu> rhaller@oregon.uoregon.edu
writes...

> >Having them [Jupiter and Saturn] together could imply either an opportunity for
> >enlightenment/nirvana, or, if one takes the dualist POV, a choice point, one
> >path leading to great fortune and the other to disaster, Armageddon, if you
> >will.

   This has the distinct ring of truth to me.  I feel, however, that there
is more to it than just this.  Within the Buddhist framework doesn't the
interpretation lead to the result?  The alignment is an opportunity for
enlightenment/nirvana, but if one views it from the dualist POV than for
that person it becomes a point of apocalypse.

   Once again, this reinforces the Buddhist concepts of harmony and dissonance.
If Cooper, for example, fails to understand that harmonic nexus (yeah whatever
that means), doesn't he create Armageddon?  In other words, by failing to
accept the complementary aspects as separate facets of good, wouldn't he
create the very evil (i.e. dissonance) he is trying to forestall?

> > Coop seems drawn to the Buddhist path, but he is finding it hard to let
> >go of the idea that there is a real evil force that must be vanquished by
> >opposing it with counterforce.

   I agree that within this framework, this is indeed a major failing on
Cooper's part.  Throughout the investigation of WKLP, the times Cooper failed
occurred when he tried to oppose BOB directly.  In going to the Roadhouse
because "Owls were gathering there", Cooper tried to outsmart BOB (to meet
him with counterforce).  In this view the Giants "It's happening again" message
becomes the even more plaintive "Cooper, you have failed to understand."

> >I think that Coops desire to stalemate WE rather than defeat him may indicate
> >he accepts this at some level.  Whether he can hold on to that if WE manages to
> >kill Annie is another question.

   Exactly, and this is why I feel that Annie is a proponent of evil.  I do
not think that Annie represents a physical danger to Cooper (i.e. at some
point in the future she'll pull a gun on him, smile at WE, and say "We've
got him").  No, Annie represents the more subtle danger of causing Cooper to
lose his sense of harmony (I must protect Annie at all costs, because I LOVE
her).

   Oh, well...that's all for now.

-Matt Brinkman
-Internet: BRINKMAN@EDSEQ1.LLNL.GOV

P.S. I am working on a reply to Barb Miller worthy of her recent post.